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.

Here’s your dinner planner for the week:

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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!

Here’s your dinner planner for the week:

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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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