Eat at Home

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Tiffany

Challenge Day 2!

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It’s Eat at Home Challenge Day 2 and what fun we’re already having! Yesterday we kicked it off by making Cheese Ravioli with Summer Garden Vegetables. And today I made Italian Tomato Soup with Pizza Grilled Cheese Croutons.

Challenge Day 2 on Facebook Live!

If you missed Facebook Live this morning, you can always catch the replays on the Eat at Home Facebook page. Y’all this one is amazing. My own kids were “placing orders” before we started live.

And one of our followers said her kids told her I was making them hungry! Sorry kids! But, it’s easy enough that, with a bit of adult supervision, the kids could probably make this for dinner tonight. Win-win!!

Speaking of what’s for dinner tonight

I would love to have you join us for the Eat at Home Challenge as we commit (aka. do our level best) to eat at home 6 of the 7 days between now and Tuesday, August 14.

Why would I do that?

  1. Because it’s a great way to kick off healthier eating habits as we face a new school year.
  2. Because we’re all doing it together, and together is always more fun! Especially when we get ideas and encouragement for other “Challengers” in our private Facebook group. To join the private Facebook group, just follow the instructions you’ll receive when you join The Challenge. And you definitely want to join the Facebook group because …
  3. Because we’re giving away awesome prizes every single day of the challenge. Yesterday it was an 8-inch chef’s knife and cutting board and today, it’s a Lodge 6 Qt Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven. It’s kind of like the one I used on Facebook Live, except even nicer!

prize dutch oven

Where do I get the recipes?

That’s part of what’s great about this challenge, you can use whatever recipes work well for your family! There’s no requirement as to which recipes, it’s about cooking and eating at home.

I will be using recipes from the Eat at Home Tonight Cookbook because that’s the whole reason for our party! If you haven’t picked yours up yet, you can find them at several brick & mortar stores or any of these online sites: Amazon, WalMart, Barnes & Noble, and Target. At under $20, you’ll get your money’s worth out of your cookbook, simply by eating home one night, and we all know that’s a great deal.

Go ahead and join The Challenge and cook along with us, and get on the Facebook group to be eligible for the daily prizes. And if you’re planning on picking up Eat at Home Tonight, it looks like several of the online retailers have a lower price today.

See y’all tomorrow on Facebook Live at 11 am EST for Tacos al Pastor. It’s one of those super quick to assemble slow cooker recipes from the “I’m out of the house all day and won’t have time to cook” chapter.

Eat at Home Tonight Challenge Day 1

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It’s Eat at Home Tonight Challenge Day 1 and the kick-off to our week-long Cookbook release party! Here are the basics on what this week will look like …

Join the Challenge!

The goal is for us to eat at home for 6 of the next 7 days. That’s it! You can use whatever recipes you choose, but I’ll be cooking thru recipes from the Eat at Home Tonight Cookbook that was released yesterday.

Grab your copy of Eat at Home Tonight

If you don’t have your copy yet, you can always order one online thru Amazon or WalMart too. And be sure to sign up for the Challenge and you’ll receive a grocery list and 2 of the recipes from Eat at Home Tonight. The other recipes on the grocery list can be found in the cookbook.

Again, you are not required to use recipes from the new cookbook to participate!

Challenge Day 1 Facebook Live

Follow along on Facebook Live every morning at 11 am EST where I’ll be cooking a recipe from the cookbook and answering any questions you might have. If you can’t watch live, then be sure to catch the replay.

To make it even more fun, you’ll want to join the private Facebook group for those taking the challenge. We’ll be sharing dinner plans, tips and tricks and prizes.

Daily Giveaways

That’s right there will be daily giveaways throughout the challenge, and they’re great prizes too! Our challenge day 1 prize is a knife and cutting board.

prize knife

If you’ve spent much time around Eat at Home, you know that a sharp knife is one of my favorite tips for making dinner quickly. And since we’re talking about getting dinner on the table quickly, it seems like a perfect thing to give away!

And how to enter

You can find all the details for joining the Challenge  AND the Facebook group so you can be entered in the drawing for the daily giveaways.

