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Category Archives: Food
How to Make Healthy Peanut Butter
Are you like me, and have a twinge of guilt when you slab on the oily peanut butter and sugary jelly onto slices of bread, day after day, and serve it as lunch to your kids? Well, I thought up … Continue reading
Posted in All Writers, Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Health & Weight, Heidi, The Moms
Tagged flax, flax oil, flax seed, healthy peanut butter, peanut butter
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Asian Chicken Salad
In the summer, I try to avoid using the oven as much as possible. We grill a LOT, but otherwise, it is always nice to have a heat-free dinner. This meal can either be done in the crockpot (which sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in All Writers, Cheri, Food, Recipes, The Moms
Tagged asian chicken salad, chicken, chicken salad, chinese chicken salad, cooking, lettuce, recipe, salad, soy sauce, summer
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Beat the Heat Meals
This post is for anyone who doesn’t have air conditioning and live somewhere hot. We don’t and our summers can get well into the 90s. Needless to say, my desire to turn on my oven in the summer time quickly … Continue reading
Posted in All Writers, Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Janae, The Moms
Tagged air conditioning, crock pot, patio, slow cooker
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Bread Heels and Bread Crumbs
Do you sometimes find nothing but the two heels when you go to get a piece of bread? No one in my family likes the heels of store bought bread, and though I’ll eat them and try to hide them … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Sunny
Tagged bread crumbs, bread heel, dinner, easy, eating, food, freezer, healthy, homemade, kids, leftovers, loaf
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Summer Treats
Kids LOVE treats. They also LOVE to help make creative treats. The following are my top 10 treats for summer partly because many of them cool you off on a hot summer day and partly because most of them are … Continue reading
What?!? Another Bad Fat?!?
It seems that the scare and recent guidelines concerning trans fats have opened many peoples’ eyes to this dangerous fat snuck into many foods found at the grocery store under the name of “partially hydrogenated oil”. Being an ingredient label … Continue reading
Posted in All Writers, Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Heidi
Tagged bad fat, fat to avoid, interesterified fat, reading labels, trans fat
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Restaurant.com
A while ago,Heidi shared her wonderful experiences with Living Social and Groupon. Today, I want to share how much I love restaurant.com. If you’ve used it before, hopefully you love it. If you haven’t tried it, go online and search … Continue reading
Posted in All Writers, Birthdays, Budgeting, Cheri, Dates, Family, Food, For You, Getaways, Holidays, Marriage & Spouse, Money Saving Tips, Relationships, The Moms
Tagged budget, coupon, date, date night, discount, gift certificate, internet, restuarant, save, save money, savings, website
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Oven Pancakes using Coconut Oil
As promised in my previous post on coconut oil, here is my recipe for oven pancakes (a.k.a. puffed oven pancakes, baked pancakes, Dutch babies, german pancakes, etc.). This is the recipe for one batch, but with my teenage boys, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Health & Weight, Recipes, Sunny
Tagged breakfast, coconut oil, dutch, food, German, healthy, leftovers, oven pancakes, pancakes, peaches, recipe
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Frozen Fruit
Spring and Summer! Two of my favorite times of year. My other two are Fall and Winter, in case you were wondering. But one thing I absolutely love about Spring and Summer is the variety of FRUIT that becomes available! … Continue reading
Posted in All Writers, Cheri, Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, The Moms
Tagged blueberries, frozen fruit, jam, raspberries, shakes, smoothies, strawberries
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Using Coconut Oil–Why and How
I heard about using coconut oil at a dinner with my healthy eating dinner group. My hostess had mixed it with garlic and herbs and served it instead of butter to put on bread. It doesn’t have that buttery flavor, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, For You, Goals, Health & Weight, Recipes, Sunny
Tagged butter, coconut oil, cooking, cosmetics, fat, food, goals, hair care, healthy, homemade, lotion, moisturizer, navajo fry bread, non hydrogenated, pie crust, skin care, sopapillas, tortas fritas
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