Snow is lovely. Except when it delays my flight home from Pennsylvania by 24 hours, keeping me from my family.
These things just happen, though, and so here I sit in the Harrisburg Sheraton hotel, attempting to come up with a suitable meal plan filled with simple meals for a week of transitioning back to regular [...]

Plan It- Don’t Panic Meal Planning Challenge Week 5 (And 7 Ways to Use Those Leftovers)

October 24, 2011

Can you believe we've been consistently meal planning together for over an entire month now?
I don't know about you, but after a summer of inconsistency, in both my planning and in the meals I was serving, it feels good. Really good. We're eating better, saving money, and there are certainly less panicked dinner hours because [...]

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Plan It- Don’t Panic Meal Planning Challenge Week 4 (And What to Do If You Mess Up Your Meal Plan)

October 17, 2011

The other night, I went to make dinner after a very busy afternoon out, and realized that most dreaded of mistakes. The meal plan on the fridge said "Roast beef".
The large roast was sitting downstairs. In the freezer. Frozen solid. Did I mention it was 5pm?
Despite my best intentions (like planning for meal prep and [...]

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Plan It- Don’t Panic Meal Planning Challenge (And Recipe for Okonomiyaki)

October 10, 2011

Welcome to the 3rd week of the Plan It- Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge!
How are your meal plans coming along? Is it getting easier to put them together? Do you find that you are saving money? Time? Dinnertime sanity? I'd love to hear how the challenge is going for you!
Our Favorite Japanese Recipe: Okonomiyaki [...]

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Plan It- Don’t Panic Meal Planning Challenge (Plus Grocery Budget Tips)

October 3, 2011

Welcome to the 2nd week of the Plan It- Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge!
I was so excited to see so many of you participating actively in the challenge, whether by sharing a link to your own meal plan or simply posting your meal plan up on the Facebook page. I personally love the accountability of [...]

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Plan It- Don’t Panic: The Official Start of the Meal Planning Challenge

September 26, 2011

Welcome to the "official" (see last week) start of the Plan It- Don't Panic Meal Planning Challenge!
This challenge will be running for the next 6 weeks (Sept.26- Nov.7). Every Monday I will be posting both my own menu plan for the week, some tips on aspects of meal planning OR some recipes I want to [...]

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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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Planning Weekly to Eat Well

June 28, 2011

Written by Sherrie Cook, Contributing Writer
I was recently looking at the Vision Forum for books and noticed their tag line. It reads, "Where there is no vision the people perish". What a powerful statement. When I applied that to my family it had deep meaning as well.
What things does my family need [...]

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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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