Meal planning

Could someone please explain to me why the simple job of planning what we’re going to eat nearly sends me into panic attacks? It’s not that hard…list a breakfast, lunch, and dinner and then buy what we need. But it’s sooooo restrictive to me, and I worry about having too much or too little food [...]

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Dinner

Making this for dinner. (LOVE that recipe site, btw.) Cheap, quick, Nick loves dark greens, and I…need to eat more of them. Now to watch the kiddos figure them out.

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Grocery Shopping and Contentment

My life is very different from this blogger’s, and therefore we do not always agree. But, I love her post today. This is how I am trying to approach our grocery shopping now. You can feel the place of peace and trust that she speaks from, even as you read her words. She touches on [...]

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Encouragement

This has been kind of a tough week for me, for various reasons. Staci sent me this site last week, and it has provided so much encouragement to me this week, both spiritually and in the food area. I have never found any site that had recipes with only things we can all eat! Plus, [...]

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More Random Stuff

Have you seen Jott yet? Call a toll-free number, leave a message, and it transcribes it and emails it to you or anyone else you have on your contacts. You can even send it to Blogger, Remember the Milk, or a huge list of other stuff. Yes, I’m a geek. You know you’ve left yourself [...]

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5 a day?

As Nick and I were talking about something unrelated last night, we stumbled across talking about how we don’t tend to eat enough fruits and vegetables around here. Now, that may surprise you, since I’m the resident health nut. But, we focus so much on protein for blood sugar stability and gluten-free grain, that sometimes, [...]

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Recipe File

In my never-ending attempt to save money while eating healthy, I’m currently trying a 60-day trial of AccuChef. Before you laugh, let me tell you what this thing does. You can put all of your recipes in it, organize them by type, add them to a grocery list, price out your meals, do meal planning, [...]

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Traveling

Nick grew up in a town of 30,000 people called Kearney, in Nebraska. Life is simple there. Nebraska has a funny culture – people talk about leaving the state as if they’re going to some alien planet. Honestly? They kinda are… People live quiet lives. They farm, they attend their church, they do their job… [...]

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Thanksgiving Dinner

Dinner was a smashing success, I must say. I should have followed my instinct and turned the heat up on the sweet potatoes so they were a little softer, and it was difficult to have everything more than just lukewarm by the time it was on the table, but it was….delicious. And completely gluten-free! Turkey, [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in [...]

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