Good gracious, it’s already October on Monday!  If you’ve struggled getting back into a cooking routine, start small.  Commit to cooking one or two days a week.   I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – we have to cook from scratch as much as possible with unrefined foods if we want to reduce inflammation and support good health.  You don’t have to follow my dinner planner.  This is just to give you ideas.  I personally cannot follow this dinner planner because I use dinner to test recipes for future classes and for my upcoming cookbook.  My actual dinner planners would be quite boring to you since they are often repeating dishes over and over again and I wouldn’t have the recipes to share yet with you.  But I still always have a plan.  This past week, I wasn’t home for a few dinners, so I took the opportunity to order a OnePotatoBox.  One Potato is a meal kit company which provides family-friendly, organic, prepped meal kits that you cook.  They’re easy and delicious and a great option for those weeks when you just can’t get into the kitchen or it would make a nice gift for a new mom who is just coming home from the hospital.  I am not sponsored at all by One Potato, but I like supporting small businesses run by moms!  I asked them for a discount code for my followers and if you want to try One Potato, you can use the code PAMELA30 for 30% off your first box.

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What a week! It was all good stuff, as they say, but I am sure happy it’s the weekend.  Between the Jewish holiday I hosted for 26 very hungry people + 2 local tv segments that will air next week + my segment on Hallmark’s Home & Family (which you can catch here) + 2 cooking classes, I am toast! I am putting my pajamas on at 6:00 pm and watching Ozark until I fall asleep (probably around 8:00 pm LOL.)

Here’s your dinner planner for the week:

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I have another busy week this week.  I am taping a couple segments with KABC Los Angeles on Monday and then on Tuesday I am taping Hallmark’s Home & Family Show.  I believe that airs the next day, Wednesday, September 19th.  Yom Kippur is Wednesday and that’s one of the holidays I always host.  I love feeding people that have been fasting all day.  Anything and everything tastes good to them!  Ha!

For those of you that ask about the recipes that I teach in my classes that you often see me showing on my Instagram stories, I keep those recipes exclusive to my in-person and online cooking classes for at least a year or I will save them for my next book.  Do check out my online cooking classes – they’re the exact same lessons I teach in person.  The September class was just uploaded today and I am doing a Facebook Live with my private online class group on Monday at 5:00 pm PST!

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I have done this before where I forget about the first night of Rosh Hashana when posting my dinner planner because it’s not a holiday I host. Ooops!  I do host a luncheon after services on the first day of the holiday which is this Monday.  I always do a 3-4 basic roast chickens with some room temperature salads, fruit and simple sweets.  Like all holidays, I’ll do flowers, grocery shop, and set my tables two days before.  Anything that can be prepped the day before will be because I enjoy the process and the meal much more if I’m not stressed!  Follow me along on Instagram stories to hear some of my do-ahead tips.  If you are celebrating the holiday, happy new year to you and your family!

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Labor Day Weekend is the last hurrah.  My son starts school on Tuesday so we’re all sneaking away to Park City, Utah for a quick family getaway.  I think he’s actually ready to get back to school and a routine.  And so am I.  My teaching schedule is already full for Septmeber and I’m back at it next week.  If you take my classes, I am so excited to see you!  If you don’t, check out my online classes – they’re the next best thing to being in the kitchen with me!

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Last week of summer for me and I have jury duty!  What??  I got called in for Monday and although I know it’s one’s civic duty to participate in the judicial system, I wouldn’t mind if I didn’t get picked for a jury LOL.  It is what it is.  Lots of activity this week between everyone’s outrage over the levels of glyphosate present in our food and the reactions to the inflammatory remark from the Harvard professor about coconut oil. Well, of course coconut oil is not a superfood or a health food.  No fat is.  BUT, I would disagree that it’s “pure poison.”  Instead of clogging this post with my opinion about coconut oil, Dr. Mark Hyman has written about it here and I agree with this statement. Educate yourselves, be your own nutritionists, and make the best decisions that you can.  Remember you have power in your pocketbook and also remember that nobody cares about you and your family as much as you do. The responsibility falls on us to make the best choices for our health.  Eat real food, minimally processed, mostly plants.  You know what to do.

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Forgive me for not posting a new recipe this week!  I really wanted to be truly present at the Golden Door.  I am having a magical week here and I will be fully rejuvenated and ready to get back to work Monday morning!  Actually, for those of you in the LA area, I’ll be on KTLA around 10:45 am on Monday!

Have a great weekend!  Here’s your dinner planner for the week:

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Truth be told, I won’t be cooking at all next week.  My daughter is going back to college and my husband will be in charge of himself and Mr. Picky.  I am off to the Golden Door in San Marcos, California for a little self-care.  I will also be teaching one cooking class while I’m there because I can never stay out of the kitchen LOL.  Follow me along on my Instagram and you can see what I’m up to.  In the meantime, I know many of you like receiving this weekly dinner planner in your inbox on Saturday mornings because it encourages you to sit down and plan out your meals for the week.  Many families are already back to school, so no more olives and cheese for dinner them. Time to get back to business!  Here’s your dinner planner for there week:

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