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Menu Plan Monday: July 18, 2016

Celebrate National Picnic Month and National Blueberry Month this July! Plus, this week’s Menu Plan Monday and Link Love. Happy Monday everyone! This past weekend seemed to go by super fast for me – probably because I spent half of it in the kitchen prepping for a barbecue we hosted yesterday! If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you…

Menu Plan Monday: July 11, 2016

This week’s Menu Plan Monday and Link Love to educate and inspire you! Hope everyone had a great weekend! Sorry if you missed Menu Plan Monday last week. Long weekends get in the way of my posting sometimes. I’ve been trying to be better about not working on weekends and holidays so that my kids don’t see me attached to…

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 28, 2016

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…

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…

Menu Plan Monday: February 1, 2016

An awesome week of food and nutrition articles and nutritious and delicious recipes, plus this week’s Menu Plan Monday!  Hope your week is off to a great start! I have a super duper nutritious and delicious menu plan this week and lots of awesome links and recipes for you to see, so I’m just gonna get right to it! Hope…