Meal prep with ease with these few simple tips! Menu planning and meal prepping are two things that can greatly improve your success of eating healthy and will ultimately save you time in the kitchen. When healthy habits are enjoyable, they can last a lifetime. You know what is not enjoyable? Trying to prepare dinner…
Easy Meal Prep Tips For Packing Healthy Lunches
Meal prep is the key to your sanity in the kitchen, where no rules apply, and anything is better than nothing. I have partnered with Dannon® Light & Fit® in order to share meal prep tips. I have been compensated for my time commitment. However, my opinions are entirely my own and I have not…
Top 10 Recipes of 2015
I still can’t believe we are already a week into the new year. I need some alone time to sit with my thoughts and planner, to get some organization on life in general….something I feel I need to do every year. I have all sorts of thoughts flying in and out of my brain, but…
Buffalo Chicken Pizza with Goat Cheese
You guys, I am back! We finally got internet set up this week! Woo hoo. I feel like a new woman. It’s been over a week since I’ve been on the computer and even when I was on my parent’s computer when we were visiting them before the move, I wasn’t on too often. I…
Kale Salad with Red Wine Vinaigrette & Meal Planning
Is anyone tired of kale yet? I’m not! It’s one of my weekly staples in my CSA box and I love it! I usually sauté it, use it in smoothies or chop it thinly and enjoy it as a salad. Occasionally I’ll look for a good recipe incorporating kale just to change things up- it’s…
Scenes From The Weekend and Meal Planning
Hi friends! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed celebrating the wonderful dads in your life. We had a lovely weekend, the first one since my hubby returned from Afghanistan that it was just our family. We both still have a lot of sleep to catch up on, but it was nice to…
Meal Planning: Week of April 14th
Hi friends! I am having problems with my photo editing software so I can’t upload any photos until I get the issue resolved (and yes I could use other programs like iPhoto, which I might have to do in a pinch but I prefer to wait). So bear with me this week as there might…
Make-Ahead Salad Bowls
Hi friends. Just popping in for a quick visit to share this fabulous salad inspired by Starbucks. That’s right, you heard me….a salad inspired by Starbucks! I was in there this week with about 25 minutes to spare before picking up my daughter from preschool. I had our sitter watching the other kids so I…
Basic Family Meal Plan
Ugh meal planning. What used to be one of my favorite things to do on the blog has now become quite the chore. Having a newborn, plus 3 other little ones in the house and a husband who is missing from the table, makes it quite a challenge to cook dinner. First of all, the…
What I Ate This Month & Meal Planning
I had such a wonderful weekend in Seattle with my girlfriend Heather. I had no idea Seattle had such an awesome downtown- the shopping, the restaurants, the market! Fabulous! We live about 50 miles south of downtown so we haven’t had a chance to visit much since we moved here almost a year ago. I…