Making homemade bread crumbs is so quick and easy! Use whatever bread you have, enjoy the delicious crispy flavor, and save money. With all the bread we make in our house (Man Bread, No-Knead Artisan Bread, Rosemary Olive Oil Bread…just to name a few), it drives me absolutely insane to have to buy breadcrumbs. In case you’re wondering why I would BUY them when it’s so easy to make homemade Italian bread ... Continue Reading
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Banana Nut Muffins with Crumb Topping
One of the very first muffin recipes I ever attempted to make "healthy" was my banana chocolate chip muffins, and the only reason those were better than a typical muffin was because they had coconut oil and oat flour. Although of all the chocolate pretty much negated any "healthy" points I may have earned. My family still loves those muffins, but when I had a bunch of bananas going brown a bit quicker than I ... Continue Reading
Molasses Breakfast Cookies
This year my family is quitting sugar, but there would be mutiny if I just cleared out the shelves and said we’re never having cookies again. That’s why I’m making desserts like cookie dough hummus. They’re full of protein (to make you crave less sugar) and use natural sweeteners like maple syrup or honey. Thankfully, we can enjoy cookies guilt free because I’ve created an amazingly delicious recipe for ... Continue Reading
DIY: All-Purpose Flour
Have you ever run out of an ingredient when you needed it most? A few weeks ago, Mr. Crumbs promised the kids to make his favorite oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. His problem? We didn't have any all-purpose flour. We had oats (for oat flour) and a few different whole grains to make our own whole grain flour (specifically, we had einkorn, spelt, kamut and wheat on hand), but no all-purpose. He had already ... Continue Reading
9 Tips for Buying Extra Virgin Olive Oil
This post is brought to you by Jovial Foods. All opinions are 100% my own. Last year I kind of opened a can of worms, but I blame my husband. He sent me this article that said olive oil (among other foods) was diluted with cheaper oils. Somewhat infuriated at the fact that I was paying premium prices for less than premium products, I started researching the matter. Science won and I said that the ... Continue Reading
8 Real Foods You Can Make For Free + 6 More for Under $1
If you haven't noticed, I've kinda been on a "make something for nothing" kick lately. First, it was ketchup from our backyard plants that just.keep.going. Then it was apple cider vinegar from the cores and peels of apples. Most recently, it was roasted pumpkin seeds (perfectly, I might add), from the baking pumpkin I roasted and turned into homemade pumpkin puree. All this coking-for-free stuff got ... Continue Reading
To the Wife Trying to Get Her Husband to Eat Real Food
How to get your husband to eat real food… An honest letter to the wives, from a husband who used to eat Doritos and Hot Pockets for lunch and wash it down with an ice-cold fountain Coke, but now enjoys a healthy meal made with real food prepared by the wife... so long as it doesn't have beets. My first letter was to the husbands, but ladies, this one is for you. Yes, it is possible to get your ... Continue Reading
Best 11 Things to Buy at Whole Foods
There are certain stores that I personally avoid for various reasons. For example, I don't shop at Cost Plus World Market because the store is BEYOND amazing. It's truly a foodie's dream. Kitchen gadgets, specialty oils, BOGO coffee... yikes. They do carry just a few things we need now and then, so if I absolutely must go, I make a bee-line to the aisle and get out ASAP. Otherwise the grocery ... Continue Reading
18 Frugal Dips for Outdoor Parties
I love going to outdoor parties. Laughing with friends, sunshine on my arms, the smell of grill, Frisbee in the grass and sand volleyball (even though I don't have a single athletic bone in my body)... What I don't love: Trying to figure out what dish to bring that is... If I only had to deal with one of those issues, that would be totally do-able. I've got PAGES of healthy recipes right ... Continue Reading
Strawberry Pancakes: Delicious Easy & Fluffy Recipe
When we went to a local u-pick farm last week, we brought home way more berries than we knew what to do with. We washed as many as we could eat with our natural produce wash and ate as many as our bellies would hold, but I realized we needed a plan for the 11 pounds of strawberries otherwise they'd go bad - fast. The next day when I asked the kids what they'd like for breakfast, it was the perfect storm of ... Continue Reading