Next Week’s Meal Plan: 5 Big-Batch Dinners to Stock the Freezer — Next Week’s Meal Plan

This week’s meal plan is doing double duty as both dinners for this week and as fodder for the freezer for the busy weeks of September ahead. As you can imagine, with two little kids at home it’s pretty rare that there’s a whole day each weekend to cook and prep, but this sneaky method — cooking once and eating twice — means I’ve got some meal prep waiting in the deep freeze when I need it.

These big-batch dinners mostly rely on the slow cooker and will make enough to feed my family of four this week and still freeze four servings for future use with some leftovers for lunch this week.

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What You Should Eat in September, Based on Your Zodiac Sign — Eating with the Stars

Mercury is no longerretrograde, finally, and we are celebrating the only way we know how: by eating everything in sight. A new month means it’s time to match your zodiac sign with a recipe sent straight from the heavens. Prepare to settle into a new routine and cook something a little out of your comfort zone, now that the lazy, hazy days of summer are coming to an end. Here are our suggestions.

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The Best Ways to Use Your Extra Day This Weekend — Labor Day

Happy Labor Day Weekend! While everyone else online (and social media) laments about summer being over, we want to use this time to remind you that you probably have a bonus day off on Monday. That’s a free day to do whatever you want! You can use it to do something fun, or something productive, or something fun and then something productive!

What to do? We’ve got some suggestions.

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