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Menu Planning & Batch Cooking

More Warm Weather Batch Cooking

by Aimee
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I‘ll bet that you didn’t expect to see homemade salad dressing as the top photo for a post about batch cooking, did you? The term ‘batch cooking’ refers to dishes that are made in double or quadruple batches, and frozen for convenience. It usually refers to vats of chili, seas of lasagna, and spaghetti sauce [...]

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Eat Well, Spend Less: Simple Bites Goes Shopping

by Aimee
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Marché is French for ‘market’, and one of the early words my three-year-old picked up, even though we’re an English speaking household. The open markets in and around Montreal are a pretty big part of our food shopping routine, hence Mateo’s early handle of the French word. Shopping – conscientious, intentional shopping – is an [...]

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Eat Well, Spend Less: Week 2 Round-Up

by Aimee
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The second week of our Eat Well, Spend Less series brought a wealth of tips and helpful  suggestions to reach our goal of spending less on groceries, while still eating well. I’m learning tons from the eight other bloggers that I have teamed up with on this series. It’s obvious that these ladies have the [...]

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Cooking for Others: A Guide to Giving Sympathy Meals

by Aimee
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Our recent Q&A on sympathy meals received a tremendous response. Thank you to all who took the time to share your experiences with either giving or receiving meals. It was very, very interesting to read your comments and I took note of all the questions. I hope to answer them in this follow-up post. We [...]

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7 Favorite Do-Ahead Dinners for Winter (recipe: Chocolate-Chip Chili)

by Aimee
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A little blogging conference called Blissdom is happening in a few weeks in Nashville and I’m skipping the country to attend. I’ll also be skipping out on four days of laundry, lunch-packing and cooking. Woo-hoo! Hmm, the last time I traveled internationally on my own? It was over a decade ago and included sights such [...]

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