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Week of September 22, 2026: a low-sugar meal plan.

First delicata, the mushroom bin, and lentils. Tins and turkey are archived.

The first day is written out below, steps and all. This week is over. The first day stays public. The rest of the days are the membership. Life Flip LLC does not deliver the groceries.

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  • Eggs (12)
  • Plain yogurt (32 oz)
  • Brown lentils, dry (1 lb)
  • Chickpeas (3 cans)
  • Cremini mushrooms (2 pints)
  • Delicata squash (2)
  • Kale (1 bunch)
  • Baby spinach (1 bag)
  • Apples (6)
  • Walnuts
  • Lemons (4)
  • Garlic
  • Fresh parsley
  • Red onion
  • Extra-virgin olive oil

Monday

Mushrooms and the first squash

Breakfast

Mushroom spinach eggs

340 kcal · 20 g protein · 3 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Heat a skillet over medium with 1 tablespoon olive oil.
  2. Add the sliced mushrooms and a pinch of salt. Cook until they release water, then until they brown, about 8 minutes.
  3. Add the spinach. Stir until it wilts, about 1 minute.
  4. Push the vegetables aside. Crack in 2 eggs.
  5. Cook until the whites set and the yolks stay soft. Pepper. No toast and no ketchup.

In the bowl: 2 eggs · 8 oz cremini mushrooms, sliced · a handful of spinach · 1 tbsp olive oil · salt, pepper

Lunch

Lentil, apple, parsley

460 kcal · 20 g protein · 14 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. If you are starting from dry lentils, simmer 1/2 cup dry in water until tender, about 25 minutes, then drain. You want 1 cup cooked.
  2. Warm the lentils in 1 teaspoon olive oil.
  3. Dice 1 apple. Leave the skin on.
  4. Fold in the apple, a handful of chopped parsley, lemon juice, and salt.
  5. Eat it warm. No bottled dressing and no honey.

In the bowl: 1 cup cooked brown lentils · 1 apple, diced, skin on · parsley, lemon, olive oil, salt

Dinner

Squash chickpea skillet

540 kcal · 20 g protein · 12 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Halve the delicata. Scoop the seeds. Slice it into half-moons and leave the skin on.
  2. Heat a wide skillet with 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium-high.
  3. Add the squash in one layer. Cook until browned and tender, about 8 minutes, turning once.
  4. Stir in the chickpeas and 1 minced garlic clove for 1 minute.
  5. Add the kale. Stir until it wilts, about 3 minutes. Salt.
  6. Squeeze lemon over the pan. No maple and no glaze.

In the bowl: 1 delicata squash, skin on · 1 cup chickpeas · 2 cups chopped kale · garlic, olive oil, lemon

Tuesday

The pot is already done

Breakfast

Yogurt, apple, walnuts

320 kcal · 16 g protein · 4 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Spoon 1 cup plain yogurt into a bowl. If the tub says vanilla or honey, it is the wrong tub.
  2. Slice 1 apple, skin on.
  3. Add 1 tablespoon walnuts and a dust of cinnamon.
  4. Eat it cold. No granola and no maple.

In the bowl: 1 cup plain yogurt · 1 apple, sliced · 1 tbsp walnuts · cinnamon

Lunch

Lentil apple plate, cold

440 kcal · 18 g protein · 13 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Take Monday’s lentil-apple plate from the fridge. Do not reheat the apple.
  2. If the lentils look dry, add lemon and a thread of olive oil.
  3. More parsley if you have it.
  4. Eat it cold. This is why Monday’s pot was bigger than one lunch.

In the bowl: leftover lentil apple plate · extra parsley · lemon

Dinner

Squash skillet, second heat

520 kcal · 19 g protein · 11 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Put Monday’s squash skillet in a pan with a splash of water.
  2. Warm over medium until hot, about 5 minutes. Don’t brown it into mush.
  3. Lemon again if it tastes flat.
  4. No glaze on the reheat.

In the bowl: leftover squash chickpea skillet · a splash of water · lemon

Wednesday

Eggs again, lentils as dinner

Breakfast

Mushroom eggs, second pan

340 kcal · 20 g protein · 3 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Same order as Monday’s mushroom eggs.
  2. Oil, then mushrooms until brown, then spinach until wilted.
  3. Two eggs in the same pan until the whites set.
  4. Pepper. Still no toast.

In the bowl: 2 eggs · remaining mushrooms · spinach · olive oil

Lunch

Squash chickpeas over kale

500 kcal · 18 g protein · 12 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Chop a handful of raw kale and put it in a bowl with lemon and a teaspoon of oil.
  2. Warm the leftover squash and chickpeas until steaming.
  3. Spoon them over the kale so the heat softens it.
  4. Salt. No dressing bottle.

