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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Green Smoothie

One of my New Year's resolutions is to get fit. Part of this resolution is eating more fruits and vegetables. I will be posting some of my favorite "healthy" meals.

For breakfast I have been enjoying my green smoothies: orange juice, banana, baby spinach, strawberries and a little nonfat yogurt.

Bonus points: my girls will drink it (happily)! AND, it looks so pretty in the blender!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Family Dinners

Emily 6:05 AM 0 Comments

This week's ideas for successful family dinners:

DELIGHTFUL DINING: Centerpieces!

Let your child choose a center piece for family dinner. It can be a flower, candles, or other object. If you'd like, take turns letting each member of the family choose a different centerpiece for each night of the week.

TABLE TOPICS: Get the conversation rolling with one or all of these questions!

If you could be any animal, what would you be and why? What noise does your animal make?
What is your favorite weather? Why? How does it make you feel?
What is the nicest thing someone has done for you? How did it make you feel?

ON THE MENU: What should I make this week? Just some ideas.

Sunday: Crock Pot Roast and Veggies served with a green salad

Monday: Warm Roasted Vegetable Salad with Baked Potato Wedges

Tuesday: Orange chicken served over rice, and stir-fry vegetables

Wednesday: Leftovers

Thursday: Bowtie pasta topped with vegetable cream sauce, served with garlic bread

Friday: BBQ Kabobs and corn on the cob served with fruit salad

**If you'd like any of these easy and yummy recipes, send me a comment. I'd be happy to share!

# delightful dining # family dinners

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Super Suppers

Emily 1:57 PM 0 Comments

ON THE MENU

Sunday: Polynesian BBQ chicken served with watermelon, rice, and a green salad

Monday: 4th OF JULY!

Tuesday: Taco Salad

Wednesday: Leftovers

Thursday: Ooey Gooey Crock pot chicken served over rice with a side of fresh summer fruit

Friday: Picnic in the park (KFC or pizza)

Remember to comment if you'd like any of these recipes. I'd be happy to post them. :)

DELIGHTFUL DINING: Superhero Supper

Get the costume box out or some old clothes and dress up as superheroes. Make up a new superhero name for yourself. Explain your super powers and how you help people.

TABLE TOPICS:

What makes you happy?
If you could be a superhero, who would you be and why?
Who is the funniest person you know?

Why I do dinner planning: Click HERE.

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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Dinnertime!

Emily 4:27 AM 0 Comments

ON THE MENU: World Tour

SUNDAY: Crock pot Chicken Tikka Masala (India), served with turmeric rice and peas

MONDAY: Falafel Pitas (Middle East), stuffed with cucumber/tomato/feta salad, hummus, and cilantro & chive yogurt

TUESDAY: Leftovers

WEDNESDAY: Sandwiches (Anyone know this one? Mine is going to be the super American version), build your own

THURSDAY: Seco de Pollo (Ecuador), chicken cooked in a tomato, bell pepper, red onion sauce, seasoned with garlic, cumin, and aji peruano

FRIDAY: Soft Tacos (Mexico), build your own

Please feel free to comment if you would like the recipes to any of these dinner ideas. My recipes are pretty easy, don't take much time, and taste good too! (Believe me- if it doesn't taste good, I don't make it.)

Also, click HERE to see why dinnertime is a big deal around here.

DELIGHTFUL DINING: Mystery Guests (aka Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?)

Each member of the family invites someone over for dinner. Keep the name of the guest a secret from each other until he/she arrives. This will be a fun surprise for everyone. Make sure you ask your mystery guest if he/she has any dietary restrictions and let the person preparing the meal know if there are any. This will be fun and I'm looking forward to it.

TABLE TOPICS: this will be fun with your mystery guests.

If you could go on a vacation to anywhere in the world, where would you go?
How would you describe yourself to someone who hasn't met you?
If you joined the circus, who would you like to be? What act would you do?

BUEN PROVECHO!

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Delightful Dinners!

Emily 3:05 AM 0 Comments

ON THE MENU

Sunday: Breakfast Tacos, Strawberries

Monday: Potato Cheese Casserole with peas

Tuesday: Enchiladas, Spanish Rice

Wednesday: Chinese Chicken Salad, Egg Drop Soup

Thursday: Leftovers

Friday: English Muffin Pizzas

Remember to comment if you'd like the recipe to any of these easy, quick, and yummy meals. I'd be happy to post them.

DELIGHTFUL DINING IDEA Face Mats!

Instead of regular place mats, let your children create "face mats" by drawing the face of each family member on some art paper or shelf paper. The kids can then place these new place mats around the table wherever they choose when they set the table.

TABLE TOPICS

What is your favorite smell? What's the nastiest smell you've ever smelled?

Where would you like to go on your next family vacation?

What was the nicest thing someone has done for you? How did it make you feel?

Click HERE if you missed my first post about why family dinners are important.

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Friday, June 10, 2011

Family Dinners

Emily 3:00 AM 0 Comments

One of my New Year's resolutions this year was to focus on family dinners. In theory, it's a time for us to be together, enjoy homemade food, and talk about the day's happenings. With a 3 year old and a 4 month old, dinner time doesn't last that long but I hope our dinners will be something that my kids look forward to and remember as good times when they get older.

Family dinners are IMPORTANT!

Here are some stats and interesting articles on the positive affects of family dinners:

FOX NEWS posted this article.

http://www.foxnews.com/imag/Food/8+Reasons+to+Make+Time+for+Family+Dinner

TIME Magazine posted this article.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1200760,00.html

WebMD Feature (with links to further reading and suggestions for organizing family dinners)

http://children.webmd.com/guide/family-dinners-are-important

ON THE MENU

This is what we're having next week:

Sunday: Spaghetti, green salad, french bread

Monday: Moroccan Chicken and vegetables (crock pot), rice, fruit salad

Tuesday: Thai Peanut Noodles, sliced pineapple

Wednesday: Leftovers

Thursday: Super Easy French Dip Sandwiches (crock pot), strawberries, baked potato fries

Friday: Pizza and green salad

If you'd like the recipes to any of these meals, send me a comment. I'd be happy to post a recipe. Most of the meals I make are simple and don't require a lot of prep time. They even taste pretty good too. :)

Each week we'll have at least one "leftovers" night and Saturdays are up in the air because we're usually out and about running errands, like grocery shopping for next week's dinners, or playing. We'll usually make something like quesadillas or waffles or whatever we have on hand.

DELIGHTFUL DINING Fork, Knife, Spoon, Crayons

Here's this week's idea of what we're going to do during one of our family dinners to make it fun:

Cover the table with plain paper or use large construction paper for place mats. At each place setting, line up some crayons. There are no rules for this activity. Just eat and draw. You can ask questions about what your kids (or your spouse) are drawing. Make it a positive experience.

If you'd like to find out more about HOW your child's day went, ask him or her to draw their best part of the day and their worst part of the day. (Hopefully they don't draw a picture of them drawing on the table cloth as their "worst" part of the day.) Ask them about how each situation made them feel?

This activity was awesome for my 3 year old. It seemed like she forgot she was eating broccoli because she was focused on drawing her rainbows and trees. I will do this again...maybe with squash.

TABLE TOPICS

To get the conversation rolling, choose a question or two to talk about.

What is your favorite game to play?

If you could have three wishes, what would they be?

What is your favorite time of the day? Why?

# delightful dining # family dinners

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Green Smoothie

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Family Dinners

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Super Suppers

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Dinnertime!

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Delightful Dinners!

Friday, June 10, 2011

Family Dinners

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