Category: Meal planning

Before I get on with the meal plan, I just want to say something.  Today, my friend Bettina at The Lunch Tray shared an op-ed from the Washington Post which theorized, among other things, that the problem of unhealthy school

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Say it with me, friends: Bibimbap. Bibimbap. Bibimbap. Or, as my kids so charmingly suggested, “Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo?” It doesn’t really matter what you call it. This meatless wonder of a meal was a completely unexpected hit with the whole family, and

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It’s here!  It’s finally here!  My beloved summer Farmer’s Market opens in just a little over a week, and I’m positively giddy about it (in case you couldn’t tell). Oh, I know it’s not going to have much to begin

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We are ALMOST THERE. I’m writing this meal plan with the full knowledge that the next time I do this, our summer farmer’s market will be ready to begin.  No, it won’t be all tomatoes and roses in May or

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March is a busy month for us — P. and I have our shared birthday this month, so there are inevitably celebrations to plan and family and friends to see.  This month, I decided to make my job of meal

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Yup.  We’re still waiting for Spring. No, it’s not that I’m surprised (as a friend’s astute daughter said, “Of COURSE the groundhog thinks there are six more weeks of winter — the first day of Spring is March 21!”); it’s

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This week, my Lunch Logic is all about stretching ingredients.  Keeping a whole-food lifestyle viable for a family is sometimes challenging, but it gets easier (and more affordable) if you know how to easily transform things you’ve already cooked into

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I’m just going to be honest here: The more locally and seasonally you eat, the more the end of winter kind of drags. At least, that’s true for me.  Don’t get me wrong – I love not buying Evil Winter

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We’re back! I took some time off from Lunch Logic, as I’m sure many of you noticed.  Over the summer, a lunch-packing feature doesn’t make as much sense as it does during the school year, so once June was done

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It’s January. It’s a new year.  It’s time for a change. Well, maybe not so much a change as a tweak.  I don’t do cleanses, detoxing, juice fasts, or anything like that.  I just try to listen to my body,

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