29 March, 2013 | Comment

Trying out Fresh Dish

We accidentally started a slide toward a veggie free home.
We’ve gotten into bad habits with our snacks, our breakfasts and our dinners.
It’s just that no one fights with us when we give the kids pasta, cheese, white bread and potatoes.

But, sigh, engaging with children despite their reaction, that is what we call Parenting.
No joke.

Anyway, we’re trying to eating healthier this week. I had a veggie-specialist friend take a look at my meal plans and make a few suggestions and I agreed to try a home meal delivery service called Fresh Dish.

Fresh Dish is a meal delivery service that gives you the raw ingredients and that you can make your own meal. We had steak fajitas with mango salsa, we had turkey macaroni and cheese and they were good. It’s not the kind of thing that we’ll do every day, but it was sure a luxury to have prepared ingredients on the doorstep.

When will we use it?
- Next time we move
- Returning from vacation
- Gifts for new parents
- When I’m traveling for work

There’s a fair amount of trash generated – but the more you buy at once, the less you generate.

Want to try Fresh Dish for yourself?
Find out if it’s in your town, and if so, try this code HJXFRESH. It’ll get you one 4-person meal kit free if you buy one.
(A Good Gift for the new parents in your lives.)

This is my first BOGO anything, so please excuse me while I BOGO BOGO BOGO over here for awhile.

25 March, 2013 | 2 Comments

Meal plan, this week. Plus, healthier.

I’m working hard this week to get more healthy foods into my husband and children.

After a winter of fair to middling health,
after feeling like I’m 73,
after too many rashes
and runny noses,
we’re welcoming fruits and vegetables to our table with open arms.

I’ve taken some steps, consulted some friends and tried some services — and I can’t wait to see what happens.

Any tips for us?

18 March, 2013 | 13 Comments

Animals Eating Donuts, a Coloring Book.

You know I like to make coloring pages for my little people, right?
I do.
My kids asked for me for some drawings of specific animals eating doughnuts.

I thought it’d be fun to pair animals and doughnuts with recipes for real doughnuts from two of the most doughnut loving ladies I know, Joy the Baker and Shutterbean

Here, you’ll find 7 pages of animals eating doughnuts. Pictures are paired with recipes for the grownups. I hope you like coloring them as much as my girls and I do.