{"id":313,"date":"2023-10-17T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/sunday-meal-prep-without-sadness\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T16:30:00","slug":"sunday-meal-prep-without-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/sunday-meal-prep-without-sadness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Meal Prep Without the Sadness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meal prep does not have to be grim chicken and rice in identical boxes. I roast two sheet pans of vegetables, cook a pot of grains, wash lettuce, and make one sauce that works on everything\u2014tahini-lemon or pesto depending on mood.<\/p>\n<p>I put on a podcast about something I am studying or a travel memoir set in Sicily so the kitchen feels like choice, not chore. Biscuit supervises from the rug. The accountant in me labels lids with dates.<\/p>\n<p>Weekday lunches become grain bowls with market greens. Dinners become half-prepped so I can still host on Wednesday if someone needs a table. Flexibility is wellness too.<\/p>\n<p>Prep for freedom, not punishment. Your Tuesday self will send a thank-you note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass containers, roasted vegetables, and the kind of prep that still feels like living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}