Video summary
In this video, the host introduces a new physical meal planning system designed specifically for her CP Petite planner to help with budgeting and confident eating. She explains that while she is currently working out a rough draft of this insert, it was inspired by a favorite fitness influencer who uses lines on an iPad to list weekly breakfast ideas and grocery items. The goal of her new paper-based planner is to provide a structured yet flexible way to track meals without the limitations of digital apps or excessive writing space. She highlights that the insert includes sections for meal ideas, recipes, and a grocery checklist, allowing her to quickly jot down plans for each day of the week while leaving room to swap out options as needed.
The host then walks through how she fills out the planner for a specific week, detailing her choices for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and post-workout snacks. For breakfast, she alternates between chia pudding with fruit and sourdough toast with eggs and various meats like turkey bacon or chicken sausage. Her lunch plans involve experimenting with fish options such as tilapia or salmon paired with sweet potatoes and broccoli, though she notes her hesitation regarding carbon monoxide in some frozen tilapia products. For dinner, which she often eats earlier in the day, she considers ground beef, steak, or chicken burgers, sometimes creating a burger bowl to switch things up. Her post-workout snacks consist of rice cakes, bananas, PB2 yogurt, and protein shakes, with an emphasis on keeping these choices simple and adaptable based on her daily activity levels.
Throughout the process, she emphasizes the practical benefits of having a tangible plan that saves time during grocery shopping and prevents impulse buys. She demonstrates how she checks off items like strawberries, broccoli, and specific cuts of meat against what she already has in her pantry, noting that the layout allows for two columns if necessary to maximize space. Although she initially considered adding lines or notes on the back of the pages, she decided against them to maintain speed and convenience. She also mentions reviewing her old planner pages to identify successful meals like salmon and shrimp rigatoni while discarding less effective ones, intending to integrate these insights into her new system.
Ultimately, the host expresses strong satisfaction with this new approach, stating that it effectively replaces her previous weekly meal plans which she felt lacked substance. She plans to test this insert for a few weeks before potentially digitizing it, but for now, she is fully committed to using the physical planner to stay on track with her health goals. The video concludes with her outlining her immediate grocery list for the upcoming week, including trips to Sam's Club and Aldi for items like tilapia, steak, and Bubba burgers, reinforcing that this organized method is key to her success in maintaining a healthy lifestyle while managing her budget effectively.
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Hey friends, welcome to or welcome back
to Norris' Cove. If you're new here, I'm
Yoshida and here at the Cove we like to
budget and plan in confidence using a
planner. Today you guys, I still have
not did a clean up of this
but do know it's coming. But I have
something kind of exciting that I wanted
to share with you guys. So I've
mentioned in a couple of videos that I'm
back working out, eating right, and so I
did a new kind of meal planner. But let
me kind of explain. So this is it. This
is the cover, nothing on the back. And
this is a rough draft, okay? A rough
draft because I wanted to test it out
first and see how it works for me. Also,
I have like
some ideas for it. Like after printing
it, it was just something quick that
took me no time to do. Also, I was
watching how I came up with the idea. I
was watching one of my favorite fitness
influencers
and so she was on her iPad meal prepping
and she had like lines and you know,
what she does is she just lists the
ideas of what she's going to have for
breakfast that week and then she has a
grocery list, okay?
So in my mind, I'm like it has to be
planner approved, okay? Like paper
approved. And so I came up with this
and if you don't know, I also have this
meal planner here where I go in and I
write in my breakfast, lunch, and dinner
for snack, excuse me, and snack for each
day of the week and then here it is. And
so this is one week and I was just
writing as I
did the meals and then what I'll do is
I'll put a highlight sticker or some
form of sticker on meals that are
great or that I can, you know, use again
and again. Also,
and this was in one of our budget boxes.
Also, I have a recipe
insert
and
meal ideas, okay? So, this is kind of
the same but not the same. And so, here
is just some things that I write down I
want to have for lunch, dinner. I have
it also in another planner, I just don't
know where. But here are just kind of
unhealthy things, okay? So, that is
that. That's why we're not using that.
Anyway, let's get to this new insert.
Now, in my mind
I think I should have lines here for the
groceries with a check-off list. But the
only thing sometimes with lines is that
you have your limited, okay? You're
limited. But again, this is just for the
week, so it really shouldn't be a whole
list of lines. But then I thought about
it, I could also go in with like maybe a
half sheet if I go over it. And then I
thought, should I have put in notes or
something on the back of it? But for me,
it's just
I need quick, okay? I need convenient. I
need like I just need to write a list,
okay? That's all I need. So, I'm going
to use this for a couple of weeks before
I decide to make it a digital. But if
you like it the way it is, let me know.
