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How To Plan For Your First Whole 30 Challenge

March 5, 2016 Katy Leave a Comment

Perhaps a better title for this post might be "How We Planned For Our First Whole 30 Challenge".  Every family is different, and every meal planner is different, so it may not look the same for you. 1. Know the program.  The first thing I did was read all over the Whole30 website to really nail down the rules of what's allowed and what isn't.  I started at the link listed, but I read several other posts about the different categories that are eliminated and why, the basic pantry/perishable … [Read more...]

Food, Menu Planning, Whole 30

The Kitchen Binder: A Helpful Tool For Organizing Recipes

January 28, 2016 Katy 3 Comments

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...]

Food, Home Life, List Making, Menu Planning, Time Management

How I Menu Plan

September 24, 2015 Katy 1 Comment

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...]

Food, List Making, Menu Planning

How Freezer Cooking Helps You Prep For Vacation

April 22, 2015 Katy Leave a Comment

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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Katy DeDeyne | Finding Home Blog

Hi there, I'm Katherine, Katy for short. Wife to Jesse, Mom to five kiddos. I drink all the coffee and try to reign in the crazy.

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