Delicious Recipes to Keep my Family of Four Happy and Full
One of our favorite breakfast items is Dark Chocolate Cranberry Baked Oatmeal! I am a firm believer that how you start the day makes all the difference in how your day will go. Start with a hearty breakfast and you’ll stay full and focused throughout the entire day making the day just all around more productive.
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I have a confession: While I try to focus on healthier eating and know I should incorporate more fish into my diet, I have a phobia of cooking fish in the house. You know…all those thoughts of the house smelling like fish for days! Well, I discovered Bumble Bee SuperFresh® and totally changed my mind! All of the varieties are great but I recently used it to make peppered salmon stir fry.
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I am a huge salad fan! From kale salads to southwestern style salads, I love them all and take them for lunch a lot. I also use them as great first courses or extras when we are having people over for dinner. One of my favorite things to include on our menu is a wild greens salad with beets and fried goat cheese.
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Let’s talk stress. As a mom of two gorgeous kids who also works 2 jobs {full time “real” job plus this blog}, I am definitely no stranger to stress. When deadlines start to pile up plus the demands of being a mom grow more and more, I find that I need have a few easy ways to relieve stress that I can turn to on a regular basis. Since I know we all get stressed from time to time {all the time?}, I thought I would share my top 4 ways to relieve stress.
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Every year, I vow to plan out my meals and chop my veggies on Sunday so I am ready for the week. Some weeks that actually happens. Other weeks…not so much. I love making Shanghai meatball stir fry but don’t always have the time to prep all the ingredients from scratch. Thankfully, I discovered Eat Smart Salad and Stir Fry kits which come in handy for days like that.
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With the holidays upon us {um, can you believe Thanksgiving is this week?!}, most kitchens are gearing up for major cooking and baking!
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Tuna salad is one of those great go to lunch ideas because it is full of protein to help you make it through the day and tastes great. It also makes the perfect after school snack when the kids come home complaining they are so hungry. I created this pesto and sun dried tomato tuna salad to change up my typical version and cut out a lot of the unhealthy items that typically go into a tuna salad.
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Have you noticed that so many things these days seem to be some crazy concoction of flavors? I was out the other day and saw strawberry caramel chocolate pretzel flavored ice cream. Now, I love all of the flavors sure and do enjoy some flavors mixed together {salted caramel or strawberry lemonade anyone?}. But, sometimes I feel like more traditional flavors like vanilla get a bad rap. They get labeled as boring or plain. Well, I’m going to #TakeBackVanilla and it starts with these delicious vanilla pancakes and blueberries.
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Almost every Friday, another family and I hit the local Mexican restaurant for margaritas. Both of our schedules have changed a bit so we haven’t been able to make it there as often and have opted for food and cocktails at home instead. Jose Cuervo makes a delicious ready-to-serve margarita and they just recently introduced the Iced Teagarita. It is an yummy mix of a classic lime flavored margarita and iced tea. It is an amazingly refreshing cocktail on a hot summer night!
I have been adding fresh berries to my iced tea drinks recently so I decided to combine that new treat with the Jose Cuervo drink and make a strawberry basil Teagarita.
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Now that the weather is warm and the days are long, we spend a ton of time outdoors. Sometimes we have a BBQ or other type of party planned but most of the time we are just hanging around watching the kids play. After a little while, what we have for snack is usually where the conversation turns. I am always looking for something that tastes great, is good for you and is also something the kids will eat. On a recent, gorgeous morning, I decided that snack time would be the perfect time to introduce them to my new favorite snack bars.
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