So, let's start with breakfast. Oh, and
over here I have the week uh
and so, let me look because I know it's
the 15th.
I did yeah, January the
15th and that should be through the
21st.
Okay, so we have our date. So, some
things I've been loving so far back on
eating healthy and
all that great stuff is I have chia
pudding.
Um next week I bought some sourdough
bread, so I want to kind of do Oh, I
need to put in fruit here.
Um so, my section second option would be
sourdough
eggs
and then either turkey bacon
/
chicken sausage. I'm just going to put
chick
sausage. Why I can't write today?
And then fruit.
Okay, so that leaves me like enough room
for two options for my handwriting and
this is of course CP petite size. Okay,
for lunch
>> [sighs]
>> This is where I kind of struggle because
I don't know. I want to
I want to try the new tilapia thing, but
I'm looking at the tilapia.
>> [sighs]
>> I had stopped eating tilapia a long time
ago, but it's becoming popular again and
there's a lot of grams protein in it,
but then it said um what was on the back
of it? To keep its color it has carbon
monoxide in it. So I was like I don't
know. So I'm going to put a slash in I'm
going to put salmon because I may change
my mind, but salmon was a go-to for me
the last time and I lost a ton of weight
eating salmon several times a week. So
some form of fish, okay?
Um
I keep buying sweet potatoes, but my
mind keeps telling me
carbs are heat that your body's not good
with carbs.
But I have the sweet potatoes. So I'm
going to put sweet potatoes. We're going
to try it out and see and I'm going to
keep a watch on the skin. Sweet
potatoes.
And then I've already bought some
broccoli. I'm going to do broccoli.
And that's kind of it
for my choices. Um I'm doing fish next
week. I do know that and so if I don't
do the salmon or tilapia
my next option would be tuna.
And the way I make my tuna is really
plain. It's just the tuna, some light
mayo
and some red onions. That's it. And I'm
thinking about adding the eggs a bit
more protein in it. So, anyway, we're
going to do tuna
and then
only thing with tuna I'll be wanting
crackers. So, nonetheless, we got tuna.
All right. So, for dinner, which I
technically don't really eat dinner
because I'm done eating about 3:00 4:00.
And maybe before then, really 2:00 2:30.
But, I still want to list some dinner
options. So, I may do chicken. I'm
thinking about ground beef.
And then or steak.
Or
I got some chicken already, you know.
See, this is how This is why I need this
because I don't have a secret plan. I
think I'm going to do a secret ground
beef or steak and then a salad.
And then what I can do is I can swap out
any of these two here, okay?
All right. And then for a snack
post-workout,
it was something I was thinking, rice
cakes
and
like PB fits
because I want to work out more next
week. So, I'm going to do rice cake,
banana,
and PB2, whatever that is, okay? And
then oh, my protein shakes.
Protein shakes.
And they are the
Only What You Need ones. Now, I have a
few left. So,
now what I'm going to do is I'll look
through here and see if there's anything
that I may need. I already have
everything I need for my chia pudding. I
already have the sourdough, the eggs,
the turkey bacon, chicken sausage, and I
already have fruit.
I may need to get some strawberries. I'm
not sure, but I think I'm okay. And then
cuz I only use strawberries,
blueberries, and bananas sometimes, or
sometimes it's just one of the other.
Um tilapia, I need would need to get
that. I just need to find somebody to
get the carbon dioxide in it.
And then, I have sweet potatoes. I did
buy some broccoli, but I want to buy
some more.
I don't know if I'm spelling broccoli
right or whatever. Tuna, I I got tons of
that. Uh ground beef, I would need that.
You see what I'm saying? Like how you'll
have more room. Like even if you write
small enough, you can make two columns.
Um and then the steak. Like I could
really slide this over some more. And
then I already have lettuce. I My My
salads are very
minimal. I only put like the lettuce,
onions,
cucumbers, and probably that's it. And
some cheese.
Uh let's see. And then so I wouldn't
need rice cakes. So this way, like today
I've been to
two different grocery stores, and I got
some stuff, but I could really save
myself a lot of time had I did this
first. But anyway, rice cakes.
I think we need some more bananas. I
have one.
I have the PB Fit, and I have the
protein shakes, but
um
I don't think I have enough for the many
of the amount of days that I want to
work out. So I'm just going to put uh
protein shakes.
And if I was on with my camera, I could
show y'all how I make my grocery list in
my cell phone, but it is not it I never
look at it. I'm in the grocery
[clears throat] store. I have the phone.
I don't look at it until I don't
remember until I'm out of the grocery
store, and then I'm like, "Oh, did I get
any
>> [laughter]
>> everything I need?"
