 Hey friends and welcome to my channel, I'm Yashida and this is Norris Code. You guys today, first let me back up. I truly apologize for my absence, I've had a couple of things going on. If you follow me on Instagram, found that I had arthritis in my neck, I was down for about a week from that, I was recovering from a cold probably to that, and now I got a sign of something going on again, and also my brother has ALS and I've been taking off some time and going to see him in North Carolina, so it's like a day trip for me. So nonetheless, all the excuses and actual life things happening aside, I'm back. But I wanted to come back with something that you could use. So I'm not for sure if you guys remember these PVC carts that I, I don't know if I hauled them or told you about. Well, we'll be using those today, and there's a couple of ways we can do this. We're talking about today how to meal plan and meal plan easy so that you can take it in and out of your planner, whether you are a functional planner, a decorative planner, or a minimal planner. However, if you're a minimal planner, and you just like the aesthetic of the neutral colors, these are from Carlton paper, they will work for you. If you're on a budget, I got these from Target, they're less than $3. And if you want a little more color in your planner, these will work for you. I also found some similar to these in the Dollar Tree. So again, they're colorful, and I think you get about 10 colors. The colors are very similar to this. I think they even have a red. And let me make sure y'all can see. Yeah. So again, those are only a dollar and you get more. And then these are from the Dollar Tree. As you can see, I just use this little swap tab here. You can use something like this. Now, it'll be up to you if you want to write on them. Over here, I have my label maker. This is a brother. I don't think they sell this anymore. I've had this when I used to do makeup and I labeled my foundations, products, and things of that sort. But to make it easy, I'll later probably go back and label with my label. But to make it, sorry about that, you guys. So what we're going to do now, I will say this, I got this idea from the Fly Lady, one of her systems. And what she does is she asks you to ask your family members, depending on how many you have, let's say you're a single mom with three kids, ask all your kids their favorite food that they like for you to cook, that they like of yours, and give each of them a sticky note. And they will write down their favorite food, food, excuse me, spaghetti, steak, ravioli or whatever. And tell them just list about three to four a piece that they like. If you're a family of four, let's say a mom, dad, two kids like myself, you can ask them again, you get your husband, boyfriend, whatever spousemate and your kids ideas and hand them each a sticky note. Well, I tried that. My kids like, Mom, you know, we like, I think maybe my daughter participated. So after that, I'm like, I kind of know what they like. So you can write them down yourself. If your kids are just too busy on to go, your husband may spouse, whatever, just write down what you know they like, what they always request of you. So I'm gonna just do, and if you want, you can just color code for dinner, especially. So let's say you want dinners to be this color, you want lunches to be that color. So or if we're using this one, but any sticky tab will do to save time. I'm just gonna write. So for my family, I'm going to use between these two here. My family, my daughter, she's not here during pretty much the winter months. She's at school. She does come home for Christmas break or winter break. So she's here for about three weeks. And I just incorporate her stuff there. But I also incorporate doing the week when she isn't here because it's something that everybody likes. So the number one thing that I make that everybody likes is I just made it yesterday day before you lemon pepper wings and rice. Now what I always do I'll pair it with veggie. So sometimes I don't have to write down that it's going with the veggie is just automatic. We know it's going with a vector. So I'm going to stick that there on my clear PVC card. And then the next thing is my husband, he likes pork chops in the air fryer. So air fryer pork chops. And I don't have to add this is just like a main meat. Then I can do rice veggies. I normally figure out the side later. As long as I have that meat, but for you, like if you know the whole meal, so you may need a bigger sticky. But for me, I'm just more concerned with the main meat because we know it's going to be a veggie in a starch. That's how I pretty much cook meals around here. Sometimes to be honest with you guys, I just cook the meat to them fin for they sell. I may throw some fries in the air fryer, whatever. I'm sorry, I'm busy. So I just do what works for me. You do what works for you. Okay, so that's one of the meals we make. And like now today I'm cooking. That's what prompted me to make this video is because I'm doing a crock pot roast. And then my husband likes these mashed potatoes. We found out about these mashed potatoes around Christmas time at his aunt's house by not Billy Dean, really Jimmy Dean, but gosh Bob Evans. So pot roast mashed potatoes. And then I'll do a veggie. Now if you use a labeler, you may can get it smaller. So and then it'll look neater. And I'm gonna show you how this works. So when you think of something else, my son, he likes my, here's a couple of things that he likes. He's a growing teenager. So he likes a lot of stuff. But and he's a picky eater. So it's a lot when he likes something special. But he likes chicken Parmesan. When I make chicken Parmesan. And with the chicken parm, sometimes I'll do garlic bread. And that's it for myself. I may do a salad because we all eat different types of lettuce. And I started kind of doing this, we're kind of in the top of my head with what everyone likes because these are things that we all like, we all have different tastes. And at one point, like when I'm working out eating right, nobody eats my food. I have to make a separate meal. So these are things that I can incorporate it with all like and even if I'm working out, I can probably just have the lemon pepper and maybe some make a cauliflower rice and the microwave for myself. I can have air fryer pork chops, cauliflower rice for myself. So