Do you ever play restaurant with your kids?  It’s a fantastic way to enjoy an evening together and gently guide their experiences about food, service, and community.  I wrote about our most recent restaurant at home on Ohio Moms Blog. This week’s menu: Monday – macaroni and cheese, spinach salad Tuesday – roasted chicken, baked kale, baked potatoes Wednesday – (real) restaurant dinner with family (I’m voting for Lavash or Aladdin’s) Thursday – overnight stay [...]

Alex is traveling for business this week to Connecticut and New Hampshire. I have three workshops scheduled (Food Matters Columbus event Monday, Kids Cook Thursday, and Container Planting Workshop Saturday) AND I will be helping staff the Sprout Soup store while the owners are on vacation. With all the busy-ness, Lil and I will surely have hungry tummies. I will rely on pantry items and frozen homemade food to get us through the week. Monday [...]

Usually I would post our week’s meal plan today.  Because we are leaving for a vacation to the Eastern shore of Virginia tomorrow, I have no mindful menu. That doesn’t mean I’m not planning, though! Eating on vacation, especially a driving vacation like ours, can be a string of fast food restaurants.  The salt and fat in fast food does nothing to keep us healthy and enjoying a trip. Besides, America has more to offer [...]

Before we get to the goodies of this week’s plan, I wanted to feature a few things that help us follow our plan: the whiteboard and refrigerator shopping list. I write out the meals on the whiteboard so those who aren’t paying attention when we meal plan and don’t keep up with their RSS feed (ahem, Alex) have another reference point during the week. I keep the post-it pad on the front of the fridge [...]