Today's green living tip: reduce food waste. By eating the food you've purchased, you keep it out of the landfill. One of the easiest ways we've found to significantly reduce food waste is to eat our leftovers. By meal planning, we make a plan to cook one night and then have the same meal again… Continue reading Green Living Tip 19 {Reduce Food Waste}
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Pantries, Peas, and Pasta
While I am an avid meal planner, I like to keep our pantry well stocked so when a need arises for a quick dinner - like practically every night with sports and active kids - one can come together in minutes. Keeping frozen vegetables on hand is one of my favorite tricks to make this… Continue reading Pantries, Peas, and Pasta
Green Living Tip 8 {Meal Plan Before Grocery Shopping}
Today's green living tip: meal plan before grocery shopping. Meal planning is the process of taking a few minutes to think about what you'd like to eat for dinner, in the week ahead, scanning the cupboards, fridge, and freezer for what you already have on hand, and then making a grocery list. It takes less… Continue reading Green Living Tip 8 {Meal Plan Before Grocery Shopping}
Camping and Cooking Supplies
When we did a 3-week camping trip around Oregon, it made us realize how few camping and cooking supplies we actually used or really needed. Fewer supplies meant less to keep track of and by investing in reusable items, there was nothing for us to throw out. With less stuff to pack and unpack, we… Continue reading Camping and Cooking Supplies
Monthly Meal Plan
What's for dinner? Well, you know the answer. Check the front of my refrigerator and you'll see what we're having for the upcoming week. Then, once a month I share it here. Is it getting old reading about what we're eating? It must. I'm tired of writing about it. After 12-months of sharing our weekly… Continue reading Monthly Meal Plan
How to Meal Plan Every Week
There’s a lot of confusion about what meal planning is. Most people think meal planning is a plan for an elaborate dinner party. It can be but that’s not the meal planning I’m talking about. What I’m talking about when I say “meal planning” is a frame work or an agenda of what home cooked… Continue reading How to Meal Plan Every Week
Monthly Meal Plan
This was a great month of eating. We began with Super Bowl Sunday leftovers, had a dinner at grandma's house, and then Valentine's Day dinner with pureed beets and arugula salad. Next, we hosted our dinner group with a fancy dinner and then had our kids' school auction. Our lives revolve around food, don't they?… Continue reading Monthly Meal Plan
Monthly Meal Plan
Even with careful weekly meal planning and grocery shopping for only what we need for the week, the pantry and freezer can get too crowded. When this happens, it calls for an attack that we call "Eat Through." Putting "Eat Through" into action means we eat through what's hanging around so that nothing gets wasted,… Continue reading Monthly Meal Plan
Monthly Meal Plan
Ahhhhh.....that's what I say after I've written out our meal plan for the week. If I get lazy and skip it - which I've been known to do - it's always a scramble around 5pm. And, because my kids love to eat leftovers for breakfast, they want a good dinner and with lots of leftovers… Continue reading Monthly Meal Plan
Monthly Meal Plan
Remember how we went to Costa Rica last month? Well, we ate every meal out - meaning no one in our family cooked or cleaned up for an entire week. It felt weird but it was such a treat not to plan, shop or clean up after a meal. I did miss cooking, however! All… Continue reading Monthly Meal Plan
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