Then I check it off. So nonetheless,
here we are. And what I can do
And oh, and I have new dashboards. So we
definitely got to clean this out cuz I
have some meals dashboards. Like I love
this one, but I'm going to move in the
new one since this is going to be my
focus area. So, like going forward, this
is what we're going to be doing. We're
going to be meal prepping
and meal planning [snorts] instead of
like my weekly because my weekly is just
really
nothing to it and I really want to focus
on my own with that. So, this is what
we'll be doing going forward.
And so, we have this. So, let's go to
here.
And I'm sure later I can
fix this or make things better, but I'm
going to test that out. What do y'all
think? Like I honestly
I really like this. This really works
for me. When I saw her do that, I said,
"This is what I need. This is how I can
meal plan." I can't go in here and say,
"Hey, I think I'm going to have here."
No.
We need this right here. Okay. So, we
know what week this is. This will be for
week of
6:15 through 6:21.
And let me put 26. Okay. So, that Monday
is the 15th.
Okay. So, for breakfast on Monday,
I would need something quick, which
would be the chia pudding.
And fruit.
Okay. Let's just go on and do down the
line here. Uh Tuesday, I think it's kind
of slow as off so we'll do the sourdough
toast.
Sourdough
toast.
Eggs.
And what else do we have here? Um this
day we'll do the turkey bacon since I
put that first. Turkey bacon.
Okay. Wednesday,
I work.
I can do my switch it up. I'm going to
go to the chia
pudding.
I'm just going to put chia pudding and
fruit.
Okay, and then on Thursday,
I don't have to be to work early. We can
do the sourdough toast again. Sourdough.
And this day I'm going to do the chicken
sausage.
And then on Friday, I do work early that
day. Chia pudding is so simple cuz once
I make it, I just add the stuff and then
I go. Chia pudding. Also, sometimes I
put
um
granola or cacao
nibs in it. So, I'm going to add here
cacao
nibs
and granola. I don't need any of that.
So, I already have that. I don't need to
add that to my list.
And then Saturday morning again, chia
pudding
because I have to be to work so early.
So, I just make a small amount. So,
probably Wednesday I'll be making
another batch. Okay.
Um Sunday
this is pre-fall. I'll probably eating
um
bacon
eggs
and
French toast.
Or whatever. Okay. So, for snacks over
here, we have rice cakes, bananas, PB2.
I have some other snacks, but for right
now on this day because this will be
post. So, I need to like draw a line
because I will be working out Monday.
And so, for my post snack, um
post-workout snack, I'll do the rice
cakes.
And I'll know what that means. And then
a regular snack, I haven't figured that
out yet. Tuesday, I should be able to
walk.
So, this is a rice cake, okay?
And then I'll figure that snack out.
It'll probably be something simple.
Sometimes I just I love cucumbers, so
I'll just nibble on cucumbers.
Oh, and then I have this I forgot
something here in my snacks. Apples.
I just bought some apples. And
PB2 yogurt.
That is so good and it's filling, so
yeah, that's what I'm going to have
there. So, I'm going to put apples.
I know what that is. Okay, and then
Wednesday, I'm going to put apples.
Apples.
And then because I'm going to try to
work out
Thursday.
So, let's do rice cakes.
And then I'm going to need another
recipe. Friday, I got to be work too
early, so I probably won't get a workout
in. And here these snacks I'll determine
the rest of the week. And then lunch, we
have tilapia, salmon, sweet potato. So,
tomorrow I want to go to Sam's. Today is
Friday. You'll probably see this on
Sunday, Monday, maybe even today. And so
I'll probably
do tilapia.
And sweet potatoes. And really I don't
have to put um everything down because I
have this here. So, I can just put the
name and I know what goes with it, okay?
Broccoli.
And then on Tuesday, so what I would do
this is what I was explaining. What I
would do is kind of switch these off.
So, ground beef or steak. I really
with the ground beef, I would do the
sweet potatoes. So, with the ground
beef, I would do the sweet potatoes and
the broccoli. So, I'm going to try that
on Tuesday. So, I'm going to do ground
beef.
So, I need to go get me some ground
beef. Ooh, I just forgot something.
Ground beef, sweet potatoes. I bought
these I'm going to see if I can have a
picture and put it up here, but I bought
these chicken burgers and I saw a guy in
the grocery line have them and I was
like, "Ooh, they buy they're by
Bubba, the Bubba burgers." We used to
eat those burgers all the time, the
regular ones, and they're really pretty
good quality. So, I was like, "Ooh, I
can't wait to get those." So, I looked
and they just wasn't on my list again. I
was looking at the macronutrients on the
back and when I say they were clean,
like super clean. Mm,
not a lot of fat, not a lot of calories,
um great protein and then they don't
have a lot of stuff in them to make them
stay frozen, like carbon monoxide and
stuff like that. So, I do have those.
