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Workweek Prepper’s Meal Plan- November 25, 2020

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Sharing something special with you today! We're of

Sharing something special with you today! We're offering $5 off our 6 and 12 month meal plan memberships with code HIGHFIVE for today only in honor of Small Biz Saturday. Join today in my bio link! ✨
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👌Already a member? You can get in on this too! Upgrade your membership to the 6 or 12 month tier and email us at support@workweeklunch.com so we can refund you $5.
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🎁You can also use the code if you plan to GIFT the WWL Program to someone special! Our gift links (6 and 12 month memerships only) are in story highlights!
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🎉So that's one part of the big news. The other part? Well, this is the cheapest our membership wll ever be... because in a month from today we're launching our new website and raising the price of the program.
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✨Our new membership site (coming 12.28) is 100x better than what we currently have. It's easier to use on mobile, the conversion to metric is perfect, you can create and save as many meal plans as you want with our new planner and much more. This new site is unlike any other meal planning tool out there. It encourages and highlights FLEXIBILITY. It's all about making meal prep and meal planning work for your current lifestyle, NOT make your lifestyle fit your meal plan. And we created it specifically FOR this amazing community.
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😜Is it an app? No. It's a web app - like an app that you open on a web browser that you never have to update!!
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👉Current price of the WWL Program: $7.99/mo, $39.99 for 6 months or $71.90 for 12 months.
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👉The new price (as of 12.28) will be $9.99/mo, $49.99 for 6 months or $89.91 for 12 months. This price will go up for everyone including current members.
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🤔If you've been thinking about joining, now is the time! If you've been a member for awhile and want to stick around to use the new site without the new price tag, we're giving you plenty of notice to upgrade.
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👀Stay tuned for sneak peeks of the new site on stories, YouTube and here!
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🥰You guys rock, thank you for being a part of this community and I just can't wait to share all of this with you so soon!!!

How are we using up leftovers today? Share below!

How are we using up leftovers today? Share below!
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Here are my two favorite things to make with Thanksgiving leftovers - they’re so easy and both freezer-friendly.
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The full video is on YouTube!
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YouTube.com/workweeklunch
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Hope everyone has a great weekend!! Stay tuned for a big announcement tomorrow ✨

Bringing back this Thanksgiving bento from last ye

Bringing back this Thanksgiving bento from last year! I’m so looking forward to leftovers 😍
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REMINDER: holiday food is JUST food - it’s not “good” or “bad.” You don’t need to restrict before the meal or after. It’s okay to feel VERY full. Your body will figure it out!✨
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If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving in any shape or form, I hope it’s a good one! Otherwise, happy Thursday. 🙏🏼

Don't forget to save some leftover Turkey for easy

Don't forget to save some leftover Turkey for easy lunch wraps, like these made with a special Spiced Apple Chopped Kit from @Yourtaylorfarms! #ad
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Full disclosure, I made these with chicken last week, BUT turkey will taste even better in this wrap. Turkey and apple are a match made in heaven. The smokey gouda and tangy apple cider vinaigrette from this Taylor Farm's kit sweetens the deal! They were so crunchy and satisfying, and I can't wait to make them again.
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This Spiced Apple Chopped kit is a limited edition salad, available at @samsclub!
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If you're celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, I hope it's a good one. Even though things are different this year, your Thanksgiving meal (and leftovers!) can be as delicious as ever!

Our meals are mostly based on a protein/veggie/car

Our meals are mostly based on a protein/veggie/carb formula. We DON'T include macros or calories on our site, but we still consider balance when creating our super flexible recipes to keep our members satisfied!
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Here are four of five recipes featured in the NEW WWL Meal Plan coming tomorrow! We designed this plan with your Thanksgiving leftovers in mind:
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Leftover veggies can easily be used in pot pies (bake them in meal prep containers!)
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Leftover turkey or chicken would be great in tortilla soup!
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Got extra canned pumpkin? Whip up our pumpkin pancakes!
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Our breakfast quinoa power bowls are also a great vehicle for leftover odds and ends of roasted veggies to reduce waste.
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Not pictured - our much-loved Mediterranean Salmon/Tofu Farro Bowls. We included this in tomorrow's new plan because it will be a nice switch up in flavors after your holiday feast!
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All meals can be made vegetarian, vegan, omnivore, gluten-free and dairy free. We provide swaps as needed for nut and soy allergies too.
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Recipes, meal plans and grocery list (as well as our customizable meal planner AND incredible private community) are available to members of the WWL Program! Learn more or hop on a free trial in my bio link.
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LMK which one looks best to you below!

