How We Stay Organized: Weekly Meal Prep Calendar & Grocery List
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, we cover some of our best tips for organizing your meal prep calendar & weekly grocery list! Check out our blog for more tips & a download of our weekly grocery list: bit.ly/KrockOrg...
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y'all just make my geeky vegan heart happy
Linda 🤓 thank you, that makes us happy 😃
Mine too!
I seriously have that conversation with my husband EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
Oh... my... gosh... Why the heck have I never thought to do a list like this?! This is a freaking dream for my personality!! I'm implementing this ASAP!!!
A Krocks in the Kitchen Cookbook would be great!
I just want to say thank you to you guys. I'm sitting here with 100 lbs to lose. I'm already vegan, so that obstacle is not an issue. However, having all these various tips and teachings are really giving me the courage to start. Thank you so much!!!
Monday is the start of the week -- so I would like that calendar. My Hubby and I are going to start this journey on September 1st. I love your videos, they are so informative and user friendly. I have 5 autoimmune diseases plus fibro -- so I need to start a plant base diet to eliminate inflammation -- plus lose 100+ pounds. I'm so happy I found both of you. Thanks for the inspiration!
Angie D you can do it!!!!
How’s it going?
Best wishes friend!
Day three of potatoes for me! :-) hope your having success with your journey!
Your fridge and freezer is epic! Filled with only good things and so organized. Amazing!
I wish all calendars started on Monday. Cute gummy bear magnets. I really like how you are so supportive of each other and appreciative.
Great tips! I will add, you can buy a sticky page laminate kind of sheet to make a master list of staple foods with check boxes. You cover both sides to make a laminated kind of page that you can use a dry marker on. You can use couple of magnets to put on your fridge. You check the boxes with a dry marker on stuff you need to buy or just mark boxes as you need to replenish stock. Also, look for 1 cup storage freezer containers they sell like 6 in a pack at grocery stores. Instead of freezing a big bowl, have frozen cups of your batch cooking. You can get quart size also. I use freezer tape to label dishes so my husband doesn't have to guess what it is. LOL. Also, there are free phone apps out there like 'Check list', that you can share or send to each other. Thanks for posting!
Thank you so much for sharing your grocery list. I just went plant based and it can be challenging. I was doing keto or low carb off and on for a few years and since I don’t eat a ton of meat or eggs it was hard to continue that lifestyle. It made me not want to eat meat again. I’m really glad I found your channel. Thank you again for all that you do . Have a wonderful afternoon!💜
Thank you for watching and commenting! Glad we could help in some small way :) The last year has been a challenge, but we have learned so much and can't imagine going back now!
When I've eaten a vegan meal out, I've more or less figured out how to do "my version" of the recipe. As we are two people as well, if I make a dish, part of that dish will be used as an ingredient for other meals -- such as when I make our taco meal, I usually also make Zataran's Yellow Rice, adding some mixed veggies for extra color. When I make this, I also make an equal quantity of quinoa which I mix together. Quinoa's flavor is mild and I like the mixed colors. This leftover rice became one of the ingredients in my tacquitos and was added when I served up the vegetable soup I made. Then I froze some of the leftovers on the soup.
We moved this year to California's Central Valley and even though out backyard is small, we bought a brand new home with no landscaping in the backyard. Our shrubs are vegetables, except for one rose bush and two decorative plants, everything else we've planted is edible. We have curly lettuce, kale, beets, cilantro, baby bok choi, carrots, broccoli, edible Chinese pea pods, green onions, garlic, spinach and we also planted red and green seedless grapes, and a dwarf lemon and dwarf orange tree and an avocado tree. We have LOADS of blossoms on the trees.
Except for a few greens I buy at the store, my daily salad comes out of the backyard. I just take a deep dish and a scissors and go cut what I want to eat. We don't have tomatoes yet or bell pepper, also I want to plant zucchini and yellow squash and cantaloupe. Oh, and we have strawberry hanging baskets and a blueberry bush.
If you own your own home, learning how to do a vegetable garden is fun and not a lot of work. Fresh cut salad greens have loads more flavor. My husband did the planting, I do the harvesting. He does not eat a lot of salads but I do, but learning to eat a daily salad is something the Krocks taught me. Brian and Jessica not only look healthy, they have a glow to them.
