What is on your menu this week?

Hi everyone!  Summer has officially ended at our house.  The kids went back to school yesterday and the weather is turning fallish.  I snapped this picture on the way to the bus stop this morning. Things at my house are a little different this school year. My daughter headed off to middle school for 6th grade. She leaves a full hour earlier than the boys leave. This is making me rearrange my exercising schedule. I'm just going to have to get up even earlier now, I guess. That means I need to go to bed earlier than midnight.  Ha! My boys are starting at a new school that is closer to our house.  The school was full when we moved to Washington in January.  They're happy to be there, but it's kind of like starting over again...learning new teacher's and fellow students names, bus numbers, school layout, etc.  I'm very happy because the kids ride the bus to and from school. It's nice to have all day with just me and my two year old. ...

Hi there!  I've been struggling planning my menus the last few weeks.  I have been trying to eat no dairy, meat, processed foods and being careful with saturated fat, etc with hopes to naturally lower my cholesterol.  Basically I've been eating a lot of veggies (from my garden...yay!), hummus, oatmeal with almond milk, quinoa, and handfuls of almonds.  (I've been posting a few pictures on instagram of my "healthy" meals....like honey lime quinoa black bean enchiladas and these spiralized zucchini noodles.) It's definitely been an interesting few weeks.  My husband was gone on travel for work all last week, so I made the kids whatever they wanted for dinner and I ate whatever I wanted (this is why I didn't post a menu). I've been struggling trying to plan meals in advance.  I think it'll get easier once I find more recipes that I can adapt for me and that my family will like.  I'm buckling down right now to plan out the rest of my week. ...