So, I need to put those down on my lunch
or dinner. I'm going to do it here.
Chicken burger, put it on here.
Cuz one day I want to make a burger
bowl. So, probably like to switch it up.
This day I'm going to do probably
tilapia again.
And then like over here for dinner, I'll
do a burger bowl.
And I'm going to put chick, that way I
know it's chicken. Okay, so if I can do
the chicken burger bowl here and then
that's if, you know, I decide to do
dinner. And then Thursday,
let's see, we can do
tilapia again
or salmon.
And then I'm going to put salad.
Okay, and then Friday
and I want to see if we stick to this,
okay? Friday I would do burger bowl.
And then for dinner, I would do like a
salmon
salad. I have never filled out a full
week of one of these. Thanks to this,
now I can. Okay.
Um this day lunch
because sometimes I change my mind on
snacks, so that's why I'm not filling
this in. Because probably by Wednesday,
I'm over the apples and the yogurt, and
I'll try something different. I may just
eat a pickle. Like I said, it may be
cucumbers. I just don't want to write
that snack down because it it can easily
change. Okay. Um Saturday
I don't have any plans to Oh, it's
Father's Day weekend. So, one of these
days will be at dinner. So, there's I
want to say Sunday or either Saturday.
So, hm
but lunch Oh,
yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lunch, if it's
early enough, I could do
tilapia.
Okay. And then
I probably won't eat dinner that day, so
I can have room for whatever I eat on
Sunday. So, that's just real, okay? It's
just real. Or it'll be like a snack,
okay? No joke. So, then only thing is I
don't know because I'll probably be out
to dinner on this day, so I probably
wouldn't eat a dinner this day. I
definitely will probably have me a
snack, and so I'm going to I don't know
what the snack will be. So, that's that.
Okay. And then here, let's go up here
for dinner. So, we had tilapia. So, here
we could do a steak salad.
And then ground beef here, so we would
do some form of fish here.
Um so, let's put salmon since we already
had tilapia the day before. Salmon
salad.
And then let's come down here. We had a
tilapia salad. I probably wouldn't do a
dinner this day Thursday cuz I probably
work late, so I won't eat nothing late,
okay? And that's that. And like I said,
Saturday I'll be done with the tilapia
and whatever I have here because I'm
prep you know, prepping for the
activities on Sunday. And I'll probably
be done eating about 2:30 3:00. All
right, so that
is a meal plan. I have some meal plan
stickers somewhere, too. I'mma find
those and I'll put them like up here or
something. And I really don't need them
for real, for real. Okay, so let's put
this here.
And when I come back to clean out my
planner, we're going to get rid of these
old pages, but I kind of like to leave
them so I can see like what were good
meals. So here,
um salmon and shrimp rigatoni,
I had that twice. That was real good.
You should see I had it 2 days in a row.
And this is me writing in as I'm eating
it. I tried to plan here and I exited
out because that didn't happen. Um
meatballs, rice and gravy, that's a
quick meal that I like to make for me
and my husband. And here's a steak and
veggie pasta.
Um only thing I would change, maybe go
to protein pasta or like the other like
low-carb pastas. And so, yeah, I'll put
I'll add these to my meal ideas before I
take this out. And then here, this was
the 25th through the 31st. I had
cheesecake pudding. Oh,
yes, that. Um chia pudding and a taco
bowl. That taco bowl,
that was I think it was like my first
week kind of sticking to a diet and that
brought me down, okay? So I'm going to
go back over here and put the cheese
cake pudding for snacks.
Cheesecake.
And I have everything I need
over here listed. Everything else I
have, so the only thing I need is
tilapia. Like I said, I've already
bought broccoli. I need to buy some
more. Hopefully go to Sam's tomorrow.
Maybe get some ground beef.
I'll get the steak like maybe a Monday
or Tuesday for when I want a steak and
that'll be from probably Aldi's and just
get some little thin sirloin, rice
cakes, bananas, and protein shakes. And
protein shakes I don't have to get to
probably Wednesday. So, yeah, that's
probably it. And I'm going to check out
the tilapia at Sam's and see if I get a
good deal on that. And then I would just
get maybe these three from Sam's unless
steak is on sale. So, that's it. I hope
you guys enjoyed today's video. Thank
you for stopping by and letting me share
with you how I'm meal planning now. I'm
going to look at this some more when I
get off camera because I love it. I'm
thoroughly impressed. So, I just cut
half of my um
pages so I can't wait to add the rest of
these, but I think this is going to
work. I really think this is going to
work. I don't think I need the lines. I
really do. But, that's it for today.
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