Family Spice Recipes, Meal Planning & Fitness Advice
Welcome to Family Spice!
What in the world is Family Spice? Well, in a nutshell, this is your source for help with your family's meals, fitness advice, nutrition questions, easy gardening tips, great shopping deals, and everything else a busy family needs.
Family-Friendly Recipes
Nutritious Meals
Family Spice was created by a group of mother's who learned the challenges in preparing a healthy, family-friendly meal. It's easy to get discouraged after slaving away creating your culinary delight, just to have your picky eater dissect it and proclaim, "This is gross!" How many times do you find yourself reaching for pre-packaged foods, from macaroni and cheese to chicken fingers, and say to yourself, "These foods aren't nutritious, but there's no fighting at dinner time!" Sugar is hiding in so many of the pre-packaged foods. You can find it in spaghetti sauce, yogurt, and breads, to name a few. Family Spice's dietician, Apameh Bashar RD, C.NSD, will help guide you through the labels and confusion, and point you to a healthier direction. With our ever-growing collection of recipes, you will get your family's meals back on the healthy track! Each recipe will include nutrition facts and will be labeled under a number of health categories, including heart-healthy, low-calorie, low carb to name a few.
Easy-to-Follow Recipes
Have you ever made a meal and half-way through the recipe you realized you missed a step? All of our recipes are easy-to-read and are written in a step-by-step format. Pictures of the final meal are included, as well as pictures showing you crucial steps along the way. Don't get lost in a sea of words again!
Cooking Tips
New to cooking and you need a little guidance? Don't know your anise from your turmeric? Coming later this year, we will have a glossary of ingredients so you can learn everything about pomegranate, fava beans, cilantro or saffron! We will also provide easy-to-follow directions on many cooking tricks, like the best way to dice an avocado.
Meal Planning
"Who has time to cook?"
"What do I need to buy this week?"
Save time and create less stress in your life with Family Spice's Meal Planning. Coming later this year, our recipe collection will be available for subscribers to plan their family's weekly menu. Why pay someone else to tell you what to eat? Who knows better than you what your family likes to eat? Our meal planning service gives you luxury to pick and choose your menu, and we'll even provide you with a grocery list, with all the ingredients from the recipes you selected tallied up.
Exercise
With young children in the house, who has the time to workout? Who has the money to spend on babysitters or gym day-cares? Or hearing your name called on the loud speaker asking you to claim your screaming child and remove him/her from your gym's day-care service? Family Spice's personal trainer, Hengameh Bashar, has created 3 great workouts that target your entire body, including your stomach, thighs, butt, and arms. Our workout-sheets provide you with easy-to-read instructions and easy-to-follow pictures that explain how you can exercise with perfect form. You can take them to the park, to your yard or in your house, anywhere your little one's are playing and you can finally get back into shape. Check it out!
Easy Organic Gardening
Teach your children how easy it is to put together a kitchen garden. Whether you are working in containers or have room for a farm in your yard, our gardening tips will help you create your own piece of heaven. Children really are amazed when they see what can grow from a simple seed. And many children are turned on to eating fresh fruits and vegetables when they grow it themselves. Coming later this year, Family Spice will help you learn gardening tricks like saving your favorite tomato seeds to grow next season or how to grow potatoes in a trash can!
Save Money
With high gas prices and the rising cost of food and goods, most families are on a tight budget. But, how would you like to know where you could get toothpaste for free? How about ice cream for a quarter? Need make-up for a fraction of the cost? The Family Spice Bargain-Seeking-Mom is on the case! From on-line deals or bargains at your local pharmacy, we'll help you get something for close to nothing! Combine your newspaper coupons with on-line coupons, mix in some other great tricks of the bargaining trade and you are ready to get a month's supply of cereal for less than $5!
Articles
Look through our articles directory and learn tips about nutrition, fitness, cooking, birthday parties, holiday crafts, staying organized and more!
Let Family Spice guide you through the chaos of a happy family life. Whether you are a new mother, a family of three or even more, Family Spice has something for you. Bring sanity back into your life with Family Spice.
Have any questions? Send us an email: Laura AT familyspice DOT com