Lisa Barnes, Author at Cool Mom Eats

Easy family dinners for the week because the burnout is real | Weekly Meal Plan 231

by Lisa Barnes | Nov 28, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

Welp, as of this week, we’ll have made it to December. Wow. That’s 48 weeks of family dinners under your belt, most likely at home, all during an extremely stressful and uh, unusual 2020. If you are human, which I can presume you are, the burnout is...

A week of dinners that are easy on prep, big on flavor | Weekly meal plan 229

by Lisa Barnes | Nov 6, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

This coming week (and maybe a few weeks after that), I need meal planning to be a bit easier. In fact, I need every one of my responsibilities to be a little easier — don’t we all? So I’m putting together a meal plan of five super easy recipes that...

5 recipes for a week full of food hugs | Weekly Meal Plan 227

by Lisa Barnes | Oct 23, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

I believe that good food is like a warm hug from the inside out. And we can all use more hugs right now, since we are not all getting as many of the actual physical hugs. Leading up to Halloween and election day (VOTE VOTE VOTE) I have designed next week’s meal...

Upgrading 6 kids’ menu favorites for the whole family. In case they’re missing their favorite restaurant.

by Lisa Barnes | Oct 20, 2020 | Recipes

So many of us miss eating out our favorite local restaurants these days, unless they’ve got heat lamps outside these days and a good social distancing table plan. As for our kids, well, they mostly miss eating out so they can make us spend good cash on the most...

5 fall-inspired family dinners for the week ahead | Weekly Meal Plan 226

by Lisa Barnes | Oct 9, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

For next week, I am planning some of my family’s favorite fall-inspired dinners that are easy to make, prep and clean up. Because Fall seems to be full of all kinds of busy even though we are doing all of the things from home. And honestly, fall cooking is my...