This weekend was a doozy. My husband and I both took on large house projects, while taking care of the kids. He built a raised bed in the back, while I painted the 14 large cabinets in our master bath. After our home flooded in Hurricane Harvey several years ago, we changed the color of…
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Build Your Own Lunches
I keep seeing posts about how over cooking every single meal we all are. We are burnt out from trying to do at least 3 full time jobs all at once, with no respite. We are working, day-caring, cooking, home-schooling, worrying about the state of the world, and trying to connect with our loved ones…
Everything You’ve Ever Wondered About Beans
I don’t know about you, but I have a large bag of beans and several cans I bought to prepare for this quarantine situation. It’s one of the first things people think of when they think “shelf stable foods”, but how much can we actually do with them? Are endless batches of hummus and re-fried…
Carrot Cake Breakfast Cookies
If you are not a breakfast cookie convert, prepare to be. These carrot cake breakfast cookies are a great way to shake up the never ending cycle of oatmeal at our house. Eloise is on a peanut butter oatmeal kick lately. I like to keep changing things up when I can, so that there aren’t…
Snack Tray Lunches
Weather has been warm and beautiful lately, and we have been enjoying outside lunches as much as possible these days. The easiest way to make this happen has been snack tray lunches. What is a snack tray lunch you ask? It’s where I pile all the leftovers and odds and ends from the fridge onto…
Roasted Beets
Beets were one of those things that I was intimidated and confused by before I actually figured out how to cook them. I grew up with pickled beets from a jar (also delicious), but I didn’t have roasted beets until after college. I still remember the delicious quinoa salad I had them on with a…
Division of Responsibility in Feeding
In my early days as a WIC clinic nutritionist, I stumbled upon a book in a reference section for one of the classes I was teaching. This book revolutionized the way I thought about feeding children. It focused more on the psychological aspect of feeding children than the physical. Everyone pretty much knows kids should…
Cooking with Toddlers: Yogurt Edition
I have a confession. I do not like yogurt. I know, at this day and age we are all supposed to be working on our “gut health” and doing all the probiotic things, right? Yogurt, kombucha, kefir, sauerkraut, etc. We always had the little tubs of individually packaged yogurt with flavors that gave their best…
Easy Roasted Broccoli
It has been an exhausting, fun few weeks. We had company for most of the past month. My in-laws visited for a few weeks, my husband’s friend came to town for a visit, and then my mom visited for a few days. We battled sickness (thankfully before all the guests), visited museums and breweries, romped…
Roasted Chickpeas
My in-laws have been visiting for the past few weeks from out of state. It has been a whirlwind of 3 year old birthday party prep and execution, park days, and yummy family dinners (if I do say so myself). It has been such a joy seeing the girls connect with their grands that live…
Snack Trios
I don’t know about your house, but we are right in the thick of the “I don’t want that…I want something else” phase of toddler eating. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten a snack or meal ready in the past few months, only to hear “I don’t like that, I want cereal”….
Shrimp Topped Avocado Cups
I love New Year’s Day. Three years ago, three and a half years into our marriage, my husband and I started a tradition that we’ve continued the past three years. Every New Year’s Day we have a coffee date and discuss our budget for the previous year. This may not sound too exciting, but then…
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