The season for soups and stews is coming to a close. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not complaining that summer is coming – it’s just that I love making a double batch of bean soup or a hearty stew, freezing half of it and having an easy dinner in the freezer. It's a little… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
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Weekly Meal Plan
Dinner two nights this week included a quinoa salad I’ve been experimenting with. It will be featured on a Fusion NW TV show soon. We filmed it in our kitchen on Wednesday morning and talked about three easy grains to cook. These grains are good to eat while transitioning away from white rice and white… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
This meal plan is our vacation meal plan from the week we spent in San Francisco, California for our home exchange. The house we stayed in had a great kitchen that was well stocked and we gave the kitchen a workout! I brought some staple food items with us and the rest of our food… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Three Easy Grains to Cook
When it comes to keeping a stocked pantry, I try to always have certain items on hand so that when I check my meal plan to see what’s cooking for dinner, I know there will be enough of something when it comes time to prepare it. These are three easy grains that I like to… Continue reading Three Easy Grains to Cook
Weekly Meal Plan
The theme of this week’s meal plan was eat through. That’s what I like to call it when we we’re going on a trip and I don’t want to do lots of grocery shopping before we go out of town. We also needed to make room in our freezer, refrigerator, and pantry for our home… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
We’ve gotten used to eating tomato soup made from tomatoes grown in our garden so when I made a quick tomato soup this week with canned tomatoes, we all agreed it didn’t taste nearly as good and was too salty. At the end of last tomato season, I roasted all of the remaining tomatoes, in… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
This week’s meal plan went according to plan, mostly. Well, I forgot we had dinner group on Friday and our kids ate at home without us. My son had signed up to make dinner on Friday but I don’t like to assign a dinner for someone else to cook if I’m not going to be… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
Another week, another week of meal planning and making dinners. The freshest meal this week was Monday’s dinner. The eggs were from our backyard chickens who are finally back into their routine of laying and the mustard greens were fresh from the garden. The greens had grown all winter (meaning they hadn’t died over the… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
So, when your teenage son says he wants to make potato Latkes for dinner, what do you do? You say YES of course! That’s what we had for dinner one night – every last 3.5lbs of organic potatoes in one meal. It was delicious. Weekly Meal Plan This meal plan is Monday, February 20, 2012… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Frugal Grocery Shopping: Buying From Bulk Bins
Everyone always wants to know my method for frugal grocery shopping when they learn that I don’t make a practice of using coupons. The truth is there simply aren’t coupons for vegetables, fruit, and food purchased from bulk bins. Frugal grocery shopping can be achieved by purchasing items in bulk from the bins. These items… Continue reading Frugal Grocery Shopping: Buying From Bulk Bins
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