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Simple pasta, simple salad

I used to be so good at meal planning, but lately it seems like I’m so disorganized. I hate to blame it on the CSA, but when I really look at the timeline of when our (my) shopping habits went downhill, it kinda lines up. It makes sense, though, because I get a massive haul of veggies on Monday afternoons so I can’t do much in the way of meal planning on the weekend like I used to…and by Tuesday I’m knee deep in the week and so if and when I finally do get… Read more >

Easy hippie bowl

This meal was born out of sheer laziness. I had no meal plan and no motivation to go to the store. I put those creative juices to work andddd… Came up with a quinoa hippie bowl. It’s hard to tell what exactly I roasted, but there were a few kinds of carrots, sweet potatoes, rutabaga, and yukon gold potatoes. And then it all came together with a pistachio pine nut pesto. On the left, is the pesto the way I keep it in the freezer. On the right, is how it looks after I add… Read more >

Calcium in food

I know a lot about nutrition, but I’m not a nutritionist. I also know a lot about health and wellness, but I’m not a doctor. But you know what I am? A responsible mom who believes in real food. Oh, and a nurse. And yet somehow I forgot all of that at Valley’s four year old well child visit last month. What’s with the self doubt?? I think it mainly has to do with the fact that people (myself included) see MDs as figures of authority. That’s an appropriate view most of the time, but… Read more >

Chocolate break

My chocolate stash is FINALLY down to a more manageable size. Meaning it can fit in the pantry in a decently organized way (it still takes up three shelves though, so let’s not kid ourselves). Kyle was gone for a week and a girl’s gotta decompress somehow… But here’s the deal. I kinda got over it. So I told Kyle when he got home that I wanted to take a break until Easter. It seemed a manageable goal…not too long, but still something that would be a bit of a challenge. And then I went… Read more >

Sensory bins and summits

Can you guess what I made for dinner based on this photo alone?? Obviously Kyle was out of town because of the cucumbers šŸ˜› I’m so glad that tomatoes are making their way into our grocery cart again. Of course, by July we will likely have them coming out of our ears, but for now they are a novelty as the weather (finally) warms up. There was actually supposed to be MORE rain forecasted for this week, but lucky for us it was all wrong and it’s been sunny. A little windy, but beggars can’t… Read more >