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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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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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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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Menu Monday with Taco Beef Recipe

September 26, 2011

This weekend we were away (more on that to come) so Emma and I didn’t have our usual Sunday morning routine. Instead we shopped on Sunday afternoon, and it proved to me that our Sunday routine is key to saving money. I spent about $80 more than I usually do at the store, about half [...]

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Back to Routines: Menu Mondays

September 19, 2011

Getting back to school means it’s time to get back to routines too. While I was light on schedules for a long time (especially when we homeschooled), I find that the kids & I operate better with a routine in place. I try to keep our schedule simple so it’s not overloaded with activity after [...]

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Healthy Food Fight with Aetna & SheSpeaks

August 29, 2011

Healthy food and family go together like peanut butter and jelly in my house. I adopted a healthy lifestyle as a teenager and while we do enjoy ice cream and cookies we focus on healthy eating at home as much as possible. Fruits and veggies are a huge hit in my house in part because [...]

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