Around My Family Table

I believe getting together around the supper table is important for all families. Let me help you get there faster with my quick and easy, family-friendly recipes.

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About Wendy

Welcome Friends!!!

AMFT is all about keto & weight loss. I’m just an everyday mom, so these recipes, tips, and support are just for you! I believe everyone is on their own keto journey (read more about my journey HERE), so it’s important to support each other where you’re at and not judge on how you do Keto for your weight loss and health journey.

I’ve just started working out consistently for the first time in 46 years, so I have plenty of tips for newbies to that space.

I share my goals, accomplishments, and my struggles plus how I’ve lost over 80 pounds while eating the best I have in years.

And if you didn’t know AMFT has been around for 12 years, so you’ll find some old content that might not fit the Keto/Healthy lifestyle.

side by side photos with 1 year of weight loss

side by side photos with 1 year of weight loss

Wendy O’Neal is the creator of the popular food, homemaking, and travel blog Around My Family Table and the author of Smoke It Like a Pit Master with Your Electric Smoker, Smoke It Like a Texas Pit Master with Your Electric Smoker, and Live Fire BBQ & Beyond. Her passion for sharing recipes and tips to help families gather around the supper table inspired her to begin the site in 2009. Wendy’s award-winning recipes have been featured on numerous online sites, including the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, FoxNews.com, MSN.com, Today.com, eHow, Epicurious, and many more. Wendy has also competed at the World Food Championships in the Food Blogger Division.

Wendy O'Neal is the owner and author of Around My Family Table. She is an Arizona blogger, conference owner, and published author.

I’m always in the kitchen! Always! That’s where the chocolate and Coke are hidden. I do come out occasionally to spend time with my 2 rambunctious kids and Hubbyman!

I have been cooking as long as I can remember. My mom taught me how to cook when I was younger and when I finally left home, I was able to prepare meals instead of boxed dinners or take out. I think this is what won my hubby’s heart. The recipes on AMFT are mostly from scratch and perfect for the whole family….even my picky kids have to give their approval before it gets posted for y’all!

I believe getting families around the dinner table for quality time is super important. That’s why even though I cook mostly from scratch, I do take the occasional short cut when in a time crunch (aka Karate nights, Boy Scout nights, and date nights). I try my best to feed my family healthy foods, but I also love to decorate cakes.

Wendy O'Neal -- Around My Family Table

I love to grind my own grains for breads, I raise chickens for fresh eggs, I have a bunch of fruit trees (we call it a mini-orchard), and I plan on starting a garden AGAIN this fall. I pretty much have a brown thumb, but I always have good intentions about having a garden. It’s just really hard here in the desert.

Wendy O'Neal is the owner and author of Around My Family Table. She is an Arizona blogger, conference owner, and published author.

I published Smoke It Like A Pit Master in October 2016 and Smoke It Like A Texas Pit Master in May 2018 and Live Fire BBQ & Beyond in April 2019.

In addition to recipes, I share our family travel adventures and homemaking tips and tricks. What started off as a fun place to put my ideas down for my friends has become my full time job and I love every minute of it.

Little known facts about me…

  • I’m a Native Texan, but call Arizona my home now.
  • I am a Christian.
  • I’m a lover of all things chocolate.
  • You will always find me with an Iced Tea or a Dutch Bros Coffee.
  • I married my high school sweetheart over 21 years ago…he is the love of my life.
  • I’m a stay-at -home mom.
  • My daughter has a food-dye allergy.
  • I refuse to touch dirty napkins or tissues. GROSS!
  • Before kids, I worked for the Arizona Supreme Court reviewing cases of kids in foster care for JV judges.
  • I store my sunglasses on top of my head and then forget where I put them (way too often).
  • I hate artichokes, sour cream, and flan.
  • I have 7 slow cookers and 4 pressure cookers that I love using…okay I’m slightly obsessed.
  • I love living in AZ where we can grill out 365 days a year (if I’m not using my slow cooker).
  • I could eat Mexican food all day, every day for the rest of my life.
  • My last meal would be Chicken Fried Steak, mashed potatoes with cream gravy, and fried okra. With a large Iced Tea.
  • I’m a former Girl Scout Leader and a former La Leche League Leader.
  • I co-own a hyperlocal site East Valley Mom Guide with my best friend and used to own/run a blogger conference, Blended Conference.

