Healthy family food, back on the table.
Once a beloved mom's kitchen journal, now an editorial archive: the best recipes — paleo, Weight Watchers, freezer-friendly — rewritten, retested and updated.
From the archive
Our story →
Going Primal — with the Paleo Chili That Started It All
The 2011 post about switching to paleo, including the slow-cooker paleo chili that other bloggers kept linking to.
Homemade Chicken Fajitas — Freezer-Dish Worthy
A make-ahead family favorite: seasoned chicken strips you can cook tonight or freeze for a busy weeknight.
Weight Watchers BBQ Cheese Meatloaf
Lean beef, smoky BBQ glaze, melted cheddar — comfort food that still fits the plan.
Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming
The 2010 post with the chicken parmesan readers still remember.
Top 10 Paleo Websites — Updated for 2026
The classic 2011 roundup, revisited: which paleo resources survived, which are archived, and what is worth reading now.
In the kitchen
Family dinners
The weeknight rotation that made this blog a bookmark favorite: one-pan chicken dinners, slow-cooker staples, and freezer-friendly dishes you can cook once and serve twice. Real ingredients, realistic prep times, no culinary degree required.
Try the chicken fajitas →Paleo & primal
The blog went primal in late 2011 — and the experiments that followed (including the paleo chili fellow bloggers kept linking to) became some of its most-referenced posts. We kept the winners, updated the sourcing, and marked what the years proved right.
Read Going Primal →Lighter comfort food
Comfort food that fits the plan: the Weight Watchers-era recipes, from BBQ cheese meatloaf to lighter takes on classics. Points-style values are estimates, the flavor is not — these dishes earned their links the honest way.
See the BBQ meatloaf →From the blog
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The Scale Is Not a Laboratory
A kitchen scale gets bought for precision and put away by December, because precision was never the job. Notes on the three things it actually does — and on the archive's cups, which are better left alone.
The Step That Looks Like a Mistake
A re-test of the archive's chicken fajitas, and the fifteen minutes at the end that decide whether you get fajitas or cooked chicken with peppers beside it.
Finish It Somewhere Else
A dish travels better when it isn't finished before it leaves the house. Notes on heat, containers, and the last step that belongs to somebody else's kitchen.
Why keep a food blog alive?
Because good recipes don't expire. Since 2009 this little blog has published hundreds of posts, and the best of them — the chicken fajitas, the paleo chili, the BBQ meatloaf — are still exactly what a busy family needs on a Tuesday night.
For years those recipes travelled mainly through fellow bloggers' links and readers' bookmarks. Here they keep their place at the table: same dishes, rewritten in a modern recipe format, checked against current food-safety guidance, and updated where a decade of cooking wisdom suggested a better way. The giveaways and diary entries stayed in the past — the food is what mattered.
Everything here follows our editorial policy: no health promises, clear ingredients, safe temperatures, and honest notes when a nutrition figure is just an estimate.