• Kitchen,  Lunch

    Designated Lunch Cupboard

    I’m always thinking of better ways to make our school routines run smoother. With back to school just around the corner I thought I’d share what we are doing to make the task of packing school lunches more stream-line. Way back when we were planning out our kitchen cabinets, I was very specific about what kinds of things we needed to store. I made lists of the items I knew were used together and grouped them into stations. My kitchen has a smoothie station, a baking station a dishes station, a homework station, a cleaning station and a lunch station. For the most part, the lunch station really encourages them…

  • Dinner,  Paleo

    From Scratch Marinara Sauce

    Tomatoes are being harvested faster than I can use them up. My refrigerator was stocked with my homemade salsa and I needed another way to make use of the abundance of tomatoes coming my way, so I went looking for an easy marinara  sauce. While I pride myself on cooking from scratch, the one thing I never really tried to make from scratch was pasta sauce. The stuff you buy at the store tastes fine enough and if you read your labels, you can find pre-made organic sauce without sugar or or other unwanted ingredients. It worked for me, but last year I tried making my first ever attempt at…

  • Dinner

    Zucchini Noodle Lasagna

    It’s the middle of summer and if you’ve planted Zucchini in your garden, I’m sure you have all the zucchini you can harvest. You have more than enough. You are giving it away as fast as you can pick it. You can’t possibly manage to whip up another loaf of zucchini bread and for sure the others in your household can no longer eat one more bite of it…so what do you do with all of your excess? You make this grain free/guilt free version of an old favorite!  I’ll admit that traditional lasagna is amazing, but for someone like myself, the pasta/cheese combo can leave you incredibly bloated. One summer…