Looking for an easy keto side or main dish or maybe just a way to get more veggies onto your family’s dinner plates? This keto cauliflower mac and cheese recipe fits the bill. My kids literally cheer when I serve this up, and I bet yours will too. Does it still count as mac and […]
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My kids are hit and miss on soup lately, much to my chagrin since I like to serve soup 3-4 times a week in the fall and winter and even often in the summer, like this Sausage Bean and Greens Soup. I count my blessings that all three of them seem to love this creamy
Dilly Cream of Potato Vegetable Soup Recipe Framework Read More »
I hate when plans fail but sometimes even my best intentions to meal plan fail me. When dinner time is fast approaching and I have NOTHING to make I know I can use my Instant Pot to cook frozen hamburger and make this easy dinner possible! Over the years of our healthy living journey, my
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Something amazing happened this week. Because I’m teaching my kids to cook, dinner got on the table on time when it never would have otherwise – including the easiest homemade mashed potatoes ever! Tuesday was a crazy day, with one meeting stacked upon another and school conferences at 4:30 p.m. I neglected my own meal
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If you’re a parent, you might laugh at the beginning of my how-to video today for this easy, frugal BBQ chicken recipe – I wasn’t sure if I’d make it in the slow cooker or the Instant Pot pressure cooker and then guess what? It was suddenly 5:20 p.m. I’ll give you one guess which
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There’s a funny thing about Dinner Time – it happens every. single. day. And despite this known fact, even the best of us can have complete-panic moments. If you’ve been around KS for any length of time, you’ve probably heard the phrase “meal plan” more than once. For some, making a meal plan is really just combining two four-letter
What to Eat When You’re Too Busy to Think! (aka Meal Planning for Busy People) Read More »
Traveling with kids and a real food goal isn’t easy, especially if you have any who get carsick (we have two!). Throw in trying to be on a budget, and everyone who does it deserves a blue ribbon “Super Parent” award! Not long ago I discovered a magical way to bring real food to a
There’s something very intimidating about cooking ‘real food’ for a large group of people, especially if you’re on a budget. Shoot, some days I feel like I can barely get food prepared to feed my family, so to feed a crowd means exponentially more time. And then there’s the idea of wanting to have food
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You know how they say you’re not supposed to bank on the person you choose to marry actually changing at all to fit your liking better? That you should never expect to be able to mold or form that person to become the person you think they could be? We were talking about this over
What’s the big deal with the Instant Pot, you ask? Why all the hype? I can tell you why I have learned to appreciate it: There are probably more benefits, and you’ll see some in the post about basic Instant Pot techniques like boiling eggs and cooking rice, but those are the biggies for me.
When you’re on a Whole30, you eat a lot of meat. Veggies too, TONS of veggies, which I love, but also definitely a lot of meat, because there’s no rice or bread to stretch the meal! Shredded chicken recipes like this one are a mainstay. It also works well with a Keto or Paleo approach.
One-pot meals are the BEST. If you battle Mt. Dishes like we do, you know the sigh of relief you feel when your meat, veggies, and starchy side can all fit in one container and done! This one has a ton of nutrition, is super frugal, and tastes a teeny bit like lasagna. For real.
Instant Pot Italian Lentil Dinner (Gluten-Free, One-Pot Meal!) Read More »
I left my Instant Pot in the box for at least 6 months, but not for the reasons everyone else does. The Instant Pot is an electric pressure cooker, and I’ve seen other people talk online about how they let theirs sit unopened because they were afraid of it exploding. Me, I’m just too busy
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It’s funny how tastes change. As a kid, I despised legumes of all kinds and never ate yogurt, ever. Now two of my top three recommended good habits include cooking dry beans and making homemade yogurt, and I eat a plain yogurt with fruit (no sweetener) every single day for lunch. Add honey and it’s
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This post is from KS contributing writer Mary Voogt of Just Take A Bite. Warning. You may want to cover your ears. I’m going to use the dreaded L word – LUNCHES. There. I said it. As much as I don’t like to think about it, before we know it we’ll be packing school lunches again.
I’m feeling it already. You know how you hate heading to the kitchen by 4:00 on gorgeous summer days? It’s tempting to spend all my time outside or doing spring cleaning and decluttering and throw cereal, PBJs on store bread and frozen pizzas at the family for a week straight. But this summer I’m planning
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
Green Veggie Pancakes for St. Patrick’s Day (no food coloring allowed!) Read More »
I know parents aren’t supposed to serve a food and expect the children won’t like it, but I totally had this one pegged as an “adult only” meal and had a backup plan for breakfast for the kids. We’re eating grain-free right now for a Whole30 and cavity-healing diet, which can mean having a LOT
I remember back when I cooked a decent amount from scratch but didn’t know “real food” from “boxed and canned food,” I used to think of stuffed pasta shells as a “fancy meal” because of all the steps – boiling the noodles, making the sauce, mixing up the filling and taking the time to fill
One of our favorite sitcoms poked fun at old folks’ homes last season and showed a main character sipping “lasagna in a glass.” He was very impressed that it tasted “just like the real thing!” I can’t imagine whizzing lasagna into an Italian smoothie, pasta and all, and stuffing it in a glass, but last
Cheeseburger Soup (with bacon and pickles, oh yeah!) Read More »
