As most of my readers know, I spend a few hours on Sunday getting meals ready for the week. Just two hours in the kitchen on Sunday makes weeknight dinners much easier and less stressful, and gives me much needed time with my family after an 11 hour work day. After doing this for over … More 5 Kid-friendly Make-ahead Meals (Vegan style!)
Well, I’ve spent March exposing all my loyal readers to the inner-workings of my brain when it comes to meal planning. I’ve tried to both convince you to try out some meal planning and prep for yourself, and I’ve also tried to give you some tools to do so. Today I want to leave you … More Wrapping up the Month of Meal Planning
Once you’ve gotten a sense of how to find weeknight and prep-ahead friendly recipes, you start to accumulated them faster and faster. I always want to try the recipes I see posted at Post Punk Kitchen, and I still haven’t all the delicious things I want to try from Colleen Patrick-Goudreau’s trio of cookbooks. But … More Week 4: Recipe Collection
There are days when I used to spend thirty minutes in the afternoon browsing cookbooks, food magazines, and bookmarked recipes to put together a weekly menu. There were also days when I didn’t step on Legos, or when I could spend my Sunday morning with a newspaper and a pot of tea. Then I had kids. Making … More Week 4: Create a menu framework
