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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…
This 5-ingredient Chocolate Tofu Pudding is kid-friendly, simple to blend together, and makes a great protein-rich dessert or snack. Last fall I hosted a free Try New Foods email challenge with more than 700 of you, tackling a new food each week and providing recipe ideas and encouragement. Some foods were easier than others. One week…
Buying a share of a cow or hog can save money and time (and you’ll know exactly where your meat came from!). Here’s what you need to know about buying meat in bulk. For several years, I’ve purchased beef in bulk from local farmers here in Central Ohio. And a few years ago, I started…
School food CAN be tasty, healthy, and appealing to kids! Here’s how one mom changed things for the better at her kids’ school. My friend Wende Hageman is a school food champion. She would probably laugh off this label, waving it away with an “Oh, please!” But that’s what she is, so I wanted to…