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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: Kielbasa and Cabbage

This meal was tasty and a good way to combine a lot of things I had on hand. You know how it is this time of year. Crazy, crazy, crazy busy. Some weeks I don’t get to plan out a menu of meals for the...

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Fun Friday: Peach Cobbler from GirlsGoGames.com

After a long, hard day, this was a great dessert to come home to! This was a long, tough school year. Lots of hard work, lots of time and schedule commitments. Oftentimes our kids, just like lots of...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: Tortellini, Shrimp and Tomato Soup

Sometimes impulse shopping can be good! Grocery shopping on an empty stomach…never a good thing. Grocery shopping with a bunch of kids who all have empty stomachs, also not a good thing. At least, not...

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Summer Couponing Update

Last week’s CVS haul was amazing! I spent $6 on all of this, which is equivalent to paying for just one purple bottle of the shampoo shown here. I had $25 in Extra Care Bucks and a variety of...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: Miss Meg’s Marinade

In honor of Meg’s last week, a recipe from her to me. ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 19, 2013 Reposted today in honor of Miss Meg and her beau William and their recent wedding!! “What’s for Dinner Wednesday”...

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Birthday Couponing and Loyalty Programs

Lots of free birthday treats can come your way when you sign up for loyalty programs! As a couponer, I’m always looking for a great bargain, but I also get pretty used to never paying full price for...

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Fun Friday: Chocolate Bark from “American Girl” Magazine

A very kid-friendly recipe from “American Girl” magazine provided our whole family with a yummy treat all week! I love that my kids love to read, they love to get magazines in the mail and they love to...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: A freezer full of food

Cooking for someone else this summer got me thinking about the school year dinner menu. At the beginning of last month, I helped out a young woman at our church who had recently had some surgery that...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: More Make Ahead Meals

I’m on a roll, what’s the next batch of dinners I can cook ahead? Ever since I did all my meal prep prior to the start of school last week, I have been looking at every meal with new eyes. Every time I...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: How to plan ahead

With my Pampered Chef deep covered baker, cooking a chicken is so easy. I throw it all in, throw it all in the microwave, and throw it all on the table. I’ve had a lot of positive feedback about my...

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Fun Friday: Blueberry Crisp

We had the most perfect day for our blueberry picking trip! At the end of the summer we had the opportunity to go blueberry picking just over the state line with my cousin Val and her husband Bob. I...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: Quick and Easy Sesame Chicken

This new recipe was definitely a keeper!! My kids and I are professional mall food court stalkers. I seriously think we could make an entire meal of circling a food court at lunchtime and tasting the...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: Back by popular demand…two weeks of menu planning

Ready for another two weeks of dinners? Two weeks ago, for my What’s for Dinner Wednesday post, I shared with you our two week menu plan for the following two weeks. The post was very well received. I...

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Fun Friday: Cook once, eat twice. After school snacks and breakfast

These were healthy and a huge hit. Definitely a keeper. ORIGINALLY POSTED SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 Cook once, eat twice. I love that old adage. You cook once, and live on the leftovers. Or, you make double,...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: Smoky BBQ Pork Tenderloin Sliders

This was an excellent Pampered Chef make ahead meal! You may have read some of my past two- week menu posts, where I mentioned having attended a recent Pampered Chef make ahead freezer meal “party”...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: Healthy Shrimp Scampi

This was a great alternative scampi recipe for our family! I know I say it all the time, but I just love all the recipes that come across my Facebook page every day. I’ve gotten so many great ideas...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken from Six Sisters’...

Definitely, definitely a keeper! Thanks Six Sisters’ Stuff! We eat a lot of chicken. It’s a meat most of the five of us enjoy, most of the time. I’m being very diplomatic in that statement, because not...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: Soup for everyone

Three soups that are quick, easy and can all be done simultaneously. Earlier in the school year I did quite a bit of food preparation ahead of time, making and freezing foods for future use. One thing...

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Fun Friday: Weelicious Pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting

We needed a Fun Friday snack. It was only Wednesday, but we needed it. We’re having an awfully rough semester. Since August 26, we’ve been hit with “flu-like” viruses, pneumonia, sinus infections and...

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What’s for Dinner Wednesday: Two weeks of meals

Ready for another two weeks of dinners? It’s been a little while since I’ve posted our two weeks of meals menu, and I always get great feedback from readers when I do. Therefore, I’m sharing our...

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