What We Eat in a Week- Easy Healthy Meal Ideas for Family
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- I share seven easy healthy meal ideas for family in this "What we eat in the farmhouse" winter edition.
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Last summer I shared a post called 5 Tips for Healthy Meals Every Night Without Planning. To sum it up, basically I talk about my inability to successfully implement meal planning, like all the Pinterest moms. I blame it on my personality type.
I threw away the dry erase board, homemaking binder and recipes, and just started cooking real food.
As a follow up to that post, I wanted to share a real honest look at what that looks like here in the farmhouse. No lists, no recipes, no plan, seven dinners.
Here is what we eat in a week. Winter edition.
What We Eat in a Week- Easy Healthy Meal Ideas for Family
Night One
I threw a whole chicken in a 9 by 13 pan, topped it with melted coconut oil, salt, pepper and Italian seasonings. I put it, along with some whole sweet potatoes on the top rack, in a 400 degree oven for about an hour. When they were soft, I removed the sweet potatoes from the peels, topped them with butter and salt. Zucchini sautéed in butter and sauerkraut round out the sides.
Night Two
I seasoned a couple pounds ground beef with about a teaspoon of almost every spice in my cabinet. Seriously, I have no idea the ratios and combinations of seasonings, but I have done this several times and the end product always tastes like sausage. I scrambled up about a dozen eggs with some cream and tossed in chopped green peppers and onions. I topped it with some shredded cheese and shredded potatoes and baked it in a 350 degree oven until it was cooked through.
Night Three
We had crispy salmon burgers with steamed carrots, broccoli and sauerkraut. To make it, I just smashed a couple cans of salmon with eggs, salt, pepper, chopped onions and coconut flour. I fried it up in my cast iron skillet with a little coconut oil.
Night Four
We had potato soup. I simmered some potatoes, onions and fresh garlic with bone broth. I used the chicken bones to make bone broth in the Instant Pot.
Night Five
I made up a skillet dinner with sautéed carrots, zucchini and onions. I threw in some quinoa, cooked in bone broth, leftover chicken, scrambled eggs and coconut aminos. Sometimes I add a little ground ginger but I didn't have any.
Night Six
We had meatloaf, crispy potatoes, green beans and sauerkraut. I made the meatloaf in the same way as the salmon burgers, with eggs, chopped onions, salt, pepper and coconut flour. I even snuck in some leftover sweet potatoes. ;)
Night Seven
I forgot to thaw my meat in the fridge, which is basically the most important tip in my 5 Tips for Healthy Meals Every Night Without Planning. Whoops! But even with this recklessness, all is not lost. I threw a frozen solid chicken in the Instant Pot for an hour. I removed it from the bone and tossed it in the cast iron skillet with butter and seasonings, to flavor it up a bit. I made a little avocado dressing with avocados, apple cider vinegar, milk kefir, garlic, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper.
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I am in awe of you. You are a wife, mom of five, business owner and blogger/vlogger but you aren't a planner and yet you seem so organized. Amazing. May I just say that I really like your channel. It's informative, entertaining and professional with out being too over done. Don't know if I am conveying this properly but some RUclipsr's are so over the top that it's like they are a television show with a script. You come off as being everyone's neighbor. Don't ever get rid of the sound of your children in the background, it makes your vlogs relatable.
Aw! Thank you so much, Stefanie! That is so sweet 😊
Perfectly said!!
Yes, I agree with you wholeheartedly!
Agree completely.
most certainly agree
Love your no nonsense approach to getting things done! Cooking dinner does not have to be some complicated ordeal, I'm afraid things like Pinterest overwhelm women to the point of paralyzation, getting back to the simple ways our grandmothers feed a nation would do us all good!
Thank you so much!
Shari B
yes! So yes. I’ve learned so much from my grandmother who was raised by her grandmother. So I LOVE picking her brain, while I still can. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Shari B It does my heart good to hear young women going back to the ways of the grandparents in terms of frugality and simplicity. I love to look at Pinterest too but keeping up with all of that is overwhelming. Looking at Pinterest is all I do and very occasionally I add a recipe to my box. Learning to cook, bake proper and simple is such an amazing skill that pays off in so many ways! Loved this video. I am older and even I learned a few things here! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Totally disagree. Pinterest is what you make of it. I am in my mid thirties and that is where I have actually found the older generations time honored recipes. What is lost on youth, can be found in Pinterest. It's only complicated if you are looking for it to be.
