Everyone has their go-to recipes. You know the ones. When you're planning out the food you want for the next week (or month, or couple days), these are the ones that make their way onto almost all of your menu plans. If you're not a menu planner, they're the ones that you come back to again and again, because everyone likes them. These are the recipes that need a place in your kitchen binder. For me, it's just a standard 1-inch binder from Walmart, which cost about … [Read more...]
How I Menu Plan
I have been doing some form of menu planning ever since we got married, a little over seven years ago. But my menu planning has evolved quite a bit since those days (think a list of three or so "helper" dinners, split between beef and chicken, with a random recipe thrown in). Here's what I do now. This might seem complicated, and it kind of is, but I know myself enough to know that if I don't write everything down, I'll miss something or forget to buy something, so this is what works for me … [Read more...]
How Freezer Cooking Helps You Prep For Vacation
When you get back from vacation, the last thing you want to do is spend a ton of time in the kitchen prepping for a meal, am I right? I know that's the case for me. So before we headed to my parents' house for a few days this week, I made sure I had a few things ready in the freezer. First up, I made pizza crusts. We had chicken bacon ranch pizza planned for dinner yesterday, the day we were driving back, and I wasn't sure if we would get home around lunch time or right before dinner. By … [Read more...]
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