Prepare yourself. This post is far from aspirational in terms of cooking. Like the rest of you, I’m just doing my best with what we have while staying away from stores. Which means my weekly/monthly delivery orders are crucial. Anyway. Nothing fancy about this meal, but it hit the spot, so that’s all that matters! I swear, I switch meal ideas 4-5 times over the course of the day, trying to maximize what we have and stretch little bits of various ingredients to go a long way. When I last made these frozen falafel I… Read more >

You know what is incredible? The ingenuity and imagination that complete desperation can bring about. For instance, my chocolate situation. In truth, I’m not remotely limited in what I have on hand…I’m a choco-holic, so being without is just NOT AN OPTION. But I will admit, I don’t have much that appeals to me…a lot of random odds and ends…including unfinished bars, older chocolate pieces, and way way way older pieces. So I did a bit of an experiment… I took all the random odds and ends and melted them together…filling in the gaps with… Read more >

I’ve shown some of our meals off, but it’s been a minute since I shared what the majority of my time is spent doing… Hanging with my favorite littles on the planet. As you can see, they were really dressing the part to learn about the solar system! He read from this book and then we made a big poster together (in Spanish)…after which they continued to re-write the new vocab (for fun – their choice!). Space is an easy theme to go with – they have an intergalactic cosmic kids yoga episode and tons… Read more >

Well, the imperfect foods delivery has been such a success that I decided to look into other CSA’s that deliver in order to supplement our grocery sitch. Imperfect foods is awesome, but since they are only addressing one part of the food chain (the waste part) – AND the system is in overly high demand right now – they don’t have as good of a selection or supply to fulfill our ravenous family of four’s needs. So, now I’m doing Farm Fresh To You as well. It’s basically the same in that you have a… Read more >

I am very perplexed at the moment. Why is all the rice sold out? And flour of every kind! What is happening? How is there still no toilet paper on target.com or amazon.com? It’s not like people are going to the bathroom more than normal, right??? It’s been nearly three weeks since the shelter in place order and I have yet to buy any hygiene products but now it’s getting close to the time when I will need to and the supply chain still hasn’t caught up?!?! Where is the glitch in the system? Can… Read more >