JENJENBOBEN i had to stop getting on Pinterest because i usually get so overwhelmed. I'm sure there are great things on there but it's just not for me
I love the way you build meals one on top of another; incorporating leftovers (like the bone broth) all throughout the week. Very enjoyable video!
This is my first time to comment. I love all your videos, but this one was so very helpful. Please, please, do this again on another week of meals. Can't wait.
Thank you! I will put it on the list!
In Brazil most of our meals are have the same building block, you just add to it depending on whats available to you so they tend to be pretty simple and easy to make. Just rice and beans and then the meat and vegetables you have. The beans are usually cooked once a week, too. It'seasy because you always know what you're making and there's no fuss. I never saw anything that was simple like that in any foreign youtube channel before so I find your video really nice to watch. It's not the same but the simplicity is there and that's so comforting, really.
Try using chick pea flour too, Bob's Red Mill makes some. You've inspired this 53yo and given new vigor to my home! Monday bough 2 cast irons, last night made pickles, sour kraut and kimchi! Oh yeah! I'm doing it!! ✌🏼️
Wow! That's great!
Same. I just purged my kitchen of plastic items and extras that we really don't need.
You can even make chick pea flour by grinding the dried chick peas. ;-)
Me, too!
I meant about the purging and tossing/donating. Feels SO liberating.
Looks tasty and very healthy for your family! Thanks for a great video. So helpful. I have to tell you that you made mention a while back that you keep under ripe avocado in the fridge until right before you use them. This has been revolutionary to my household!! We have not thrown one a avocado since started doing this! Your videos are helpful in so many ways!!
Thanks!
This was great! You've even given me some idea's and we're plant based eaters. Thank you!
Love this! The "non-meal planning" idea is so much better for me during my son's hockey season. I was making things too complicated trying to come up with specific meal plans. I saw your other video and thought that was a much better idea. I have cooked more (and better) meals (and faster!) the last two weeks because of this. Thank you for sharing!
You're very welcome! I am so glad it helped!!!!
More videos like this, please! This has been so helpful. I am a Type A person but meal planning stresses me out! I'm going to try this way of cooking this week! Thank you for this video!
This is great. I would to see a week of your family's meal again
Great recipes!! Quick tip, you can place a kitchen towel underneath your wooden cutting boards to stop them from sliding while you chop your veggies :)
You're the real MVP and my hero. Thank you for reminding us that we don't have to over plan and strive for perfection.
Lisa, could you share what you eat for breakfast and lunch!! Love your videos!! I am so happy to see I am not the only one who gets very stressed with all the planning!!
Terri Chalnick just more or the same!
Yes, more videos like this please! I cook in a similar way and your channel inspires me to keep working towards my sustainable, debt-free life!!!
pretty cool seeing how different someones taste buds can be
This is great! Thank you! I've been implementing this method of non-meal-planning and loving it. I haven't made salmon patties in years. I'm going to pick up some salmon at Costco today and some coconut oil as well.
That's great! We love salmon patties!!
I enjoy this one very much! Very delicious ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! Keep the easy to follow recipes comin! I feel like I don’t know how to make a lot and your videos are great!
Thank you! I certainly will!
You have inspired me so much. I as of today found my nearest farmers market raw milk, yogurt to make and cream. I also want to get debt free and be more of a minimalist. Thank you for all your amazing ideas. You have changed my world around now. I wanted to be this way but didn't know how. Ty ty.
Can you pretty please do more of these? I'm currently binge watching all of your videos (love them all) and this one is one of my favourites! Thank you for sharing 😊
Just found you but I love your channel. I don’t plan meals but my dinners are as healthy. My husband is pretty picky he won’t eat certain things. I make a lot of Casserole meals. I love how old fashioned/basic/classic/normal you meals are. You are very encouraging!
