ㅤㅤ ┈ᯓ𖹭 celebrating my mother and brother's birthdays today with our family's staple birthday meal, egg rolls, some sort of noodle dish, and chocolate tweed cake 🫶 this time around though there was additions of tuna crispy rice sushi made by my sister (honestly my favorite part of the meal), and also a pumpkin tart from a local bakery that was so heavenly. my brother had bought the ingredients to try making takoyaki too but they didn't turn out <//3 ㅤㅤ this was a wild cooking experience for me because i ended up having to do all of the egg roll rolling alone... it may look so easy but when there's 500 to do it really takes you out 😭😭 i also have a ton of micro burns almost everywhere from the frying process whoof . this was all extremely worth it though, i could eat these things 50 at a time and never get tired of them seriously. ㅤㅤ the same goes for the chocolate tweed cake which was flawless as always. it still baffles me that chocolate tweed cake isn't a globally popular cake flavor, if i could only eat one kind of cake for the rest of my life this would be it truly.

munching on extremely inauthentic elote and samosas while i start lord of the mysteries. only on episode 3 but wow. what a ridiculously beautiful show. the character animation kind of reminds me of a mix of terror in resonance and violet evergarden (the highest of complements you could receive from me frankly) the writing also feels reminiscent of the writing for the sherlock anime and there's so much interesting world building here, i fear i may be hooked...

ㅤ┈ᯓ𖹭 it's coming up on the holidays which is absolutely dreadful if you work in order fulfillment. i am trying to figure out easy easy things i can prep for the whole week without being too time consuming since come november 23rd i'll be working 5 / 12 hour shifts a week for a month or so 😵‍💫 this is my second year doing this, last time i was ordering so much food delivery and basically throwing away all the extra money i was getting from the overtime so this year we are locking innn. i think this week's menu is going to be on repeat for sure, everything could be prepped ahead of time, filling, and tastes amazing it's fantastic. ㅤ٠࣪⭑ 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌'𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒖 ⋆ ㅤㅤㅤ✶ cold brewed tulsi, hibiscus, and oat ㅤㅤㅤㅤ straw tea ㅤㅤㅤ✶ a dense bean salad (my own take on ㅤㅤㅤㅤ the scala salad version) ㅤㅤㅤ✶ peanut butter, (half raspberry half ㅤㅤㅤㅤ strawberry) jelly, seeds, and dark ㅤㅤㅤㅤ chocolate hummus sandwiches ㅤㅤㅤ✶ snack rotation: ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• japanese pears ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• purple grapes ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• sliced cucumber ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• ritz crackers ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• pinenut hummus ㅤ┈ᯓ𖹭 i am trying cold brewed tea for prep for the first time. i go thru phases of loving tea then feeling like i don't have time to ever brew it so i'm hoping cold brewing ahead of time will circumvent that. this particular blend though is one i just tried for the first time off of a reccomendation from one of those crunchy wellness moms on social media and wow she did not steer me astray...not only does this taste almost like juice (i add liquid zinc and agave to mine) but it really has helped balance my energy levels and overall ability to focus. even if it's placebo it still tastes great so i'm definitely keeping this on rotation. ㅤㅤㅤthe dense bean salad is also semi new to me, as i am finally recovering from my previous distaste for beans in favor of all of the easily accessible fiber and protein, yada yada. this is my second time making it and it's incredibly good. i don't really have a recipe because it's just dicing up veggies, beans, and a protein small and tossing them with a flavorful dressing. i used a special lime infused olive oil for this and it truuuly brought it to an 11. ㅤㅤㅤand finally my toddler meal staple 🙏🙏 sometimes you just gotta fall back on pb&j. but because i'm extra i have been adding a seed blend (chia, flax, and hemp), along with dark chocolate hummus. if you feel weird adding hummus to a pb&j i assure you this is the best thing on the planet you don't taste any beans or anything, just try it. it makes it so filling i love having 50 of these in my freezer. ㅤㅤㅤmy biggest struggle has been finding snack foods that i'll consistently like. my job can make me not even want to eat my favorite foods sometimes from how physically demanding most days are. since i go through calories like crazy i was eating junk food most of the time bc it "didn't matter" but it was also making me feel like straight garbage so it did in fact matter. now trying to eat healthier things my poor sweet tooth has been suffering though 🥀 i need to find some healthy chocolatey treats that aren't 500 dollars and actually taste good because sometimes fruit just isn't enough rip.

ㅤ٠࣪⭑ 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌'𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒖 ⋆ ㅤㅤㅤ✶ cold brewed tulsi, hibiscus, and oat ㅤㅤㅤㅤ straw tea ㅤㅤㅤ✶ mini strawberry cheesecake muffins ㅤㅤㅤ✶ broccoli, egg, and sausage breakfast ㅤㅤㅤㅤ sandwiches ㅤㅤㅤ✶ mediterranean inspired burger salad ㅤㅤㅤ✶ once again more pbj&h sandwiches ㅤㅤㅤ✶ snack rotation: ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• chips ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• purple grapes ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• walnuts & hazelnuts ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• ritz crackers ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• pinenut hummus ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• if anyone has any snack ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤreccomendations please comment 🙏 ㅤ┈ᯓ𖹭 i thought i would have one more normal week at work but they sprung an additional week of overtime schedule on with 2 whole days of warning ! so this meal prep is a miracle in the making because i unexpectedly have so much going on and zero time for myself, i love my job 😍 ㅤㅤthe bright side of this meal prep is that my freezer is now jaaaaam packed so hopefully i will be able to use up all of that this month instead of ordering out like i did last peak season. i feel like a bear in hibernation finally eating my stores ʕ-•-ʔ ㅤㅤi started this out pretty much the same as last week. pbj&hs, salad, and tea. but i switched up the kind of salad and threw in some muffins to try and keep it flavorly interesting. i read an article recently that mentioned eating the same thing every day is good for weight loss too so i can say this is just part of my weight loss journey, not that i'm just extremely lazy and only know how to make 3 things. ㅤㅤthe most time consuming part of this prep was definitely the breakfast sandwiches. i definitely should've just baked the eggs but i feel like they get all watery and spongey baked so i did it the hard way in circular tins on the stove. which ended up being pointless because i had one of these this morning and the egg was still watery and spongey when i reheated it so clearly my recipe could use some further testing. despite the textures though the flavor was great. next time i'm gonna add green onions to the eggs 🙏 ㅤㅤㅤthe salad for this week is probably among the best i've made. it started as me trying to copy the 'jennifer aniston salad' but upon further research, jennifer aniston never even ate this salad so i have no idea who's salad i'm eating this week but it tastes incredible ! the original salad has no meat but i knew in my soul that it would go good with some meatballs so i added some sage pork and beef meatballs to them and it was the perfect addition. i also have decided that when in doubt just adding every single marinated and pickled thing in my fridge can genuinely never steer me wrong. the only thing i haven't quite nailed down with my salad game so far is how to make a good dressing. i feel so barbaric just dousing things in olive oil and lemon juice and it doesn't even really taste that good but i just don't know how to do anything else <//3 seeking salad dressing reccs, i'll even take store bought 🙏

ㅤㅤ٠࣪⭑ made the mistake of going to grocery store hungry. when i say this is the best thing i've ever tasted i'm so serious, the only reason it gets a 4 star rating is because i just Know the addition of crinkle cut chips would make this a 6. will be eating this nonstopppp.