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Most family-friendly cities to live in

October 18, 2012 By Beth 2 Comments

Most family-friendly cities to live in

Selecting a city to call home is an important undertaking, even more so when that choice involves children. Besides having employment opportunities and safe, affordable housing available, a city has to satisfy many requirements that are unique to families with children, including … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Simply Life Tagged With: family friendly, family friendly cities to live in

May 2012 Monthly Meal Plan

May 2, 2012 By Brian 4 Comments

May 2012 Monthly Meal Plan

Our monthly meal plan is a staple of our budgeting process.  We look at it this way.  We are planning meals one way or the other.  We can do it on the fly, trying to figure out each day what we are going to feed our kids; we can plan week to week, spending the time planning while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meal Plans, Simply Food Tagged With: 2012, cooking, family friendly, May, May 2012, meal plan, meal planning, meatless monday, monthly meal plan, Recipes

April 2012 Monthly Meal Plan

April 1, 2012 By Brian 2 Comments

April 2012 Monthly Meal Plan

We are so very happy to be back to our normal meal plans.  Our little experiment went very well with both of us losing a fair amount of weight, but the draw of meat and the need to feed our kids healthy food that they will actually eat just became too much.  We did learn quite a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meal Plans, Simply Food Tagged With: 2012, April, April 2012, cooking, family friendly, meal plan, meal planning, meatless monday, monthly meal plan, Recipes

March 2012 Monthly Meal Plan

March 1, 2012 By Brian 4 Comments

March 2012 Monthly Meal Plan

Our Monthly Meal Plan has kind of become a staple of our budgeting process.  Rather than planning for meals from week to week, we put in a little extra time and effort and knock it out right away.  It takes a little discipline, but sticking to the plan can keep costs down and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meal Plans, Simply Food Tagged With: 2012, cooking, family friendly, March, March 2012, meal plan, meal planning, meatless monday, monthly meal plan, Recipes, vegan, vegan meal plan, vegetarian, vegetarian meal plan

February 2012 Monthly Meal Plan

February 1, 2012 By Brian 3 Comments

February 2012 Monthly Meal Plan

Our Monthly Meal Plan has kind of become a staple of our budgeting process.  Rather than planning for meals from week to week, we put in a little extra time and effort and knock it out right away.  It takes a little discipline, but sticking to the plan can keep costs down and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meal Plans, Simply Food Tagged With: 2012, cooking, family friendly, February, February 2012, meal plan, meal planning, meatless monday, monthly meal plan, Recipes, vegan, vegan meal plan, vegetarian, vegetarian meal plan

Meatless Monday: Chickpea-Brown Rice Veggie Burger

January 16, 2012 By Brian 3 Comments

Meatless Monday:  Chickpea-Brown Rice Veggie Burger

So here it is, the last week of our 21-day challenge.  Finally, we get to add grains back into our diet (grains, yes, but gluten, no).  It was soooo nice to feel full again yesterday!  We thought we would try out this Chickpea-Brown Rice Veggie Burger.  We aren't usually big fans … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meatless Monday, Memes, Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: 2012 Whole Living Action Plan, brown rice, cheap, chickpea, chickpea-brown rice veggie burger, cooking, easy, egg substitute, egg substitute as binder, family friendly, flax seed, meatless, meatless monday, Recipes, vegan, vegan egg substitute, vegetarian, veggie burger

Meatless Monday: Two Soups at Once!

January 9, 2012 By Brian 1 Comment

Meatless Monday:  Two Soups at Once!

This week we thought we'd change things up a little bit.  We are still on the 2012 Whole Living Action Plan and this week we get to add beans and lentils to our diet.  As such, we were able make a couple of hearty soups to help sate those hunger pangs from last week.  We spent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meatless Monday, Memes, Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: 2012 Whole Living Action Plan, cheap, cooking, easy, family friendly, kid friendly, lentils, meatless, meatless monday, mushroom, quick, recipe, Red Lentil Soup, soup, stew, time saving, vegan, vegetarian, white bean, White Bean and Mushroom Stew

January 2012 Monthly Meal Plan

January 1, 2012 By Brian 4 Comments

January 2012 Monthly Meal Plan

Our Monthly Meal Plan has kind of become a staple of our budgeting process.  Rather than planning for meals from week to week, we put in a little extra time and effort and knock it out right away.  It takes a little discipline, but sticking to the plan can keep costs down and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meal Plans, Simply Food Tagged With: 2012, 2012 Whole Living Action Plan, cooking, family friendly, January, January 2012, meal plan, meal planning, meatless monday, monthly meal plan, Recipes, vegan, vegan meal plan, vegetarian

December 2011 Monthly Meal Plan

December 4, 2011 By Brian 3 Comments

December 2011 Monthly Meal Plan

Our Monthly Meal Plan has kind of become a staple of our budgeting process.  Rather than planning for meals from week to week, we put in a little extra time and effort and knock it out right away.  It takes a little discipline, but sticking to the plan can keep costs down and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meal Plans, Simply Food Tagged With: 2011, cooking, December, December 2011, family friendly, meal plan, meal planning, meatless monday, monthly meal plan, Recipes

November 2011 Monthly Meal Plan

November 1, 2011 By Brian 3 Comments

November 2011 Monthly Meal Plan

Our Monthly Meal Plan has kind of become a staple of our budgeting process.  Rather than planning for meals from week to week, we put in a little extra time and effort and knock it out right away.  It takes a little discipline, but sticking to the plan can keep costs down and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meal Plans, Simply Food Tagged With: 2011, cooking, family friendly, meal plan, meal planning, meatless monday, monthly meal plan, November, November 2011, Recipes

October 2011 Monthly Meal Plan

October 1, 2011 By Beth 1 Comment

October 2011 Monthly Meal Plan

Here is the background to the monthly meal plan … Last year, we did weekly meal plans. Well we did weekly meal plans most of the time. I say most of the time because some weeks we forgot to plan. Life got busy, school work was out of control, the preschool business started, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meal Plans, Simply Food Tagged With: family friendly, leftovers, meal plan, meal planning, meatless monday, monthly meal plan, October, October 2011

Top 100 Pasta Dishes: Easy Everyday Recipes That Children Will Love

September 1, 2011 By Beth 1 Comment

Top 100 Pasta Dishes: Easy Everyday Recipes That Children Will Love

We are excited to provide a review of the complementary copy of Top 100 Pasta Dishes: Easy Everyday Recipes That Children Will Love that we received! Top 100 Pasta Dishes: Easy Everyday Recipes That Children Will Love Details ... Who doesn’t love pasta? For most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kids, Promotional, Recipes, Reviews, Simply Family, Simply Food Tagged With: Annabel Karmel, children, cookbook, family friendly, kids, pasta, pasta dishes, pasta recipes, review

Island Farm on Roanoke Island – Outer Banks

August 27, 2011 By Beth 4 Comments

Island Farm on Roanoke Island – Outer Banks

We had the chance to visit the Island Farm on Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks back in July. Maybe it is odd this post is going up at they are getting nailed with a hurricane but I hope the farm fares well with the weather hitting them! When we got to the farm, one of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Promotional, Reviews, Simply Life Tagged With: beach, children, family activity, family friendly, Island Farm on Roanoke Island, Outer Banks, Roanoke Island, travel

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