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One of my personal goals for back-to-school lunches is to prep more big-batch recipes over the weekend so that packing is faster throughout the week. Sometimes it might be as elaborate as a batch of muffins, or other times it might be a two- or three-ingredient salad, but each has to last all week in the fridge or freezer and keep in a lunch box too. Here are 10 of the easy lunch recipes on my list for back to school.
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Despite the fact that I don’t prep food on the floors in my house (I’m guessing you don’t either?), they often get dirtier than my countertops and table. And we have a no-shoes-allowed-in-the-house rule, so I spend a lot of time barefoot. Because there are few things grosser than stepping on crumbs and getting them stuck to the bottom of your feet (and I don’t want to attract pests, either), I spend almost just as much time vacuuming.
By now, I like to think I’m somewhat of a vacuum expert. I have a sense when it’s time to empty debris chambers, I’m a master at cutting hair out from the bristles (it’s not a pretty job, but someone has to do it!), and I’ve gone through enough cheap-o machines to know that Dyson really is the best.
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While many of us are just casual HomeGoods shoppers, some people have turned it into basically a full-time job. They scour stores for amazing deals and share them with their fans through Instagram and Twitter. Fortunately, you don’t have to get that serious to land the best deals and experience. You just have to know these secrets.
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Queen Ina is at it again on Instagram: She just gave us another glimpse into her new cookbook, Cook Like a Pro, coming out this October. A month ago she let us in on a recipe from her upcoming cookbook — a super simple tomato salad — which she said is her favorite summer salad. And yesterday she posted a quick video where she explained her easy yet essential tip for making better homemade croutons. It also just happens to be the recipe she’s making on the cover of her cookbook! Gimme, gimme, gimme.
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This thought occurs to me every time I’m on a plane and airline attendants make their rounds: Does anyone actually like pretzels? Why does every airline, and every random corporate social event, offer them? To me, pretzels are the most thankless food ever.
I guess they’ve got redeeming value as a low-fat snack. They’re salty and crunchy. But I have seriously never liked pretzels. Despite the aforementioned characteristics, I always find them to be dry, bland, and never quite as good as I want them to be. Even the big soft ones right out of the oven don’t really do it for me. The only time I ever appreciated a pretzel was after running my first half-marathon (#humblebrag) when I was literally so calorie-starved I would have eaten cardboard. Or, in this case, something that tasted like cardboard with some salt crystals on it.
Anyway, I mentioned this to my editor here at Kitchn, and as a result, was challenged to keep trying pretzel varietals until I found some that don’t feel like punishment. Shockingly, I did! Here are the surprisingly delicious results of my taste tests.
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If power bowls and Buddha bowls aren’t already part of your weekly meal plan, this is the recipe that will convince you they should be. The crispy chicken bites are coated in a soy sauce-spiked peanut sauce, and served in a bowl with a rainbow of vibrant, crisp veggies. It’s a nourishing meal you may just start making every week.
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Kitchen linens get a special kind of dirty, because most people don’t just use them for drying dishes — they also use them to wipe up crumbs off the countertop, dry their hands, swab spills off the floor, and dab jelly off their kids’ faces. Often, all in one day, several times a day. And some of us (okay, me!) don’t wash our kitchen linens nearly as often as we should.
But let’s just say, for the sake of argument, you take your linens out of rotation for a good old-fashioned washing as often as you’re supposed to (which should be every other day!): Do you wash them with the rest of the laundry, or on their own? They’re definitely extra gross, but washers these days should be able to handle it, right?
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Every year for the Super Bowl, my roommates and I make a big pot of chili and a fresh batch of corn muffins. We eat it for lunch, relax and digest for a few hours, and then go back for seconds at dinnertime. After Thanksgiving, it’s quite possibly my favorite food day of the year.
It may come as no surprise then that I think tamale pie is one of the greatest food mash-ups ever created. Instead of baking cornbread separately from cooking chili, the batter gets spread atop a simmering mixture of ground beef, beans, tomatoes, and corn, then transferred to the oven and baked until golden. Needless to say, my Super Bowl meal just got way easier.
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We’ve reached the point in the summer where we all start to get a little overzealous about grilling. We have the usual suspects on deck, like grilled chicken, grilled shrimp, grilled veggies, grilled flatbreads — but once we start adding grilled watermelon, grilled Rice Krispies treats, and grilled SALAD to the mix, have we gone too far? That’s for you to decide.