I’ll see you over there and be sure to let us know what’s for dinner at your house tonight!

Let’s Skip Drive-thru!!

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It’s launch day for Eat at Home Tonight and we have a week full of awesome fun planned. So let’s skip drive-thru and gather around the table for home-cooked dinners without the stress.

You can find the book on Amazon, or in a number of stores throughout the US – WalMart, Barnes & Noble, Kroger and some other grocery stores.

In the time you save fighting traffic to grab dinner, I would love for you to read an honest review of the cookbook at Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Goodreads.

Then let’s skip dinner for the next 7 days. You can do this! Once you see the chapter titles, you’ll see how easy it is. If you missed today’s Facebook Live, you can catch the replay and hear all about those too!

You’ll also want to check out all the details about the Challenge too. And no, you don’t have to use recipes from Eat at Home Tonight, but you will have a few quick steps to be entered for the daily giveaways. That’s right, DAILY!

I’m looking forward to seeing you there!

For those nights when you’re eating in shifts

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You know the nights. The ones when everyone is on a different schedule and you find yourself eating in shifts. It’s so easy to grab dinner on-the-go, but you still feel guilty for the expense, nutritional value and the general chaotic feeling of it all.

Fortunately, that’s another chapter in my new cookbook Eat at Home Tonight. And it’s also the topic I covered on Facebook live this morning.

Here are a few of my favorite tips and a sneak peek at some of the recipes included in the eating in shifts chapter.

Tips for Eating in Shifts

One: No complicated Sides.

Keep it simple. You don’t want to plan for a nourishing and doable dinner just to find yourself busy prepping and cooking aside. Keep it simple, because done is always better than unrealistic when it comes to a hungry family.

Two: Things that work well

Pick recipes that will do well if serving them happens over the course of several hours. Think sandwiches, taco fillings, slow cooker or instant pot recipes, microwaveable foods.

These can be prepped ahead to be stored in the fridge or set up in a slow cooker or instant pot. Set them to be ready when the first shift is ready to eat & reheat as needed when others arrive home.

Some ideas here include meat fillings for tacos, baked potatoes, naan pizzas. Sandwiches are also great for these nights.

And the best part is that all of these items freeze well. You may choose to freeze them either in big batches or individual servings. The individual servings were a life-saver for me when our boys were in their hungry teen years in between mealtimes too.

Three: Customizable dishes

Dishes that are easy to customize for each person’s palate. Tacos, sandwiches, pizzas, potato bars, soups with toppings and crusty bread. There are so many possibilities here!

Eat at Home Challenge

And a few details that I shared about the Eat at Home Challenge too

You’ll want to go ahead and sign up for the Challenge and our Eat at Home Challenge Facebook group. We already have quite a few members and it’s going to be lots of fun taking this challenge together.

You can find all the details about it on our Eat at Home Challenge page. And by the way, it’s completely free and a fun way to connect with others who are trying to eat more meals gathered around their kitchen tables.

Oh, and daily giveaways are part of the 7-day Challenge! And they’re great items too – like an Instant Pot, a KitchenAid Stand Mixer, a freezer!

Join the Eat at Home Tonight Challenge!

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We’re just a handful of days away from the release of Eat at Home Tonight! Which means that we’re also only a handful of days away from the Eat at Home Tonight Challenge!

eat at home tonight challenge

 

You’re invited to join the Eat at Home Tonight Challenge!

You can find out more and join the us on the Eat at Home Tonight Challenge page.

The challenge will last for 7 days, from Wednesday, August 8th to Tuesday, August 14th. The goal is to eat at home for at least six of those seven nights.

 

 

What you get when you sign up:

  • A FREE meal plan, grocery list and two recipes from Eat at Home Tonight to get you started.
  • Access to a private Facebook group
  • A chance to win fantastic prizes every day
  • Tips, tricks, recipes and more to get dinner done simply!

I’ll be cooking on Facebook Live each day using recipes from Eat at Home Tonight.  I’d love to have you cook through the book with me!