WFPB (Whole Food Plant Based) helps you stay well, you sleep better, never get constipated, and it helps fight depression. I have suffered from depression most of my life. I am 66 and actually feel better now than I can ever remember feeling.
My husband reminded me that he planted corn (but it hasn't come up yet). As our yard is small, he has hanging planting trays on our wooden fence, suspended so we can use that space for herbs and spices. Some people like to plant raised beds, but that is a lot of added work, if you can bend over, it is not hard to do the harvesting.
We do eat cooked foods but with the fruits and salads I am eating, I am at least 50% raw food now. I don't think I'll go ever completely raw.
We've also been trying more colors of potatoes and enjoy yams once a week which is cooked in our crockpot.
My husband is still transitioning. Our dog was under the weather so we got her some raw lamb frozen. I just about get sick now when I smell meat. I do not feel tempted to eat animal products. Occasionally we get a veggie pattie which I did not see contains egg whites, unless there is nothing comparable, I do not buy that again.
Sorry for the lengthy post.
There is always something new to learn and to try being a vegan.
I’m a pretty diehard beauty TH-cam watcher, then you guys got put into my recommendations. Thank you so much algorithm!! I’ve subscribed and started watching your playlist from the beginning. Then you guys started talking about jambalaya and Brian said yankee and I was extra sold. I’m so glad to have watched this video and I’m definitely adding salad components to my grocery list this week.
Love how your brain works, Jessica -- cool organization/meal prep system! 👍 Also love the menu notebook. Clever! 🙂
🙏 THANK YOU GUYS! You guys are the big sister and brother I needed…
I like the calendar starting on Monday!
Im so glad he added that he knows how great it is to have Jessica organizing. I was thinking that. I live like a bum compared to her. You guys are lucky to have her OCD! Great job!
I could do this easily if I had a mate to cook meals, and another mate to organize it all :D Love your videos. Been binging on them all day.
Jessica, everytime you empty something, write it down on a list. That way you don’t need to do a weekly inventory of staples.
Love your channel. My hubby and decided to make even more changes to our health in mid June. We’re following the mantra of - Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. It’s working great for us. We used to meal plan on paper but I loved the magnetic calendar idea so I just ordered one from Amazon. Thanks for your ideas, humour and inspiration.
The staple food grocery list is absolutely a great idea. Bcz i always run out of spices and then when i get to the store i always forget what I'm low on.
I feel like you do everything that I try to do for a week and then get tired of doing LOL I dream of sticking with it!
Again it doesn’t matter what you guys are discussing I really enjoy you two!
We will be doing a Q&A video soon. Do you have any questions for us to answer? It doesn't have to be food or diet related. 😀
I didn’t think I could love you guys more, but now I do 😀
Weeks absolutely start on Monday!!!
Holy smokes!! Is your fridge always that beautifully organized? OMG!!
I really enjoy your videos, you guys are so sweet and practical at the same time.
I’m an imperfect McDougaller myself, always looking to do better. I’m also an organization nerd so I love your calendar and lists.
Here’s a couple of things I found that really helped me a lot. I am in no way affiliated with either of them.
#1 LISTONIC - I keep it on my phone and it’s a list of things that I buy over and over again, much like the paper list do you keep on your clipboard.
#2 PAPRIKA - Which is a recipe organizer. It lets me download recipes from the web, or input them manually. It also kicks out a list of ingredients for each recipe. It’s a cool app, I think it cost five bucks when I bought it. (I don’t use it nearly as much as Listonic, which I use every single time I shop.)
I am totally with Brian on this one. A week starts on Monday, so does every calendar here in Germany 😉
Same in Spain. Do people seriously think that it's OK to split the weekend and put half of it at the beginning of the week? It's called weekEND for a reason. Sunday is the last day of the week.
Here I am binge-watching your videos. . . Love this method. My hubs and I need to start doing this. Neither of us mind eating the same thing over and over again, yet I find myself anxiously contemplating whether we should or not. This concept of doing batch cooking one or two things for lunches all week, big salads on weeknights, and saving F-Su for fun meals is just awesome.
