Food and Recipes

As part of a sponsored campaign, we baked cookies using Werther’s Baking Caramels. All thoughts shared are our own. When you think fall, what do you think of? I think of …

Well, it’s pretty obvious I’ve fallen off the get healthy wagon. Not that healthy eaters can’t indulge once in awhile, but I’ve been indulging frequently… again. I just wasn’t telling …

For Halloween, as part of a sponsored post for Collective Bias®, we had a spooky family night with Nestle Tombstone Pizza and I made a couple desserts with Nestle and …

For the Packers v. Redskins game, as part of a sponsored post for Collective Bias®, I made some yummy tailgating food using sale items from Pick ‘n Save. One of …

I love cake and I love cookies. My daughter likes them too but makes less of a mess when eating cookies. Over the weekend I needed a recipe to make …

Summer is here and with it comes parties, cookouts, and potlucks. Egg salad and deviled eggs frequently make an appearance at picnics and boy, do I love ’em. Well, most …

Are you a PB&J person? We like peanut butter and jelly here, though not always together. I do find that we eat the same things over and over again. Certain …

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Minute® Rice. When I make dinner or a dish for a potluck, I need quick and easy recipes. I’ve …

Do you love chocolate covered peanut butter eggs? Have you been to the store lately? If so, I’m sure you’ve noticed the abundance of Easter goodness laid out everywhere. There’s …

One of the things I struggle most with when watching my weight is staying away from the pasta. I love pasta of all sorts but one of my favorite ways …

Do you love chicken? We do! We often prefer to cook using boneless skinless chicken breasts but they can get expensive. Good thing I found out about a way to …

It’s easy to dress up a boxed cake mix to bake a gelatin poke cake. I have a ways to go before getting more comfortable baking from scratch. In the …

My daughter thinks it is great fun when we have smoothies. She loves drinking out of a straw and she knows it will taste more fun than water or milk. …

When we have parties we like snacky food we can graze on throughout the night. I’m a big fan of dips when it comes to grazing, especially easy to make …

I know, I know, I know. It’s early January when many of us are trying to make healthy changes. I swear I am not trying to sabotage anyone’s progress with …

Holiday parties, while fun, can get expensive. We don’t host Thanksgiving or Christmas (yet) but I see the amount of food and drink required and know it’s costly. Goodness, I …

A few months ago I attended a “baby food made easy” cooking class in Chicago by Chef Amandra Skrip, a natural foods chef and wellness consultant. She specializes in preparing …

Fruit snacks are a food that disappears fast at our house. Since my toddler loves them so much, I like to make mine at home so that we can have …

I love pumpkin and look forward to all the pumpkiny goodness that fall and the holidays brings. I don’t like all the calories though. So I love this pumpkin fluff …

I love bread. I love it a tad too much probably. When we go out to eat I get awfully excited about the bread basket! (Seriously! For example, at Fazoli’s …