1. Meal prepping
This is saving my time daily because it saved me the craziness of cooking and cleaning up on a daily basis. I've set a specific time for meal prep each week and focus on certain things to make the week go by easier and hopefully make it less stressful. I have picked what meals we will be eating and thaw the meat, make a grocery list, portion things out, and bake what I can. I didn't do all these this week but here are some I have done in the past:
- Frozen waffles to toast for quick breakfasts
- Baked muffins for some breakfast variety
- Portioned carrots and celery sticks with homemade hummus for lunches or snacks
- Weighed portions of peanuts and almonds for snacks
- Sliced onions and tomatoes to be ready for sandwiches
- Homemade bread
- Freezer meatballs
- Chicken nuggets (or could do tenders)
2. Free up space
I've noticed that when my house is clean and I don't have as much stuff laying around the house I seem happier so I've started parting ways with things I don't need. It helped that there was a place to give it that would help people I know and I was able to feel good about donating things I don't use anymore. Going through parts of my house one at a time getting rid of a few things at a time made it a smaller task that I could handle and not feel overwhelmed.
3. Making a schedule
Even if I am not following this schedule perfectly, it was so nice to have it down on paper saying what activity I am doing at a certain time. I even scheduled my workouts and meals into this because I wanted to see how much time I would have when I'm not working. I liked seeing how many hours I'm working verses how much free time I have each day and set time aside to work on when I do certain chores.
4. Rearranging
This may only help me because of how my brain works, but the more times I rearrange my living room, bedroom, and other parts of my house the more organized I feel. This goes along with freeing up space because as I do this, even though it takes time to do, it helps my life be less stressed because I am getting things in order. Altogether it is a part of feeling more organized in my own house that makes this one a way to relieve stress.
5. Being creative with random things
We recently thawed our wedding cake for our anniversary and tried to eat some but were overwhelmed with the sugar from normal pieces. The frosting was the worst part of trying to eat a piece even when we ate it to celebrate being married for two years. As it was sitting in the fridge I was worried it would begin to go bad and it seemed like such a waste so....we crumbled it all in a bowl and made cake pops! They are now easy to eat when we get a sweet craving and the frosting doesn't take over the flavor and end up in the trash. If I had thought of this before we ever had it frozen after our wedding it would have been so much easier!
6. Use free time to relax and recharge
I generally use all the free time I can to play with my adorable daughter and watch her learn and grow so I don't miss out. She has officially tried her first food, frozen bananas stuffed into this extremely messy, mesh thing. She seemed to like it more and ate as much as she could get from it so we've given her about a third or fourth of one every day this week. It took me a while to admit she is ready for food but I know I have to let go of her being an infant and completely reliant on me so she can grow big and strong.
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