Meal planning has changed our lives! My dinner time meal stress is almost non-existent because all of the guess work has been taken out of the equation. I now usually know what I'm cooking, I shop for the ingredients once on Sunday evenings, and I factor the appropriate amount of prep time per meal. Our favorite meals usually fall on our Breakfast-for-Dinner nights. For whatever reason, my kids love selecting the breakfast meal that will grace the dinner table. Somehow that same un-welcomed morning food becomes highly anticipated when it's … [Read more...]
Rustic Pear Tart
January 30, 2012 By 7 Comments
My kids love fruit. Every morning for breakfast they're either eating strawberries, bananas, blueberries or sliced apples. However, I realized one fruit conspicuous by its absence from their diet: pears. We don't eat oranges regularly but we drink orange juice daily. We never eat apricots but we love apricot jam on a toasted bagel and applesauce with apricots. When watermelon is in season we eat it cubed or in an awesome watermelon, mint, feta salad. When did pears become so elusive? I think the last time my kids had pears was when … [Read more...]
Slow Cooked Steel Cut Oats
January 27, 2012 By 7 Comments
I have been a Quaker Oats Instant Oatmeal consumer for most of my life - starting in grade school, throughout college, in my modest post college years, and most recently, as a crazed parent looking for a quick breakfast fix for my kids. But, when I purchased my slow cooker two months ago, my whole outlook on breakfast oatmeal changed. I was determined to finally slow cook steel cut oats. And so began another very steep learning curve, this time, surrounding the world of oats. My go-to instant breakfast since my youth Did you know that … [Read more...]
The New Atkins Cookbook: 200 Easy New Recipes
January 25, 2012 By 2 Comments
Last week I attended the lunch event for the book launch The New Atkins For a New You Cookbook hosted by famed Chef Donatella Arpaia and Colette Heimowitz, VP of Nutrition and Education for Atkins. I must admit, I was definitely a bit skeptical supporting the Atkins brand, as my current impressions are still steeped in the controversy that swirled around in the early 1980's when the diet was deemed the bacon, eggs, and cheese fad diet. I was all ears as I entered the room, as I cynically thought to myself, no carb-loving mom would ever … [Read more...]
