Another healthy meal plan, with plenty of summer produce-inspired recipes. Plus, one splurge night for good measure! It’s been a week of quintessential California activities and we’ve been basking in the glow of lazy vacation days, sporadically mixed with college visits for my older son (ack!) Boogie boarding, beach volleyball, walks along the strand in…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 102}
We’re diving into summertime produce with this week’s healthy meal plan. Zucchini, corn and tomatoes for days! While I’m posting a full meal plan for this week, the truth is that I won’t be cooking any of it. We’re hopping on a plane headed south to enjoy some family time, wallow in the California waves…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 101}
This week’s healthy meal plan includes plenty of recipes that will appeal to your family across the board – vegetarian, seafood, chicken and more! The weather in the Pacific Northwest is keeping us on our toes, which makes me rethink my meal planning each night. Hot and sunny on one day – that means grilling,…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 100}
Week 100 of my Healthy Meal Plans includes both meat-filled and vegetarian dinner ideas, each with nutritional information and Weight Watchers SmartPoints. Week 100 of my healthy meal plans is here! I know how easy it is to get stuck in a dinner rut. Believe me, it happens to me all the time – cooking…
Ten 30-Minute Healthy Dinner Recipes
Bring out these 30-minute healthy dinner recipes on those busy weeknights. They are life-savers! Ten 30-Minute Healthy Dinner Recipes Healthy dinner ideas are a must for keeping me on track during the week. Last night I resorted to canned soup. I could pretend that I was being a good mum, serving something that went down…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 99}
Dive into this week’s healthy meal plan for everything from a much-loved pasta salad to an easy turkey rice casserole. The boys and I just got back from a 5-day jaunt to Victoria to visit my parents. The weather was glorious and we managed to fit in a beach day, a trip to the small…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 98}
Mid-summer meal planning means a mixture of quick dinner salads, healthy grilling recipes and plenty of fresh produce. This week’s plan highlights all of that! It’s been quite a week around here! My younger son climbed Mount Adams, the second highest peak in Washington state, with his friend’s family. Unfortunately, they had to turn around…
15 Ground Turkey Recipes & Cooking Tips
Ground turkey recipes are a great way to lighten up your dinnertime meals. With the right ingredients, they can explode with flavor, with a fraction of the fat. Dive into these 15 ground turkey recipes to make dinnertime easy and healthy. Ground turkey recipes are in regular rotation around our house. In fact, we always…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 97}
Another healthy meal plan to get you through the week! Grilled and stovetop recipes, including vegetarian, chicken and seafood recipes. It’s been a busy week around here. Coaching at soccer camp and trips to the lake for my older son. Graduating from glasses to contacts, multiple kickboxing classes and sleepovers for my younger one. Keeping…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 96}
This week’s healthy meal plan features some fantastic grilled recipes, along tried and true stovetop favorites. All recipes include nutritional information and Weight Watchers SmartPoints. Whether you celebrated Canada Day or July 4th (or none of the above) this week, I hope you had a fantastic celebration. We dove headlong into the world of grilling…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 95}
Time to get down to meal planning! This week’s healthy meal plan has a great mixture of grilled, baked and Instant pot favorites. I first started writing this post by complaining about a summer that is already busy and filled with early mornings. But the truth is that once we’re empty nesters, which is just…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 94}
Tons of ideas in this week’s healthy meal plan. Meat and meatless meals, easy dinner recipes and comfort food – a little bit of everything. School’s out for summer! You can hear the Alice Cooper song playing in your head, right? School has been out for a day and a half and already my boys…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 93}
If you need new recipe ideas for this week’s meal plan, I have plenty of options for you this week, including grilling and Instant Pot recipes. Between Father’s Day celebrations and studying for next week’s final exams (my boys – not me), it’s bound to be a busy weekend! If you’re looking for meal ideas…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 92}
Time to prep for next week’s meals! This week’s healthy meal plan should give you plenty of great ideas to make dinnertime easy and delicious. I’m off to my high school reunion in Vancouver, Canada this weekend! My girlfriends and I are renting a house and are planning on a weekend of reminiscing, laughter and…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 91}
There are plenty of healthy meat and meatless dinner recipes in the meal plan for this week. A great mix of warm and cool weather meals. How is it June already?! There are just a few weeks of school left for my boys and everything is packed into next week – jazz band concert and…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 90}
This week’s healthy meal plan includes both holiday grilling ideas and weeknight dinners. As usual, all of the recipes include nutritional information and Weight Watchers points. The Memorial Day long weekend is here and we are so ready for some rest and relaxation. A little calm amidst the happy busy-ness of the last few weeks…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 89}
This week’s meal plan includes some old favorites as well as some fantastic new recipes that are bound to become family favorites. Nutritional information and Weight Watchers SmartPoints included. Next Saturday is the start of the Memorial Day long weekend in the U.S. While Memorial Day is an important day of remembrance, it is also…
Tandoori Grilled Chicken Kabobs
Up your grilling game with these flavor bomb Tandoori Grilled Chicken Kabobs. Serve them up with grilled naan bread and yogurt for an amazing meal! 188 calories and 4 Weight Watchers Freestyle SP Tandoori Grilled Chicken Kabobs Recipe When the first batch of grilled chicken kabobs hits our dinner table, I know that summertime weather…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 88}
Temperatures are heating up and it’s time for some grilling recipes in this week’s meal plan, mixed with some of our favorite quick and easy weeknight dinners. Nutritional information and Weight Watchers SmartPoints included. You guys are clearly doing some serious planning for Mother’s Day tomorrow because this Mother’s Day brunch post has been going…
Healthy Meal Plan {Week 87}
From Cinco de Mayo to weeknight meals, this week’s healthy meal plan has you covered. Nutritional information and Weight Watchers SmartPoints included. One of my favorite Saturdays of the year is here – the opening of our town’s famers market! My younger’s high school pep band is kicking off the festivities and we’ll be wallowing…