I thought it would be fun to share my meal planning efforts for the week so you could get a feel for what we’re eating.  As you can imagine, it’s all healthy and focused on clean eating — whole foods, all natural, locally grown for the most part, and no refined sugar.
This week, I did [...]

It used to be that my meal planning efforts would serve my husband and I well during the week – we’d have a bevy of healthy food — but come the weekend, it seems like we were always scrounging around for something to eat.
Why? I put so much effort into my during-the-week meal planning efforts that by the [...]

When it comes to meal planning, it’s so easy to buy a few ingredients you need for a recipe, use a little of it up and then let the rest go bad in the refrigerator.
Does that sound remotely familiar? Have you ever had good intentions of using up all the ingredients and you simply forgot, [...]

One of the biggest ways to routinely waste food and throw money down the drain is letting your refrigerator go.
You know what I mean…food everywhere, leftovers on every shelf, no rhyme or reason on where to find things and too much food that’s gone bad. All you have to do is look at a plastic [...]

I’m all about breaking up meal preparation to make it easier to assemble the finished product and feel a whole lot less burdened. Although it might take the same amount of total time, I’m convinced that it’s less time when I break things up. It’s sort of like when I used to get paid once [...]

Last week on my free monthly teleclass on meal planning, we shared fantastic ideas about how to make cooking for one more fun and engaging. So many times we short-change ourselves with the notion that we’re not worth the time investment of cooking healthy items, or even finding a place to buy them already prepared. [...]

Warehouse stores like BJs and Costco are great when you have a place store all those paper towels and toilet paper or over sized packages of chicken. They tend to work well with families who have the space and the capacity to eat up all the food.
But what about if you’re single? Or you live [...]

It really is possible to save money and eat healthfully, but the truth is, you have to expend some effort to reap the rewards.
These days we’re all trying to pinch pennies in one way or another and when we make the time to plan ahead, it’s so much easier. One of the regular stops I [...]

Growing up, I convinced myself I didn’t like cauliflower, even though I had never tasted it. It just didn’t look appetizing to me, not that many vegetables do as a kid. Fast forward many years later, and I’ve still been a reluctant cauliflower eater. Never mind the fact that I eat copious amounts of cauliflower’s [...]

Time after time, my clients and people in my meal planning classes tell me that they shop without a list or clear vision for what they’ll feed their families. And I know you can imagine or probably know from experience that shopping without a list increases costs, and often results in poor food choices, [...]