Even though it is March, we are still having these wild cold fronts coming through. While I’m not making endless pots of soups or stews, my slow cooker is getting plenty of use lately. Here is my roundup of slow cooker meals for those weekend meal prep sessions and busy weeknights. First up is Peach …

Breakfast is one of those meals that can make or break your day. These breakfast ideas are great to make ahead and store in individual serving sizes for grab-and-go portability. This  Whole 30 Breakfast Casserole is a great recipe to use sweet potatoes with savory sausage. I love the mix of sweet and savory. Sausage …

Welcome to another weekend meal prep roundup. I really should have made a roundup of flu recovery tricks. It would include mostly my whiskey cough syrup and a random soup recipe. That’s all that’s been cooked in this house lately. With all the medicine I had to take, all the Gatorade and chicken+rice soup, all …

With my slow start with getting back on track with keto, I have to admit I’ve been looking back at my very successful rounds of Whole30. I am thinking of starting a February Whole 30 for the simple fact that it works and it leads me right into Keto. The big differences between the 2 …

It’s time for some weekend meal prep ideas! One of my new areas of focus on the blog is getting all my recipes organized and formatted while actually creating more recipes. Along with that, I’m finally able to start meal prepping on the weekends again. I was in a pretty consistent routine about 2 years …

I really shouldn’t start the year off with lying to my friends and Mom. So, here’s the truth. I didn’t prep a single thing today. Why? Because 1) I’m feeling like I’ve been hit by an 18 wheeler and it backed up to run over me again. 2) I have tomorrow off in observance of …

What a FAST day! We traveled to see my mother in law for her birthday. Her birthday is the day after mine. And no, Stephen has never gotten them confused. First stop was lunch after church. We tried the Shrimp Basket in Tuscaloosa. I wanted somehting simple that was gluten-free. That counted out ANYTHING within …

Nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day like chocolate covered strawberies. These are so easy, I didn’t bother with a recipe card. You wash the strawberries. DRY COMPLETELY. Melt some milk chocolate with a tablespoon of rum and a tablespoon of heavy whipping cream. Dip the strawberries. D rizzle with white chocolate. Use a piping bag (my …

It’s the first summer market day since we got back from Colorado. I try to get to the Birmingham market twice a month during the summer/fall season, but I’m way behind schedule this year. I have been working on using all the frozen foods in our 3 freezers and I finally got to the bottom …

The Market opened a couple of weeks ago but this is my first chance to get to Birmingham. I’m so glad I came out today! It was beautiful weather and the place was hopping! This is my 5th year making bi-monthly trips to Pepper Place for the spring, summer, and fall. It has changed a …

Here in Tuscaloosa, we are patiently waiting for our first foodie grocery store like Whole Foods or Trader Joes. We have to travel to Birmingham for Whole Foods or Atlanta for Trader Joes. I have been hearing about a store called Sprouts but I am unfamiliar with what exactly it is. The official name is …

Another week, and time to buckle down on Whole 30. I plan to start Tuesday. I had a rough run of a few weeks with flu and pneumonia and while I did have my fair share of sweet coffee and tea, I had WAY too many white potatoes and rice soups. I have puffed up …

Oven is still broken, so I’m stove-topping this week. And, honestly, this is a lofty menu goal. I just got slammed with an early season sinus infection and I feel like death warmed over. We have a very intense week of school coming up and I just don’t feel like doing more than just surviving. …

I probably should have planned this post for late May or June, seeing how the weather cannot make up its mind. This week, we are expecting beautiful spring weather and then a frozen weekend. One of the dangers of a frozen weekend is killing off large gardens of seedlings or new garden growth. This is …

Here we go!   I have not done a meal prep yet. That should happen on Tuesday night. I have a long day on Monday and will not get to the store until Tuesday anyway. The “everything but the kitchen sink soup” will be easy to throw together on Monday. Happy Eating!

I can’t believe this is the LAST WEEK of Whole 30. Actually, the last 2 days.  Tuesday will be day 30. I am ready to weigh and check my measurements. I know pants are looser, but I can’t tell anything else. For dinners (and lunches..assuming I don’t leave my lunch bag again), I’m looking  forward …

It’s another week of Whole30! Things are finally starting to click in the cravings department. I have not yet hit that crusing stage, but I’m enjoying the benefit of looser pants, already. I have my menu listed above for next week. I spent a big part of Monday (holiday from school) working on my meal …

Healthy eating is still going strong this January. I often hear from people that cooking healthy is hard. It CAN be hard. Looking at all the ingredients and all the steps can be daunting. But healthy eating can be as simple as throwing things in a bowl, tossing with some strips of pork, and chopping …

I’ve said it over and over that meal prep on the weekend is probably THE biggest factor in making Whole30 a success. Sugar is evil. I know I will not spend the rest of my life avoiding it, but I can certainly decrease my dependency on the stuff. For this week, I made a few …

One of the things I missed after Celiac disease diagnosis was gravy. I thought all “sauce” was a flour-based gravy. All gravy involved using white flour so I knew my gravy days were over. Then I bought a stainless steel pan and the wide world of reductions was opened to me. I learned that brown …