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365 Day Meal Plan:Week One Remix

February 6, 2012

We’re back to Week One with our 365 day meal plan this week. The first four weeks have been fairly simple in terms of shopping and cooking meals, though we have had to make some accomadations over those weeks as well. Overall though we’re seeing a huge savings over the previous month in groceries and [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan: Week 4 Menu

January 31, 2012

Apologies for the delay in Monday’s meal plan, due to downtime and malware infecting my site I was unable to get this up in time. Without further ado an update on meal planning. We’re in week four of my 365 meal plan, and so far even with crazy busy schedules, and a never-ending cold that [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan: Week 3 Menu

January 23, 2012

It’s Monday again, time for another update on our 365 day meal plan and this week’s menu. Last week was pretty successful despite the still nasty cold/congestion that is running through the house and a busy, busy week. For my own record-keeping and to keep me honest here’s last week’s menu and some commentary so [...]

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365 Meal Plan: Update and Week 2 Menu

January 16, 2012

It’s Monday which is meal planning day in our house, but thankfully I don’t need to come up with anything new since I have my 365 day meal plan rotation in full effect. If you haven’t seen it yet, I made a template for you to make your own rotating meal plan that repeats throughout [...]

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365 Day Meal Plan: Menu Plan Monday

January 2, 2012

How simple would it be if you had a meal plan for the full year? Last year I tried (and failed) to cook at home 365 days, but have renewed passion for this idea as well as a new plan that will make it easier. It’s rather simple. I put together 4 weeks of meals [...]

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Keep it Simple: Menu Monday

December 5, 2011

This time of year is always hectic with holidays, shopping to do, presents to wrap, and tons of activities for the kids. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas I try to keep meal planning simple, good advice year-round but even more so when you are facing a mile long to do list. Five Tips for Simple Meal [...]

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Save Money While Holiday Cooking

November 28, 2011

Often times one of the scariest times to hit the stores is when you are getting ready to shop for your holiday feasts. I myself can remember many times in which seeing the printing out of my grocery bill would cause me to break out into a sweat. Fortunately I have discovered that holiday cooking [...]

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5 Ways to Reduce Menu Plan Guilt: Menu Plan Monday

November 14, 2011

I often find that I overestimate the amount of time and energy I will have to prepare meals during the week. With 4 kids, and the schedules that come along with them, and a hectic and often varied work schedule for me it means meal planning sometimes falls by the wayside. I’ll let you in [...]

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Perfect Thanksgiving Recipes

November 11, 2011

I have to say that for me and many Americans Thanksgiving Day is one of their favorite days to eat. Sure there’s the smell of the turkey slow roasting in the oven all day, but then there are the sides that make your mouth water. And of course there is pie. Sweet, delicious pie. I’m [...]

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Back on the Wagon: Menu Monday

November 7, 2011

I’m trying to get back on the wagon with meal planning. Lately our lives have been kind of upside down with work, kid’s activities, freaky snowstorms, and renovations (more on that soon). This week is pretty straightforward. I’ll be out of town Thursday and Friday (YAY for eating uninterrupted!), and we generally eat out on [...]

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