Am I the only one who often cooks two dinners at night? I can't be. Usually, at night, I want to grab something light, healthy, and lower calorie. My go-to often is a smoothie and popcorn, cereal, or a great frozen meal. Last week, I found some great new vegetarian frozen meals from Healthy Choice. In fact, their Cafe Steamers line has five (5) vegetarian frozen meal options! I love that the ingredients are steamed in a dual steaming tray. Usually freezer meals can get mushy and the … [Read more...]
Meal Planning Made Easy
Thank you to McCain Foods for sponsoring today's post. Do you meal plan? While we are at home in Washington we don't meal plan very well. Our life is busy and we just don't eat meals at home as often as I'd like. But when we are traveling on the road for my husband's job, 8 months out of the year, we meal plan. We are only in one location for about 5 weeks and we plan each week what meals we want to eat and make grocery lists based on those meals. This way, we don't have a lot of extra food … [Read more...]
Sick Time
My family is sick. It affected me for a couple days, though not too badly. Today, my husband is really feeling it, and my daughter is slowly getting over it. At home, my father, mother and sister were all sick this past week. I am sure we picked it up from them before we left for Northern California. Not fun to travel and settle in a new house when we are feeling yucky. I was a nurse today. I shopped for groceries as quickly as I could today. We are stocked up. When we are traveling and only in … [Read more...]
Honolulu, HI and Our Family Meal Plan
Day One Recap: The two hour time change has enabled us to wake up early. Great for sight seeing and making a full day of it. Here is a photo off our balcony the first day here. Isn’t it pretty? Our first morning we needed to go grocery shopping. Hello, Wal-mart and Safeway. After dropping $299 we were set for the week on meals. Interested in our meal plan? Here you go: Cold Cereal, Oatmeal, Eggs, Hash browns, Pancakes, Bacon Strips PB&J and Peppered Tofurky Sandwiches, Top … [Read more...]
