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Last week I continued experimenting with my air fryer. I tried roasting Brussels sprouts and cauliflower. The Brussels sprouts turned out great. I peeled them all off and cooked the leaves for just 3 minutes and they were done. Added some Parmesan cheese and it…

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Menu 15

When my family was here for Christmas, they gave me an air fryer as a thank you gift when they left. I’m not sure when was the first time I heard about air fryers, but it wasn’t too long ago. And then a friend told…

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MENU 14

Some people have told me they cannot plan a menu for a week because it is too much organization and that they don’t know in advance what they will feel like eating three days from now. I always tell them that the menu is not…

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MENU 13

Last week I tried a couple of new things. I am subscribed to this service called Hungry Harvest that delivers to your home these fruits and vegetables that are not suitable to be sold in the regular grocery store, either because they are ugly, too…

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MENU 12

Posting the menu a bit late this week… Last week was interesting. On Monday I sent the kids mashed potatoes, canned tuna and a cut hard-boiled egg in their lunch boxes. This happens to be one of my favorite dishes I had in my elementary…

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MENU 11

Well, well, well… I’m finally back. Last week I finally I managed to do some decent cooking and slowly started to get things under control… I prepared a big batch of meatballs, big enough to freeze some for lunch boxes; shrimp cauliflower curry; and chickpeas…

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MENU 10

Here a summary of our last week’s menu: fish, eggs, chicken, legumes, vegetables and fruits. I did not do any fancy cooking but it was still yummy, healthy and everyone was happy. We don’t need to always be extremely creative to have good healthy happy…

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MENU 9

After watching the documentary The Game Changers I got inspired to go plant-based/meatless for a week and see what happened. The documentary is about the effect of a plant-based diet on health but in particular in athletes. I would say it is overall well researched…

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MENU 8

Last week was one of those weeks I had to make a few changes in my original menu. Not ideal, but such is life, and my kids are still OK despite the amount of carb rich lunches they had last week. Despite the last minute…

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MENU 7

I haven’t posted a menu in a while because we’ve been traveling and it has been hard to keep up with everything… but we’re back and here you have last week’s menu. This week we had a very decent dinner menu in terms of variation:…