365 Days of Homecooking

Cider Glazed Pork Loin {Gluten-Free}

February 9, 2012

I’ve mentioned this cider glazed pork loin several times in my menu plan. It’s something I came up with on the fly when we had pork loin and just enough apple cider to cause the kids to fight  make a tasty fall/winter marinade. This recipe is super easy to make since you don’t need to [...]

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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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Moms can’t do it all: 365 Days of Homecooking FAIL

March 15, 2010

I have to be honest, that’s just who I am. I have totally failed on the homecooking front. My 365 days of homecooking challenge was too overwhelming with all the other stuff we have going on in our lives. I will say I have a tendency to jump into things with both feet, and think [...]

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Your Shape Challenge: Healthy snacking

February 20, 2010

The 365 Day Cooking Challenge and Your Shape Challenge I’m participating in have fallen by the wayside a bit these last few weeks. I have been pretty sick, and the kids were as well for awhile, so it was tough to cook. We ended up eating a lot of sandwiches, brinner, and odds and ends [...]

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365 Days of Homecooking Weeks 3 and 4

January 25, 2010

I have been a lax in updating about our 365 day homecooking challenge. We are doing really well with it, so here’s my update from January 11th-24th. 1/11/10 Chicken, noodles, salad, raw veggies. 1/12/10 Leftovers 1/13/10 I was in NYC, so I ate out. Family had dinner with my mom. 1/14/10 I came home from [...]

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Whalen Family Pizza dough

January 10, 2010

Whalen family pizza dough Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups warm water 2 1/4 tsps yeast or one packet: buy it in bulk for awesome savings drip of honey or pinch of sugar spices: I like Frontier’s pizza spice, but you can also use fresh herbs, I ADORE ground rosemary in this though. It’s a wonderful spice [...]

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365 days of homecooking: Week 2 in review

January 10, 2010

Week 2 was tough at first, but easier once I got in the swing of things. I’ve also started putting out fresh veggies before mealtimes. That way they get a few servings of raw veggies before dinner. 1/4/10 Pizza, garlic bread, salad 1/5/10 Chicken, stir fry, jasmine rice, and raw veggies for the non-stir fry [...]

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