Real Mom Meals

Spring is officially here… even if mother nature hasn’t seemed to get the memo yet. I don’t know about you, but my body is craving lighter, healthier fare. So get you and your family ready for warmer days, swuim suit season with this week’s Real Mom Meal Plan, featuring lighter,…

Just when I thought we were having the mildest winter ever – I could see buds forming on trees at the end of January!!! – this week, we’ve been buried with over a foot of snow. And while I would love for winter to be over sooner rather than later, I…

One of my favorite reasons to meal plan is that you can leverage your efforts from one night to the next. Use ingredients that overlap to buy in bulk and save money. Cook double the protein one night, and use the rest the next to save time. And that is…

Real Mom Meal is my weekly series featuring quick weeknight recipes to help you get dinner on the table for your family with as little mess and stress as possible.  This week’s Real Mom Meal is brought to you by one of the realest moms I know – my friend,…

This week, kids across the country are headed back to school. You’ve been back to school shopping for clothes, school supplies, and stocked your pantry with quick and easy lunch supplies. All that’s left is a healthy, nutritious breakfast to jump start their days. Prepare their little minds and bodies for…

I’ve always been afraid of using the grill. This meant that the only time we used it was on weekends when my husband was home to cook dinner. So this summer, I finally ripped the bandaid off. And y’all, with a gas grill, it’s as easy as using a gas stove, cooks…

My husband LOVES stuffing. Especially the kind from a box, full of loads of salt. And before hosting my first Thanksgiving last year, it’s what I would make because he liked it and I didn’t know how easy it was to make stuffing on my own. But now that I DO…

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #GranolaMyWay #CollectiveBias If it were up to my girls, we would eat pancakes for breakfast EVERY.MORNING. But as a breastfeeding mama to a rapidly growing 5 month old, I need a heartier breakfast, with…

More than two decades ago, my mom settled the annual holiday battle between two local sets of grandparents by hosting a Holiday Brunch at our house Christmas morning.  To make the morning preparation super easy, she would make an Egg Strata every year.  Egg Strata is a breakfast casserole consisting…

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #YesYouCAN #CollectiveBias With 3 kids 4 and under, including a 2 week old newborn, the ONLY way I am serving up dinner these days is with my slow cooker.  We would be starving…

While pizza as we commonly know it may have first been invented in Naples, Italy in the late 18th century, it has become an American staple.  And with a strong base of Italian immigrants here in our home state, and family-run establishments dating back to the early 1900’s, New Haven-style…

Growing up in Texas, King Ranch Chicken Casserole is a household staple.  It was my Dad’s favorite meal, and given the labor involved to make it, my Mom only ever made it during the summer when she was off from teaching.  She used to boil a whole chicken, save the…

Even when I was working 80-100 hour weeks in Financial Services, I never so keenly felt the sense of there not being enough hours in the day until I was a mom.  Of course, work fed us, so with that basic need taken care of, it freed up a lot…