This/you are a lifesaver. Dead set. I spend so much time pouring over Pinterest recipes trying to plan delicious and creative meals for my small family of 3. AND IT STRESSES ME OUT!! Basic, easy to make meals of meat and veg are ALL we need! My life is changed. You are my Goddess. Addicted to FOB and the simple life. Thank you, a million times.
So glad to help Kate!
Awesome i am a put together what i have on hand without a planner. It works for us... and as far as shopping like you've said before staple ingredients at home and in the shopping basket will draw out the meal for the day / evening without wasting or over buying... and for those that plan out whatever works best, go for it. Thanks always for sharing♡ always fun and simply lovely ♡ sweet evening to you and yours🍃🌼🍃
Thank you so much!
Excellent no nonsense approach, and everything looks nice and healthy. I won't get that much meat and sauerkraut into my kids, but the general idea of just doing what works on short notice really appeals to me. Thank you!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Yes! This is how I cook. Great video for others who get overwhelmed and make healthy cooking too complicated.
Love how you remind me that the answer is to keep it simple!
Instead of listening to music while I clean, I listen to your videos! I love them!
Thanks so much!
So thankful I found you! I cook like that too! My grandma did, and I’ve asked her so many questions to learn from her and her grandmothers wisdom.
I just love your vibe! Wish you were in the PNW, lol.
Looks good.
Aw, thank you so much!
I will be trying these recipes, thank you, PLEASE do more!
Fantastic Lisa~~ love every-one, so healthy and yummy- thank you so much for sharing your great dinners...
Thanks!
You take good care of your family, Lisa. You are a "Proverbs 31" woman. Loved every one of your meals.
Thank you so much!
Ok, Im so much more confident about weekly meals after watching this! Love your simple approach. Id love to see more videos like this😊
This is how my grandma and aunt cooked. And, it's how I cook. Uncomplicated, yet delicious (healthy) meals.
I do a similar patty with tuna -- I add either cooked rice or black beans to the mixture and a bunch of cilantro, and fry them up like small burgers. Delicious ! Another thing I try is fish tacos with canned tuna--super simple and fast.Just add pickled onion or your sauerkraut and it's a nice change from lettuce. The brine adds a little kick to them.
Everything looks really good!! I'm vegetarian, so, I especially liked all the veggies you did. I'll have to make the avocado dressing for sure.
I just love this! I am a planner, however some weeks I just don't feel like being a planner. This is so simple and inspiring. Please do more of these - I can't wait for your Spring version.
I was just thinking I should do another. So glad you find it helpful!
You are such a good inspiration for natural cooking! Since I've started following your blog, I've almost exclusively switched to just cooking in cast iron (I have 3 sizes), we don't even own a non-stick pan, and we have begun eating sauerkraut much more! < which is high in vitamin c, and natural probiotics. :) So, thank you so much!!! :)
You definitely make this look easy.
Thanks! I have had lots of practice :)
Just fond your channel - Absolutely love, love, love you philosophy and way of fuss free cooking!!!
Great video! A simple, healthy diet you seem to have achieved for you and your family. Thank you for sharing your ways!
I love your meal videos they give me such encouragement for feeding my own family. I was wondering if you could also make a video or a blog post on breakfast and lunches.
I'm with Heather. I'm a stay at home, homeschooling mom and we run out of good breakfast and lunch ideas.
Yes! I will put it on the list!!!!!
Amazing! Love the healthy ideas and tips. Thankyou for showing how easy healthy eating for a family can be.
Love this video!!!So smart in how you do meal planning! Lisa, thank you for sharing!♡♡♡
Love these tips and ideas!! Thank you. Can't wait for more! Holly
Thank you so much!
Doggone! I thought I was going to be a RUclips sensation with this video but you got to it first. 😂 It really is a great way, I think, to feed a family of any size!
Wagner Family i'm sure everyone would like to see your rendition as well!
Oh my goodness, I LOVE this! This is so my style of cooking! Simple, real, yummy food! Thanks for sharing! btw, I make kefir, kombucha, kraut and my own body products also. :)
You sound just like me!!
