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Our Mission
To help time-strapped families get wholesome, homemade meals on the table.
Our recipes, cookbooks, menu plans, and freezer cooking resources are all designed to help you:
- feed your family delicious, healthy meals
- save time in the kitchen
- save money by eating at home and cooking in bulk
- stress less about family meals
Ultimately, we want you to spend more quality time with your people so you can have a thriving home!
What sets Thriving Home apart from other food sites?
⭐️ Well-tested, family-friendly recipes. Writing two cookbooks and working alongside a reader testing team (of over 100 testers!) for years helped hone our recipe testing skills. Plus, our families are never shy to share their candid reviews with us. 😉
⭐️ Approachable recipes with recognizable ingredients you can find at the store or in your kitchen already. This makes them budget-friendly and easy to pull together for family meals.
⭐️ We use mostly whole food ingredients but take a few short-cuts when necessary. Our recipe collection is best described as “real food meets reality”. That’s because we totally get the life of a busy mom who also values feeding her family well!
⭐️ We teach freezer meal prep and include freezing/thawing instructions on every recipe we can. We’re passionate about this food prep method because it’s not only transformed how our own families eat (meals are healthier, less stressful, and more enjoyable), but it’s also changed thousands of our readers’ lives!
⭐️ We share FREE weekly and monthly menu plans to help families get dinner on the table with less stress.
What Readers Are Saying
“I’ve been following y’all for around 7 years. More than any other site—your recipes are my favorite. They always turn out great, and I regularly have at least two of your meals in my weekly rotation.”
– Mattie, Thriving Home reader
“I’ve been freezer cooking for years, but I love how well tested and streamlined these ladies have made everything. I haven’t found any other recipe (even one labeled as freezer-friendly) that is as reliable (or tasty) as theirs.”
– Meagan, Thriving Home reader
“Everything I’ve made from this site is so good. Never dull recipes!”
– Michelle A, Thriving Home reader
Meet Our Team
Polly Conner, Co-Founder & CEO
Polly Conner is passionate about helping busy parents get dinner on the table. With a house full of kids, dogs, and (usually) a DIY project in the works, she knows firsthand how every minute (and every dollar) counts. As a business owner, she enjoys wearing multiple hats and serves best as a project manager for Thriving Home.
Thriving Home recipes she makes the most:
Rachel Tiemeyer, Co-Founder & CEO
Rachel Tiemeyer dreams about creating recipes (literally) and uses her husband, her 3 kids, and even the neighbors as guinea pigs several nights a week. She believes that good food has the power to bring families and friends closer together and continues to wake up excited about her job each day, even after 13+ years!
Thriving Home recipes she makes the most:
Carla Fletcher, Admin
Carla joined our team in 2019, lending her vastly over-qualified admin and editing skills, as well as her freezer-cooking knowledge, to various Thriving Home projects. Fun fact: Carla was in a freezer club with Rachel from 2007-2013, where they both learned the art of freezer cooking together! She lives in Columbia, MO with her husband and three children.
Thriving Home recipes she makes the most:
FAQs
When our kids were very young, Polly, Rachel, and Carla participated in freezer clubs with friends. Every month we’d cook in bulk for all the families involved. (Polly did this for about 3 years, and Rachel and Carla for 7 years!)
Through trial and error and the pressure of cooking for other households at the same time, we honed in on how to create, package, thaw, and cook freezer meals that taste GOOD!
During those years, our eyes were opened to the awesome benefits of freezer cooking. It saved us money and time, reduced stress at dinnertime, and got healthy meals on the table fast.
Now, we’re all-in freezer cooking evangelists! We love developing freezer-friendly recipes and sharing freezer cooking know-how to make your life easier.
Polly and Rachel have published two cookbooks (Rodale Books) and sold over 45,000 copies. Both books include instructions for making every recipe as a fresh meal or as a freezer meal for later.
– From Freezer to Table (2017) – These are some of our Thriving Home classics.
– From Freezer to Cooker (2020) – Every recipe can be cooked in the slow cooker or the Instant Pot. (This one was a doozy to test and write!)
Our cookbooks are available at all online booksellers, including Amazon, Target, Walmart, Barnes and Noble, and more. 
These have been the most highly-trafficked recipes for years on end…
– Chicken Parmesan Casserole
– Autumn Chopped Salad with Apple Cider Vinaigrette
– 7 Best Chicken Marinades
– 7 Overnight Oats
– Italian Baked Chicken Thighs
– 5-Ingredient Breakfast Casserole
– French Dip Sandwiches
You’ll find a wide selection of easy, family-friendly recipes in our Recipe Index. The majority are freezer-friendly and many are gluten-free and dairy-free, too.
Printed Press
We’ve had many opportunities for printed press. Here are a few.
TV Appearances
Podcast Interviews
- Food Blogger Pro
- Liz’s Healthy Table
- Business with a Purpose
- Modern Motherhood
- Constantly Under Construction
- Dwell
- Rising Stories
- Ten Minute Bible Talks
- The Turquoise Table
- Feed Your Family Tonight
- Realistic Habits
- Going There
Connect with Us!
We’d love to connect with you. Here’s how:
- Subscribe to our newsletter for our latest recipes and best seasonal content delivered to your inbox.
- Follow us on Instagram and Facebook for behind-the-scenes, video tutorials, and more.
- Join our private “Freezer Foodies” Facebook group. This encouraging, super helpful community is a place to share your successes and ask questions.