I will be the very first to admit that when someone recently mentioned “freezer meal” to me…I was a naysayer. I’ve been there, done that. With very little success. I’ve gone to the freezer meal retail locations, I’ve researched my own recipes and created them at home. I’ve been unimpressed. And I LOVE planning ahead,
Do you suffer from Dinner-on-the-Go?!? Thanks to Stella’s soccer schedule, there are 1-2 nights a week when we are at the soccer field for dinner. Stella usually eats in the car on the way there… But I make the other two wait until we arrive at the field. Eating dinner keeps them occupied for at
Back in 2005, we had a garden. A very large garden. When we moved into that house in Birmingham in 2003, it had a playset in the backyard that was rotting and falling apart. So we had it hauled away and then rented a tiller. We loved that garden and still think it produced the
Do you ever have any leftover hot dog buns? Somehow I always end up with leftover hot dog buns. Always. Sometimes I would freeze them and use them later. But usually, they’d collect mold and get thrown own in the trash. Until one day. One *MAGICAL* day when we were completely out of bread and the
I still want your kid snack ideas!! So if you missed that post, go back, read it and COMMENT here or on Facebook. I’m waiting… Meanwhile…people are commenting or asking more and more about my weekly dinner planning. If you haven’t noticed, I post “What’s Cooking?” over there on the right and it lists
If you remember back to my first post about Trader Joe’s, you will remember that I LOVE the eggplant cutlets. And I even followed-up later that I still LOVED them after a few more meals. So those are definitely a freezer staple now and also have been the reason I went back to Trader Joe’s
So we’ve been in a dinner funk lately. Same old, same old. So same old, that I keep forgetting to update my weekly menu on the blog. Because it’s basically pretty repetitive. But a friend of mine keeps telling me to go to Trader Joe’s. She even left me a (requested) voicemail with a
So I’m not a huge NFL fan. (Um, I live in the Cincinnati area and the Bengals are just…disappointing.) So I really only watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. This year we were invited to a Super Bowl party and it was a lot of fun. I pulled out a recipe I hadn’t made in a
We are still getting our produce delivered weekly from the Green Bean Delivery service. We started this last March and after almost a year of “trying it out”…I’m hooked! And here is why: 1. It comes straight to my door once a week. 2. Although there are recommendations, I get to customize my order every week. 3. My kids
I prefer to cook at home most evenings. We rarely go out to dinner on a weeknight…unless it’s Kids Eat Free at Skyline. You will find us there on an occasional Wednesday when I’m just too tired to come up with a meal. I post my weekly menu on the blog for me. To force
Kids on New Year’s Eve Last week I talked about my need to reduce and/or eliminate my time within Target stores. And I’m happy to report I have NOT been in a Target store since that post. Nor have I ordered from Target online. Nor have I sent anyone else in my place to Target