Meet the meeples behind the munchies

Loud, Hungry & Competitive

Welcome to the place where family dinner meets game night, the records are always spinning, and absolutely nothing goes according to plan.

Hi, I’m Lindsie.

I’ve spent more than 15 years making recipes, building meal plans, and trying to answer the question every family asks approximately 47 times a week: “What are we eating?”

I do all of this with my husband and best friend, D.J. While I cook in a kitchen that somehow looks messy before I start, he sets up the evening’s game, learns the rules, and prepares to explain them at least twice.

We have teenagers who treat leftovers as a personal failure, an 8-year-old ordering from an invisible menu, three red heelers waiting for dinner to hit the floor, more than 550 board games, and almost no shelf space left.

15+years of recipes
550+games and counting
~47daily food requests
0guaranteed leftovers
Lindsie meeple

The Cook

Lindsie

Recipes, meal plans, and discovering halfway through cooking that somebody ate a key ingredient.
D.J. meeple

The Game Master

D.J.

Husband, best friend, official rules reader, and curator of every board-game bag.
Anthony meeple

The Teenage Food Vacuum

Anthony

Owns the best punk vinyl collection in the house and ensures leftovers never survive.
Joey meeple

The Tiny Food Critic

Joey

Would live on sushi and carbs and operates the record player better than I do.
Nicolas meeple

The Bonus Food Vacuum

Nicolas

Stays often enough to count, eats enough for it to matter, and has a permanent seat.
The Dogs meeple

Unlicensed Taste Testers

The Dogs

They will steal a calzone the second adult supervision leaves the room.