Trav and I are always saying we need to eat better, he needs to get back on his diet and we need to give the boys options besides sugar as treats.
Alan turned two about three weeks ago. We had two parties for him in one day (kids in the morning, family in the afternoon, it's just easier to do it all in one day). Then the next day the boys and I went to the beach with some friends for four days. As you can imagine it was a crazy week of party prep and packing for the trip for me. I figured we would have lots if leftover party food to take to the beach so I didn't plan a whole lot of shopping and meal prep for the trip like I usually would. We had an amazing time at the beach. We ate a lot of food. Some wasn't too bad health wise but most of it I honestly felt was just junk with every little nutritional value. Not much actual sugar, just a lot of very highly processed foods.
We got back from the beach on Alan's actual birthday. We went to Red Robin as a birthday treat. That was a Thursday. That weekend was a holiday weekend. We ended up eating out a couple more times, had some fried chicken from the grocery store (it wad SO good) and ate leftover food from our trip. By Monday I felt like my family hadn't eaten real food in over a week. It was time to make some changes.
I have always had a hard time with organization. Planning a menu, shopping for it and sticking to it is a struggle for me. Coming up with ideas of what to feed my family for three meals a day and two or three snacks a day gets very overwhelming and exhausting for me. Most nights I find myself opening the refrigerator at 4:30 trying to come up with something for dinner that we will all like, we have the stuff to make and is fast.
Last week I started looking around online for some fun blogs that were centered around healthy cooking for families with kids. I found a few that I liked. Then I found one that I loved! It was all healthy foods for young kids. The recipes were all pretty basic and simple, sounded good and were made with things I usually buy. Then I found THIS and got very excited! It is a 30 Day Meal Plan. It includes a calendar for 30 days worth of meals plus one snack everyday, the recipes for all of it and even a shopping list broken down to what you need each week. It was only $9.99 and I liked the look of the other recipes on the blog so I went for it. It made everything seem much more manageable.
The shopping list that comes with the meal plan is a little bit useless since it tells you what to buy but not how much you need. I still had to go through each recipe and make a new list of what I needed and how much but since I prefer to have my shopping list on my phone it wasn't that big of a deal. Other then that I really love this program! Almost everything I made has been wonderful. Everything has been easy and best if all everything is healthy balanced meals!
I now find that for the first time in a really long time I am enjoying cooking!
-Jen-
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