My family never bought rotisserie chickens growing up. My mom (well, both my parents really) is an incredible cook and would make a roast chicken, roasted potatoes and steamed vegetables from scratch every weekend.
And while I would love to be the perfect housewife who has a whole roast dinner on the table promptly at 5pm every Sunday, well… in this stage of life with three under four… it’s not happening. Enter: the humble rotisserie chicken, which is the base for a wholeee bunch of our meals lately! Even a small bird has quite a bit of meat, so we usually make two chicken-based dinners and then also have leftovers for 1-2 lunches during the week. … Read More »
Often when I’m in a food or cooking rut, I love heading to the internet to scrounge up kid-friendly meal plans on Pinterest or food blogs. Looking at the flow/balance of meals and imagining heading through my week whilst cooking up delicious, healthy meals for my family–that’s much more inspiring (and less overwhelming!) than trying to pick half a dozen different recipes and build a plan from scratch.
Now that the holiday indulgences are nearly eaten up, we’re back to our mostly-paleo meal preps for the new year. Maybe I’ll write a post about why we love ancestral eating someday. In this post, I’m just going to share a few of our favorite recipes to cook up big batches on the weekends and eat all week.
Something that I used to do a lot of, and that I’m trying to make time for again, is meal prep. I love to cook, but now that I have an 11-week-old baby, I don’t have time to make a hot dinner every night. But we still like to eat as healthy as we can, so enter: meal prep!