Week One Meal Ideas for the Whole Life Challenge

Hi everyone! Whether we are starting the Whole Life Challenge or just starting off the year right, I thought I would share some menu ideas with you for a week. Our WLC doesn’t start until Jan. 17th but it is a good idea to start assembling ingredients so that we are not stuck at the […]

Last minute Gift!: Sign up for the Last Winter TBK Menu Planning Workshop

Hi everyone! Let’s start 2015 off right with some stress reducing tips and strategies to create your family menu! We have a date for the final menu planning workshop  (for a while!) and I hope you can make this one: Sunday, Jan. 11th 10AM-12 $40.00 Olive That and More in Montclair at 246 Bellevue Avenue […]

Alma’s Suggested Holiday Gifts

Hi everyone! I am trying to be really good about prepping for the holidays and I don’t just mean cooking!  I mean holiday gift shopping. I am going to do my usual sharing of things I love and make some suggestions for you to save you some thinking about gifts for yourself and your loved […]

Encore Menu Planning Workshop-Join us!

Hi everyone! I will be hosting a SECOND Custom Menu Planning Workshop to help busy Moms, Dads, single folks and caretakers figure out how to create a menu for your individual family. The first one last month sold out so hurry up and email me if you want to join this one. Date: Sunday, Nov. 2nd Time: 12-2 […]

Easy Curried Chicken Salad

I am STARVING! I am doing the Whole Life Challenge so I created this delicious recipe that I can shovel in my mouth when I am hungry. As always, it is all about the prep. Had I not made this ahead of time, I would be eating an entire loaf of challah right now.  Enjoy! […]

September 23rd Workshop: Finally! Create Your Custom Weekly Menu

Hi everyone! As school approaches, (and for some of us it is already here), so do the stressors that accompany all the kids being out of the house; Homework help, chauffeuring, lice! and the most dreaded of all, cooking dinner EVERY SINGLE NIGHT! To ring in the new school year and to start off on […]

Always Hungry for a Cure, Even on His Birthday

Hi everyone! It’s really late and I can’t sleep. I’m ruminating about all the little things I have to do tomorrow and all the ways I could have been a better mother today. Welcome to my psyche. Tomorrow is my son Lincoln’s birthday. I cannot believe he is going to be ten. Actually, looking at […]