I LOVE to meal plan. I like to cook and I like to be organized, so this comes naturally. I have to have a plan and it saves me time and money to do some advanced planning and figure out what we are eating for the week. Here are five quick meal planning tips that…
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Fall Recipe Rewind: Some Favorite Wildtree and Instant Pot Meals for Fall
Fall Recipe Reviews The fall just flew by. Between the girls starting school, some weekend getaways, and Hurricane Harvey, we certainly kept busy. But I was cooking a decent amount along the way. Most of the recipes were from a recent Wildtree Freezer Meal Workshop or were Instant Pot meals. Or both! Here are some…
My First Three Meals with Green Chef
Have you ever tried one of the grocery box delivery services? I love to cook, but sometimes it takes too long! I have done lots of freezer prep workshops in the past (more on that later) but I had never done one of the commercial meal prep deliveries until a few weeks ago. I decided…
Recipe Rewind: July 2017
July Recipe Reviews July was a busy month. A trip away to my NYR Organic Conference for me. Two work trips for my husband. A family trip to South Padre Island. So this all meant a lot of summer busy fun and less cooking and eating at home. (I find it hard to cook for…
Recipe Rewind: Best Recipes in a New Monthly Feature
I love to cook. It is hard to fit in my busy life, sometimes, but chopping and combining and finding the best recipes (Pinterest, hello?) and all of that has always been a healthy release for me. But there are still the nights I wonder what we will eat for dinner or those Sunday afternoons…
Meal Trains: How to be a Village in our Digital Age
It takes a village, or so they say. When someone has surgery, loses a close family member, or has a baby, it is traditional to bring a meal to the family. What? It’s not traditional these days? Well, it should be. Often today it seems we say, “Let me know if you need anything…” and…
Creamy Mashed Cauliflower
This post has some affiliate links. If you choose to purchase from the links, I get a little percentage to keep this blog going! One of our favorite low-carb substitutions is eating more cauliflower. I have learned to really like roasted cauliflower as a vegetable side dish, but also there are so many ways to…
Finding a Houston Pizza without Folic Acid
Are you one of the many people who avoids foods fortified with folic acid? Want to find a Houston pizza without folic acid? Read on. Folic Acid vs. Folate Hearing that someone is going “gluten free” is common these days. That is now part of our food vocabulary. But something maybe not as common is…
Instant Pot Coconut Lemon Quinoa
Instant Pot Cooking I love my Instant Pot! It has so many fabulous settings and the best part is getting to combine them! If you don’t know, an Instant Pot is the brand name for a particular pressure cooker. It has the following settings: Soup, Meat/Stew, Bean/Chili, Poultry, Rice, Multigrain, Porridge, Steam, Slow Cook, Saute,…
The Turmeric Recipe Challenge
I keep seeing and hearing about the benefits of turmeric. Its great for your body, inside and out! Even our own Wild Rose Beauty Elixir (my current very favorite product) has this in it! This is a new ingredient to me and our family and I am challenging myself to try some turmeric recipes….