Category: What We Ate

  • A Free Printable Weekly Meal Plan (And an Apology for September!)

    Friends, I owe you an apology: this September monthly meal plan is way late. I know so many of you rely on these meal plans to take some of the stress out of dinnertime, and I truly appreciate your patience while I got this one pulled together. Thank you for waiting on me! To be…

  • Printable December Dinner Planner

    Printable December Dinner Planner

    I made dinner plans so you don’t have to! December has so much holiday fun in it, so I tried to reflect that in this month’s dinner menu.

  • What We Ate: Dinner #3

    What We Ate: Dinner #3

    Night One: On this night I cooked a brisket in my instant pot, shredded it up, and served it over chips with a can of ranch pinto beans, a homemade white cheddar cheese sauce, tomatoes, end green onions. Everyone loved this and it was filling. Night Two: We had leftover chicken from another meal, so…

  • What We Ate: Breakfast

    I rotate and variate these three breakfasts like crazy around here, especially in the summer! Yogurt bowls, oatmeal bowls, and eggs + fruit. If I don’t give my kids a pretty hearty breakfast, they ask me for snacks by 9am. To really punch out the oatmeal, I melt a tablespoon of butter into each serving,…

  • What We Ate: Dinner #2

    What We Ate: Dinner #2

    Night One: This night I used the instant pot to make one of my favorites: porcupine meatballs! They’re not actually made from porcupine, of course, but the kids love to act shocked at the name every time we have them. I paired them with mashed potatoes and corn. This was a total comfort meal as…

  • What We Ate: A Week of Dinner

    What We Ate: A Week of Dinner

    Are you nosy like me? Or do you just need dinner inspiration? Either way, here’s what we had last week for dinner! Night One: We had bread pudding with a Denver egg scramble. The bread pudding was sweetened with peach preserves and maple syrup. A Denver egg scramble is my lazy take on my favorite…