By spending an hour or two prepping ahead on the weekend, you can create quick and easy dinners all week long. Below I will share tips for how you can do a quick batch cooking session, prep-ahead meals, and save time cooking meals on busy weeknights. Prep-Ahead Meals vs. Make-Ahead Meals The primary difference between prep-aheadRead More
How to Create a Meal Plan with Batch Cooking
You don’t have to spend a whole day cooking meals for your freezer to take advantage batch cooking. You can adapt the concept of batch cooking to fit your lifestyle and schedule. I use batch cooking as a frugal way of creating my own “convenience foods” to simplify dinner preparation on busy weeknights. Cooking basic ingredients, suchRead More
25 Diabetic-Friendly Holiday Recipes
One of the toughest parts of the holidays for some is not being able to enjoy all of the delicious food. However, these 25 Diabetic-Friendly Holiday Recipes are a great solution for your holiday menus. From remakes of traditional holiday dishes to new desserts and appetizers, this list has tons of great low-carb or sugar-free recipesRead More
7 Tips For Menu Planning Success
These 7 Tips For Menu Planning Success are going to revamp your approach to feeding your family. Menu planning is one of our top suggestions for keeping your family on track with their dietary needs all while you maintain a manageable budget. A few simple steps can totally revamp your way of feeding your familyRead More
Kid-Friendly Menu Plan with Recipes to Use Up Leftovers
Between holidays, travel, and general summer laziness our schedule has gotten way off. It is time for me to bring order back to my household and I am starting with a menu plan. I have filled this menu plan with my kids’ favorite recipes in order to encourage compliance with my plan to establish order.Read More
Menu Plan with Recipe Ideas for Leftover Steak
Like many Americans, we will be grilling steaks on Memorial Day. Whenever my husband grills, he always puts extra meat on the barbecue, so that I can use it in recipes through out the week. My menu plan incorporates recipes to use the leftover steak. I try to alter the flavors and the way I useRead More
Menu Plan with Recipes for Leftover Grilled Chicken
I found a great deal on chicken thighs, so this week we are batching grilling chicken using different marinades. Then we will use the grilled chicken through out the week. Monday – We are scaling back our batch grilling this time and will cook one pound each of Teriyaki Chicken, Honey Mustard Chicken, and GrilledRead More
5 Healthy {and Easy} Thanksgiving Ingredient Swaps
If you make an effort to eat well everyday, you don’t have to throw your healthy habits out the window on Thanksgiving. Instead, clean up your favorite holiday meals with these healthy Thanksgiving ingredient swaps. There is nothing crazy like a full on tofurkey, just easy substitutions that will improve the quality and in mostRead More
How to Fill Your Freezer in 30 Minutes a Day
Michelle is sharing tips and recipes for filling your freezer in 30 minutes a day. It’s back to school time! I don’t know about you, but my “lazy” days of summer are almost over and I need to start getting back to business. Eating at 8:30 pm isn’t going to fly with a little girlRead More
