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…
Healthy Snacking Tips
How many of you feel a little cranky or sleepy around 10am or 3pm? Often it’s our body telling us it just needs a little fuel in the form of a healthy snack. Often people think snacking is a habit they should eliminate in order to “stay on track” with their healthy lifestyle, but the…
Lightened Up Easy Chicken Parmesan
Hi friend, it’s recipe redux time and the theme is “Back to the Dinner Table”. After the hustle and bustle of the holiday/vacation season, August is the time many families get ‘back to routine.’ Show us your favorite recipe to help families get ‘back to the dinner table.’ It might be a favorite family recipe…
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…
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…
What I Ate This Month
Hi friends! Happy St. Patty’s Day! Hope you all have a lovely weekend. This weekend I stepped outside of my normal routine and actually did stuff! Woo hoo! I ran a 10 K fun run on Saturday (more on that Wednesday), then after naps I took the kids to Yogurtini, the Dollar store to pick…
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…
