Ordinarily I try to get my year-in-review lunch post done a bit closer to New Year’s Day, but hey…I’m giving myself some grace this year. Plus, I don’t know whose idea it was to start this cute thing where instead
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Well, here we are. It’s the end of 2017 and I know I’m not alone in saying: BYE, FELICIA. It’s been…real. As in, real bad. In some ways, I guess I owe 2017 something. It was, after all, the year
With a dinner plan that doesn’t necessarily lend itself effortlessly to quick packing of leftovers for school lunches, this week is more about reinvention of ingredients than we’ve done recently. To come up with the lunch menus, I had to
The Columbus Day holiday means that this week’s lunch menu only includes four days’ worth of meals. The extra day off also means that I’ll have additional prep time, but because the menus are exclusively based around leftovers, I won’t
Five days into October (sorry for the delay) and already, the freezer meals I started putting by in August and September are SAVING MY BUTT. Sidebar for a second here: It feels weirdly cool to sit in a meeting where
This week’s plan requires a little more prep than we’ve been doing, but is still pretty intuitive — I’ll just take foods that we’re already working with, and reinvent them purposefully for lunchtime. Weekend Prep: I’ll roast three chickens on
This week, we’re not relying much on the lunch pantry at all. Kid favorite dinners that lend themselves well to lunchbox reinvention are going to make life pretty easy. The biggest thing to think about is ensuring that I cook
This week’s school lunches are what I call easy-peasy. There’s going to be minimal prep involved, and heavy reliance on simple, kid-friendly menu choices that will all but guarantee the boxes come home empty. As always, you can change things
Five-Minute dinner solutions can be great for busy nights. Family dinner is HARD. This piece of wisdom is something I’ve learned, and continue to learn, as my kids grow older and I spend more time navigating ever-changing schedules — not
Yeah, I know, it’s already well into July, so what am I doing posting the meal plan NOW? Well, I’ve been away for a bit. I had a business trip to tackle, two boys to ferry to my parents’ house