I don't have to do too much tweaking. So this works for me. And so again, it's four of us. So I'm going to do enough for these five days. I don't cook five days. But I want to get in the habit of least doing five out of seven. And then with maybe some leftovers. So we have chicken Parmesan, crockpot roast. We have the crockpot roast. And also, I try to utilize my crockpot as much as possible. I have a steak crockpot with crockpot steak. Oh my God, steak in the crockpot. It is not like an expensive steak. It's one of those little in between medium steaks. I don't know what it's called. It's not a flank steak. But it's like a chuck, but it's a little thinner. And I put that in the crockpot. I can throw maybe some canned potatoes or rinse them off, throw them in there, season everything and then do a veggie on the side. That's very, very quick crockpot steak. And what's something I haven't made in a while, but everybody likes, I might say that I don't like it. It's just that I don't know what I haven't figured out what goes with it. So I don't cook it. And I'm not really going to put it on my list is the cracked chicken. My family loves it. I like it cold on some bread, but they like it. I make veggies and stuff with it, you know, just the normal, but it just don't seem to flow. So I don't really cook that. I like to do like jerk wings in the air fryer. And you can have as many of these cars as you like, find somewhere to put them. I'm going to get one more. Again, my Amazon store will be in the description box. So so far we have lemon pepper wings, air fryer pork chops, crockpot roast, chicken parm with garlic bread, steak crockpot, jerk wings in the air fryer. There's something else. I'm going to leave it at this so that this video doesn't be long. And I'm going to show you how to use the list. So now what you'll do is you can take your PVC card. I'm again going to go back and put on a label. But I just wanted to show you guys a really quick way if you don't have one, please don't go out and purchase the label just to do this. Not unless you need it for other things. Try to catch them on sale. And as you can see, I have one for my weekly income. So this is where I'll keep those things. I can just put it right here. It's secure. So when it's time to plan for the week, you might want to make a duplicate because here's a couple ways you can do it. So you can go in if you have a duplicate of these. You can put them in your calendar this way. They're pretty big but that way you know what you had that month if you're duplicating anything. So that's a good way. My way I'm going to show you. I kind of put them here. You see here today's Thursday the 20th we're having the crockpot roast and veggies. So I take one off. That goes there and I can take it off because what I found I was doing. So here I ate out yesterday and that's another tab you can put um take out on um here I put the crockpot roast um and veggies and I didn't have that. We actually had the lemon pepper wings that day. So I don't like to write it in. I'm going to be able to take it up because some days I'll have dinner. So here this is what I had with some I'm checking from the grocery store and some salad and vegetables here. So that way you can just take it off. You can leave it on there when you take your inserts out. Take it up. Put it back because I want to keep a few of these in here. So that way when I'm done with them I can still reuse this even though I can't use the page. I can still reuse my menu and then if you want to color code but this to me is the best way you can just take it out and stick it on there and if you're a weekly person again if you have like a weekly let me show you my weekly another good way to do it if you don't want to put it on that tiny calendar. I'm a personal girl. I love my personal so I won't be putting on a month but I can still go back and see. So let's say Monday we had lemon pepper wings. I can stick their air fryer pork chops. Let's say we had that Saturday which I don't pretty much cook on Saturday. I'm about to start but I pretty much don't and then here and let's just say for takeout I put takeout here which was last my Wednesday. I had takeout sort of go there and then I can just kind of stick that on the back. However you want to do it but to me this works and the way that the fly lady does it is in the command center she has it on calendar at your command center. I bought the I have a full calendar I haven't updated for this year but I tried that so that way also your family can see. So if you have a command center calendar you can just do as many of these as you want. Again if you want them to be neat and tidy put it on labels. Then your family can see what is going to be for dinner that day. They can look at the calendar at the command center. No one was really using mine except for my husband. He'll look at it and he'll say oh so we having um chicken parmesan made but the kids wouldn't look so I just stopped using it. So this is a good way also put it on your command center. So if there's something special the kids want they can peel off and say hey on Wednesday I would like to have my favorite you can color code for each child each person. Again it's just for me I'm the only one to do the cooking in the house right now. So this works for me and again I don't need the command center calendar because no one was using it like we'll put down if my son had a game but a lot of times we don't find about his games the last minute but meals it was just something you know which I might probably go back to the command center calendar because a lot of times my husband will call and ask um did you cook and or text me and I'll be like it don't drive me crazy but I'm just like you know my days that I work late so that way he can see that we'll be having this on that day. Okay so I hope that was helpful I hope I made it pretty clear so today is the 20th and we're having the crackpot roast and mashed potatoes. So again I hope that was helpful I've lost one somewhere I'll pick it up and you guys enjoy it and you learn something uh let me know how do you mail plan what's your system what works best for you and I'll see you all in my next video if this is your first time watching a video of mine and you enjoy today's content please do me a favor hit that subscribe button also hit that notification bell and I'll see you in my next video bye