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My New Meal Planning System
For those of you who know me, you know I have been through multiple iterations of figuring out the meal planning approach for my life. My last iteration was amazing for our family, until I stopped going to the grocery store and started using Instacart. Instacart is a godsend for us, given where we are in our lives right now. I actually spend less money (I guess because I’m not tempted by things that aren’t on our list).My online meal planning system was kind of annoying because it meant that I had to go back and forth between tabs. It also meant that I no longer needed to… Read More -
Exciting New Dinner Options!
I’m about to confess something I’m not proud of: We’ve been trying out Sunbasket, one of those businesses that delivers meal ingredients with corresponding recipes every week. First, I’ll tell you why I love and then I’ll tell you why I hope we stop using it as soon as possible.Basically, we are in a big rut when it comes to cooking and eating at the Cotner-Bradford house. I do not have time to scour Pinterest for new recipes. When I do make time for it, it’s a frustrating experience. I struggle to find vegetarian recipes that require few ingredients and are fast.I have about 30 recipes in… Read More -
Healthy Eating for Kids
I believe that food is fuel, and I worry that Matt and I aren’t optimizing our children’s health through the food we offer them on a daily basis, specifically around breakfast. Matt handles the breakfast routine for us every.single.day (thank you, Matty!), and he usually defaults to peanut butter and jelly. I guess I wouldn’t feel so bad about peanut butter and jelly if we made sure the ingredients were all healthy. As it is, Matt is picking up these items separately (from Target) instead of including them in our weekly Whole Foods trip. I realize that’s what I’m struggling with. If we made sure the bread didn’t have any… Read More
