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Oct Week 3 Meal Plan & Grocery List

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Will
Oct 18, 2025
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No time to meal plan? Same.

We’re in the midst of planning parties for our loved ones, so our email is a little late today, and I’m keeping things brief and to-the-point. My apologies.

At times like these, we find that a winning formula for meal planning is to follow the lunch-cafe model. One main protein that you can use in multiple meals + sandwich + soup + salad + a lighter option (like fish or seafood).

Here’s the grocery list for this week.

Oct Week 3 Grocery List
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Now on to this week’s meals!

Monday: Ritz Cracker Meatloaf

We love my Mom’s Easy Meatloaf recipe, but just between us, we think we made it even better by including sauted onions and using crushed Ritz crackers in place of the breadcrumbs.

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