In the bowl: leftover squash and chickpeas · raw kale, chopped · lemon, olive oil

Dinner

Lentil pot with garlic

480 kcal · 24 g protein · 15 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Warm 1 tablespoon olive oil. Add 2 sliced garlic cloves for 30 seconds.
  2. Add the remaining lentils and a splash of water. Simmer 8 minutes.
  3. Stir in chopped kale until it wilts.
  4. Lemon and salt. Leave the apple out — that was lunch.

In the bowl: remaining cooked lentils · garlic, olive oil · kale or spinach · lemon

Thursday

Cook the second squash

Breakfast

Yogurt and apple

310 kcal · 16 g protein · 4 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Plain yogurt, sliced apple, walnuts, cinnamon.
  2. Same bowl as Tuesday.
  3. No maple and no pumpkin-spice cup.

In the bowl: plain yogurt · apple · walnuts · cinnamon

Lunch

Lentil apple plate

450 kcal · 19 g protein · 13 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Warm 1 cup cooked lentils in a teaspoon of olive oil.
  2. Dice an apple, skin on, and fold it in with parsley, lemon, and salt.
  3. If Monday’s plate is still in the fridge, eat that instead of cooking a new one.

In the bowl: cooked lentils · apple · parsley · lemon, olive oil

Dinner

Squash chickpea skillet, bigger

550 kcal · 21 g protein · 12 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Same method as Monday’s squash skillet, using the second delicata.
  2. Seed it, slice it skin-on, brown it in olive oil.
  3. Chickpeas, garlic, then kale until it wilts.
  4. Lemon. Hold about a third for Friday.

In the bowl: second delicata squash · remaining chickpeas · kale, garlic, olive oil, lemon

Friday

Clear the mushroom pint

Breakfast

Eggs, kale, apple

360 kcal · 18 g protein · 5 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Warm 1 teaspoon olive oil. Add chopped kale and a pinch of salt until it softens, about 3 minutes.
  2. Crack 2 eggs on top. Cover 2 minutes if you want the tops set.
  3. Slice an apple and eat it beside the plate, not baked into anything.

In the bowl: 2 eggs · chopped kale · olive oil · apple on the side

Lunch

Thursday’s squash, warm

490 kcal · 18 g protein · 11 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Warm the squash you held from Thursday, with a splash of water.
  2. Lemon.
  3. Eat it. Friday lunch is not a new recipe.

In the bowl: held squash chickpea skillet · lemon

Dinner

Mushrooms, lentils, egg

520 kcal · 28 g protein · 12 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Brown the remaining mushrooms in olive oil.
  2. Add leftover lentils and a minced garlic clove. Warm through.
  3. Crack 1 egg into the pan and cook until the white sets.
  4. Lemon. This empties the pint and the pot.

In the bowl: remaining mushrooms · remaining lentils · 1 egg · garlic, olive oil, lemon

Saturday

Cook once for Sunday

Breakfast

Yogurt, apple, walnuts

330 kcal · 16 g protein · 4 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Plain yogurt, apple, walnuts, cinnamon.
  2. Weekend does not mean a cider donut or a pumpkin muffin.

In the bowl: plain yogurt · apple · walnuts

Lunch

Big lentil apple plate

510 kcal · 22 g protein · 15 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Warm a larger pot of lentils in olive oil.
  2. Fold in two diced apples, parsley, a little red onion, lemon, and salt.
  3. Eat half. Hold half for Sunday, apple and all, in the fridge.

In the bowl: cooked lentils · 2 apples · parsley, lemon, olive oil · optional red onion

Dinner

Squash and kale for the table

530 kcal · 20 g protein · 12 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Brown whatever squash is left, skin on, in olive oil.
  2. Add chickpeas, garlic, and kale.
  3. Lemon.
  4. Freeze a container if the pan is bigger than tonight.

In the bowl: any remaining squash · chickpeas · kale · olive oil, garlic, lemon

Sunday

Reset, don’t restrict

Breakfast

Eggs and the last greens

320 kcal · 18 g protein · 2 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Wilt the last spinach or kale in a teaspoon of oil.
  2. Two eggs in the same pan.
  3. Eat, then shop next week. No pastry stop.

In the bowl: 2 eggs · remaining spinach or kale · olive oil

Lunch

Saturday’s lentil apple plate

470 kcal · 20 g protein · 14 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Eat the lentil-apple half you held on Saturday.
  2. Lemon if it needs it.
  3. Do not turn it into a sweet bowl.

In the bowl: held lentil apple plate · lemon

Dinner

Clear the skillet

500 kcal · 22 g protein · 11 g fiber · 0 g added sugar

Cook strategy

  1. Put the remaining squash, chickpeas, lentils, or greens in one skillet with a teaspoon of oil.
  2. Heat until hot.
  3. Lemon and salt.
  4. This is how Monday does not become takeout.

In the bowl: remaining squash, chickpeas, lentils, or greens · olive oil, lemon

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