Thank you, Alice! 😃We just kind of naturally fell into that routine of batch cooking soups and salads for dinner M-F and then making more fun meals on Saturday and Sunday. It works pretty well for us and helps us to maintain our weight loss. 😃
-Brian
I had not seen this one yet and it's a winner. I despise a calendar this starts on Monday and I would probably go so far to print stickers and cover the days so they start on Sunday, because I have. I kept my list on my phone because I always have it with me. good job
Haha, I love you guys! And I love the where's peef and his angst at your needing a new one. Thank you so much for working on these great videos. I hope you're able to continue for a long time!
I seriously love you guys!!!! So glad to have found your channel!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Susie Gonzalez thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
You are amazingly organized. Your freezer is so organized. I need to go organize...
Calendars are pain to me! Being in the U.K. the week starts on a Monday... but at work we are more like you and our week starts on a Sunday.. it’s proper pain in the a#s! Especially when trying to book holidays !
I love our calendar! In the U.S. a calendar starting on Monday is called a Broadcast Calendar. Ad runs and programming always start on Monday for the week. In my mind, weeks always start on Monday. 😀
-Brian
I can so relate to that conversation! No help! Love your ideas.
Thanks for sharing the Master grocery list! Enjoyed your video a LOT!
Thanks for watching!! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
God in heaven. More of this 😍Love plans!!
Great video. Very helpful.
Very helpful and thank you for the detailed explanation.
LOL. I also have that calendar. I put tape over the days and renamed them Sun-Sat. Also, I have a binder with recipes I like too. Great minds think alike. I do not use a master grocery list but it is a good idea. I just keep a running list using Google Keep. This makes it easy for my husband to add things to the list during the week too. It would be great if he were plant based too but he is not a veggie fan and doesn't like any of them once cooked. Sigh. Great videos. Since I learned about you only a few months ago, I try to find time and review them periodically. I started oldest first so I have a lot of catching up to do!
I am going to do this and keep my good recipes handy.
You two have GREAT camera presents... Love your personalities!
*THUMBS UP!!!*
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Danky The Clown Thank you for the compliments 🙂 We are having fun making these!
You guys are the cutest!!
Love the bits with PEEF 😂😂
I want to have your organization skills, Jessica!! 😭 I would love to see a video of all things organizing 😁
Super helpful, thank you!
Love this, will definitely use some of the tips in this video! I can definitely relate to the “what do you want to eat?” conversation 😂 looking forward to seeing the videos about some of the recipes you make and would love to see recipes for all different kinds of meals. My family consists of very picky, unhealthy eaters and I’m trying to find yummy, healthy meals that we can make more regularly in our lives, it’s very difficult!
Love your channel!!!
Whatever I try to watch this video, It's stops and its buffers and I could never watch it I've tried 14 to 15 times at different times of the day and different days of the week. And still come out watch it. Not sure what to do. I would really love to watch this video.
Me too! It stops and buffers around the 42 second mark. Every other video works, so it's not my internet connection, it's just this specific video!
@@Cleosbitch thank you
♥️ this! I saw that calendar and was wondering about it. Thanks!
Thanks for this video! Great ideas, Jessica!! I love the PEEF silliness!
Judee
I love you guys. Couldn't figure out how to get into salads and I just saw your salad prep video thank you so much. Love all your videos.
You are just like my husband Brian 😆
Me “do you want falafel, pasta, burritos? gimme a direction...”
Him “yeah!”
😂😅
I love this video. I have been going back to catch up on some I missed. Great one.
I’ll have you know, the “What should we eat tonight?” conversation has caused me to go on cooking strike many a time. 😉 Can’t someone, for once, just decide for me?!
But seriously, I agree with batch cooking and meal prepping. I should be batch cooking more often, but unlike you guys I go crazy if I have to eat something twice in a row. Except tostadas. Tostadas are life.
How do you guys eat your frozen fruit? That’s something I stock up on when I see it on sale, so now I have a freezer full of it and honestly have no idea what to do with it. (I only use it to make chia jam.)
Love the spice cabinet! You two are as bad as me lol
I eat frozen fruit as part of my breakfast nearly every day. In the morning before I go to work, I put some frozen blueberries, raspberries & pineapple into a glass Pyrex bowl. Then by the time I get to work, it has thawed a bit but is still cold. At work, I slice a fresh banana or apple into it and mix it all up!
