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Want to repurpose your food scraps and create a no-cost, environmentally-friendly fertilizer? Here’s how to compost at home. When I was growing up, I thought everyone had a milk carton under their sink filled with food scraps. My dad, an avid gardener, collected fruit and vegetable scraps for his compost pile–and when the compost was…
This moist, sweet banana bread with chocolate chips is made using whole wheat pastry flour. It’s perfect for breakfast, lunch boxes, and snacks. Everything is better with chocolate chips. That seems to be a family motto of sorts around here. When there are overripe bananas lingering in the fruit bowl, they’re either frozen for smoothies…
Forget packaged frozen pizza bites! These Homemade Pepperoni Rolls are a fun dinner, satisfying snack, or easy lunch box item and are made with just five ingredients. Last week I waxed poetic about the peanut butter bars I grew up eating in the Midwest (read: Peanut Butter Quinoa Bars). Now it’s time for another regional…
These No Bake Peanut Butter Quinoa Bars are a more wholesome twist on the classic Midwestern Peanut Butter Bars and make a healthy snack or dessert. If you grew up in the Midwest or live there now, you know about Peanut Butter Bars. They typically consist of a mixture of peanut butter, powdered sugar, and…
Yes, ALDI has wine! Here’s everything you need to know about buying wine at ALDI plus how to create a build-your-own mimosa bar that’s fun and affordable. Thank you to ALDI for sponsoring this post! Even ALDI super fans have what my friend calls “ALDI A-Ha Moments”. Discovering they carry affordable organic milk and eggs?…
Some finicky behaviors are a normal part of development–but could you be making your kid’s picky eating worse? Here are 5 things to avoid! Picky eating can take even the most unflappable parent to the brink. Yes, some finicky tendencies are a normal part of development. But truth is, some of what we’re doing as…
A chest freezer can easily turn into a black hole of cold food. Here’s how to organize a chest freezer cheaply and simply! If I go missing, I may have fallen into the chest freezer. That’s how it used to feel every time I dug though the contents to find the elusive package of bacon…
Here’s a fun and tasty way for kids to get their leafy greens. Bake up a batch of these Crispy Nacho Kale Chips and watch them disappear! Kale may still be a trendy veggies–but it’s not necessarily kid-friendly. Don’t get me wrong: I like kale–raw, cooked, curly, dinosaur, baby, all of it. But kale can…