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New Meal for the Month
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One of my monthly goals was to add a new meal to our rotation. Right now, we have about 20 meals that we rotate through. Meal planning is a cinch with our Excel document. I just use the filter feature to select the five meals we want to make for the week and it automatically generates a grocery list of every ingredient organized by section of the grocery store.
Although the system works perfectly, I find that we have grown tired of our 20 staples. Time to add more!Enter: Gluten-free Mexican Macaroni & CheeseMy step-father made it over the holiday, and it was delicious. I’m always up -
H-Town
When I was filling out my New Year’s Reflection form, I decided to make a little calendar of the year to help me keep tabs on the major to-do tasks for the year, like planning Henry’s birthday party, making our Halloween costumes, getting Christmas presents, etc. All of those things have to get done, so I might as well start thinking about them in advance instead of stressing out when they absolutely have to get done. For example, my birthday is in early February, which means I should start planning it in January.
Last year I had an incredibly quiet, solo birthday adventure as I was gearing up to have… Read More -
Home Organization: The Pantry
I didn’t intend to tackle the pantry before a whole host of other projects that are more urgent, but I honestly couldn’t take it anymore. We don’t have a ton of kitchen space, and our cabinets are deep, so stuff just kind of gets stuffed toward the back.
Matt and Henry were out for a run and Tate was still sleeping, so I seized the opportunity to pull everything out. I wasn’t sure what the plan of action was going to be, so seeing everything on the counter helped me generate next steps. I started grouping like-items and realized that they primarily fell into two categories:
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