Farmhouse on Boone kindred spirits :)
Your meals are so simple and look delish!
Very inspirational will try some of these dishes thank you
I cook similarly. It doesn’t have to be hard and adding leftovers make it easier. If I make rice or pasta one night I’ll make a double batch for another night. Total time saver!
I love your simplistic meal prep ideas..
U cook like me! Almost. Im mostly paleo. But on thr fly too! Hate planning too much. Love your channel. Love your styletoo
I miss ALDI so much! We moved to a state that has NO ALDI. :-( I always saved so much time and money shopping there!
Hi Lisa!! Everything you made looks so yummy and easy to make, I cook the same way simple but yummy, you gave me some great ideas, would love to see more cooking videos from you :)
I'm glad your kids eat whatever healthy meals you fix. My kids always did too. But my grandson, who has been mainly raised by his mom (parents not together) is very picky eater. He is nine now and his father now has primary custody, which is my son who eats almost anything. LOL :) He and his wife are trying to encourage him to eat veggies but it's sometimes a struggle to say the least. He has leukemia and needs to be eating more healthy foods for sure. We see some improvement and we keep encouraging him to try new foods. He used to eat more fruits and veggies when he was younger when we had him at our house on weekends and other times, but I recent years he mainly just wants meats, fish, chicken, fries, corn, pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, pasta in the can, chips, crackers and sandwiches. He loves Chinese food but only the rice and meats. He will eat pasta with tomato sauce. I try to sneak with veggies in the sauce sometimes. He is very stubborn also. He does like yogurt with fruit mixed in it and I have finally gotten him to drink fruit smoothies. He does likes strawberries and jam. Do you have any suggestions on how to get a picky, stubborn kid to eat more veggies and fruits? I never really had that problem with my kids so I'm not sure what else to try except to encourage him to try things and sneak the veggies into foods when I think about it. I noticed you put the leftover sweet potato in the meat loaf. Good idea - never thought about doing that. Thanks, Concerned Grandmother in Asheville, NC - Margaret. P.S. I love your cooking style and your simple living videos. I was raised on a farm and my family did a lot of things from scratch. My dad always had a vegetable garden, we raised hogs and had chickens. I helped my mother can and freeze the veggies and still do. :) My grandmothers did the same. One of my grandmothers made liver mush from hogs liver and other parts of the hog. I know it's sounds gross but it's great fried up in a cast iron pan for breakfast, lunch or supper. My mother and I have always used the cast iron pans for cooking and baking. Homemade biscuits are the best baked in cast iron. Just crowd them in the pan - it's okay. We had lots of pickles, pickled green tomatoes, pickled corn, etc. If it could be pickled we ate it. LOL :) Do you ever make canned chow-chow with cabbage? That is my favorite thing. I am not much into sauerkraut but I'll eat it on occasion as I keep it in the fridge, mainly for my husband. Sorry - didn't mean to ramble on so much.
This video must have taken a long time to edit! You did an amazing job!
I loved seeing your meals since we have similar diets.
Thank you so much! This one did take a ton of work. Thanks for noticing that. :)
Love your videos! Nice to see someone actually cook like I do and not just microwave something or order takeout. But...I have to ask..what's with all the sour kraut, lol? Also, here's a quick go to recipe that my family loves: Potato, egg and onion. Basically a bag or red potatoes, baked and then cut thin thrown in a pan with some onion and a dozen eggs. Mix with a spatula while cooking to get the eggs to sort of act like glue. I season with salt and pepper and maybe some grated cheese...supe easy.
Sounds delicious!
I love your channel! 🌹🌹🌹
I love this so much. We eat little to no meat (I eat none) and my son has problems with eating dairy but I'm sure we can do similar with tweaks. I love your plan for keeping meat handy in the fridge thawed and I know it's a lot easier to make a great, filling healthy meal with meat so to not use it requires a little out of the box thinking. I will ponder on it.
Thanks!
Your food and style are IT!! Love it
Thank you!
Love your encouraging videos! I am so inspired to get better at providing healthy and good tasting meals! I appreciate you, Lisa! Blessings to you. :-)
Thank you so much!
