meal planning

Site Troubles and Plan to Eat Giveaway

June 7, 2010

Some of you may have noticed that there was some downtime for my blog this weekend. There are more things going on in the backend and with the design (nothing major- just trying to work out some kinks) but unfortunately the work resulted in a brief outage.
There are a few aspects of the site that [...]

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Real Food Makeover: The “W” Family

April 6, 2010

Introducing the first of four families to receive a Real Food Makeover! Each week, I will be highlighting a different family and offering suggestions and resources to help them along the road to eating more real, whole, healthy foods.

Meet the W. family: Mom "D" (37), Dad "M" (35), son "I" (3) and twin daughters "G' [...]

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Creating a Homemaking Binder

January 19, 2010

**We're just back from Seattle after what has been a crazy week and a half! My blog schedule for January is now a bit off and I need to reassess it, but I will continue to putter along on my organizational projects that I've begun. More recipe organizing, and yes, the ListPlanIt download lists and [...]

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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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Time to Get Organized!

January 7, 2010

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I seem to have a yearly break down in my systems of organization.
I can get systems set up, rooms de-cluttered, schedules made and being used, etc. for about 6-9 months and at that point, they start to disintegrate. I fight desperately to hang on to them, but generally it is of no use [...]

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Get More Organized This Holiday Season: ListPlanIt Review and Giveaway

December 9, 2009

I've always been a list maker. I make lists of what needs to be done in the day, what food is in the fridge that needs to be used up, what meals I'm going to make, what to pack for a trip, what gifts to buy, what errands to run and what order to do [...]

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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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