One of my favorite tricks for making dinner prep easier is the build-your-own dinner night. I find that these meals are a great way to keep family dinners going, especially during the busiest times. They are also a great way to get your kids to try new foods! Here’s what these simple, fun meals look like in my house. I don’t know about you, but my time is feeling crunched these days. Between running a…
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I get the jitters before hosting almost any gathering, but with all the build-up to Thanksgiving, it feels like the stakes are even higher than usual. To keep it in perspective, I try to remember what’s most important – being with family and friends and appreciating our blessings. But no matter what, when it comes to the biggest feast of the year, there’s a lot of work to be done! In order to ease the…
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Make family dinner easier: Divide dinner planning and prep with a friend and neighbor and cook half the time!
Healthy Breakfasts with Less Work I like to think of myself as a down-to-earth, reasonable, practical kind of person and I think that for the most part I am, but I do have this one tendency that regularly leaves me feeling like a naïve schmuck: I always believe that when summer starts things will slow down and I’ll make progress on my “to do” list. This year, as we limped (staggered?) to the school finish…
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Do you struggle to find the motivation to cook some nights? I think it is safe to guess yes. For some of us, the dread of cooking is a daily presence, while for others it is less frequent, but I think we have all encountered lack of inspiration, exhaustion at the end of a long day, and/or frustration with the daily grind of meal preparation. Since this is such a familiar and common struggle, especially…
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