Let’s check in on week four of refined sugar & me in 2017. So this week… I re-lost the pound I gained back last week, so am back to five pounds down from where I started at the end of December. I'm still feeling better than I have in a long time, and have stayed away …

Welcome to the January 22, 2017 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around ingredients that are either on sale or generally affordable. Up this week: Easy Chilaquiles! I might have made and eaten these chilaquiles twice this week -- you know -- in the interests of research and all. (It was purely for science, honest...) …

I don't often go to Trader Joe's. This is not because I don't like it there, but actually because I like it too much and always want to bring home all the things. Do you guys have stores of impulse buy like this too? For instance, on this trip to Trader Joe's I absolutely had to …

What's up with the children's book this week? Well... Harriet the Spy (originally published in 1964) was always one of my own favorite books as a kid. My original cheap paperback copy literally fell apart in my hands years ago, but a while back we picked up the exact edition shown above at Goodwill for a whopping …

Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 1/22/17: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday! Hope you find it useful. *** Subscribe to the weekly ALDI meal plans here! Note: I try not to repeat the same recipe here more often than once a month, but …

It's no secret that I've been loving the Instant Pot I picked up on Prime Day last year. But beyond a few favorite recipes like Instant Pot chili with canned beans and Instant Pot mashed potatoes, I'm also loving the Instant Pot for meal prep. I've been trying to use it every Sunday to cook …