Even though we’re empty nesters, this is the time of year we need to be outside working in the garden and yard. Having a week of dinners prepped would be a great time saver and enable me to get more done outside. Thanks, Mindy!!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Oh, I understand! We spent most of the weekend outside working! And we don't even have a vegetable garden, just some potted plants and basic yardwork!

@jent2262

Жыл бұрын

You are not alone LOL.

Can’t tell you thank you enough for all your hard work. You make my life so much easier! Please keep being you!! Bless you!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words! :)

A tip for faster roast potatoes: cut them small and microwave them first so they partially cook. Then rough them up so the edges are fluffy, toss in oil and salt and into the oven. Fast crunchy roast potatoes!

I love the idea of valuing time as much as money! I'm super impressed by what you got done in just about an hour!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It was a race, but we got it done! 😂

It’s just me (8 months pregnant) and picky 4 and 5 year olds. I’m realizing the large family meal ideas I’ve been watching for years are NOT what I need to be replicating (it’s absolutely disgusting how much $ I have spent on groceries!) but also realizing I need to eat good “real” food even if I’m cooking it just for me (the kids have their safe foods/meals) so these easy, comfort food style & not massive quantity recipes and ideas you share are SOOOOOOappreciated!

@NightTimeDay

2 ай бұрын

Oh god please do not call your kids picky eating habits "safe foods". That's a term for describing eating disordered habits so it's just strange. But also you're basically enabling their picky eating with that mentality. Like us it really unsafe for them to try new things?

@bettyjustice7766

Ай бұрын

Two adults here. I just divide each meal into 2 containers. Same time and effort for 10 meals. And a few leftovers.

I definitely want more of these types of videos from you! I like doing meal prep prep so not like total meal prep but getting stuff ready to cook on the day kind of like what you did here, makes life so much easier

Great idea using the dip for chicken sandwiches. Thanks for sharing! 🌺 Jen

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! it's one of my favorite shortcut meals! :)

Thank you! 2nd year teacher here and Sunday is usually the only day I have enough energy to meal prep so this was super helpful!

I always enjoy when Mindy calls something a "thingy-ma-doodle."

I try to cook for the week on Sundays. The oven is on once and the food is ready to warm when we eat it. I work full time outside the home and go to school part time. It makes my evenings less stressful.

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Great job, Karyn! It takes a lot of organization to do that, I'm sure your family appreciates it!

Thank you! Since watching your channel, our household=zero food waste! I appreciate your ideas so very much!

I don't always leave a comment. But, I just wanted to say I really enjoyed the content today! I like the budget videos but I also like to see regular meals without budget constraints and all of these meals looked amazing.

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Angela!

Awesome Video I watch my grandkids every day 3 right now and when schools out we have 5. I try and prepare meals on the weekends for next week to make it easy. I always have them for breakfast,lunch and Dinner once a week for sure. So I really enjoy today.

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! You are a busy Grammy I’m sure!

Thanks for the quick recipe ideas!! Definitely a few keepers and to have them all prepped is a huge time saver. Would appreciate more videos like this!

That tip for mixing cooked chicken with a pre made dip is genius! Definitely doing that this summer :)

Right on TIME! We're beginning our busiest season of the year and this will help us exponentially! Thank you ❤ Mindy, you rock!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

So glad I could give some ideas! :)

I loved this video! I love meal prep and seeing family dinners like this! Can’t wait to try some of these out! Thank you!

I love, love, love this meal prep! So many great recipes. I am looking forward to making each and every one of them. Great ideas! Thank you! Love from Texas ❤

The meals look great! Remember that you can zest a lime to stretch the flavor. 🎶

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Good tip!

@daniellecomeau2996

Жыл бұрын

I've gotten in the habit of zesting citrus before juicing. I Freeze the zest for other recipes and uses. Very handy!

This was one of my favorite videos from you! Definitely going to use these ideas next week. Thanks, Mindy!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you! I need this prep in my life. My husband and I have both gotten promotions and have zero time! ❤

I'm now very inspired to meal prep. 💙 All these meals looked so yummy!

