Add a “Use This First” Spot to Your Fridge

Choose one small bin or shelf for produce, leftovers, and ingredients that need to be used soon. Check it before planning dinner, packing lunch, or ordering groceries. You’ll waste less food, spend less time searching through the refrigerator, and make the “What should we eat?” decision much easier.

Something to do today:

Wash your makeup brushes. It’s one of those tasks that’s easy to put off. Wash them today and lay them out to dry so they’re fresh and ready for the week.

Something to do this week:

Pick one morning this week to change up your routine. Take your coffee outside, walk before work, stop somewhere on your way to the office, or make a breakfast you normally save for the weekend.

White Chicken Enchiladas

Page 113 in The Simplified Cookbook

Ingredients:

2 cups shredded chicken (about 2 breasts or 1 rotisserie chicken)
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup salsa verde
1 (10.5 oz) can cream of chicken soup
2 Tbsp chopped cilantro, divided
10 flour tortillas

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13 inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
To a mixing bowl, add chicken, milk, salsa verde, cream of. chicken soup, half the cheese, and half the cilantro. Stir to combine.
Divide mixture in half.
Fill tortillas with half the chicken mixture. Roll to close.
Pour remaining chicken mixture over enchiladas, and top with remaining cheese and cilantro.
Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.

This is our team’s favorite dish to bring to a new mom. Make it in a disposable pan for easy cleanup!

Get ahead of your week & make time for the things on your agenda!

Plan one solo outing this month
Send out birthday cards for upcoming September birthdays
Make a list of local fall events (pumpkin patch, festival, fair)
Clean out gutters
Schedule pest control appointment

👇What else are you putting in your planner this week?

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Carly printed her summer photos with Shutterfly and shared the best hack with us: Did you know linking your Costco membership gets you 51% off? Such a good excuse to finally print the photos sitting in your camera roll.

Emily is reading You Know Why by J.T. Ellison, who is basically a five-star novelist every single time. If she writes it, we’re reading it.

Next on Brittany’s TBR: We Burned So Bright. What are you reading right now?

You will love these $50 jeans! They have that perfectly classic fit with just enough trend to feel current.

Dusty bought this adorable dress for her daughter’s Meet the Teacher night. 🥹 Her daughter is the best teacher, so of course Dusty wanted to gift her the cutest dress for the occasion.

Our favorite (!!!) dress is back in brown polka dots! We’ve been known to sell this style out, so grab it while you can.

Putting pumpkins out soon? This garland is such a cute little way to add some Halloween fun ... if you’re ready!

Sneaker mules are definitely back this season! So cute, so comfortable, and so convenient to throw on!

How beautiful is this suede tote for fall?! It’s the perfect size for your everyday purse, work essentials, or even as a diaper bag. And the quality is next level!

We shared lots of music recs this week! Ella Langley and Sienna Spiro are on heavy rotation around here, especially during a workday.

Each week, we're answering your real-life questions — about routines, meal ideas, work-life balance, favorite movies, and everything in between. Got a question? Leave it in the comments!

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Q: “What is one task you love checking off — and one you tend to avoid?”
Emily: Picking up prescriptions or dry cleaning. I tend to put these things off because they are monotonous, but batching them together in one big errand morning helps me make sure we have what we need and those tasks aren’t lingering.
Brittany: I love putting away all of the laundry and my laundry room being spotless. Probably only happens once a week but it’s THE best feeling to me! Cleaning the bathrooms is my kryptonite, I put it off and then when it’s time to scrub, I regret that I put it off — it’s a silly cycle!
Whitney: I’m going to sound so weird here, but I love going through my email inbox and clearing it out each workday morning. It feels so good when it’s tidy and I’m caught up! I tend to avoid cleaning my office after a shoot, sometimes I’m just too wiped out to handle it that day.
Dusty: I love checking “dinner is figured out” off my list. There’s something so satisfying about opening the fridge, knowing exactly what I’m making, and having everything ready to go. The task I tend to avoid? Cleaning out the fridge. I’ll happily meal prep, cook, and feed everyone, but deciding whether that container of leftovers is still good? Somehow that’s where I draw the line.
Laura: Scheduling the appointments. I have to bribe myself with a little treat to make those happen. Those sit on my to-do lists for soo long, but I’ve learned that I need to just schedule the next appointment while I’m leaving the current one. Helps so much!
Carly: I love breaking down big work or home projects into smaller tasks and checking those off as I go. It is so motivating to see literally the progress happening on the page. I do tend to avoid putting away clean laundry. It always sits in the basket for way too long, but I do it every time!
Lindsey: I love checking off work tasks, especially when it’s a creative project I’ve been working on and I can finally call it DONE. At home, though ... I’m a professional procrastinator. I can finish a whole creative project before I convince myself to do the laundry that’s been piling up all week.
Liz: Placing my grocery order and checking that off my list is the BEST feeling every Sunday. I love planning and getting excited about our meals for the week, and placing an Instacart order takes an hour long outing and cuts it down to about 5 minutes. The best. The one I put off is putting laundry away 🙈. I don’t mind washing it, I don’t even mind folding it. But it will sit in laundry baskets for an embarrassingly long time.

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We’re working on some secret projects. Mark your planners for September 23 — you’ll want to be ready for this one!

Whitney and Carly are finalizing locations for our holiday photo and video content, which means rentals, product samples, outfits, models, and approximately one million tiny details. If you’ve ever wanted to be a real model for Simplified, apply here!

Behind the scenes at Simplified looks a lot like someone asking if something is “cute or ugly?” The honesty is usually brutal, and it makes us laugh every single time.

We all spent a lot of time this week getting everything ready for our Fall Reset Sale! It ends tomorrow, so don’t miss your chance to shop the new markdowns!

Fall Reset Checklist

A few simple ways to refresh your routines, space, and schedule for the season ahead. Save it to your phone, print it out, and check things off as you go!

Sunday Prep Vol. 67