If you like what you see here, please follow me or send me an email (aroundmyfamilytable@gmail.com)

Happy Cooking!

~Wendy~

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Comments

  1. CollectiveFaith says

    July 16, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    Wendy, We would love to see your great articles on www.CollectiveFaith.com. Please join and share with our Christian Social Network.

  2. Leslie says

    January 15, 2015 at 8:35 pm

    Hi Wendy. My grand daughter is 8 years old. She has had a UTI since age three. Multiple trips to the doctors, three trips to the ER, and consults with two pediatric urologists have resulted in years of antibiotics with no success. She has exema that won’t heal up, chronic constipation, and daily accidents of wetting. My daughter took her off all the antibiotics about 2 years ago as they weren’t helping any way. In desperation, they have taken her to a holistic doctor who upon examining my grand daughter, said she is 5-10 years away from liver failure. She needs to be gluten free at least until she her urinary tract and intestines are healthy again. She is a very fussy eater and loves her peanut butter and jam sandwiches. I found your site when someone posted your gluten free flour mixture on face book. My son also had to go gluten free and as you can imagine it is the bread that is the biggest disappointment. I bought the flours yesterday at the health food store and want to begin trying to get a bread that is not dry and crumbly. Do you have a recipe you would be willing to share?

    • Leslie says

      January 15, 2015 at 9:05 pm

      I found it. I just had to keep going through the pages. Thank you. Looking forward to trying this.

  3. Nat says

    January 10, 2015 at 12:08 am

    Loving your recipes. So glad I stumbled on your blog.

  4. leanrunnerbean says

    July 20, 2014 at 2:57 am

    Hi Wendy, love your site – I can see I’m going to be spending a lot of time here, lol!

  5. Stephanie says

    May 26, 2013 at 11:35 am

    Wendy,
    I’m so happy that I found your site. I’m recently dealing with my daughter’s food allergies, and since I’m still nursing, I have the same elimination diet. It’s eggs, milk, oats and peanuts! I’m looking forward to exploring your site to help spruce up our meals! I’m totally in a rut making the same things over and over again!

  6. Shyxter says

    November 27, 2012 at 3:15 am

    Hello, Wendy! I am a stay-at-home mom too and I am very inspired by your passion to feed your family with tasty and healthy food. I am a struggling cook and I really want to learn how to prepare good food. I have always been busy with work but right now that I work from home, I want to do more things for them. And one of them is giving them delicious, home-made food 🙂 I’m so glad to have found your site. Thank you for all the things that you shared and will still be sharing. More power!

  7. Jenn (eating bender) says

    September 19, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    How wonderful to e-meet you! My husband and I are high school sweethearts, as well. Thanks again for the kind words on our move to AZ. I’m excited to read more of your posts!

  8. Sarah L says

    September 11, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    I have a comment about your giveaway page. Could you please have end dates on them and remove them from the page when they are no longer active? Great giveaways that I missed.

    • Wendy says

      September 11, 2012 at 7:36 pm

      Great idea! I will look into it. It would be a lot more work since right now it automatically loads everything, but maybe there is a way….

      Thanks Sarah!

  9. Mary@FitandFed says

    July 22, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    I’m impressed at all the from-scratch things that you do, like grinding your own grain, raising chickens, and having fruit trees! I was also an attachment parent and a LLL member. Your blonde toddler son is so cute. I’m glad that you are expanding your girl’s horizons with Girl Scouts, what a great organization. I wish there had been something like that for my family– I did not want to get involved with Boy Scouts due to their discrimination against gays. I guess Campfire Boys and Girls would have been an alternative for us, but I discovered it too late.

    • Wendy says

      July 23, 2012 at 7:41 am

      Thanks! I do love Girl Scouts and so does my daughter. We started off with fruit trees…super easy and as my beliefs about food have changed I started grinding my grains…adding chickens was fun for the kids. They are like pets. 🙂 Start small and with what’s important to you. It’s easier than you think.

  10. Nathan says

    July 19, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    Hi Wendy,

    I second @mdurbin’s suggestion – my wife has been involved with the American Heritage Girls for the past three and a half years and it has been awesome.

    -Nate

  11. mdurbin says

    May 26, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    As a Christian mom, you may want to check out American Heritage Girls. I don’t know if there are troops in your part of the country, but you maybe you could be the first!! It is a scouting option with a Biblical worldview.

