Easy Family Recipes, Canning, Meal Prep & Holidays

Homemade should be joyful, not overwhelming. At Wholefully, I share easy family recipes, canning guides, meal prep tips, budget menu planning, and holiday traditions to make home cooking feel doable.

🎃 My Very Best Pumpkin Recipes

Ready to dive into the flavors of fall? Here are my 10 most popular pumpkin recipes of all time! No matter if you're looking for something sweet or savory, I got you!

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🛒 Learn the 5 ways I slashed my grocery budget in half!

FREE Budget Meal Planning Guide

Tips, recipes, and time-saving secrets to make your grocery budget stretch this month.

👋 Hey there! I'm Cassie Johnston.

Wholefully Founder and Creative Director

I'm a Holistic Nutritionist, cookbook author (x3!), Certified Health Coach, and expert recipe developer, and I believe homemade should be simplified. With more than 15 years of professional recipe development, catering, and personal chef experience, I know how to take the overwhelm out of cooking, canning, meal prep, and even holiday traditions. Every recipe and tutorial I share is approachable, tested, and designed to work perfectly every time, so you can feel confident bringing homemade joy to your table.

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📈 Most Popular Recipes

New around here? Dive into my top 10 most popular recipes of all time. Thousands of five star reviews can't be wrong!

🍎 Fall Canning Recipes

Just because the weather is turning cool, it doesn't mean you have to stop preserving the harvest! It's time to can apples, pears and the last of the tomatoes.

👻 Spooky Halloween Recipes

Halloween is a great time to have fun with food! Here's some of my spookiest creations for Halloween.

📚 Shop My Cookbooks & Guides

  • A mockup of the $2 Dinner Plan cover on an tablet overlayed over the pages inside the plan

    • The $2 Dinner Plan

    Serve your family healthy dinners for less than $50 in groceries per week with this full menu plan.

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    • Gifts in Jars Book

    Get 80 kitchen-tested quick and easy handmade food gift ideas plus all the labels in this print cookbook!

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    • Thanksgiving Planner

    I've compiled decades of Thanksgiving cooking experience into one simple digital eBook! 

    • Guide to School Lunches

    All of my knowledge from years of making thousands of school lunches for kiddos in one digital eBook! 

  • Cover of Chia, Quinoa, Kale, Oh My!

    • Chia, Quinoa, Kale, Oh My! Cookbook

    If you're looking for new and interesting ways to cook with your favorite superfoods, this print cookbook is for you!

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    • Cooking with Greek Yogurt Cookbook

    Expand beyond yogurt parfaits and learn all the magical ways you can use Greek Yogurt in your kitchen.