I flew too close to the sun this week

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Lehi Valley Original English Muffins

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The creator uses a relatable "chaos cooking" approach, showing the reality of meal prepping with a busy family. The mix of practical tips (like soaking oats) and personal anecdotes (like the overbaked muffins) makes the content engaging and authentic.

Summary

The creator is meal prepping breakfast sandwiches and blueberry muffins. She assembles the sandwiches with English muffins, sausage patties, and cheese, then prepares the muffin batter with zucchini, oats, egg, honey, butter, and blueberries. She bakes the muffins, noting they may be overbaked due to a smaller oven.

Structure

1Introduce meal prep goal
2Assemble breakfast sandwiches
3Prepare blueberry muffin batter
4Bake muffins
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But what’s your stay at home husband doing? Prepping and frying chicken for dinner ! His video will post later tonight . #mealprep #kidslunch #mealprepping @hectorathome

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Lehi Valley Original English Muffins: APPEARS - a brand of English muffins. Removing it would not change what happens in the video. Cuisinart knife: APPEARS - a brand of knife. Removing it would not change what happens in the video. Instacart: MENTIONED - a grocery delivery service. Removing it would not change what happens in the video.

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Midnight Meal Prep Blueberry muffins Breakfast sammies Chicken couscous lunch Wash and stock fruit Crockpot white beans Cold brew I flew too close to the sun this week way I can meal prep after the kids go so let's hop in the kitchen come home from grandma's and try to as we can so that midnight meal prep is only a few tasks. Breakfast, We're gonna pre breakfast sandwiches and then my stay at home to make a fresh egg every morning. like I have four sausage patties. I'm thinking we'll do four sausage breakfast sandwiches and two ham breakfast sandwiches. Cuisinart Does this. This doesn't feel deluxe. Did I make sure to buy the deluxe American cheese? Uh, no, I'm the one and I didn't grab it and I didn't grab it that's not hiring Instacart shopper, Oh my god. I'm not that bad. Green. We're gonna oil the muffin tin. I believe the oats have soaked enough. So we're gonna preheat the oven and go ahead on these muffins. Ingredients. add zucchini. This is gonna and so is the frozen blueberries instead of fresh. I reduced the amount of milk to 3/4 cup to offset that additional moisture. Our wet ingredients here. We've got one egg, 1/2 cup of and I spray the container with oil so that the honey just slips right out. This is supposed to be melted it didn't quite Melt all the way, it's neither melted nor cooled. Mix the wet. and the dry. Perfect. Don't try but also don't take it too seriously. and frozen blueberries. We're gonna oil the muffin tin. These for 20 minutes at 425 degrees. Time because I have a small oven and the cook time is reduced. Me to show my babies. Okay, bye. Bye, Are heavily over baked. Hopefully the texture still good.

Transcript

I flew too close to the sun this week way I can meal prep after the kids go so let's hop in the kitchen come home from grandma's and try to as we can so that midnight meal prep is only a few tasks. Breakfast, We're gonna pre breakfast sandwiches and then my stay at home to make a fresh egg every morning. like I have four sausage patties. I'm thinking we'll do four sausage breakfast sandwiches and two ham breakfast sandwiches. Cuisinart Does this. This doesn't feel deluxe. Did I make sure to buy the deluxe American cheese? Uh, no, I'm the one and I didn't grab it and I didn't grab it that's not hiring Instacart shopper, Oh my god. I'm not that bad. Green. We're gonna oil the muffin tin. I believe the oats have soaked enough. So we're gonna preheat the oven and go ahead on these muffins. Ingredients. add zucchini. This is gonna and so is the frozen blueberries instead of fresh. I reduced the amount of milk to 3/4 cup to offset that additional moisture. Our wet ingredients here. We've got one egg, 1/2 cup of and I spray the container with oil so that the honey just slips right out. This is supposed to be melted it didn't quite melt all the way, it's neither melted nor cooled. Mix the wet. and the dry. Perfect. Don't try but also don't take it too seriously. and frozen blueberries. We're gonna oil the muffin tin. These for 20 minutes at 425 degrees. Time because I have a small oven and the cook time is reduced. Me to show my babies. Okay, bye. Bye, Are heavily over baked. Hopefully the texture still good.