By Shanna Demers, neighborhood market manager: About 10 months ago, I decided to give meal planning one more shot, determined to MAKE it work. I can happily say, it’s here to stay! I’m rarely stressing at 4:30 about what we’re having for dinner, I have reduced our food waste, and we’re saving money! Meal planning […]
By Shanna Demers, neighborhood market manager: Teamwork makes the dream work! Five words that never fail to bring my family smiles and remind us that we are in this together. But if teamwork is so important to our family, why was meal planning and cooking ALL on me?! Involving my family in the planning process […]
By Shanna Demers, neighborhood market manager: So how did shopping at home go over last week?! Digging through your freezer can be intimidating but hopefully diving in resulted in some inspiration to cook forgotten items and saved you some money at the grocery store! By the way, if you’re wondering what the heck I’m talking […]
By Shanna Demers, neighborhood market manager: My favorite way to start meal planning is to take inventory of everything I have on hand. In other words, I shop at home. [In case you missed it, here’s last week’s secret.] This simple step was one I was missing when I tried to use prefabricated meal plans. […]
By Shanna Demers, neighborhood market manager: It took me a long time to figure out how to successfully meal plan for my family. I kept trying different meal planning systems – trying and failing. I’m a neighborhood market manager for Seasonal Roots’ online farmers market and a busy, homeschooling mom, and I used to be […]