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…
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Easier mealtimes help you during busier times
Guest post from Bible in 90 Days Grad Jessica Fisher Like most moms, my days are pretty full. And yet there are seasons when I want or need to add something more to an already full plate. Since there are only 24 hours in a day, I’ve finally admitted to myself that something’s gotta give.…
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I want my kids to want to eat… and I have a plan
All too often my husband and I are coaxing our kids to eat. Our kids, on average, are pretty good eaters, but all too often we have the “Just three more bites,” conversation, or try to encourage our daughter to eat rather than play with whatever item might be around and could be turned into…
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What are your favorite milkshakes and smoothies for kids?
My nine-year-old son, who is a skinny guy to begin with and has been told to gain weight, has just had a dental appliance put into his mouth that he finds rather uncomfortable. Poor guy, he is even having trouble swallowing liquids. But today is just the first day, so I have no doubt things…
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Super Quick Mom Tip: Keeping Brown Sugar Soft
I knew about this idea for keeping chocolate chip cookies moist and delicious, but never thought about it for keeping brown sugar soft. Click over to see how Jen of Balancing Beauty and Bedlam keeps brown sugar soft… or softens it if you need it right away. Do you have a Super Quick Mom Tip…
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Easy, Time-Saving Meals
Thank you to so many of you who answered the request for for easy, time saving meals. I think we have a quite a resource list of recipes here! These all look delicious and, best of all, EASY to make when in a time crunch— perfect for Bible in 90 Days readers or anyone who…
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Super Quick Mom Tip: Cooking while using a laptop computer
How many of you love to use recipes you find on the internet? How many of you hate wasting paper and printing them out, yet don’t want to get your keyboard messy? Linda over at Linda’s Lunacy has a fantastic and yet amazingly simple idea to help you cook (or bake) while using your laptop.…
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Cooking delicious meals from scratch… without that dinnertime rush
A few weeks ago I was talking with my friend Kate about dinner. You see, she has a cooking blog and knows all sorts of tricks and well, I don’t. And I scramble at dinner. Sure, I plan my meals, but I still feel like I am scrambling to get everything done just before we…
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How to cut an onion without crying
When I cut onions, I don’t just get itchy, watery eyes. My eyes sting and I am in pain for quite some time after I finish with the cutting, wash my hands and flush my eyes. My eyes are even watering as I write this, a full 13 hours after my last onion-cutting experience. Last…
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Homemade Marshmallows? WOW!
Most of the time I like to go for the super-simple approach in the kitchen. But sometimes I like to take just a little bit of extra effort and go for the WOW! I came across this recipe for homemade marshmallows, and it is definitely one of those that goes for the WOW! Plus it…
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Free E-book of Delicious Holiday Recipes
My friend Lynn of Lynn’s Kitchen Adventures is an amazing cook and an amazing blogger. And the best thing about her cooking (aside from the fact that it all tastes good) is that she shares recipes that real people like me can use and still create mouth-watering dishes! Lynn is offering a FREE E-book of…