Practical Graduation Gift Ideas (That Aren’t Just Money!)
I model an awful lot of habits for my kids, whether I like it or not. Some of them are good and some of them I’m…
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30+ Healthy 20-Minute Dinners for Families
We love real food, and we love feeding our families well. But sometimes our schedule makes eating healthy dinners around the dinner table almost impossible. Between school, work, carpooling kids around, after-school activities, and sports practices, from-scratch dinners feel more like a weekend affair than a daily practice. But we all know that real food
5 Things to Do with Leftover Potatoes
Potatoes are such a versatile side dish. They go with all kinds of cuisines, and flavors, they’re budget-friendly and gluten-free. It’s no wonder we love…
Healthy Eating for Busy Families: 30 Minute Dinner Ideas
Making dinners during the week is a challenge – whether you’re juggling a full-time job, kids doing homework, or an attention-seeking toddler. (Or maybe all of those!!) It’s so tempting to eat fast food or buy prepackaged meals, but my budget and health preferences say no to those shortcuts. Here’s how I figured out how
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Weekly Food Prep Tips: 5 Easy Healthy Meal Foods I Prep Every Week
Okay, let’s talk about food prep for healthy meals. When my fellow Pinterest junkies and I think of weekly meal prepping, we think of cute, glass rectangular containers with snap-on lids and neat rows of fitness-friendly clean eating food, like rice, diced sweet potatoes, perfectly sliced chicken breast, and steamed vegetables. While this is a
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Elimination Diet Grain-Free Recipes & Resources (Keto/Paleo/GAPS/AIP friendly)
Look at most elimination diets and you’ll find many call for grain free recipes. From keto to Paleo to a Whole 30 meal plan, grains are on the no-no list. Thank goodness I’ve found out it’s not hard to come up with grain free elimination diet recipes! First off though, how in the world do
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Meal Planning Doesn’t Have to Be Invisible Labor – How to Get Started and Get the Whole Family Involved (with Jess Dang of Cook Smarts)
When I talk about stress mastery, I often share that the way we feel stress is all about our mental capacity, or load. Some days I can’t even walk into the kitchen and prepare dinner because it feels like “too much,” and then other days I can handle 2 kids being sick and a very
The Busy Mom’s Guide to Getting Real Food on the Breakfast Table
Figuring out fast, healthy breakfast ideas for kids and families is hard enough – but do working moms have even less time to cook than stay-at-home moms? I’m going to leave that up for debate – but the fact of the matter is, whether you’re rushing to get kids off to school or rushing to
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Easy Meal Planning Tips to Use Your CSA Share
We’ve talked about easy healthy meal prep, but today we are zooming in on how to meal plan with a CSA! Two years ago, I wrote up a handy 5-step plan for using all the vegetables you receive in a weekly crate from a Community-Sponsored Agriculture farm. That article tells you all about how a
A Camping Explosion and a Gluten Free Real Food Menu Plan
I’ll start with the explosion and make you wait for the gluten free camping food. Here’s what happened to the Kimballs out in the woods when I tried to make breakfast using this new gluten-free camping meal plan instead of our old standard camping meal plan with lots of whole grains. All while still trying to keep
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Find a Meal Plan Method That Works for YOU (and Why Thematic Planning Saved Our Dinner)
From weekly food prep to once a month cooking, here are meal plan methods to try to see what meal planning strategy works best for you and your family. Even if you’re not doing a tricky diet like a Whole30 or going camping while gluten-free, we all KNOW in our heads that meal planning is
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More Whole30 Recipes & Meal Plans, Veggies Galore and Transitioning Out (or not?)
I was so awful at first at finding Whole30 approved recipes that satisfied! Those first few days of the Whole30 for my husband and low phytic acid anti-cavity diet for me felt like torture. We were hungry, felt deprived, and every meal was a feat of self-discipline and mad knife skills. (Good thing my kids
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Our Rookie Whole30 Meal Plans + My Anti-Cavity Diet Menu
The great thing about a Whole30 is that it really makes you meal plan, and you find ideas for so many vegetables in your diet, you might buy out the produce section. You might even start your day with a load of vegetables, like this “tastes like pizza breakfast hash” I discovered. If you ever
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Meal Planning Basics for the Boss of the House
Looking for meal plan basics? You’re in the right place. Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to be the boss of your meal planning like you’re the boss of the house! (a little throwback to my old Monday Missions!) It turns out that planning a menu for the week is a massive help in being
The Ultimate Meal Planning Guide: How to get Real Food on the Table Every Night
This ultimate meal planning guide helps you make a weekly food menu with healthy, real food. Meal planning is an awesome tool to help you serve healthy food on a budget and not waste anything. Here’s how. How long do you spend in the kitchen each day meal planning, preparing food AND cleaning up after
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Cook Smarts Review {Meal Plan Service & App}
Meal planning can be hard. When you’re feeling overwhelmed, trying out an online meal planner is worth it! Here’s my Cook Smarts review. The Cook Smarts app can help you meal plan better, especially if you have a personality like mine! Wouldn’t it be great if there were personality typing for meal planning systems? I’m
The System That Finally Worked…and it’s not Digital (Shhhh!)
I am an organized soul. Really, I am. Certainly my life and surroundings do not always reflect that, but it’s something I’m constantly striving for – a sense of order, a sense of having a teeny bit of control over some small areas of my life. Running a household is serious work that requires serious
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5 Easy Steps for Using a Week’s Share of CSA Vegetables
It’s dinnertime on a Wednesday, and you’ve just been handed 10 pounds of fresh, organic, locally-grown, assorted vegetables! You’re eager to get some of them onto your family’s plates tonight and make sure you use every bit as wisely as you can before next week—when another load of vegetables will arrive—and you never know what
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4 Easy Tips for Cooking During Depression
For my friends who have walked the journey of the last six months in my life, they know it has been full of wildly vacillating ups and downs. We moved from our old house (with a gorgeous kitchen) to a different home. While the move wasn’t hard, no move is easy. But it did involve
10 Easy Lunches for Kids Using Mason Jars
The holiday break is over. The new year is here. That means it’s time to get back on track with healthy eating! One very important part of that is teaching your children what real, nourishing food is and why it is important. In my experience the best way to teach your kids about good food