Seasonal lattes shouldn’t be only for the holidays! Learn how to make a warm mug of gingerbread latte all year round in your own kitchen. Try my other ginger recipes like chewy gingersnap cookies and high-protein gingerbread smoothies. Labor Day officially releases fun seasonal flavors of your favorite latte. Feel free to order pumpkin spiced lattes or salted caramel mochas until your pants don’t fit ... Continue Reading
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High Protein Trail Mix Recipe
This high protein trail mix is easy to mix up at home, with the perfect balance of sweet and salty. Made with simple ingredients like dried fruit, chocolate, and nuts, it’s a satisfying easy snack! A while back, someone asked how our family gets enough protein given the smaller amount of meat in one of my meal plans. I hadn’t given it a lot of thought, but we do have plenty of protein sources besides ... Continue Reading
Slow Cooker Blueberry Cobbler
This simple blueberry cobbler recipe is so yummy! Just dump the ingredients in the slow cooker and in a few hours, you’ll have the perfect summer dessert. Use Homemade Cake Mix or Bisquick, fresh or frozen berries, and you can even make it gluten-free! Don’t you love it when you can toss dinner into a slow cooker and call it done? What I think might be even better though, is tossing DESSERT into a slow ... 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
Cloud Dinner Rolls
This is the BEST homemade dinner roll recipe! Made with yeast, they’re so soft, slightly sweet, light, and fluffy – even better than a restaurant! Try my other bread recipes like cast iron skillet cornbread and garlic cheese bread. Do you remember these light and fluffy dinner rolls I made way back when? They were one of my first experiments with einkorn and they are MIND-BLOWING delicious and they are worth ... Continue Reading
Blueberry Baked Oatmeal
Easy breakfast recipe for Amish-style baked oatmeal with blueberries, but you can use apples or bananas. Includes option for vegan, crockpot, and serving for one! Try my other oatmeal recipes like oatmeal peanut butter energy bites and chocolate leftover oatmeal cake. When it comes to breakfast, cheap and quick, and easy is the name of the game. Which usually means oatmeal of some sort. Often it’s ... Continue Reading
What do the stickers on fruits and vegetables mean?
Do you ever wonder what the stickers on fruits and vegetables mean? Decode the PLU Codes. Here’s a straightforward and simple explanation to help you learn more about the food you eat. Be sure to check out how to remove labels from jars: a simple DIY with one ingredient and how to make a frugal grocery budget. When readers ask me how to save money on organic produce, my first answer is to know the current ... Continue Reading
How to Make Bread Machine Recipes by Hand
How to make bread machine recipes by hand: a simple conversion “recipe” of sorts for those of us who don’t have room in our kitchens for another gadget. Impress guests with delicious homemade bread! Want to impress your family? Bake fresh bread. Boy, will they be impressed when you pull a freshly baked loaf of Man Bread out of your oven! I’ll be the first to admit that bread baking can be scary. As a ... Continue Reading
Sweet Kale Salad (Costco copycat)
An incredibly delicious sweet kale salad recipe with cranberries, almonds, and a creamy homemade greek yogurt dressing. Healthier than Costco's bagged salad, and super easy to make! You can even use homemade dried cranberries and homemade greek yogurt. Have you ever had a bagged salad that was just SO good, that you couldn’t help but keep buying it? I used to do this with the Sweet Kale Salad from Costco. I ... 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