Jacqueline Raposo

Tip-top tidiness. A cheerful way to organize and level up your kitchen life. Part personal assistant, part sous-chef, the Kitchen Companion is a weekly calendar designed as an ultra-handy planner, with plenty of space for writing in plans and appointments for the whole family. Each page includes space for your grocery list, easily torn off on shopping day, as well as a clever and creative kitchen hack: Remove the skins from roasted squash by pressing a clean metal cooling rack down on the sliced halves, cut side up. The squash comes right out while the skin stays behind. -Magnetic backer for the fridge -Roomy grid with plenty of space for appointments-Compact 11½ x 8¼ size -Includes clever kitchen tips-2 monthly reference grids, with current week highlighted-A weekly market listNew plastic-free packaging!

At the age of thirty-four, journalist Jacqueline Raposo finds herself sick, single, broke, and wandering in a fog. Despite decades of discipline, her chronic illness is getting worse. Despite hosting a radio show about dating, she hasn't been in love in years. And despite a successful writing career, she's deeply in debt. Weary of trying to solve her problems by adding things to her life, she attempts the opposite and subtracts some of her most constant habits--social media, shopping, sugar, and negative thoughts--for periods of thirty to ninety days over the course of one calendar year. In this intimately curated search for self-improvement (a quest that readers can easily personalize for themselves), Raposo confesses to the sometimes violent and profound shifts in her social interactions, physical health, and sense of self-worth. With the input of doctors, psychologists, STEM experts, and other professionals, she offers fascinating insights into how and why our brains and bodies react as they do to our habits. She also sheds light on the impact of our everyday choices on our mental state. Part memoir, part case study, this book offers you an inspiring example of how to forge your own journey, expose your wounds, and help yourself heal.