Survival & Sanity: Reserve-Based Meal Plan – Weeks 7&8

🐔 Two Weeks of Chicken Dinners (With Bacon, Because Why Not)

Let’s be real — Lately, life’s been a whirlwind. Between healing, hustling, and handling a hundred little things that crop up every week, I’ve been feeling the crunch. Projects pile up, messages go unanswered, and if I don’t write stuff down, it vanishes into the fog of “what was I supposed to do today again?”

But even on the most chaotic days, we still have to eat. They still have to eat. So when I’m trying to keep the wheels on, these two-week reserve-based meal plans are my safety net. They let me cook in chunks, plan for the crash days, and feel like I’ve got something handled — even if that “something” is just dinner.

This round, I leaned into chicken (because it’s versatile and usually affordable), and I’m making bacon pull double-duty too. That’s right — bacon-wrapped chicken one night, bacon fried rice another, and some dreamy flatbreads that taste way fancier than they are. We’ve even got a baked potato bar thrown in for a choose-your-own-comfort-food kind of night.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve needed meals lately that come with a side of grace. Meals that don’t guilt-trip me if I need to swap things around or punt dinner to leftovers. Meals that say, “Hey, you’re doing your best. Sit down. Eat. Breathe.”

So that’s what this plan is about. Survival, yes — but also sanity. Feeding yourself and your people without feeding the burnout.

🍽️ 2-Week Meal Plan (Starting Monday, May 26)

Week One
🟢 Monday, May 26: Leftovers/Reserves
🟢 Tuesday, May 27: Loaded Baked Potatoes
🟢 Wednesday, May 28: Leftovers/Reserves
🟢 Thursday, May 29: Garlic Butter Chicken Thighs
🟢 Friday, May 30: Leftovers/Reserves
🟢 Saturday, May 31: Takeout or Breakfast for Dinner
🟢 Sunday, June 1: Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Week Two
🟢 Monday, June 2: BBQ Chicken & Pesto Flatbreads
🟢 Tuesday, June 3: Leftovers
🟢 Wednesday, June 4: Bacon Fried Rice
🟢 Thursday, June 5: Leftovers/Reserves
🟢 Friday, June 6: Chicken Bacon Tomato Pasta
🟢 Saturday, June 7: Leftovers/Reserves
🟢 Sunday, June 8: Herb Roasted Chicken Thighs