Category: Food

Food, For the Love of Family

Nourishing Your Family Economically

During my ‘real job’ days before becoming an entrepreneur, I worked with several nutritionists.  These collegues provided much insight as well as opportunities to learn about the science of nutrition. Every year, these professionals observed National Nutrition Month, which is celebrated in March. This year, the theme is Fuel for the Future, focusing on eating for every phase of  life while protecting the environment. A beautifully and idealistic theme, yet when facing an ‘inflation crisis’ with rising food prices, how do we meet this mission? Embracing the need to feed my family well AND keep within a set food budget […]

Family, Food, For the Love of Family

My Quick, Easy, Healthy Breakfast Ideas

Breakfast is important. It is important for overall health, brain power and focus. Beyond nourishing, including breakfast in your family’s morning routine offers many secondary benefits including: Beginning your day together as family Conversing with your family We do life together, encouraging each other for our day’s activities Study after study reveals the benefits of breakfast. Make breakfast work for you and your family. If you have a picture of an ideal setting – erase it. It may be messy, it may be somewhat chaotic, yet the benefits can and will outweigh your less than perfect.  In our family, we […]

Food, For the Love of Family, Recipes

Peach Butter

            Originally printed in the Denver Post, I have been making peach butter for 20+ years. A favorite gift for family and friends, it has become an annual tradition when the Colorado peaches are the ripest, usually mid-August to mid-September. Many times, I was going to begin a peach butter business, but the logistics were more than I wanted to take on. Besides, I want to keep the tradition of spending a late summer Saturday making peach butter without the headaches of marketing! As many have requested, here is the original recipe: PEACH BUTTER 8 […]

Finances, Food, For the Love of Family

No Check-Out Required

Today, in Seattle, the Amazon Go store will open its doors. This newest endeavor in shopping experiences is highly technical, easy and convenient. You enter the store, pick up what you need, and exit, without interacting with the cash register or entering the checkout line. It sounds intriguing. It sounds different. It sounds impossible. Yet, like many other things in our lives today, technology makes almost anything possible and is changing how we live, and especially how we shop. There are many opinions, discussions, debates about Amazon Go. Yet, regardless whether we agree or disagree with the concept of Amazon […]

Food, For the Love of Family

Sunday Night Ignite

Every Sunday evening, Gary and I host a group of  15-20 college-age students in our home. The impetus for these weekly events was a need Gary saw for creating a place for our church college-age kids. I admit, my first reaction was ‘no-way’ – yet the Holy Spirit has a way of confirming a calling to better His kingdom. Once decided, my one desire was to provide a home-made family-style meal. My prayer, “give me the energy and margin to do this Every. Sunday. Night.  I admit, there are Sundays when I would rather not….yet most of the time, I […]

Finances, Food, For the Love of Family

5 DIFFERENT Ways to Save on Food

I fall for it every time. Titles, images, call-outs that promise to save money at the grocery store lure me in. Call it an obsession, a trait, or simply being frugally conscientious, I’m clicking through to read the article. But the information tends to be the same, just recycled with new images and phrases. Yet, I read on. …because, when coaching an individual or teaching a class, fresh information is always welcome. The budget item that can be flexible and seems to get the most attention is food.  Most people tend to get their budget in balance by decreasing the […]