Hello, I'm Bonita I'm from Surviving Three Boys and a Girl.
I'm a mom of four kids obviously and I'm a meal plan addict.
I love to meal plan because it has given me sanity.
It has improved our life at home.
If you're here, you're most likely here to learn some tips or some how-to's for meal
planning.
But today I want to focus more on why I find it so important to do this.
And I wanted to share it to help other people that are potentially going through the same
struggles as I was going through.
I feel as though we all go through some stresses in our lives, and it's how we deal with the
stresses or how we react her stresses that can help us move on.
And for example I've had stresses before having kids.
And I feel as though anybody can relate to me right now, even if you have kids or you
don't have kids, because meal planning is for everybody.
I'm talking about, how to reduce the stress in your life of cooking, if you're not someone
that enjoys cooking like myself.
I have never really enjoyed cooking.
I love to bake, I loved to bake cookies, I love to bake cakes.
I'm not necessarily going to make something fancy, but I'll make something delicious,
and I'll eat and eat it, because I love baking.
Cooking, I can't say I feel that way.
So back in January, I'm going to repeat here.
My mom came in and she made a bunch of meals for us, and we were good for a couple of weeks.
After that, we both a couple of weeks, it was on to me to start making meals again for
the family.
I was super stressed out, because my time is limited, I'm caring for a newborn, or five
week old at the time.
I'm caring for a toddler, and I'm caring for two school age kids.
So how do I balance all of this together?
When I still have to do the grocery shopping.
I don't even know how to do grocery shopping anymore because I'm so overwhelmed at the time.
But thankfully grocery stores have started to evolve and provide grocery pickup. Gosh.
Life saving for me in this case.
But anyways, going back, I remember being in that hole.
I was completely stuck and feeling stressed just overwhelmed and I have to make all these
meals for everybody.
I don't even know how to ... like I have all this food in my freezer.
I have all this food in my fridge, but I can't seem to find anything to eat.
Does that happen to you guys?
I thought I was finding that happening all the time.
I open that freezer door, and be like, I don't know what heat.
And there'd be a ham or they'd be a roast.
There'd be stew meat.
There'd be ground meat.
There'd be all this meat.
And yet I didn't know what to make, or I didn't feel like we had anything to eat.
It's because I wasn't planning my meals for the week or even a couple days.
I wasn't thinking ahead.
I was just thinking like survival mode at that time.
So then, I looked onto my phone searching Pinterest for meal ideas but then I look.
Oh, I can make this.
Oh, but I'm missing this and this ingredient.
I can't make that meal I guess.
It would happen all the time.
And then I started researching meal planning where a meal plan would be given to me, and
I wouldn't have to think about it.
It was all drawn out, Monday to Sunday, and have everything there.
My grocery list, and I could just go grocery shopping and make the meals.
The only thing, though, was that I found it was really hard to find the meal plans that
I was looking for that would work for our family.
I was struggling to find one that could get us.
I find that that could be somebody else as well.
Unless you're on these diets that are really big right now that are trending like the keto
diet, it's really trending.
I'm probably pronouncing it incorrectly.
"Keto, ketto," whatever it's called.
I could find all these new for that diet.
Be yet I wasn't looking for a diet from my family.
I'm looking for a meal plan that all of us could eat at the same time that we'd all want
to eat.
And I was really searching and searching and finally I started to find a few meal plans
here and then I'd find someone there.
But I had to search a lot.
I had to really find keywords that would work for us.
And finally when I did find the one that would work for us ... I don't know what
the word to use, because it was ... I'm just thankful that honestly.
That's what I feel like it was.
I started using the plans.
I printed out the sheets.
I stuck to the meal it gave me, unless there's a meal that I knew the kids would absolutely
not eat.
Like, let's say it was full of mushrooms or something that kids refuse the mushrooms.
I would replace it with a spaghetti or something.
So I had these meal plans finally, developed for me.
I don't have to do any of the thinking.
The grocery list is already developed.
I take my phone.
I key in the grocery ingredients I need, and I just pick up my groceries.
Done.
Cook it.
I don't know what to think anymore.
That stress of my life was gone.
I've been doing this since March.
It's now the end of July.
I can't even explain to you how much better I feel about cooking now.
I finally have been doing this for so many weeks that I feel as though, okay, I've I've
never really done meal planning before, so I was a beginner.
I started with the meal plan that was given to me.
I didn't have to think about it.
Every week, I just waited for my plan to come in.
Fast forward a few weeks, a couple of months, three months, four months, whatever
it's been here.
I finally feel as though I can actually start making my own meal plan.
I can start freezer cooking again.
I can start batch cooking.
I can actually cook from, you know, grocery sales that are like ... shopping sales.
I don't feel overwhelmed anymore, because I finally have the tools that I've learned
and I've developed now by doing these new plans that I can actually finally go to the
next step.
And now I'm sharing this with you guys because I don't know I want somebody
else to feel the way I feel.
If you are feeling so overwhelmed ... well I was overwhelmed.
Maybe you're just at home, or you're working all the time, and you don't have time to think,
you have to do groceries.
You don't have time to start thinking, oh, what am I going to have for supper when I
get home?
Just by my ebook.
I did all the research for you guys.
I'm not really not trying to do this as a sales pitch to buy my book.
That's not what I'm trying to do.
The reason I wrote this book is because I found it really hard to find some meal plans
that would work for me.
I know there's some people, you know, that are having, that have dairy restrictions,
that are gluten restrictions, peanut or eggs or maybe they're on a specific diet.
That's fine.
All those meal plans are available, but not necessarily that specific meal plan
in my book, but I give you the tools to find them.
And that's huge, because honestly after I did all the research and looking for it, I
found it really difficult, and I thought if I find it difficult how are other people finding
it?
Yes, these websites are doing advertisements, but are they advertising to me?
No they weren't.
So I found it and now I'm sharing it with you, so that you can find that the joy of
cooking again.
Maybe you don't want it.
Just go for the trials of these meal plans You don't have to buy them, just do the trials
and try it out.
You don't have to commit, and just see if it's something you want to do.
If it's going to help yourself or your family or something ... whatever, your kids.
You do not have to have kids to feel the way I have been feeling, and I know that because
I've been there.
I've been there before I had kids.
I felt super stressed out with cooking because I did not enjoy it.
So thanks for watching.
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