Happy July! Today, we’re announcing a new post series on Hellobee – this month, we will be sharing some of our favorite tips, tricks, and recipes for feeding our families.
As busy moms we struggle at times to find ways to feed our families with everything else on our metaphorical plates. Add in picky eaters, dietary restrictions, budgets, extracurricular activities, summer heat, etc., and it can sometimes feel, well, impossible. Unfortunately there is no magic fairy putting a healthy dinner that kids will actually eat on our tables 7 nights a week. But we want to help make it a little easier for you to feed your family by sharing what actually works for us and also crowd sourcing ideas from the rest of the Hellobee community.
These posts won’t be laundry lists of beautiful (but perhaps unrealistic) ideas for Pinterest-worthy meals. Instead there will be practical and hopefully approachable posts sharing things like: our go-to recipes for summer dinners; a list of our favorite grocery staples at Trader Joe’s and how we turn them into quick meals and snacks; how we pack school lunches; a list of healthy snack ideas; unbiased (and unsponsored) reviews of meal kit services; how we menu plan and grocery shop; and our favorite food bloggers and a short list of their recipes we make often.
We will still be posting regular content this month but will also be posting several feeding our families posts each week. Please join the conversations on the blog or in the discussion boards. Hopefully by the end of this month we’ll have collectively created a resource bank of ideas for any busy mom trying to figure out what in the world to feed her family that they’ll actually eat and may be quasi-healthy too!
P.S. If there is anything specific that would be helpful to you for us to write about, please let us know. This community exists for our readers, and we want to do better about publishing content that is useful and interesting for all of you. If you have ideas for other monthly series (i.e., favorite toys, education, kid activities, parenting older kids, etc.), please share those with us as well.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
This is great! Thank you for organizing, Mrs Peas!
I’d definitely be interested in the topic of food budget with kids. I just feel like when we try to eat healthy foods, no matter what, our grocery bill sky rockets!
pomelo / 5084 posts
This sounds great! Looking forward to reading the series! Especially given that my son eats 90% fruit. Lol.
apricot / 424 posts
The best thing for me has been using a service that does your grocery shopping for you and brings it out to your car. I use Hannaford To Go. If a blogger uses a similar service they should write about that.
guest
Great idea, I’ll look forward to reading! I’d also be interested to hear how parents share meal and food duties between them. Who comes up with meal ideas? Who shops? Who cooks dinner? Who comes up with all the snacks? Etc.
pear / 1622 posts
Love this idea! I go in waves with doing meal prep but sometimes what I find to be a pain is the clean up – if anyone has any ideas for how to clean up quickly or minimize the clean up – I would love to see that.
guest
Always looking for more meal ideas- this is great. We are about to welcome baby #3 and would love ideas for make ahead meals, freezer to crockpot meals that are high protein, low carb.
pomegranate / 3768 posts
What an awesome post series idea! Looking forward to reading it!
apricot / 343 posts
So excited about this series! I’d love to see someone review kids’ cooking/meal kits—the ones I’ve seen advertised are Radish Kids and Kidstir.
clementine / 830 posts
This is awesome. Meal prep feels like the place where working and parenting are incompatible for me. My repertoire is like two dinners deep at best before I resort to ordering in (my husband is more the cook so he handles many dinners). Would love to hear about meals that are TRUE 15 minute style recipes that work for people (every time I try such a recipe I find it overwhelmingly complicated…I’m sure it’s me but also surely I’m not the only one?).
pomelo / 5621 posts
Looking forward to this. I’m in such a meal rut and haven’t done planning or prep in quite some time. Need to get back to being more organized with #2 on the way.
coffee bean / 26 posts
Love this idea and will eagerly await these posts. I too am curious about learning how folks decide who does what and also how and when kids play a role/take on actual responsibilities like lunch packing, etc.
persimmon / 1111 posts
I love this! I’d especially love ideas for those with dietary restrictions. As a MSPI momma (with gluten restrictions as well), coming up with meal ideas is tough!
blogger / apricot / 275 posts
Thank you for all the ideas! We’ll get started on some posts addressing these topics. And I’m going to cross-post some of these questions on the discussion board as well.
blogger / apricot / 275 posts
@Pollywog: I’ve been a MSPI mom for 2 of my 3 babies, so I’ll work on a post with some of our go-to meals during those periods.
blogger / apricot / 275 posts
@nwm: YES this happens to me all the time. I’ll definitely share a few ideas :).
blogger / apricot / 275 posts
@autumnleaves: I majorly struggle with clean up as well. We’ll crowd source some ideas and try to do a post specific to clean up :).