Brian takes a bowl of frozen blueberries, cherries, mango & pineapple with him to work every day and eats it as part of his lunch. I personally don't like it to thaw out as much as he does or it gets too "soggy" for me. I will also just take it straight out of the freezer and microwave for a few seconds to thaw a bit.
We do make smoothies or banana "nice" cream with frozen fruit in it from time to time as well.
Don't get me started on Brian and his spices! LOL
Krocks In The Kitchen lol...trust me, my cabinet is just as bad. It’s totally out of control.
Great idea, I really need to start using my frozen fruits! (I lied, on occasion I do add it to overnight oats or So Delicious yogurt...but 99% of the time it slips my mind.) And I agree, I prefer it’s not completely thawed.
French calendars also start on Monday.
In Germany too :)))
Love Jessica's organizational skills!
I just love you guys.
Thank you very much! We appreciate the love! 😃
-Brian
Great video. Love any meal prep or meal planning tips
We will definitely have more in the future! :)
Great video by such a lovely couple and smart couple. I just had to subscribe! Love ya.
Thank you Sharon! We really appreciate the kind words :)
My OCD loved EVERYTHING about this video!!
Great suggestions, thank you so much!
Ummmm can I just say this it the first “batch cook/meal prep” video that didn’t make me want to commit homicide.
Thank you so much for sharing how you stay organized! I’m not much of a freezer person anything that goes in there tends to stay there...forever, but I think I’m gonna give using the freezer a try. Pray for me, lol.
You guys are fantastic, I'm so glad I found your channel, thank you!
Thank you for finding our channel. 😀
I love your tshirt collection Jessica!!!!!!! Very awesome shirts.
Just found your channel and love it! I must refine my diet and Keto is really not my style. I would love to see recipe video in jumbaliya! Rock on!
Regina Roberts thank you! We will work on that!!
Thank you! This was very helpful! ❤️
TIP: Great video guys, heres a tip for ya. On my phone I have an app called "my shopping list" once you add all the items you use, it's super fast to add and delete your shopping items and its always with you when your at the store. Cheers :)
Would also like to see some of your recipes...thanks!
Ocean Mermaid Sunday we are posting a video of the veggie soup recipe we love! Also working on a video for our breakfast recipes, our chili and a few others!
I love love you guys. Thank you so much.
Love your channel! New subscriber. More videos please x
Thank you for subscribing and commenting! We definitely have a lot more videos to come!
Omg. The Pom!
New sub. Love your channel!
yay for both pdf and word doc :)
I don't understand why the week is considered to start on Sunday in the US. It makes zero sense. Why is the weekend called weekend then? Anyway, I love your channel!
You guys are doing awesome! Just a few constructive criticisms, if I may, and I mean these in the most respectful way. The video production is great (audio and video, camera angles, etc), so is the content. However, I think you can grab the interest of the viewer by keeping the message short and sweet. Less dialogue and more to the point of the video. Keep on going! Hope this didn't come off rude.
Thanks for watching! We are super new at this and we appreciate any feedback so we can make future videos even better 🙂 We have already been talking about re-making this video in the future before we even posted it 🤣 Maybe restructuring it as a more organized “Top 5 Tips” or something.
I like the real life dialogue help, please don’t turn into hands cooking!😂no really don’t!
We won't 😃 Although we are working on a video for Wednesday that was shot in a bit different format... just testing some things out. Don't worry though, there will still be plenty of our "dialogue" LOL
I enjoy the dialogue too, makes it more fun to watch! I can tell you guys shop mostly at Trader Joe's and Aldi, which are my two favorite places to shop too! I also love storing random stuff in the freezer to extend the freshness, including flaxseed, chia seeds, nuts, coffee, etc. And I keep my nooch in the fridge! ✌️🌿
I know you weren’t trying to be rude but I COMPLETELY disagree. I could use some more dialogue. I love listening to your message and ideas and all and any witty banter! More more more!
I love your gummy bear magnets! They're super cute.
Just found your channel. I like! thank you for your efforts. Youtubing is a lot of work. Also, I live in Cbus maybe i will run into you at the North Market.
