What I’ve been up to, getting ready for Memorial Day Weekend, and this week’s Link Love and Menu Plan Monday! Menu Plan Monday and Link Love are back! Apologies for not posting last week, but keep in mind that if you ever need meal planning ideas you can always head over to my Meal Planning Pinterest board for a collection of…
These delicious and healthy homemade picnic recipes are perfect for enjoying the beautiful days of spring and summer outdoors with your family! Pin this Post There is nothing more enjoyable on a pretty day than enjoying a meal outside with somebody you love. It’s one of my very favorite things to do, whether my husband and I are outside grilling, I…
Mother’s Day weekend recap, Link Love, and this week’s Menu Plan Monday! I hope all you moms had a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend and celebration! Our weekend was jam-packed with family time. On Saturday my girls performed as Snow White in their annual dance recital, and I couldn’t have been more proud. If you follow me on Instagram, I’m sure you…
Cinco de Mayo recipe inspiration, Link Love, and this week’s Menu Plan Monday! Happy May everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are having a great – and stress-free – Monday so far! If you are trying to combat some of those Monday-back-at-work blues, be sure to check out my post from Saturday, The Best and Worst Foods…
What you eat affects how you handle stress. Here we share the best and worst foods for stress – and it’s not that pint of Ben & Jerry’s in the freezer! April is Stress Awareness Month! I know I’m a little late to the game here, seeing how it’s the last day of the month, but I wanted to share…
This week’s Passover menu, recent media mentions, and Link Love! Hope everyone had a great weekend! We enjoyed our first couple of nights of Passover with family and friends. It was really fun watching the kids participate at the formal Passover meals because we sing a lot of songs and they got to show off everything they’ve learned in school….
Grilled avocados are stuffed with a light and fresh mixture of corn, black beans, and tomatoes in this elegant yet simple appetizer, side dish, or vegan entrée. I am so happy that grilling season is here! It took quite some time for spring to join us here in New York, but the season has arrived and with it all the…
Getting ready for Passover, plus this week’s Link Love and Menu Plan Monday. This Friday starts the Jewish holiday of Passover, which celebrates the Exodus and freedom of the Jewish people from enslavement in Egypt. Passover is an eight day holiday that is celebrated with various traditions, the primary one being a change in our daily dietary habits, primarily not eating hametz…
How taking a night off from meal planning is still planning, plus this week’s Link Love and Menu Plan Monday. One of my meal planning tips for newbies is to start slow, planning out just one to three meals for the week. Once you get comfortable with the meal planning process and it’s not as time-consuming and intimidating you can add another day…
How menu planning helps me avoid food waste, plus this week’s Link Love and Menu Plan Monday. One of the food and nutrition trends that’s very apparent this year is a focus on food waste (here are some of the other 2016 food trends I wrote about). I’ve read a bunch of articles and blog posts on the topic and have been trying…
Catch up on what’s happening at Small Bites by Jessica online and off! Plus this week’s Link Love and Menu Plan Monday. Hope everyone who celebrated had a wonderful Easter! It feels like a long time since last week’s Menu Plan Monday – a lot happened last week, both on the blog and off. Here at Small Bites by Jessica we…
