With the New Year we’re thinking about health and ways to make smart choices to live out our best healthy lifestyle as a family; and it’s not just me, I want it to trickle down to my kids. One way I plan to do this in 2020 is through family snack & meal planning. This entails more than just the menu planning & grocery shopping, but involves prepping foods when we get home from the grocery store & keeping our fridge stocked with ready to eat snacks & meals. I know it makes a difference when I have fruits & veggies washed and cut or when I prepare a bunch of meat to eat throughout the week. When the kids or myself want a snack, it’s ready and it’s not easier to just grab a bagged snack from the pantry, it’s easy to pop open cucumbers that are cut up and ready to eat! I also want to make smarter choices to create less waste. That means less baggies, foil & saran wrap, especially in regards to kids snacks & meals when we are on the go.