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5 Tips for Better Meal Planning
Meal planning is a small investment with HUGE returns. When I map out our dinners, a certain amount of stress just falls away from my week. I usually ...
My Goals for 2016 in Food, Fitness & Health
I don't usually make traditional New Year's Resolutions. Last year I chose one word to guide me through the year (read: My Word For The Year). Another ...
How a “Dinner Formula” Changes Meal Planning Forever
I officially found my goal for the new year: Get a whole lot smarter about meal planning. I was totally inspired by the new book What to Cook for ...
How to Shop at ALDI + My 20 Favorite Things to Buy!
Several years ago, my friend Lisa was raving about ALDI. But I was skeptical and stubborn. I had my routine and knew my neighborhood grocery store ...
5 Foods I Don’t Buy Anymore
Since starting this blog five years ago, I make a lot more food from scratch. Perhaps it's because my kids are older and less demanding and no longer ...
Why I Love My Old-School Recipe Book
Did you have a scrapbook as a child? I did. In the pages of mine are ticket stubs to U2 and Depeche Mode concerts, photos from church camp, and dried ...
Reclaim the Dinner Hour With Freezer Meals
Ever feel a 5pm wave of angst when you realize you have no idea what's for dinner? I do. It's a lousy feeling. Batch cooking and freezing is one ...
From-Scratch Cooking Confession: I Can’t Keep Up!
I believe that a diet based around whole foods is the way to go. I believe we should know what's in our food, that we should strive to eat food that ...
Make-Ahead Green Smoothie Packets
I've seen these make-ahead smoothie kits all over Pinterest. But I wasn't convinced until my friend Kelly recently texted me to report that yes, ...
One Of The Best Things You Can Do On A Sunday
If you read my last post, you may be thinking that by "one of the best thing you can do" I mean "go to yoga class" or "ignore the mountains of laundry ...
Pantry Challenge: Week #2 Meal Plan
The good news is that I stuck to my meal plan pretty closely last week (read: Pantry Challenge: Week #1 Shopping Trip & Meal Plan). The bad ...