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1 Week Meal Plan (5 Dinners)

May 13, 2021 by Annie Chesson 2 Comments

This one week meal plan includes 5 dinners, links to each recipe, and a printable grocery list! Let me make your meal planning easy for you!

Hey friends! I'm here with another week of meal plans! What we've got: 5 dinnersLinks to each recipePrintable grocery list There's also a grocery list for each individual recipe under each picture in case you want to pick and choose just a few. I know meal planning is a DARK EVENT for many of you each week - let me do the work for you! We try to eat meat only a 2-3 times a week if we ...

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My Life in Pictures

April 22, 2021 by Annie Chesson 2 Comments

My Life in Pictures

Hey internet friends! I have been so MIA since February, so I thought it would be fun to do a mini photo-dump from the past few months to give you a quick update on life (not that a whole lot has changed πŸ™‚). But just to give you some insight into our life since February! Insight 1 πŸ‘†πŸ». Being outside. Since the weather has turned warm (THANK YOU LAWD), we have been outside as much as we possibly ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Parenting, Random Tagged With: boy mom, kids, life in pictures, life update, parenting, photo dump, random, stay at home mom, toddler mom, toddlers

Quality Time Schedule For Couples

December 30, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Quality Time Schedule for Couples - Prioritize your quality time with your partner instead of scrolling through social media and realizing it's almost time to go to bed! This downloadable, printable schedule will give you varied, intentional quality time ideas for every week night!

Let me paint you a little picture here of an average evening - I've been spending the day with a pack of adorable, tiny humans, we get them all tucked in to bed, shut their doors, and breathe a lovely sigh of success for wrapping up another day with them. Maybe it was life-givingly awesome, maybe it was a giant dumpster fire, maybe it was a constantly fluctuating mix of both (almost always), but ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Marriage Tagged With: date night in, marriage, marriage and parenting, married with kids, parenting, quality time, quality time ideas, quality time ideas for married couples, quality time when you have kids

1 Week Meal Plan (5 dinners)

December 10, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Meal Plan + grocery list for one week of meals! Includes 5 dinners.

Hey friends! Do you meal plan? I am not usually a huge planner with things - more of a "fly by the seat of my pants" kinda gal, BUT if I don't meal plan, and I try to go to the grocery store without knowing exactly what I'm buying groceries to make that week, you'd think I was there to rob the grocery store versus buy food based on how anxious I feel. It's not good. I get super overwhelmed trying ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Dinner, Extras, Meal Plans Tagged With: grocery list, meal plan, meal plan guide, meal plan with grocery list, planned dinners, week of meals

A Shift

December 7, 2020 by Annie Chesson 6 Comments

Happy Monday, internet friends! Please enjoy this picture of my painfully adorable baby + a side of under-eye mascara residue from the day before. Coming at you today with something different. I'm just going to jump right in and share my heart a little bit in regards to this blog. The Garlic Diaries is six years old as of this past September (which is crazy to think about), and it has brought ...

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Back from Maternity Leave!

October 6, 2020 by Annie Chesson 2 Comments

Back from Maternity Leave - TheGarlicDiaries.com

Hi, friends! It feels great to be "talking" to you again after twelve weeks! It's such a blessing to be able to take as much time off blogging as I feel that I needed and wanted after baby girl arrived. That flexibility is one of my favorite parts of this wonderful thing that I'm lucky enough to call "my job." But I'm so happy to be back now! I've been itching to get back into things for weeks, ...

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April Chats!

May 5, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

April Chats - TheGarlicDiaries.com

Hello everyone! Happy May! Now that we've wrapped up April, I wanted to pop on and do my little monthly chat with you lovely people. I wish you could sit across from me and we could chat and catch up in person, preferably with a large glass of icy whipped coffee in front of us (have you seen the whipped coffee trend?? Have you tried it?? I like it, but it's SUPA rich). This has been such a ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Parenting, Random Tagged With: chats, life chats, quarantine, The Garlic Diaries, updates

10 Perfect Shelter at Home Recipes

April 21, 2020 by Annie Chesson 1 Comment

We’re all sheltering at home right now - aka quarantining - and these recipes are perfect for this strange time! All one pot, many under 30 minutes, lots with just a few ingredients, ALL crazy, crazy simple and easy. Because the last thing you need right now is to be stressed about dinner time! TheGarlicDiaries.com

What a weird time we are living in right now, right? Staying in my house, back yard, and neighborhood sidewalks is becoming my normal and no longer feeling weird because we're a month + in at this point. Zoom hangouts with life groups and mom groups is becoming my norm. Streaming church on Sunday is starting to not feel unusual. That doesn't mean it's all easy and I'm not ready for things to go ...

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Filed Under: Extras, One Pot Meals Tagged With: easy recipes, meal planning, meal prep, one pot recipes, quarantine recipes, quick and simple, round up

Peace Amidst Chaos

March 24, 2020 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Starting off with a peaceful picture of a cuddling little boy to enforce the "Peace" in the title 😌! I've been off the blog for a few weeks while one of our sons had a horrible case of hand, foot, and mouth - he was taking every single little speck of my attention, so I had to take a little breaksie on this end! It has felt weird to be disconnected from the blog with everything going on in the ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Parenting Tagged With: anxiety, coronavirus, covid-19, life, stress

February Chats

March 3, 2020 by Annie Chesson 3 Comments

Starting it off on the happiest, cutest note with this little babes πŸ‘†πŸΌπŸ˜ Happy end of February/beginning of March, everybody!! Woooohoooo this means spring and warm weather are almost here!!!!! **Violently shoves sweaters and pants into back of closet and pulls out shorts and t-shirts** I'm only mildly excited for some outside time. This has been a CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY month, people. Mostly it ...

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Filed Under: Extras, Random Tagged With: coffee date, extras, life chats, random, updates

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Annie Chesson
I am a passionate Christian, wife, cooking addict, and mom to the two sweetest boys in the world! Join me in my journey to create delicious, flavorful food. More About Me...

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