u/mickypaigejohnson

This is all about mental meal prep. Making everything from scratch, all the dishes, and the constant effort to figure out how you want to feed yourself is A LOT so trimming it down by a third by making the meal plan in advance is particularly helpful.

I've used this strategy all 4 years, and by year 4 we go a bit more freestyle bc we know our faves, but I still make a plan in case we need it. Also, not everyone in our home does the whole30, so we try to make things everyone still likes and don't feel restricted. We also love to cook.

The repetition is for when you batch cook or have leftovers. We try not to do that too much, we like variety.

The color coding is based on the whole getting to "tigers blood" and feeling great.

It goes all the way through the reintroduction days.

It links to recipes from all kinds of people. I do not have any affiliate associations, this is just my personal resource.

I DMd it to a couple of ppl in another comment thread, and I have received a lot of requests for it so I'm sharing it for whoever could use it.

This one is the 2023 year bc it was the most strict to the rules.

Happy eating, friends.

Link is in the comments.

The thing that's always bothered me about networking event advice — "just put yourself out there," "everyone's nervous," "fake it till you make it" — is that it treats the discomfort as the problem to fix.

But the discomfort might be signal, not noise.

Meaningful connection requires psychological safety and common ground. You need to feel comfortable enough to be real, and you need something genuine to talk about.

Networking events, structurally, provide neither. They give you: strangers, artificial small talk prompts, alcohol as the lubricant, name tags as the icebreaker, and a room full of people who all feel the same low-level pressure to seem valuable.

That's not a safe environment. That's a performance environment. And for people who don't perform well under those conditions — not because they lack social skills, but because their social wiring requires something more genuine to engage — the advice to "try harder" is just noise.

Anyway. For what it's worth: if you've left a networking event feeling like you were bad at it, it's possible you were in a room that wasn't designed for how you connect. That's not the same thing as being bad at connecting.