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When you think about eating disorders what is the image that comes to mind? Is it one of teenaged vanity? Of emaciated white women agonizing in front of the mirror or hunched over the toilet?
For a long time, the same image of eating disorders was (and for the most part, still is) perpetuated by the media. That image of “too-thin” fashion models, ballerinas and actresses. The one of Karen Carpenter or of Lily Collins in To The Bone. When we Google “eating disorder,” it’s this same image that comes up again and again and while it’s great that we largely becoming more open to the conversation about eating disorders, the conversation shouldn’t start and stop at white women.
I am a woman of color with an eating disorder. I have been in recovery for many years now and my journey has not been without obstacles.
I am an immigrant; in my culture, mental health issues and mental illness are overlooked and often met with extreme amounts of denial and shame. Because of this, I had to seek out treatment and navigate my recovery journey on my own, without the support of my family.
I was not able to confide in my family when I was in treatment, nor was I able to access early interventions as a youth, the uniquely vulnerable situation that young immigrants can be faced with despite the love of their parents.
This was not because they didn’t love me. They loved me in every way they knew how. They just didn’t understand because what I needed from them was lost in translation or simply did not exist in their experience back home.
Representation for people who look like me is scarce, which makes it difficult to identify with any messages from the media, even ones that are trying to help.
Often when I hear people speak at eating disorder events, read eating disorder books and articles or watch movies and documentaries, stories do not resonate with me. This is because often, those who are empowered enough to speak publicly about their illnesses come from privileged backgrounds and support from their families. These people have a very different experience with recovery from mine.
For four years, I volunteered and worked in the eating disorder community. In that time, I often found myself to be the only racialized person in the room.
The vast majority of mental health professionals, organizational management, researchers, board directors were, and still are white folks, mostly white women. These are the people who are in charge of the research, treatment and funding. There is little to no research available on the eating-disorder experiences of people of color and marginalized populations in Canada.
All of the mental health professionals I have encountered have been privileged, white women with good intentions but no real grasp on the impact of racism and oppression. While they are often more than willing to discuss family dynamics, they often shy away from unpacking how my experience of covert and overt racism throughout childhood has impacted my body image and self-esteem.
Treatment for eating disorders will always be incomplete without culturally-sensitive body image discussions and interventions.
Being unable to unpack all of the trauma is problematic when trying to heal and navigate the medical system. (I should probably also note that the most recommended, “go-to” book about eating disorders in women of color was written by a white woman.)
If we are going to challenge white supremacy in the world of eating disorders, there are steps we need to take towards true inclusion.
For eating disorder advocates:
Do the people in the room all have the same story, come from the same background and have the same access to support and resources? Eating disorders affect people from all walks of life and there is no hierarchy of who is more deserving of help and healing.
Include Eating Disorders Other Than AnorexiaBulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, OSFED, ARFID etc. are underrepresented and affect many more people than Anorexia yet are not as widely discussed or supported. People struggling with these illnesses have valid experiences and should be advocated for with the same gusto.
Understand that not all families have the same ability to provide the care and support that is asked for by the western medical system.
Immigrant families, families from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, families that have complicated parental relationships all have children that experience eating disorders. Not everyone has the privilege to take time off of work and in some cases that can mean the difference between accessing treatment for your child or putting a roof over their head.
And for the eating disorder organizations working towards more inclusion:
Avoid the Tokenization TrapDon’t tokenize marginalized people for campaigns or events in order to appear more inclusive.
Too many times I have felt included in initiatives just to give the illusion of inclusivity and diversity. Symbolic inclusion isn’t inclusion.
Minority groups are not an accessory you can flaunt to make your work look more meaningful.
When working on “diversity” driven initiatives, involve actual members of the minority populations that you want to highlight.
The experts of any story are those who have lived it themselves.
Employ Marginalized Folks in Key PositionsPay the marginalized folks that you are collaborating with. Have marginalized folks on your payroll. Have them in leadership positions at your organization. Include them on your board of directors.
Take the time to think about who benefits the most (professionally and financially) from the work that you create. Using diverse voices to amplify your work and not remunerating those contributors is exploitative. It’s thievery.
So you’ve waved the diversity flag and claim to be inclusive. Are you making it a reality within your organization? What is stopping you from making the space necessary in order for marginalized voices to be adequately heard?
Strive for inclusion by not only highlighting the issues that marginalized people face but by creating space for marginalized people to have a platform.
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