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Menu Plan Monday: May 23, 2016

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…

Menu Plan Monday: May 9, 2016

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…

Menu Plan Monday: May 2, 2016

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…

Menu Plan Monday: April 25, 2016

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….

Menu Plan Monday: April 18, 2016

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…

Menu Plan Monday: April 11, 2016

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…

Menu Plan Monday: April 4, 2016

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…

Menu Plan Monday: March 21, 2016

Happy spring! Find out what ingredients are on the menu this week and take a look at some interesting reads and delicious recipes in Link Love! Happy spring everyone! I’m looking at my snow-covered backyard as I write this on the second official day of spring, but it is spring nonetheless. How do I know? I have two bunches of asparagus,…

Menu Plan Monday: March 14, 2016

Packing a healthy lunch for kids and adults, handling food cravings, and tasty ways to use lemons in this week’s Link Love. Plus a nutritious and delicious menu plan! As everyone knows, we sprang forward this weekend, which was not much fun in the loss of sleep department, but it makes me super excited for spring for one major reason: better…

Menu Plan Monday: February 29, 2016

Catch up on food and nutrition news and get inspired to get cooking with this week’s Menu Plan Monday. Hope everyone had a great weekend! We had some nice spring-like weather yesterday, which always puts me in a good mood. We spent a large part of the day outside with the kids running around a playground with their friends, which was…

Menu Plan Monday: February 8, 2016

A recap of last week, a new meal planning book you have to check out, and this week’s Menu Plan Monday with nutritious & delicious recipes for the whole family.  So, did you survive Super Bowl Sunday without having to unbutton your jeans?! Last week, everywhere I turned bloggers and dietitians – myself included – were doling out tips and recipes for…