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The Best 4-Ingredient SunButter Cookies

January 24, 2022 by Sally

These soft, chewy sunbutter cookies are made with just four simple ingredients and ready in 20 minutes! You know those times when you want homemade cookies and you want them NOW? You don’t want to mess around with softening butter or digging out the hand mixer. You want simple and fast: one bowl, one spoon, …

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Graham crackers with frosting

Easiest Ever Old-Fashioned Graham Cracker Cookies

April 15, 2020 by Sally

These Graham Cracker Cookies are a simple, yummy, and quick dessert: Just spread rich chocolate buttercream between store-bought graham crackers. I figured these graham cracker cookies were the brainchild of my mom, whenever she happened to have leftovers from frosting a cake. Then she told me her mom made them too–and when she packed them …

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Crepes with fruit

Healthy Crepes Recipe Your Kids Will Love (Easy & Quick!)

December 10, 2019 by Sally

Sweet or savory crepes aren’t something you have to save for special occasions. Here’s an easy crepe recipe to make anytime for your family. I used to save crepes for Christmas morning. But they’re so fast and simple to make that I started serving them more often. Most recently, I whipped up a batch on …

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Whole Wheat Banana Bread With Chocolate Chips

Whole Wheat Banana Bread With Chocolate Chips

May 13, 2019 by Sally

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 …

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No-Bake Gluten Free Peanut Butter Bars Recipe

April 22, 2019 by Sally

These Gluten Free Peanut Butter 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 graham …

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Chocolate Tofu Pudding

Rich Chocolate Tofu Pudding Your Kids Will Rave About (Really!)

March 18, 2019 by Sally

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 …

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Marshmallow in Hot Chocolate

How to Make Easy Homemade Marshmallows (Without a Thermometer!)

February 12, 2019 by Sally

These Homemade Marshmallows are a fun project for kids and simple to whip up, no candy thermometer needed! A perfect treat for a cold day. I’m not going to call these “Healthy Homemade Marshmallows”. They’re MARSHMALLOWS, after all. They’re spongy clouds of sugar. I’m not going to sugarcoat it for you (see what I did …

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Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies

Save Time With These Cut-Out Cookies You Don’t Need to Chill

December 11, 2018 by Sally

These homemade Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies are easy to make, tender and buttery, and topped with naturally colored frosting. And you don’t have to chill the dough! Thank you to the National Frozen and Refrigerated Foods Association for sponsoring this post! Of all the holiday goodies we make, classic cut-out sugar cookies are my kids’ …

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Lentil Cookies

These Cookies Can Help Your Kids Learn to Like Lentils

October 16, 2018 by Sally

Red Lentil Cookies are made with wholesome ingredients and can help your family become more familiar with the taste and texture of lentils. When my kids are learning to like a food, I’m all about baby steps. Baby steps can be mashing up beans and spreading a thin layer on a burrito instead of adding …

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Nut Free Snack Balls

Quick 5-Ingredient Snack Balls (No-Bake + Nut-Free!)

October 10, 2018 by Sally

These Nut Free Snack Balls are made with just five wholesome ingredients and make a quick, healthy snack or treat in a lunch box. Having a batch of snack balls in the fridge just makes my life easier: Everyone can grab them for snacks, lunch boxes, and even two-bite desserts (one if you’re my husband). …

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Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

September 13, 2018 by Sally

This Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie, made with whole wheat flour and oats, is a fun treat for dessert or snack time. How have I lived this long without baking a skillet cookie?! It’s so much quicker than spooning out two dozen mounds of dough. And can we talk about how you get a …

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Chocolate Beet Cupcakes

May 8, 2018 by Sally

Introduce your child to this super-nutritious veggie with these chocolate beet cupcakes, from the new book Adventures in Veggieland. My boys are not on board with straight-up beets. Yet. But they’ll drink them whirled into smoothies and juices. And thanks to this recipe, now they like them in cupcakes. I call that progress. Because part …

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