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Dinner made easy.

Cooking dinner at home can be so overwhelming! The grocery shopping, the time, the planning, the expenses and the cooking, it can feel like a chore.

This is why I wrote A Month of Dinner, to help make dinner easier for the everyday cook. I want to help you cook at home more by saving you time, money and sanity!

A Month of Dinner is more than a collection of recipes and pre-made grocery lists, it's a tool in your kitchen to help make dinner approachable, affordable and delicious.

AMOD is more than just a cookbook

  • 4 weeks of dinner and dessert recipes per volume.
  • Pre-made weekly grocery lists that are budget-friendly and use ingredients you can find at any grocery store, no matter if you shop at Walmart or Whole Foods.
  • A “Pantry Staples” list of essentials to help you have a well-stocked pantry.
  • Weekly “Plan Ahead” tips to make the cooking throughout the week easier.
  • Coordinated ingredients to save you money.
  • Recipes that are easy to adapt for gluten-free and/or dairy-free needs.

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Love from happy chefs

It's an honor to be invited into your kitchen. Check out some of the kind words and testimonials from just a few of the happy chefs who are cooking with A Month of Dinner.

  • The best life hack

    "I was at a baby shower and was asked what my best life hack is and I said "A Month of Dinner!"

    Morgan

  • Spending has decreased

    "I will sing your praises! By using the cookbooks, my spending has decreased significantly and grocery shopping isn't as overwhelming. Thank you!"

    Sarah

  • A blessing

    "Thank you for taking the mental load of a healthy, at-home dinner off my plate. Your recipes are SO GOOD we haven't found a thing we don't like."

    Jessica

  • Excited for dinner

    These have brought me such joy to cook for my family using your cookbooks. I get excited for dinner now!

    Raquel

  • Picky eater approved

    "We are LOVING everything; the recipes are sooo good and I have a very picky eater to feed. It's helped us stick to our grocery budget, thank you for creating this!"

    Megan

  • Cooking is FUN

    "Your cook books have made life 10x easier and actually make cooking FUN!! My husband said this is the best dish I've every made."

    Mackenzie

  • Small town friendly

    "I am LOVING A Month of Dinner! I live in a tiny town and it's so nice to be able to find everything I need without substitutes. My husband absolutely raves about the recipes!"

    Emily

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May, you were filled with sunshine, tomatoes, lots of unplugged QT with friends and family, tons of read aloud time (a whole bunch of Magic Tree House make-believe for my little master librarians), cooking fun food, wrapping up our first t-ball season and our first home school curriculum and, as always, an overwhelming amount of love and gratitude for my little family 🍅🌞🧡
We are SO proud of Hayes for finishing his preschool course! 💙 He has worked so hard this year and truly loves to learn. Hayes has led the way for us in homeschooling and was so patient with me as we established a rhythm navigating our first year. Never in a million years did I imagine we’d be homeschooling our children, but what an absolute joy it has been for our family. Beyond just ABCs and 123s, Hayes learns about our faith and the love God holds for us, he learns about chores and hard work in his daily responsibilities, he learns how to cook, tend a garden and identify animal tracks, he learns about finances by doing things like using his birthday money to buy deer corn at Buc-cee’s, he learns how to be a good friend and teammate with our playdates and team sports, and, very naturally, he is the most wonderful, loving and helping big brother to his siblings. Homeschooling is all encompassing of our daily life and a gift that gives back to our entire family; I’m so thankful we have the opportunity to do it. We love you Hayes Reid! Onto Kinder-Prep! 🍎 ✏️ 📚
Summer Book Club Party #1: Charlotte’s Web! 🐖🕷️🕸️📚💛 A fun craft, a picnic, a movie (largely ignored for playing), mom time, kid time and quality time reading a classic chapter book to our children at home! 🥰 On to the next book: Little House in the Big Woods 🌲
Recipes recipes recipes! 🌿 Got around to typing up what might be our new summer go-to dishes that we enjoyed with friends and family last week 🌞 Asian-inspired chicken skewers Greek-ish beef kabobs Whipped ricotta with mint and hot honey Summer corn dip Easy chimichurri Kinda homemade pita chips I shared it all in a Substack post, happy to send you a link if you’d like the recipes! All very easy recipes with simple ingredients you can get any grocery store. I promise they aren’t fancy, there’s no fussy technique or skill required. Just real food, made from scratch 🍋 perfect for summer! I also shared some budget-friendly tablescape and entertaining finds, like those cute gingham paper plates I used! 🩷 Bon appétit!