Please please do more “what we eat in a week” videos! Cant het enough!
So good! Would love a post about your side options and how you make them!! I get stuck in the steamed veges every night.
Absolutely loved all the recipes! They look simple, delicious and nutritious! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much!
Wow! You are my absolute favorite youtuber!!! Very good information & motivation... You are a blessing! I like your simplicity... Keep these videos comimg please! God bless!
Thank you so much! That is so sweet to say. :)
I would love to see you do this again now it's your summer
Love this! Makes me want to get in the kitchen and start cooking! Thank you for inspiring us with new ideas on how to throw together quick, healthy,
delicious meals! Keep these kind of videos coming!! :D
I'm a new subscriber, and I've been trying to get caught up on all of your videos!! I absolutely love your channel. My family and I live pretty much the same way, although I would like to be a lot more like you. I need to can more, and prep more, and DIY more! 😁.
My grandmother is 76 years old now, and has been making sauerkraut for 50 years! Most of my family loves it... I don't... Ha! But I love all of the ideas!!
Thank you so much for following along Abbey!
Farmhouse on Boone I've loved all of the videos!!! They're everything I love, and they've gotten me back into sewing! 😊😁
Yum! Everything looks so wholesome and simple! Love how you reused the chicken bones from earlier in the week. That stir fry looks so delicious! I have coconut oil, but have actually never cooked with it! I really want an instant pot!
Hey!
Thank you so much!
Everything looked great! Wonderful ideas. You are truly in my opinion the most talented person. You remind me of Martha Stewart. The abilities that you have I mean. So much talent! You work so hard and you've posted like twenty videos since your baby has arrived! Non-stop inspiration to us all!! thanks so much for sharing. Janet
Thank you so much!
Please do a lunch version!
This is so helpful. Thank you! I desperately want to feed my family healthy food, but all my go to meals are unhealthy lol.
If there is a way to show you our meals (Mediterranean) you”ll be amazed how different 😏 I like that every meal there is a veggie 😘
I would like to see more of these please and thank you
Love this!!!!!!! Please keep doing this kind of video! It’s so helpful
Thanks!
Great meals!
Please do more of this type of video!
Love all your light blue tops and hair. Beautiful
Can you do more of these?? I really enjoy them.
You really are amazing!
Such easy simple recipes! I always stress that I don't meal plan but your recipes are so simple that it doesn't take a lot of planning really. Do you have go to recipes that you use a lot?
I just make the same stuff over and over. Some kind of meat and lots of veggies, or potatoes. I hardly do recipes at all unless I'm making muffins or something.
So awesome Lisa! I loved this video! I take the same approach to meal planning as you and try to incorporate as many veggies as my kids will eat into meals. However, I don't serve sour kraut with every meal ;)
Thanks!
Brand new subscriber here... found your channel by chance. Love what I have seen and can't wait to see more!
Hi. I just found your channel, too---And I am in need of like 5 videos a week. 😂
Love your content and your family. XOXO
Aww thanks Sarah!
Could you please do a video about your chickens. What kind you have and type of chicken coop.
Yes! I will put that on the list! Thank you!!!
I just discovered your wonderful channel too. I eat little to no meat so would love to see more vegetarian inspired meals.
Excellent meals, Lisa. Thank you!!!
Thanks!
This is exactly how I cook.
Ok....that was wonderful. Just found you and I’m so glad.
That was fun to watch Lisa, great job on the video.
Thanks!
Easy peasy...simple and yummy meals. Thanks
You're welcome!
you are fantastic!
Love these and they are so helpful!! Thank you !!
You are amazing and inspiring.
Thank you so much!
I loved your video!! Would love if you could film a breakfast one!
Wondering if you have a picky eater in your family....any ideas? - BTW in love with your channel 😍
I'd love to see more of these!!
Tfs.
Please tell me how you get your children to eat this nice healthy food. 😊
I like to add Old Bay seasoning to my salmon cakes when I make them.
Yours look delicious, just look like my mom's used to.
Lisa, You make cooking look so easy! I can clean a house like crazy but cooking has always intimidated me. Any suggestions?