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Cool Whip Cookies
As a busy mom, I am always looking for easy, but delicious recipes. These Cool Whip cookies are just that! With only four ingredients, minimal mess, and hardly any prep time, this is one of the easiest cookie recipes I know! Also sometimes called crinkle cookies, these easy cake mix cookies can be any flavor you want! All you have to do is decide on a box of cake mix! I first started making these cool whip cake mix cookies when my oldest daughter started wanting to help me bake (when she was 2 years old). She has so much fun picking a flavor of cake mix (usually funfetti…) from…
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Hamburger Vegetable Soup
This easy but delicious hamburger vegetable soup is just what the doctor ordered for these cold winter days! Nothing warms the soul as much as a nice, warm bowl of vegetable soup! This vegetable beef soup recipe is my go-to recipe for the winter months because of how easy it is! I love that there is minimal prep work with this recipe! Having two toddlers that love to help cook, they have a blast helping me cut the vegetables for this soup with their kid-safe knives. After that prep is done, all that is really left for this hamburger vegetable soup to be finished, is wait time! Related post: Toddler…
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Sneaking Veggies Into Toddler Food | Mom Hacks
Sneaking veggies into toddler food doesn’t have to be difficult. You don’t need to go out and buy a food processor or spend hours upon hours meal prepping healthy snacks. All you need to do is think a little outside the box! Small swaps and additions to foods that your toddler already loves can completely change the nutritional value! Let me tell you how with these simple hacks to help you start sneaking veggies into your toddlers’ food today! Toddlers, like the rest of us, eat with their eyes first. However, they don’t really care about the visual esthetics, like us as adults do. Toddlers only care that they recognize…
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Creme de Menthe Brownies
Creme de Menthe Brownies is where decadent chocolate meets refreshing mint to form the most luxurious, perfect bite! Along side a mug of peppermint tea or a peppermint mocha latte, you will think you died and went to Heaven! These addicting, divine little brownies are surprisingly easy to make and absolutely perfect for any occasion. The fun, green layer makes them a go to for my family for Christmas as well as St. Patrick’s day! Sometimes I get even more festive and top them with holiday sprinkles. Christmas tree sprinkles for Christmas brownies and shamrock sprinkles for St. Patrick’s Day brownies are just too cute! But, even without the fun…
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10 Healthy Cooking Hacks You Need to Know
Cooking healthy does not have to be hard and eating healthy doesn’t have to taste awful! Sometimes eating healthy just requires tiny adjustments to the foods you already know and love! These 10 healthy cooking hacks are guaranteed to change your perception on dieting and eating healthy! I started incorporating all 10 of these health hacks into my meal planning for my family about a year ago. Since then, my husband has lost over 20 pounds and I have lost over 15! We did this by using these hacks and incorporating them into the 5 F’s diet plan from my article, How to Lose 5 Pounds in a Month |…
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Perfect Sugar Cookies
This is an old fashioned sugar cookie recipe without baking powder that makes the perfect sugar cookies every time! These wonderfully chewy sugar cookies are simple to make, cut out and decorate! They are such simple cookies, but they pack a lovely punch of flavor! This has got to be my toddlers’ favorite recipe to help make, decorate and (of course) eat! Related post: Toddler Things | Why Cooking Should be One of Them Equipment needed to make these perfect sugar cookies: Baking Sheet Stand mixer Shopping list for this homemade sugar cookie recipe: Shortening Granulated sugar Salt Eggs Vanilla extract Almond extract Baking soda Sour cream All purpose flour …
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Caramel Corn Recipe Without Corn Syrup
I was never really a fan of caramel corn until I modified a recipe I found to create this caramel corn recipe without corn syrup. While delivering items from her school fundraiser, my ‘sweets loving’ toddler begged for some of the caramel corn. Obviously I couldn’t give her other people’s items, so I found myself having to make it at home. I didn’t have a few of the items that traditional caramel corn recipes called for like real vanilla extract, corn syrup or real butter, so I made do with what I did have. And that is how I ended up with some delicious, corn syrup, gluten and dairy free…
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Hot Mulled Cider Citrus Punch
Nothing tastes like fall like a warm mug of hot mulled cider. Every time I have a sip of apple cider I am instantly transported back to my childhood. My mom would take us to the apple orchard every fall to go apple picking. You simply can’t complete a day of apple picking without indulging in some of the fibrous fruits’ delicacies! We always ended the day with a glass of apple cider. Depending on the weather that day made the decision for us as to whether that cider was hot or cold! That’s what is so great about this modern take of a hot mulled cider recipe! Adding the…
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