I don’t know about you, but I feel fall in the air, which is making me want warming food like soups, stews, and roasted vegetables. This week’s menu is inspired by the summer tomatoes left on my kitchen counter and the chilly temps outside. What are you inspired to cook this week? Week of September 8, 2014 Monday: Panko…
Labor Day has come and gone, the summer is unofficially over, and most kids around here are heading back to school this week and next. If you’ve been to the supermarket recently, you may have noticed that despite the humid temps, the produce pickings are changing and your summer favorites are more expensive and less available than just a few…
We still have another couple of weeks before school starts in our neighborhood, but with Labor Day weekend coming up and most children already back to school this week, summer is pretty much at its end. Before you pack the school lunch boxes with the same old sandwich, check out my protein-packed Veggie & Bean Quinoa Bites, this month’s Recipe ReDux….
Make this one bowl Salmon Peach Quinoa Salad for an easy lunch or dinner. A perfect balanced meal for families short on time! Making my way through the backlog of magazines I have piling up, I came across a Quinoa Salmon Salad recipe in the August issue of Parents Magazine. It especially caught my eye since it was under…
How is it already mid-July?! I don’t know about you, but I always feel like the summer goes by so fast. It feels like summer just started, yet when I tried to get a new bathing suit today, it was slim pickings and a complete mish-mosh in the store. Guess I’ll have to get my act together earlier next year!…
Hope everyone had a fabulous holiday weekend! Other than rain on the 4th itself, we had beautiful weather and lots of time outside with good friends and good food! With temperatures in the 90s this week, we’re keeping our Nutritioulicious meals a little bit on the lighter side this week (well, not Thursday, but I had a special request for…
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Summer is definitely here in our house: we’ve been grilling and enjoying lots of seasonal fruit and veggies. I can’t believe the end of this week is already July 4th! The summer always goes by so fast! If you have plans to grill this holiday weekend, check out some of my Nutritioulicious summer recipes and…
Apologies for my absence – it’s been a while since I posted my Menu Plan Monday. The last couple of weeks of May were hectic and then I was in Spain for a week, but now I’m back in the swing of things and ready to get cooking again. This week we’ll be having some of our family favorites (fish…
Happy belated Mother’s Day to all who celebrated yesterday! We were very lucky to have a beautiful day to celebrate, which meant a lot of time outside and dining al fresco: brunch on our patio and a BBQ with extended family!! Other than some crankiness from my little girls, it was a great day and I am very lucky and…
Last week’s menu was a winner with the whole family. My kids couldn’t get enough of the fish tacos – they didn’t even ask for fruit after dinner that night! The herbed lemon chicken was super easy to make, light, and flavorful. And my lightened up mac n cheese was such a hit there were no leftovers! (Look out for…
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Anyone read last week’s Tara Parker Pope’s NY Times Well Column, The Lure of Forbidden Food? In a nutshell, some new research shows that when food is off limits to children, they want it more. Nothing so new to me here – I believe this is true for everyone, adults and children alike. Which…
