Category: Food resources
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Easy, inexpensive & yet healthy meals for your family
Looking for a tool to make dinnertime easier, cheaper and still nutritious? My friend Jessica’s latest cookbook, Good Cheap Eats: Everyday Dinners and Fantastic Feasts for $10 or Less, hit the stores and the interwebs yesterday and it is chock full of great meal ideas that are just as the title describes: good, cheap eats.…
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Pre-order Good Cheap Eats— and get a FREE wine pairing ebooklet by yours, truly
So often people think that wine is for snobs or only for special occasions and fine meals. As you might guess, I disagree. To me, that is almost like saying food is only for special occasions. Wine is an agricultural product that can truly enhance the flavor of just about any meal, and paired well, any…
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Healthy Meals to Fuel the Family Twitter Party Tuesday Night
As you may know, I’m partnering with nine other Texas bloggers and the Texas Beef Council again this spring to try out and share beef recipes in an effort to better fuel my own family and help you to do the same with yours. Yes, I am being compensated for my participation, but I only…
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Shopping Guide for Cuts of Beef
How many times have you found a great recipe and tried to shop for the right cut of beef only to be utterly confused in the meat department? I thought I was the only clueless one until the Texas Beef Council enlightened me at a cooking demonstration last week. I was chatting with one of…
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Easy lunchbox ideas for toddlers and preschoolers
Back to school means back to packing lunchboxes in our family. Now that my kids are in kindergarten, third, and fourth grades, packing lunches is a snap. I have the kids take part in assembling their own lunches and we use this simple list of lunchbox favorites to plan and put together lunches I know…