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Alright, I’ll admit it: I’ve never meal-prepped. I’ve thought about it, and I’ve planned to do it, but I’ve never successfully brought my scribbled-down list of weekly lunch and dinner recipes to life. Grocery shopping has always caused a certain level of panic to shoot through my body—maneuvering around a tiny, crowded, aisle with a cart or overflowing basket just to get a jar of peanut butter is my personal nightmare—so I tend to get in and out as quickly as humanly possible. The problem with this? It often leaves my cart filled with items I didn’t account for and missing ingredients I was counting on. And while that’s ok (I love a good challenge), it does thwart the prepping plans.
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