October 20th, 2008
It’s inevitable. Sooner or later there comes a week when I don’t have or make the time to meal plan.
It usually involves a weekend away doing something fun and getting back late on Sunday to be faced with limited prospects for food. And there’s something about starting the week without a plan that always throws me
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October 13th, 2008
There’s something to be said for prepping in advance and enjoying the fruits of my labor.
That’s exactly what happened today, thanks to some time spent in the kitchen yesterday afternoon to get things ready. So instead of spending copious amounts of time trying to figure out what to make for dinner, and then scrambling around
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October 12th, 2008
Thank goodness for Sundays.
For Bruce and I, Sundays represent a day to slow down from our hectic pace, connect with each other and just do some hanging out, often with family. And this time of year, it’s also about watching football and lots of it — Bruce is a huge Patriots fan and I’m a huge Jets fan,
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October 8th, 2008
This morning I had a piping hot bowl of butternut squash soup for breakfast and I loved it.
A little atypical perhaps, but delicious all the same, not to mention super healthy (and even better, I used locally grown squash from the farmers’ market).
Why soup for breakfast, you may ask? Well as the weather cools off,
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October 7th, 2008
Sundays are the day when I like to get busy in the kitchen and do some food prep for the week.
I’ve got it down to a science where I spend about an hour getting ready for the week - everything from chopping veggies to marinating chicken. This usually includes making some kind of healthy whole
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