About This Project

This blog is born because we are serious slackers when it comes to getting it together in the kitchen, at least the way we would like. We have both tried (unsuccessfully...or at least un-sustained) to menu plan for our families and have finally had enough: this year, we said, IT WILL happen.

At least we hope it will.

Jenny is a mother of four (one newborn!) and wife of one very busy grad student on the cusp of obtaining his Ph.D. I am mother to one delightful 1 year old and wife to a food aficionado....who also happens to work with it for a living and has NO interest in seeing it, touching it, or thinking about it when he walks in the door. (She has more reasons not to have it together...I have more excuses!)

We figure if we join forces we will have twice the meal ideas with half the effort. Both of us are looking to shed a little weight from our bulging food expenditures, find options that are healthy AND tasty...that children will *actually* eat...increase our food storage (and our ability to use it), and have some fun in the process.
Oh, and did I mention we hope to accomplish most dinners in 30 minutes active prep time or less?

Not that we don't enjoy cooking: we do, quite a bit actually. It's just when you've been going at it all day non-stop with the kiddos and the evening comes and an hour magically appears where you can do something other than manage children, you feel a little giddy inside thinking about the endless possibilities (a bath! a book! sit down...in silence!). Then you realize dinner is the only thing between you and that couch. So yeah, we're looking for wham, bam, thank you ma'am meal options for most weekday meals.

Now...just to find the time to put our great ideas in this blog ;) Wish us luck!