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Twenty-Six Days

December 19, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

The biggest gift I am giving my family this year for Christmas wasn’t purchased in a store. It wasn’t ordered online. It wasn’t even anything they asked for. Not directly, anyway. But now that I’ve given them this gift, I realize it was something they wanted. And something they needed. In fact, it was something […]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Parenting Tagged With: breakfast, dining room table, dinner, family dinners, lunch, snack

3 Ingredient, Delicious Homemade Applesauce

September 19, 2017 by not your average mom 6 Comments

I made applesauce for the first time this past weekend. Can someone please explain to me why I never did this before? It was so good! We have an apple tree in our yard that produces edible apples. I don’t know what kind of apples they are for sure, but I think they are Macintosh. […]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Moneysavers Tagged With: apple peeler, apples, applesauce, lunch, snack

Quick and Easy Skillet Kale, White Beans and Sausage

December 19, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I made this for lunch today. It was super easy and delicious and it’s full of stuff that’s good for you. So I thought you might like to try it. You only need these four ingredients: Sausage (I used a roasted red pepper chicken sausage from Costco) Kale Cannellini Beans Garlic Plus (I don’t count […]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: cannellini beans, easy, garlic, kale, lunch, olive oil, sausage, skillet

11 Things You Can Freeze To Streamline The School Lunch-Making Process

September 25, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

When you ask moms what their least favorite thing about the weekday school monotony is, packing lunches is always at or near the top of the list. So a couple weeks ago I asked readers to share any tips/tricks/shortcuts they had that made the lunch packing a little less sucky. I’m still working on that post… But […]

Filed Under: Food, In the Kitchen, Kids' Corner, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Moneysavers, Parenting, Timesavers Tagged With: freezer, french toast, kids, lunch, packing lunch, peanut butter, school, school lunch, soup, sushi

These No Bake Peanut Butter Honey Chocolate Chip Granola Bites are Sofa King Good

May 11, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Here is a  snack your kids will love. You’ll love it, too. Especially if you shop at Costco, because you can get all the ingredients there and make a whole ton of these. You will need this: 2 cups oats 1 cup peanut butter (the runny natural kind) 1/ 3 cup chocolate chips 1/4 cup […]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen Tagged With: after school snacks, breakdfast, chocolate chips, Costco, granola, lunch, lunchbox, non processed, oatmeal, snack

Best. Date. Evah.

November 14, 2014 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Constantly having to worry about money is debilitating. It’s exhausting and stressful and not fun. Robbing Peter to pay Paul and having a major panic attack every time you hear a knock on the door sucks. Not knowing when you are going to emerge from this situation or, even worse, if you ever will, totally […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: gratitude, lunch, lunch dates, Panera, silver linings

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