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Jon Acuff

Jon Acuff

Jon Acuff’s blog, Stuff Christians Like, is a hilarious twist on the funny side of faith that challenges thinking people with brilliant wit and a side-hug. eMeals has the distinct honor of sponsoring SCL, but it was all his idea to launch his 90-Day Challenge to “Bring Dinner Back” to his family table and challenge his readers to accept the challenge along with him. Jon is posting as our guest about his adventure on our blog every Friday, so we just went ahead and added him as one of our authors!

Jon Acuff: eMeals Makes My Pants Fit

April 16, 2012
By Jon Acuff | eMeals Guest Blogger - jonacuff.com

Now I need to be smarter about what I eat. At one point I wasn’t and my wife said, “We can’t keep buying you new pants.” She was right. We didn’t need a line item for “bigger pants” in our budget. I needed to make healthier food decisions, which eMeals makes incredibly easy.

They have a whole section of meal plans that are diet specific. From Gluten Free to Vegetarian to Portion Control, they’ve got me covered. (No word yet if they’ll take my suggestion of a section called “Nashville Skinny Jeans,” but a guy can dream.)

The meals are delicious, the plans are super cost effective and at the end of the day, my pants fit.

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Fast Meals, Slow Dinner

January 12, 2012
By Jon Acuff | eMeals Guest Blogger - jonacuff.com

Before I met the E-Mealz team I’d never written about food. I’d never talked about recipes. I’d never tweeted about ingredients. I thought saffron was something you made sweaters out of. Like cashmere. I’m not a food blogger. So then why was 2011 such a fun year for me with E-Mealz? Because E-Mealz is bigger than just food. It’s about family.

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{Jon Acuff} Bringing Dinner Back Week #12 ~ The problem with perfect

April 21, 2011
By Jon Acuff | eMeals Guest Blogger - jonacuff.com

This is the last week of the dinner challenge! I can’t believe it’s already been three months since we started looking at the reasons dinner as a family is such an important thing to do. From dealing with technology to pop culture and our kids, to finding kitchen utensils that make the most sense for you, we’ve covered a lot of ground. Today, in our final post, I want to talk about one of the biggest things that keep people from having dinner together. What we learned: Waiting for perfect, just keeps you waiting. One of the greatest enemies of [...]

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{Jon Acuff} Bringing Dinner Back Week #11 ~ The Warning

April 15, 2011
By Jon Acuff | eMeals Guest Blogger - jonacuff.com

Week 11 of the dinner challenge is here! We are on the home stretch of our commitment to eat dinner together. After weeks of talking about lessons I’ve learned at the table, I thought it might be good to talk about something a little different. How to get your family to the table. What we learned: Everyone needs a two-minute warning. It’s fun to talk about the beautiful things that can happen when you sit around the table. The laughter, the lessons, the moments of family connectedness you might miss otherwise if you don’t eat dinner together. But how do [...]

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{Jon Acuff} Bringing Dinner Back Week #10 ~ What’s your story?

April 8, 2011
By Jon Acuff | eMeals Guest Blogger - jonacuff.com

We’re already at week 10 of the dinner challenge! This week, in the midst of moving to a new house, my wife and I made a decision that is going to impact a lot of our other decisions. What we learned: We want to make lore decisions. A few months ago, my wife and I started looking for a house to buy in Franklin, Tennessee. When you read that sentence, it sounds like a simple process, but let me assure you, it is not. For some reason, the entire population of Franklin, Tennessee has never been made aware that the [...]

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Bringing Dinner Back Week #9 – Later is a land of make believe.

April 1, 2011
By Jon Acuff | eMeals Guest Blogger - jonacuff.com

We’re already at week 9 of the dinner challenge! We only have a few more weeks until we wrap up this culinary crusade, this food fiesta, this meal mission as it were, if you’ll allow me a ridiculous amount of alliteration. This week, I was reminded of something that’s true of kids and spouses. What is it? The land of later is a myth. What we learned: Dinner is about now. I had a job a few years ago where I had to work 60 hours a week. They never said that, that number was never written down on a [...]

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{Jon Acuff} Bringing Dinner Back Week #8 – The Rewind Button

March 25, 2011
By Jon Acuff | eMeals Guest Blogger - jonacuff.com

Week 8 of the dinner challenge is here, which means two solid months of focusing more on getting together as a family or couple! Some weeks, our family has knocked it out. During other weeks, the push and pace of life has pulled at the seams of our dinner commitment. This week, I was reminded of why it’s important to keep focused on our family. What we learned: There is no rewind button. Last week, I asked my 7-year-old daughter L.E. at dinner who Justin Bieber is. She crunched her face up in concentration and replied, “I think he’s a [...]

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{Jon Acuff} Bringing Dinner Back Week #7 ~ Dinner is a catapult.

March 18, 2011
By Jon Acuff | eMeals Guest Blogger - jonacuff.com

We’re perfect parents. We never make mistakes and our kids always clean their rooms and get straight A’s in school and have bright white teeth that will never need braces. Not really, but that’s often the assumption I make about every other parent in the world. They know some trick, they have some special formula, they’re perfect parents and I’m just Jon.

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{Jon Acuff} Bringing Dinner Back Week #6 ~ The thing about knives.

March 11, 2011
By Jon Acuff | eMeals Guest Blogger - jonacuff.com

Week 6 of the dinner challenge is here! After a pitiful showing by me last week, I’m back with a better record. And a new story about something I learned in the kitchen. Something I never expected. Something that surprised me. I’m talking about knives.

What we learned: Smart lessons about sharp knives

I’d love to exaggerate and say that I’m one of those husbands who regularly cooks dinner. I’d like to pretend that sometimes I just surprise the whole family with a soufflé I baked. Or that for our anniversary I put together some sort of seven course meal by hand. Seasoned with love.

But the truth is, I am a rank amateur when it comes to cooking. I can barely scramble an egg. I am lost in the kitchen. In college I once ate jalapeno poppers for three months straight. Then, I met E-Mealz.

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Bringing Dinner Back Week #5 ~ The truth about stale cake.

March 4, 2011
By Jon Acuff | eMeals Guest Blogger - jonacuff.com

My wife does not measure calories. She has not been known to count the number of legumes in each recipe she makes. We have very few conversations about the amount of lycopene we eat. But she does have one rule when it comes to eating healthy:

Life is too short for stale cake.

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