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Free returns no more🙅🏽‍♀

Plus: Mrs6am's Tombstone Saying & March Garden Planning

March 06, 2024

“Super Witty Title”

This was Mrs6am’s first title ONE YEAR AGO. I sent it to one person. (Thanks Mom.😘)

I hoped Mrs6am would be a fun, light read but with a bit of depth. Not sure how how deep the latest TikTok or sneaker trend is, but we can make that a goal for next year, right? 😂 

But, for today, this is what we’ve got:

  • Order in the court kitchen - Meal Planning to the Max

  • While you’re at it, eat your food in this order

  • Mr6am’s best advice for anyone, anywhere

  • What to plant now—gardening checklist

  • A new Video Series Binge but make it Lenten

MEAL PLANNING: Ever open the fridge and stare blankly at all the stuff in it? We feel you. 😵‍💫 It’s difficult to mentally convert the food into meals. It’s time to power up your meal planning game 🍄 and meal plan for the whole month.

Sound crazy genius? It sure is. Save on time, money, and food if you do it all at once. Here’s how:

  1. Print out a pretty schedule for the month (here’s March).

  2. Fill in holidays, birthdays, or other special days or events you want to note.

  3. Give each day a category. (Sundays are Italian dinners, Mondays are One-Pan Meals, Wednesdays are Soup & Salad, Fridays are meatless, etc.)

  4. Take inventory, and plan meals from your pantry/fridge first.

  5. Print recipes or write down the page numbers on your calendar for easy retrieval. You can double easy meals to freeze for later!

  6. Now the hardest part: make a grocery list for each week of the month based on the planned meals.

  7. Still too much? Refer just one person to Mrs6am, and you’ll get our monthly meal plan (and weekly grocery list) in your inbox.

A monthly meal plan and weekly grocery haul cuts decision fatigue way down. Plus, if you post it in the kitchen you’ll avoid the incessant “Mom, what’s for dinner?” Because question fatigue is a thing too (Especially at 4:00pm! 😭)

SHOPPING: Online shoppers- beware. If you’re a frequent returner, you may get blacklisted. Turns out, free returns are going away if you’ve returned “too much too often” to stores like ASOS and Urban Outfitters. What constitutes “too much” or “too often”? Ugh- that’s a mystery, even to the retailers. Their policies have no real numbers to share with customers. Soooo, if wearing and returning is your thing, time to give it the boot. 👢

NUTRITION: Curb the cravings. 🍭 Sweet and salty cravings can feel overpowering, but there’s hope. It’s not what you eat, but how you eat it, says ‘glucose goddess’ and biochemist Jessie Inchauspe. Frequent spikes in our glucose can cause cravings, brain fog, acne, and, over time, pre-diabetes. But, Inchauspe has some hacks:

First, clothe your carbs. Anytime you eat something sweet or starchy, pair it with a protein, fat, or fiber. Think: almond butter or avocado on your toast. Second, drink some vinegar before a meal. Just a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar flattens a glucose spike by 45%. Third, start with a savory meal. AKA nix the pancakes and opt for protein. Fourth, move after you eat. Ten minutes of walking or 30 squats can reduce glucose spikes. Add one of these per week, and in a month, voila! Flattened glucose curve that you can feel.

One of the truest things that I tell my kids: “When you get outside, good things happen” - Mr6am

☝ Can I get an amen? Love that guy.

It’s our birthday, so we can ask if we want to:

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Until next week,

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