It’s about to get all kinds of real up in this house … blog … interwebz … nerdy space … whatever you want to call it!
I know I’m generally in the “heyy let’s meal plan until we can’t meal plan anymore” camp and a lot of your other favorite bloggers are all “LOVE meal planning”. Which I’m going to guess makes you at least 87.3578% {<– that’s some fancy math I know 😉 } likely to say Woohoo! Meal Planning – need to do All.The.Meal.Planning.
And honestly that’s awesome and the way to be because Meal Planning does make your life easier {I mean heyy, I’m such a fan I wrote a book about Meal Planning}!
But that isn’t always the case, and sometimes we just need to get real about what happens when the rainbows, coffee and unicorns run out or life outside the interwebz happens.
First off – #rainbows, #coffee and #unicorns are the bomb {yes I hashtaged in my blog … I think that makes me totally cutting edge and #badass 😉 }
Secondly – It’s OK to have those days when you’re sitting there looking at what’s on your meal plan for the day and being like “nope, this is so not happening”.
I have many, many of days where I’m looking at what I have planned for dinner and I can’t even handle it let alone cook it.
For instance two weeks ago{ish} I had planned for a stir fry for dinner … but the pot for the rice that was going to go with it, was in the dishwasher {being washed}, we were super low on butter and I was sick of the frozen bag mix of veggies that I had on hand. I literally laid down on the couch and pulled a Scarlett O’Hara and was all over the top dramatic about it. Which then lead Mr. POAB to go through what we had on hand and I every time he mentioned something, I was all “NO”, “ewwwwww”, “Not that again”, “we don’t have enough butter“, “I want sushi”, “Can we go get a gluten free pizza?”
It was one of those moments where if you were watching it you’d be on the floor crying from laughing so hard – and of course we made fun of it, giggled at it and probably in the next few days we’re going to be all “heyy remember the time you had a meltdown over dinner?”
Want to know how the story ends?: Well, I ended up having a moment of inspiration after exhausting Mr. POAB, our kitchen and more swooning time on the couch. I made this weird tomato sauce meets chili meets stir fry – and it was SO GOOD… So the crisis was {kind of} averted!
More than likely right now you’re either laughing really hard at my moment or shaking your head wondering why you’re still reading this article … well I’ll tell you why! You needed to know about this little moment because I want you to know it’s NORMAL. It’s ok to look at your meal plan like it’s pretty much the most evil thing in the world somedays. It’s OK to take a week off of meal planning if you just can’t handle it. Even we bloggers who try to play it like cool kids on the playground have moments where we can’t deal with something like meal planning!
And you need to know this – because the quickest way to derail yourself and the progress you’ve made is to think that you failed at something – and I’m here to tell you, you haven’t failed at anything! Let me type that one more time.
You. Haven’t. Failed.
So if you find yourself pulling a swooning southern belle moment and hate everything in your kitchen, that’s totally normal and it’s OK. Just … you know, enjoy it and then get back to normal tomorrow, or three days from now, whatever works.
Oh and – if you’re swooning southern belle moment just won’t stop, try making a mug cake. Mug Cakes cure even the worst of our swooning southern belle moments!
xoxoxo
Liz-
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