Yes I do that too glad I am not only doing stuff like this for meal prep and have our weekly meals in fridge too ❤❤❤❤

Great video Mindy!!! They are all good, and this one is outstanding 😊

Pretty sure you are a genius!! I am soooo inspired to try these!! We'll done Mindy!

These types of videos are among my favorite! Thank you for sharing ❤

This is such a great idea Mindy ! I wish I had done this when I was raising my kids and working full time ! What a time saver ! Your recipes look delicious ! I will definitely try these out ! Thank you for all your hard work Mindy !

Interesting! I'm actually making the copy cat panera wild rice and chicken soup for meal prep next week! It's been on my Pinterest feed so much I've been compelled to make it lol

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Hope you like it!

Great job banging out five yummy dinners for the fam in less than an hour!!! The Thai peanut sate looks amazing!!! I love cilantro-lime anythng, so I def need to check out that marinade - I know if you like it, I'll like it! :)

Thank You so much for helping us with all your tips!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Stacie! Glad I can be helpful. :)

Love all these meal ideas- I’ve made a similar pizza pasta bake from a recipe I seen online but it didn’t have the white sauce and it also requires ground beef- I like this recipe more cause it looks more budget friendly ;)

This is well done. at the stove +other kitchen time is tough on household as warmer weather comes in.. thank you.

Very efficient use of your time. Loved that you inserted the video of the plated meals. They looked awesome. Do you have an idea about how much you spent on the week of meals??

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

I don’t remember exactly, but I wanna say it was around 70-80 including all the meat, extra veggie sides, convenience items, and a few other things I ended up not even using for these meals.

I am loving your recipes! Even tho I am one person, I like to prep and freeze...never have tried skirt steak! It looks delicious!

Thank you for the good, easy, and healthy ideas

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Robbie!

Thank you for the video!

Made your chicken and rice from last video, was devoured by family! Thank you for that, going to try the beef skirt sheet pan right now. Have a great weekend!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

If I had it to do again, I would probably slice the steak up and then put it on the Sheetpan. Just an idea.

How could I love this more??!??? Great ideas!!!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Christina!

I love the cream of chicken & wild rice soup. Publix also has it a couple days a week on their deli soup bar, but most times when I go to get some, it’s down to the bottom of the pot.

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

It's one of my favorite things on their menu.

The gnocchi is a game changer! Why didn't I think of that!

This is so helpful! Would you consider doing a video similar to your one on what order to buy the spices in- on what order to buy cookware/bakeware in? Like what are the most used staples and then what is less used? what sizes of the various pans do you have and what does that translate to in like... a single batch or double batch of dinner, etc?

@natalieeubank4533

Жыл бұрын

Six sisters is great for batch cooking and freezing meals to make ahead of time

Perfect timing, finishing up my meal plan, and monthly grocery list.

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Alma!

@MrsAlmaTrumble

Жыл бұрын

@@SeeMindyMom you're welcome.

@daddyfrank828

Жыл бұрын

Hey Alma, I’m the eldest son in a house of 3. I’m trying to help my mother meal prep to take some stress off her busy life. Do you have any tips/advice for a “monthly grocery trip” please and thank you 🙏🏿

Look at her go with diversity, love the Thai coconut recipe youh made

Love that Panera soup! I am going to have to try that recipe!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Hope you like it!

Great job and all the recipes look delicious!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! 😊

Made the chicken and wild rice soup last night. I’ve tried several different chicken and wild rice soup recipes before that I didn’t love, but this one was fantastic! I will definitely be making it again. I added mushrooms to the recipe and I made it on the stovetop because I forgot to put it in the crockpot in the morning.

Thank youuuuuu! And I just love your eyeglasses. ❤😊

Love this idea.

Camping time is almost here and we always struggle with what to make for lunch that is not just lunchmeat sandwiches ....Going to save the dip and chicken idea in my notebook so can have something different

This is a good one!!

Thank you.

Thrive is amazing! Also, that Lesser Evil Himalayan Gold is life!!

