Trying to find time for family dinner around sports and other extracurricular activities? Making time to eat dinner as a family is no easy task, especially when children participate in after-school activities. Between work, school, and everything else on the calendar, families have more than enough demands on their time. Family dinners, however, are really …
Last week, we hosted my four sisters, two nieces, and a nephew at our house. My grandmother passed away, and they all came into town to celebrate her life by attending her funeral and memorial service. Funerals are often such bittersweet events. Of course it’s painful to lose a loved one, but we also had …
This was our first week back home after a couple of weeks spent mostly out of town, which meant we ate LOTS of leftovers and miscellaneous mashups before leaving to empty our fridge as much as possible Our menu this week was pretty simple, compromised mostly of chicken (cooked once and used a variety of …
Over the last several weeks, we received a butternut squash in each of our Misfits Market deliveries. They began to pile up on our counter until we had four of them. This week, I set out to use up some of our butternut squash collection. Two down, two to go. And here’s what we had for …
This week, we had a bunch of food to use up. I skipped our weekly delivery from Misfits Market this week because we had too much to use up from previous weeks. I didn’t want things to go to waste. Several nights, we planned dinner around leftovers. I ended up planning a couple of fun …
Quarantine is letting up a bit and some modified version of sports are returning to our calendars. Sports are the center of our world in “normal times” so it’s a pretty big deal that we finally have practices and games again. This week, we had several nights of baseball and afternoons of hockey, so dinner …
This week, as I made our weekly meal plan, I set out to use several of the vegetables from recent Misfits boxes that I never would have thought to buy from the grocery store. Lately, I’ve been in a meal plan rut. Thus, it felt refreshing to search Pinterest with the intention of finding new …
This week, we received lots of great produce from Misfits that made for a pretty colorful photo op (#bloggerlife). More importantly, it was delicious. Our menu this who prioritized using up leftovers and not really cooking full, fresh dinners. Call it a dinner hack, a family dinner shortcut, whatever you want. But building our menu …
