It's time for your November Seasonal Produce Guide! Use this list of healthy fruits and vegetables to build your meal plan for November, or let us do the planning with this November Meal Plan. In season produce is the best for you and your grocery budget! November brings us deeper into Autumn and with the cooler temperatures comes more seasonal produce. Root vegetables, winter squash, dark leafy greens ... Continue Reading
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Giant Italian Easy Meatballs
Giant Italian easy meatball recipe for healthy, large baked meatballs. No breadcrumbs and my kids think anything jumbo is the best - I tend to agree! Serve with your favorite spaghetti sauce over pasta, or make delicious meatball sandwiches with super easy homemade buns. My kids love homemade meatballs… and ground beef taco meat (which is PACKED with veggies) and homemade breakfast sausage and the easiest ... Continue Reading
Healthy Homemade Lunchables
Ditch the processed boxes and make healthy homemade Lunchables instead. They cost less than $1 and contain nothing but 100% real food! Try out my recipe for DIY homemade lunch meat also! As a kid, one of my favorite lunches to take to school was the Lunchable. The fact that my lunch could be stacked on a cracker and it WASN’T a sandwich made me the cool kid for like, 20 minutes. We moved often in my ... Continue Reading
August Seasonal Produce Guide 2022
See which Summer vegetables are still here with this August Seasonal Produce Guide! Use this produce list to build your meal plan and save money on food! Take this guide and the July Seasonal Produce Guide with you to shop the farmer's market! Even though it is nearly back-to-school time, my brain and appetite are still in summer mode! Tasty berries, fresh corn, and juicy tomatoes are all over our August ... Continue Reading
How to Make Yogurt
Learn how to make yogurt with this tutorial. Skip the yogurt maker and try this super easy heating pad method or even an Instant Pot! You can always adjust the tartness and flavor to your liking! For a snack that the kids will love, use our recipe for chocolate peanut butter granola to make our peanut butter and jelly granola parfait! Have you ever heard someone say they made something, and you thought to ... Continue Reading
5 Minute Spinach Pesto
When you have a bag of spinach about to go bad, just whip up a batch of spinach pesto in just 5 minutes. It’s frugal, healthy, and fast! Add it to sandwiches or fresh pasta for an easy meal. Drizzle over homemade zoodles or homemade pizza! If you were to open my fridge on any given day, you’ll find a very large bag of spinach. From green smoothies to chicken enchiladas to autumn rice pilaf, we eat spinach ... Continue Reading
June Seasonal Vegetables 2022
Here is your produce guide for June Seasonal Vegetables. Use this list to help you plan out your summer meals for the next month! Southwestern Corn and Best Kale Salad are on the top of my list! Are you ready for summer? It’s almost here! And with Summer comes new seasonal vegetables. I’m so excited! It’s odd, I know, to be super excited about produce. But honestly, ever since we did a Whole30 as a ... Continue Reading
25+ Real Food Snacks Ready in 5 Minutes or Less
Great ideas for real food snacks that don't take a lot of time to prepare! 5 minutes is all it takes and you can serve healthy delicious snacks that won't break the budget! Be sure to check out 24+ best hiking snacks (easy, healthy, family-friendly) and 25+ best snacks for road trips. Every year when school is in session.. if you're like me, you could always use a few more ideas for quick ... Continue Reading
How to Meal Plan Once a Month
5 awesome tips for how to meal plan once a month! I share the method I use for monthly meal planning as well as other tips to make meal planning easy! I’m a huge advocate for meal planning – so much so that I’ve even created a course called Meal Planning Bootcamp! But I know that not everyone likes meal planning as much as I do. I mean, they like the benefits… like saving money, saving time, and saving ... Continue Reading
The Best Burger Recipe
This is the best burger recipe! It's super easy to make, frugal, and crazy delicious. Plus, expert tips on how to make your beef patties taste "THE BEST." Your family will ask for more! Try my crispy baked potato wedges and pan-roasted broccoli as side dishes. I’ve mentioned before that my husband isn’t a big fan of ground beef and because of this, I didn’t cook it for YEARS.But then we had kids.They’ve ... Continue Reading