Menu Planning

Plan It- Don’t Panic: Week 1 of the Meal Planning Challenge

September 19, 2011

Welcome to Week 1 of the Plan It- Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge!
What? You're not ready? You thought it started next Monday, the 26th of September? Oh, you mean the date on the pretty graphic I had made?
Ahem... you know you've got pregnancy brain when you plan a challenge to start on the 26th, [...]

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Resources and Recipes to Make Your Meal Planning Successful

September 15, 2011

With the Plan It- Don't Panic meal planning challenge beginning this Monday morning, now seemed like the perfect time to share some really helpful resources to help you succeed with your menus.
Learn more about how to make meal planning work (and some different methods for doing it), find tons of my favorite online recipes and [...]

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You Asked For It: Plan It- Don’t Panic! {A 6-Week Meal Planning Challenge}

September 9, 2011

All those who know that meal planning is a good idea, but struggle to actually do it, put up their hands! (Is yours raised?)
I definitely relate. I have been meal planning on and off (more on than off) for about 6 years. I know the benefits. I write about them. My budget and our family's [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Favorite Recipes Lists

January 12, 2010

My poor hubby. He really dislikes piles, and yet he married a gal who's just a little bit "out of sight, out of mind". Thus, I'm a piler.
All through the Christmas holidays, there was one particular pile that continued to be moved around from table to table, dresser to desk, and back to the table [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Menu Planning

January 11, 2010

Of all of the things that I spend time planning, the one that I feel probably has the biggest payoff in saving me time, frustration and even money would have to be menu planning!
I've been menu planning faithfully for about 3-4 years now. Every once in a while I briefly slip up and go a [...]

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Simple Dinners: Making Meals that Work Together

November 6, 2009

I am all about simplicity in the kitchen. If there is a way that I can make my meals work together and save myself time, effort and dishes, I am all over it!
One of my favorite ways to do this lately has been to coordinate the meals within my weekly meal plan. By this, I [...]

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