Tag: meal planning
My Mom Secret: Freezer Meal Cooking
It's 5 p.m. Do you know what everyone in your house is going to eat for dinner? Ahhh, that frantic feeling of searching through...
Time Saving Tips for Weeknight Cooking
Dinner time can often be a hectic time of day, and while I enjoy cooking, during the week I get stressed if I’m trying...
All the Small Things: This is the Work That We Do
Pick up the toys, wash the dishes, restock the diaper bag, fold the clothes, pick up the toys again, fold the blankies and repeat....
Costco $5 Rotisserie Chicken Dinners
There are so many things to love about rotisserie chicken Costco $5 rotisserie chicken (which apparently has its own Facebook page). In the best of times, it's...
What’s for Dinner? Breaking Out of a Food Rut
Post-motherhood, I don’t have the brainpower to decide what’s for dinner five nights a week, so I have outsourced this to the internet. Here’s...
Baby On the Way: Tips for Stocking Your Kitchen
Congratulations! There will soon be a new baby in your life! You have giggles, new baby smell, chubby thighs, and all of the other...
What is in Season in JUNE?
June oh my goodness how I love the produce in June!
Finally, we're rocking with greens, peas, berries. The farmers markets are overflowing with wonderful...
7 Tips for Better Meal Planning
Some people plan their meals a month in advance, freezing neatly-labeled packets of soup and stew. (I did this recently in anticipation of our...
Clean and Natural Living: Simple and Safe Recipes for the Mindful...
It can feel overwhelming to research and scrutinize all the product ingredients we use on a daily basis. With all the proverbial plates moms...
Trader Joe’s to the Rescue: a Busy Mom’s Top Trader Joe’s...
My husband and I had a night out to ourselves recently. Looking forward to it all day, I cleaned up, may have donned some...
My Go-To Crock-Pot Recipes
As a busy mom, I like to find any way I can to spend more time with my kids and husband - which means...
And Then I Remembered … I Still Need to Fix Lunch!
I have good intentions - I really do. I love the idea of making the cute little Bento lunch boxes for my son to...
Cereal For Dinner
In my last post, I wrote about my love/hate relationship with meal planning and grocery shopping. This week, I was feeling great about our trip to...
My Love-Hate Relationship with Meal Planning and Grocery Shopping
I used to be a planner. I used to color-code my calendar with the different types of events I had going on. I would even...