  12. Mary Papoulias-Platis says

    May 14, 2012 at 4:33 pm

    Hi There!
    Boy, you’re a busy mom! Love your posts- NYC trip looked like a lot of fun and eating!
    It was great meeting you at Camp Blogaway! Let’s keep in touch,
    Mary

  13. Ami says

    May 1, 2012 at 6:57 am

    Hi! My girls have a reaction to foods with dye, behaviorally. Here is a list of foods that I have found that do not have dye:
    No dye foods:
    Cereal:
    Mom’s best- in organic section-
    mini wheat
    Mon’s best-lucky charms

    Bread:
    No corn syrup- Aunt Millie’s brand

    Yogurt:
    Simply Gogurt
    Kids Yogurt smoothies
    Dora yogurt
    Yoplait, except for keylime pie
    Kroger- all natural (6 pack)

    Sauces:
    No corn syrup-
    Barilla Spaghetti sauce
    All natural salsa
    All natural jam/jelly
    No preservatives- all nat. P. Butter

    crackers/ granola bars:
    White cheddar cheezits
    No pres. Organic nilla wafers
    Organic Teddy grahams
    Low Fat nutty bars
    Chewy granola bars
    Granola dipps
    Pepperidge Farm Colored Fish crackers

    Chips:
    Tortilla
    Blue chips
    Potato chips
    -plain
    -sour cream and onion
    Pretzels- plain
    All natural cheetos, doritos

    Pudding:
    pudding, other than chocolate and jello have dye
    Kozy Shack brand- No Dye!
    – comes in tapioca and chocolate

    Candy:
    Kit kats
    Peanut butter cups
    Hershey bars
    dove chocolate
    Naturalcandystore.com- best gummy worms! And they sell sundrops- mm’s dye free

    Cookies/treats:
    Motts, Wonka & Ocean Spray fruit snacks
    Oreos
    Chocolate chip cookies
    Fig newtons
    Kellogg’s rice crispy treats
    (all marshmallow brands have dye!)
    You can buy all natural,
    Or easy to make!
    Chocolate milk- Hershey’s

    Ice cream:
    All sherbet has dye
    Snapple freeze pops (next to the other freeze pops)- non-freezer section
    Breyers- all natural
    Edy’s
    -peanut butter cup,
    -Cookies and cream
    -chocolate chip
    -anything w/o dye
    Ice cream sandwiches
    Strawberry fruit popsicles
    100% all natural/ no pres. Popsicles
    Breyers all natural ice cream

    drinks:
    Capri suns
    Juicy juice
    Orange juice
    Clear Gatorade
    All natural- lemon lime

    Toothpaste:
    All natural – training- with other
    Adult brand- in organic section

    Kids vitamins:
    Princess- no dye, but high fructose corn syrup
    All natural- can be found with others
    Disney fairies- vitamins

    Medicine:
    No dye tylenol and motrin
    Ask for no dye antibiotic

  14. Robyn says

    April 15, 2012 at 5:15 pm

    Wendy

    Thank You for stopping by my blog.

    Sounds like you and I have a lot in common.
    Growing up Mom and I team cooked. We had so much fun in the kitchen!

    I prefer to cook and bake from scratch as well. I am baking more and more bread. I used to be scared to yeast; not any more! I make at least half of the bread we eat. I am not a huge bread eater but am addicted to homemade bread.

    One can’t beat farm fresh eggs. I have chickens. I enjoy them and the eggs.

    I, too, like to eat as fresh and from scratch as possible. Looking forward to following your blog.

  15. Monica says

    September 13, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    You sound familiar to me? Do I know you from somewhere else than blogging?

  16. MusingMom6 says

    August 18, 2011 at 7:48 am

    Love the recipes! Such a wonderful blog.

  17. Granny says

    April 8, 2011 at 9:35 am

    My, how time flies—in my minds eye I still see you as a little girl and now here you are, all grownup, cooking wonderful things, with a blog of your own. I am so very proud of you.

  18. Txazlady says

    February 28, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    Congratulations on winning Grand Prize in the PomWonderful cupcake contest. That is really great.

  19. william sawyers says

    January 9, 2011 at 11:40 am

    I liked your site from a children author of Concord, Ca.

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