Meal Plans

I listen to a lot of podcasts these days. If you read my post on self-care, you'll know that it's one of the things I try to do daily to keep myself engaged and interested in things other than parenting. I rarely listen to parenting podcasts, although I do like this one. My appetite for […]

If you're new here, you may want to start here. There are other weekend meal preps detailed here, here and here. With the onset of spring, I've been taking more walks outside. It's my one hour of true 'me time' during the day where I put on headphones and listen to a podcast or just […]

I turned 43 this past week, and Elie and I snuck away to Vancouver for one night, to stroll and eat and go to some kick-butt workout classes and spend uninterrupted time focused on each other. It felt like the perfect way to celebrate this year, a year in which beginning another sweet turn around […]

We spent the last week in Palm Springs for a quick warm weather getaway. I had every intention of doing cooking while we were there, but instead, we made some simple meals, got take-out from our favorite places, and spent a lot of time around the pool with family and dear friends. Priorities.

Based on feedback on the meal planning posts, it sounds like ideas for dinner menus are helpful, but what would be more useful are practical ideas on how to bulk cook over the weekend for breakfast, lunch and dinner during the week.

Did you follow along with last week's meal plan? I hope you're finding these helpful! Sometimes the hardest part of making dinner is deciding what to have, so I'm enjoying creating these meal plans each week. Throughout the week, I'm tagging recipes I see, or leafing through cookbooks to see the pages I've bookmarked, both […]

We're still in Mexico right now, but we're headed back home tomorrow. It's been a wonderful trip, and we've certainly caught the Baja bug. We're already looking at a return trip next February. Celebrating Theo's birthday here (on February 11) might become an annual tradition. 

  I'm so excited to introduce meal plans to the site! Last year, one of my intentions was to be more organized and thoughtful in stocking our refrigerator and pantry, doing some bulk cooking, and planning meals throughout the week. Obviously, some weeks, this just didn't get done. But, as a former (and by that, […]

A few weeks ago, I taught a cooking class at Ciao Thyme, the first since before I was pregnant. As the room filled and I listened to the laughter and chatter build, I remembered why I love to teach how to make nourishing food delicious and doable, why I love to persuade people they CAN do […]