My Relationship with Cooking, Told in Selfies {eMeals Review & Giveaway!}
Dear Diary: once upon a time, my relationship with buying food, cooking food, and eating food went mostly like this: And then I got married, had a kid, and life got more complicated. I still love to cook, and of course, I love to eat, but when it comes to thinking about accommodating more than two people, on a daily basis, and spending multiple hours making grocery lists, shopping, and preparing food, well… “Is there no way out of the mind?” The monotonous task took all the enjoyment out of cooking. I’m no stranger to meal planning services, but I...
Read MorePlan to Eat: Meal Planning Service Review & {Giveaway}!
I am so excited and pleased to share a fantastic resource and quality meal-planning service with you: Plan to Eat. One of the best ways to ensure you are eating healthy is to plan your meal in advance, so that you aren’t scrambling for last-minute choices. I’ve tested quite a few meal planning services and can honestly tell you that Plan to Eat is one of, if not THE BEST service available for organizing your recipes, planning meals in advance, and creating grocery lists. Each aspect of Plan to Eat is user-friendly, efficient, and purposeful. Plan to Eat consists of three main...
Read MoreBest Meal Planning Websites & Services
This post has been updated as of April 2013! Meal planning is one of the essential keys to eating healthfully. (I talked about meal planning in my Steps to Healthier Eating.) It ensures that you’ll have the ingredients on-hand to make what you want and takes the stress out of dinner time. Not to mention, it generally saves you money! I’ve put together a list of my favorite meal-planning services that focus on real ingredients and quick meals that are family-friendly. Never wander the grocery store again! A little about meal planning sites… Generally, these services help...
Read MoreQuick Tip: Making Healthy Meals Manageable
Thanks for visiting Healthful Mama today! If you Subscribe to Healthful Mama by Email, you’ll get today’s quick tip, plus more, straight to your inbox. Enjoy! Quick Tip: When you are chopping vegetables for a recipe, always chop more than the recipe requires. This way, you have something left over for a future meal. Freeze them, refrigerate them, or use them in salads. It’s one of the easiest ways I find to add veggies to meals! I often use this trick when making my rice & beans recipe. With which recipe do you find yourself chopping a...
Read MoreOctober #Unprocessed Wk 1 Meal Plan
October Unprocessed Week 1 This shit is hard. I’m not joking. I do our grocery shopping mid-week, generally utilizing coupons, ad sales, meal-planning and general basic math and food knowledge to maximize our options and minimize our grocery bill. Perhaps it was meant to be that I shopped this week sans meal plan, with only a sparse list of essentials and an envelope stuffed with coupons. I hadn’t spent the hour (or more) planning for my grocery trip and I had put ZERO thought into meals for the week outside of knowing I would be buying for the start of October Unprocessed. My...
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