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Real food has never been so easy. 20 minutes of prep work gets you 3 crockpot freezer meals. Chicken Taco Soup, Chicken Curry and Chicken Fajitas - done!

Freezer Cooking is not my Thing – but Here’s my Best Shot Anyway {VIDEO + 3 Slow Cooker Recipes}

I’m not a bandwagon kind of girl. Just because everyone loves freezer cooking doesn’t mean it’s for me – the one time I did the “once a month cooking” thing with a friend, we spent about 3 days planning and shopping, 8+ hours cooking, and had 12 meals out of it. I remember being very,

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Tomatoes 101: Your Guide to Tomato Varieties and a Cherry Tomato and Fresh Herb Salad Recipe

Tomatoes are the perfect addition to any garden! Fairly simple to grow, you can plant specific types to eat fresh all summer long or plan ahead and grow them for long term storage (canning tomatoes is really easy). Now a staple in my garden, I want to help make it super easy for you to

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Get a GREEN start to St. Patrick's Day with these nourishing veggie pancakes. No food coloring! Just real ingredients.

Green Veggie Pancakes for St. Patrick’s Day (no food coloring allowed!)

Ten years ago, I told one of my third graders that she couldn’t possibly be allergic to food coloring. It was March 2nd, Dr. Seuss’s birthday, and I had gotten eggs in green shells from a hobby farmer and thought it would be hilarious to add green food coloring and play it up like the

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Two fail-proof ways to cook a whole chicken in the crockpot. There's even a choice if you forget to defrost the chicken!

Help Handling the Whole Chicken Series: Two Fail-Proof Ways to Cook a Chicken

If you’ve been following along in our series on Help Handling the Whole Chicken, you know that our family has been buying whole chickens from a local farmer for a few years now – partly because it’s just cheaper than buying chicken breast at the grocery store!  However, it wasn’t until this past year that

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