Healthy Recipes from a Busy Kitchen
Summer is here! Summer is here! I’m so thankful for a break from homework and school projects. But there’s one thing that never gets a break. The lunchbox will still be seeing plenty of use over the summer. There are still summer camps, picnics, and beach time that all require nourishment. When I’m packing lunches [...]
This is not going to be my favorite week. This is one of John’s travel weeks, which seem to be becoming the new normal around here. He’s leaving before dawn Monday morning and will be home late Thursday night. In between we have 1. Girl Scouts (did I ever tell you that I’m the leader [...]
These gluten free, dairy free granola bars will become a favorite whether you have allergies in the family or not. But if you are dealing with allergies, these granola bars will become your saving grace morning, noon, and night. They have quickly become exactly that for my family. Before we learned about our allergies we [...]
I have sort of a love/hate relationship with making school lunches for my first grader. I love that I know what she’s actually eating, but I dread having to add one more thing to my to-do list every night. That’s why I put a lot of time researching all the options for lunch boxes and [...]
When it comes to breakfast, the term “make-ahead” is a big attraction to me. We eat a lot of homemade muffins, smoothies, and granola during the week, and those will always be family favorites, but if I left it up to my husband we would only have these make ahead breakfast burritos from now until [...]
Making your own pasta sauce is incredibly simple, and after you taste the difference between this and pre-made sauce from the store you may never go back. This homemade sauce is full of flavor, with none of the artificial aftertaste from some of those jars you find at the store. You control everything about this [...]
This little muffin experiment resulted in my new favorite muffin flavor. I usually have to stuff muffins full of chocolate chips to get Sophie and Max to eat them. I never thought I’d actually say these words, but I was getting a little tired of all the chocolate. Both of my children love lemon flavored [...]
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