Thank you! It has been a ton of work, but we are having fun with it! I go to the market at least once or twice each time we visit family in Columbus 🙂 I wish we had something similar here in St. Louis!
lol two people who may actually be the same person. sooo cute.
Love you guys! You crack me up!
Thank you very much! 😀
Do you go to the same grocery store every week? Or multiple stores in a week? Would love to hear/see how you treat the store options.
Jessica goes to the same stores every week. Aldi, Trader Joes, and Whole Foods (In that order 😃). I know she will sometimes go to Walmart or Target but it's the other 3 that are our normal grocery stores. I'm sure we can do a video about that in the future! 😃
-Brian
Hey Bridgette - Jessica here! I always start with Aldi and get the vast majority of our groceries there if possible. Although Aldi is usually the cheapest, they are also most likely to be out of things. They usually have a few super good deals on fresh produce depending on what is in season, so I love to check those out and get a few things that aren't on my list if they are really cheap! Then I go to Trader Joe's next and get things I couldn't find at Aldi there. I usually end up going to Whole Foods, but I only get a few things there. Sometimes I skip Whole Foods, but I do like to check out their sales (can you tell I like a good deal? Lol). We will definitely have to film a "grocery haul" video sometime.
I have trouble making it to multiple stores on the same day bc I worry about keeping everything cold while I'm shopping at the next store. We use a lot of frozen fruit and veg so I don't want them to melt while I shop. I love me a good deal too!
This can be tricky, especially during the summer months! I usually take a few insulated cooler bags or even a regular cooler with ice packs in it when I go grocery shopping. This really helps keep everything cold!
I’m a new subscriber and love your videos! What is the story on Peef? So cute!
How much is your grocery bill a week?
How do you use you tahini sauce? Do you use it as salad dressing? How do you make it? I have the same brand as you and haven’t used it yet, don’t know how or for what!
We use tahini to make hummus (th-cam.com/video/8oNp1cwdM_k/w-d-xo.html), salad dressings, and some other sauces. We will have some videos coming out in the future that have a few different uses for tahini. It really is a great product that can be used in many different ways. 😃
That is the cleanest fridge I have ever seen in my life. Do you obsessively clean or do fridges stay cleaner when you only keep fruits and veggies in it?
One Tired Daddy it’s an obsessive thing. I’m vegan and my fridge sadly doesn’t look like that. Hahah
Would love the jambalaya recipe!
In Norway, where I live, every calendar you will find starts at monday. I have never understood why you will start a week on a sunday?
What all do you guys put on your pizza? I'm commenting halfway through the video, so apologies if you mention it later in. I'm very curious what a pizza night at the Krocks would look like.
Can u do the weeks following the 2 week potato diet
Did I see medjool dates in the freezer? If so, how are they when thawed? I'll be giving it a try if it works well! Loving your videos btw!
Deb M I freeze mine too so they don’t go bad on me. They taste the exact same once they’ve thawed.
Where can I get your shopping list? This is genius!
I use Cozi for this and it's a life and time saver. Check it out.
I need a Jessica!!!!
Would love to know how much you spend on food.
Jessica, do you have a link for the narrow metal list board for writing items you need to pick up? Thanks
Is the jambalaya recipe posted somewhere?
I'd like to request a pizza making video. Hubby loves pizza! But I hate tomato pizza sauce like it's a precursor to the plague. :-(
We are working on one!! Hopefully soon!
I know this is a older victim but I never know how much to eat. I feel
Like I eat to much or maybe not enough. I guess I’m ok I eat til I’m full but some days I feel like whoa I’m eating a lot of food here and you all eat three meals a day ?
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You guys are a cute couple
Hi I really like you guys!!!!! But I notice that you don’t eat meat. Why?
Thank you very much Rose! We appreciate the comment! 😃 We don't eat meat as part of our regular diet because we eat a whole food plant-based diet. 😃
-Brian
Crossing things out seems so time consuming, I'd rather highlight what I need to buy.
I now see how unorganized I actually am. Dear lord. I sometimes make a list and sometimes I don’t.
Jessica is a master at organization. 😀 I'm extremely lucky to have her.
-Brian