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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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Happy 1st birthday to our John “Jack” Loren! Our sweet, happy boy, my Velcro baby (don’t want that to end 🥹), go-with-the-flow, tender child. Jack is the apple of his siblings eye, constantly loved, held, played with and fawned over. When he’s not on my hip, he’s off moving like crazy, faster at everything than his brother and sister were, in order to keep up with them. I already know he’s going to be a wild child, like his sister, but in a fearless “leap without looking” way, a chatterbox like his big brother and he’s the hungriest baby I’ve ever seen, don’t let his size fool you. Jack has taught me so much as a mother. I’ve learned to slow down, to embrace every moment knowing how fast it goes, to not stress over the little things, to laugh off so much more than I used to, to release control and savor where we are right now. I can’t express the happiness I feel watching my three children enjoy each other the way they do; they are the best of friends and love one another so deeply. Baby Jack (I think he will be called that until he’s a grown man at this point) you are a precious gift from God and we love you so very, very much!!! I can’t believe you’re one, but I can’t wait to see who you become 🤍
Our “official” first day of the school year! Homeschool year 2 for our family—Hayes is finishing up a Kinder-prep course then we dive into Kindergarten and Hallie is doing some preschool workbooks! While she’s a bit young for school, sister has major FOMO and can’t be left out, so we are celebrating her first year! I have no doubt they will both be teacher’s pet and little brother is there for moral support ❤️ We kicked off this season with special breakfast (@thepioneerwoman oatmeal jam bars + sausage patties), a field trip into the city to the Museum of Natural Science, a Costco run, homemade pizza night, matching back-to-school pajamas and I introduced the kids to a millennial cinema classic: High School Musical 🎶🏀 Still makes me laugh that I’m a homeschool mom, but I am so incredibly thankful that we can pursue this route of education for our family. It is a blessing to all five of us and I’m so grateful for the gift of spending my days with my children! Love my little students!! 🍎✏️📚 and why do they look so grown 🥲 also need to grease Hayes’s bike per his school prayers for the year.
Let’s love to cook this school year! 🍎✏️📚 From high school to homeschool to Mother’s Day out and every grade/age/stage in between, your kids need dinner and you need to be rescued from the “what’s for dinner” recipe rut. For the whole month of August, all recipe collections are 50% off!! There are 3 volumes of A Month of Dinner, each features one month of weekly dinner recipes, pre-made grocery lists and a treat. The recipes are easy, healthy home cooking and use simple ingredients you can get from any grocery store—be it Whole Foods or Walmart. The meals are all toddler and “hungry-husband” tested and approved by my own family. No need to make 5 different meals, make one for the whole fam! Freezer-meals, dinners that you can take on the go between practices, ways to repurpose leftovers, lunch ideas, instructions on how to adapt for dairy and/or gluten free (also very allergen-friendly as we have food allergies), no seed oils, food dyes or other junk, just good, wholesome meals to nourish your family. Grab each volume as an individual, downloadable PDF (under $10!) to have on your phone for on-to-go access, all 3 in a combined digital e-book or a paperback book with all 3 volumes to keep in your kitchen! I have a Fall & Winter Collection and a Holiday Collection that don’t have grocery lists but are great seasonal dishes for colder months and all your winter holiday gatherings. They’re available as a combined paperback “Seasonal Recipe” book and individual digital e-books (less than $8!). The Tortellini Soup recipe in the Fall & Winter Collection is not to be missed 🍂😋 Over 100 recipes and 3 months of weekly grocery lists to help make cooking a tasty, healthy dinner feel doable this school year! These are recipes for real life 🙌🏻 50% off sale ends 8/31, no code needed! Everything available at letslovetocook.com 🍋🌿
Our Hallie Mae is 3! 💕🎂🎀 She’s our spitfire, wild, hilarious, fun girl who has the most nurturing and loving heart. She’s 10x tougher than the boys and is the perfect mix of tomboy and girly-girl. One minute she’s decked out in camo, brother’s jeans and some boots, ready to play in the dirt (or start a fight), the next she’s in a dress, bow and her white church shoes. I call her Mamacita because she takes the best care of her baby brother (never afraid to tell me I’m doing it wrong) and is obsessed with babies, her intuition blows me away. She makes us laugh every single day, she keeps us on our toes every single day and she gives us endless snuggles, love and affection. I am so, so proud of my best girl and so incredibly grateful to be her mother. We love you so much Hallie girl, you are a gift from God!!! 🩷