Have you heard of using a hand mixer to shred your slow cooked/ instapot meat? It's so easy and fast!

Mindy and family have a great day have fun thanks from Oklahoma

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Same to you!

I can’t wait to try the chicken salad

Thanks for all you do. Gang gang

Thank you for making these videos, they are incredibly helpful! Random, but what do you use to style your hair? I think it looks great!

Great job Mindy!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I wanna try that soup!

I’m about to have a baby this is so perfect for me thank you!!

I was able to get a free membership for Thrive Market as a school teacher, plus 10% off 12 boxes. Thank you for turning me on to them. I got my first box, and am excited to have more budget friendly options for better quality food.

Finally a realistic meal prep 😀

I’m fairly new to your channel and I really enjoy your videos 😊

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

What temperature do you cook the steak sheet pan meal?

Great meal ideas

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I always look forward to your videos

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sarah!

For potatoes, you can cut them ahead of time and keep them in water until you need them. That's what I learned working in a university cafeteria. 😅 I'm not entirely sure if the cooking time is decreased, however. Thannks for the ideas!!

FYI unlike most oils sesame oil has a nice strong flavor that would make a Huge difference to a sauce or any dish really.

I'm impressed, short amount of time for all the meals.

fyi, you can keep fresh ginger in the freezer and grate it right from frozen

Thanks for sharing

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Darlene!

Wow you're my hero🎉😊

Great ideas

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks so much for the inspiration. Would you mind sharing your Walmart order total? (Sorry if I missed it, if you already shared that)

There's never enough ranch on those veggie trays 😢 🥕🥦🌶

Wonderful video and ideas as always! Also credit to your camera man (or woman)😊

I love your glasses!!! 🤩

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

I want to try the skirt steak sheet pan! What temp did you roast it all at?

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

I think I roasted it at 400, but then bumped it to 425. If I had to do it again, I’d slice the steak before marinading it and roast everything that way together.

Can you tell us the temperature for the steak sheet pan recipe?

You look ve tu pretty here. Very Neutral colors and you inspire me! 😗

What temp for oven on sheet pan steak and potatoes?

Good video!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

What temperature do you cook the steak at???

There is a service called 5 dinners in 1 hr. I was on it for a bit and learned a lot like eat your seafood and chicken dinners 1st and what ones you could freeze if something came up. But also learned some cool sauces and what not. I do things like this alot. Sometimes it's even just put the meat and sauce together and in your fridge makes it all nice and yummy when ya go to cook it.but I was not a fan of doing all 5 at once then but that was before grocery pickup becuz shopping and then prepping was exhausting lol

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Oh that's so interesting! Yes, prepping the meats for cooking makes them super flavorful because they marinade longer. :)

Thanks for another great video. Question about the rice. Is it a special quick cooking rice? Or would any wild/brown rice mix work?

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

The recipe specifically says the box kind. So I stuck with that. :)

I loved this video

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Patricia!

I wonder if you could use canned whole potatoes for that steak/green bean sheet pan meal instead of the potato gnocchi?

@barbaraburgio6737

Жыл бұрын

Yup.

Wow!!!!!

awesome

The recipes looked delicious! One question: I’m always worried about leaving raw chicken in the fridge for too many days since it can go bad. Did you make the raw chicken recipes first during the week? The same with the raw meat…

Awesome

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Mindy what temp did you roast the skirt steak dinner????

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

425. I wish I had sliced the steak before hand though and roasted it that way.

Mindy where can I get those 9x13 pans with that pop-in lid?? Thx

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

I think that one is just from Pyrex. I’ve had it a long time.

@karenwittfoth5380

Жыл бұрын

@@SeeMindyMom I’ve just never seen any like those before where the lid only covered the opening. Sent you an Instagram message.

I am going to make them they look amazing thanks😊

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😊 Hope you enjoy them!

new to your channel

cool

How did the soup taste, looks good?

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

It was REALLY good! I ate the leftover the next few days!

❤

How did you all like the Chicken Satay?

Yes it's better I'm cooking go 4 days it's better