Can we talk about all the weird food feelings that

Can we talk about all the weird food feelings that come up during the holidays?
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🙉It’s hard to get away from diet talk and diet thoughts during the holiday seasons because there’s so much focus on the food.
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👇🏼Here are some tips to tune out the diet talk and TUNE IN to your body this holiday season:
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1. Try not to label foods “good” and “bad” in your mind or in conversation. Food is food. All foods have a purpose, even ones that aren’t nutrient dense.
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2. You don’t have to participate in diet talk. You can change the subject, call it out if you’re in company you trust or simply leave the conversation.
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3. You also don’t have to participate in any “getting back on track” plans or conversations. That includes plans with friends, family members and coworkers to work out a lot, do a detox or diet following the holidays etc. your body will be able to handle the 2-4 holiday meals and figure it out.
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4. When you find yourself judging your own food choices, bring yourself back to the moment: what can you see? What can you hear? What do you feel, hear, taste etc? Using your senses is a very practical way to snap yourself out of food anxiety and back into the now.
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5. You don’t have to ever finish your food. And you can always have seconds and thirds. Or leftovers the next day. It’s not all or nothing on holidays. And remember that if you ever crave pumpkin pie or other holiday treats throughout the year, there’s no reason you can’t make them in the summer too!
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6. Tune into your body the best you can. For me, this looks like taking a beat and a breath to check in with how my body is feeling throughout the day or a meal.
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7. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO COMPENSATE. Don’t restrict after a holiday meal or before it. Don’t over exercise before or after either. Your body will figure it out. Trust it.
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8. Holidays can be fun when you cut yourself some slack! Try not to take it so seriously. It comes around every year!
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❓What did I miss? Anyone else have intuitive eating tips for the holidays? Share them below!
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RECIPES for the meals pictured can be found on workweeklunch.com under recipes > holiday recipes. They’re free until 12.31!!

Annual reminder: “healthy swaps” aren’t alwa

Annual reminder: “healthy swaps” aren’t always healthy emotionally and mentally. 😬 And I’m so tired of seeing this BS on Instagram - ESPECIALLY in holiday foods. Please note that if you have allergies - this post isn’t about swapping ingredients to accommodate. It’s about how, for whatever reason, on IG everything we eat just has to have some nutritional benefit (not true).
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😐 Zucchini noodles are a vegetable, not pasta. Processed cauliflower isn’t the same as actual rice. Rice cake pizza is so far from regular pizza I don’t even want to call it that- it’s more of a rice cake cheese melt you know?
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🤔I think these swaps make sense sometimes, of course- when the swap you’re making HONORS your craving. (Like if you’re actually craving a rice cake pizza or cauliflower rice, obviously that’s a great choice)
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🤦🏻‍♀️But I’m tired of diet culture feeding us the idea that these “healthy swaps” taste as good as the “real” thing. It’s just not true! (unless you just dislike the taste and experience of legit pizza or real pasta, I mean.. fine)
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🤬The way diet culture demonizes carbs in general really bugs me. We literally need carbs (rice, pasta, bread etc) to survive. Just look at the history of food all over the world: carbs have been an essential source of energy for centuries... and now we have decided they’re bad? No thanks. I’ll take my carbs because I want my brain to function properly.
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❓Something to think about: are you honoring your cravings? Are you making food choices based on what you really want or what you think is going to give you the body you want? And do your choices really satisfy you?
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🙏🏼Why I care: I can’t stand the thought of people in my community depriving themselves of real pizza and going for this rice cake pizza BS if that’s not what they actually want. Give yourself permission to eat the pizza. You don’t have to EARN it. You don’t have to justify it with exercise. The best (and really only) way to manage cravings is by eating the thing you crave with full permission and no judgement.
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👇🏼What do you think? Happy to discuss below.

I still have a couple cans of canned pumpkin in my

I still have a couple cans of canned pumpkin in my pantry stash! 🎃
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Here’s a super easy breakfast idea featuring canned pumpkin. 🥞 These came out SOOO good. Fluffy, soft and super tasty.
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You can meal prep pancakes! Store them in the fridge in containers for 3-4 days or freeze them in containers for a month. You can freeze them for longer - it’s just a matter of getting as much air as possible out of whatever you freeze them in. A zip loc might be better!
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Reheat pancakes in the microwave, on the stove, in the toaster or oven.
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Recipe coming next week to the WWL Program! Check the link in bio to learn more about our weekly meal plan membership.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO STOCK A PANTRY FROM SCRAT

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO STOCK A PANTRY FROM SCRATCH?👈🏼👈🏼
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Swipe left to find out how much we spent when we moved into our new apartment in Seattle last month.
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Investing in our pantry in NYC (in the first apartment my partner and I shared together) really paid off. We were able to transport all our spices and most of the remaining dry ingredients (rice, grains, pasta, flour etc) with us when we drove across the country. So that was a big chunk we didn’t have to buy again. This is part of how investing in a pantry pays off!
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While my new kitchen is much more spacious, we haven’t increased the amount of food we keep in the pantry. I don’t believe in filling up space just because you have more of it! Although, my partner wants to get a deep freezer so we only have to buy meat once a year or something 🙈
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The first week after arriving, we went to Costco (we actually spend $500 but a lot of it was house stuff and a vacuum cleaner), a local market for sauces and vinegars and I hit Trader Joe’s for a few specialty items.
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To get all the info INCLUDING a pantry list and links to my containers, head over to YouTube to watch my new video on stocking a pantry!
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YouTube.com/workweeklunch
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If you get to the last slide, lmk what you think about how much it cost to stock up this time around.

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