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These are my 13 favorite new recipes I discovered for my family this year. Pandemic silver lining!

by Lisa Barnes | Dec 30, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

One of bright spots of 2020 is that I have discovered so many amazing new recipes for my family, stemming mainly from my newfound love for meal planning. Yes, meal planning! Who would have thought? Pre-Covid, I really was more of a wing-it-at-the-grocery-store kind of...

Save time and money with 5 slow cooker dinners under $10 each! | Meal Plan 233

by Kate Etue | Dec 20, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

Budget slow cooker dinner recipes are my whole mood right now. I don’t know about you, but I’m short on time with the holidays here, not to mention all those holiday gifts taking a healthy bite out of my budget. So for this week’s meal plan, I...

The plate-licking good dinner recipes that helped me get my cooking mojo back | Weekly Meal Plan 232

by Lisa Barnes | Dec 12, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

So this week, seems I got my second wind, y’all. After struggling through a bit of a cooking slump last week (Thanksgiving tends to do that to me), I finally turned a corner and got inspired to test a few new recipes to add into my rotation. After some very...

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...

Easy family-friendly dinners for Thanksgiving week | Meal Plan 230

by Kate Etue | Nov 22, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

It’s Thanksgiving week, parents! I’m thinking ahead to Thursday (smaller though it may be), but also realizing that my family needs to eat on the other days this week too. And since it also happens to be a week where strict quarantines and crowd limits...