I realize it’s only my first month of having a kindergartner, so I’m probably not allowed to whine about packing lunches yet, but let’s just say it’s a Hard Job. Why don’t we have any bread? Why do we have bread but she doesn’t want a sandwich? Why, one of those times when we didn’t have…
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Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Muffins.
When we lived in Raleigh, one of my favorite places to meet a friend was Sola Coffee. I’m not a big coffee drinker (and a girl can only justify a Sola Shake on special occasions), so my favorite thing to get on a “coffee” date was the pumpkin white chocolate chip muffin. And then I found out those moist,…
Healthy Banana Applesauce Muffins.
Confession: shortly after I posted this whole wheat banana bread recipe, I tried another, similar recipe from Cookie & Kate – and I liked it a teeny bit better. So with a slightly guilty conscience, I kinda sorta switched to usually making that one.
Bran Muffins.
These bran muffins are one of my favorite breakfasts – slash morning snack, slash muffins all day, e’ryday. They’re very tender, but they also have good chewy texture, and they’re pleasantly whole-grainy without being dense/boring/dry. The muffins themselves are lightly sweet, and the raisins add an extra little burst (oh, they’re optional,…
Whole Wheat Banana Bran Muffins.
In my mind, there are two categories for muffins: fun, special occasion, at-what-point-do-we-call-it-a-cupcake muffins, and everyday, virtuous muffins. Like I mentioned in this post about cinnamon banana muffins (which are deliciously in the first category), category 2 muffins need to be all or mostly whole grain and low in added sugar (no more than a teaspoon or two…
Cinnamon Banana Muffins.
Last week we got to have dinner with friends who were just days away from the birth of their sweet baby girl. The mom was laughing and telling us about how she had accidentally burned a huge batch of banana muffins she was making for her freezer. Since Jay was letting their dog out while…
Freezer Meals
I 💛 freezer meals. And there’s no right or wrong way to use your freezer to help get dinner on the table! You can do a marathon cooking session where you cook and freeze a ton of meals at once. You can freeze “building blocks” to future meals, like shredded cooked chicken or cooked rice. You…
Freezable Breakfast Foods.
In case I haven’t plugged my affection for freezer meals lately, here’s a little roundup of my favorite freezable breakfast foods! Mornings with my three girls range from truly idyllic (picture us snuggled up reading library books, then enjoying a healthy breakfast together and efficiently getting ready for the day) to, um, a little chaotic…
Meal Planning
I love a plan. And I love, love, love a meal plan. But much like I love food and cooking, but don’t love cooking dinner every night, I don’t always love sitting down to make a meal plan. Is this seriously my job every time?! Have seven days come and gone already? What am I…
Six Weeks to a Stocked Freezer.
Are you into freezer meals? Maybe you’ve seen that pin on Pinterest about how to make 30 meals in 30 minutes for $30 (or something only slightly less crazy sounding)? This is not that post – but I do think freezer meals are wonderful, delicious presents you give your future self. Future Self, you seem stressed….
Whole Wheat Banana Bread.
Breakfast is my four-year-old’s least favorite meal of the day. She has her mom’s grumpy reaction to low blood sugar (sorry, kiddo – and if you’re reading between the lines, that makes two of us who aren’t much fun before breakfast). Instead of being eager to eat one of the Many! Delicious! Choices! I offer…
How I Stock My Pantry at Trader Joe’s.
I went to Trader Joe’s for the first time when we lived in Charlotte many moons ago. My friend Mishelle took me, and it was love at first shopping trip – but it was also kind of overwhelming. I didn’t really know what to expect, so I didn’t come with a shopping list, and I…
10 Tips for Feeding a One-Year-Old.
My one-year-old is so big these days. She’s really almost 14 months and she’s awesome. She likes to carry All The Things around with her, laugh heartily whenever anyone else is laughing, and give hugs where she wraps both arms around your neck and squeeeezes and presses her face against your face (best.hugs.ever.). This is…
Meal Plan of the Month #3 – March.
How much do you love my menu planner from Rachel Mahan Designs? I finally have it up on the wall! Thanks, Rachel! This week I employed a favorite meal-planning strategy – grilling once for two meals! We also had soup twice since Jay was home for lunch a couple of days and it’s nice to…
Griddled English Muffin & Eggs (my new favorite breakfast!).
A couple of weeks ago we had a North Carolina snowstorm that knocked out our power for over 36 hours. It got mighty chilly mighty fast with no heat, and fortunately some sweet friends of ours took us in for the night. Before we hauled 4 people and a dog (and approximately 30% of our belongings)…
Meal Plan of the Month #2 – February.
Yes, yes, I know it’s March…but February went by so stinkin’ fast! We were out of town for a few days, and I have a really hard time remembering to take a picture of my dinner plate every night. So I had a collection of pictures, but it wasn’t actually a set of meals that…