Chocolate Chip Blondies
As much as I love chocolate chip cookies, it’s easier to put a whole batch of dough in a pan and bake chocolate chip cookie bars. These blondies have a wonderful vanilla flavor, which deceives the palate and makes these bars satisfying without too much sugar. I use a combination of applesauce and coconut [...]
Free Kindle Book
The Food Allergy Mama’s Baking Book: Great Dairy-, Egg-, and Nut-Free Treats for the Whole Family is free for Kindle today. This is a good resource that normally costs $19.95, so be sure to grab it for free before it disappears. If you don’t have a Kindle, you can download free Kindle books onto your [...]
Homemade Chocolate Chips
Every package of chocolate chips I’ve seen has highly processed sugar as one of its ingredients, so I like to make homemade chocolate chips. This recipe requires just 2 ingredients, and you can adjust the sweetness to suit your taste. We’re very fond of chocolate in my house, so I love having these on hand [...]
That’s It Fruit Snacks Review
Have you ever found yourself scanning the grocery store shelves for something to appease a fussy child who’s “helping” you shop? My children are a little older now, but I remember those days when I’d have to plan distractions to get us through the aisles at the store. Sometimes they would beg for highly [...]
Shallot Vinaigrette
Having a good supply of homemade salad dressing recipes is essential in our house because we get lots of greens every week from our farm share. My children are generally happy to eat salad as long as they like the dressing, but I need to rotate different dressings so they don’t get bored with the [...]
Homemade Waffle Cone Bowls
Beautiful spring weather means it’s time for homemade ice cream, and what better way to enjoy ice cream than in a waffle cone? I make these little waffle cone bowls out of pizzelles. It requires some trial and error to determine which bowl you should use to mold the pizzelles into the right shape, and [...]
Kindle Fire HD for $179
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Amazon is offering the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD for $179. I love my Kindle and I’m constantly filling it with free books. This would make a great gift for your mother or yourself. To get the $20 savings, use the code “FIRE4MOM” at checkout. This Kindle includes the following [...]
Fiesta Popcorn
Homemade popcorn is one of the easiest, most affordable real food snacks you can make. That’s why I make sure to always have popcorn kernels on hand. If my children have a last-minute play date after school and there’s “nothing to eat,” I can always pop some popcorn to make a sweet or savory snack. [...]
Five Tips for a Great Fruit Salad
With summer getting closer every day, I’m starting to look forward to fruit salad season. As much as I enjoy individual fruits, I love them even more when their flavors come together in a fruit salad. Even if I only have three or four types of fresh fruit on hand, I like to chop them [...]
$25 Mother/Daughter Apron Set at Target
Target is offering a lovely daily deal today. The Sadie Mother/Daughter Apron Set is on sale for $25 with free shipping. There are four cute versions to choose from, and these would make a great Mother’s Day gift. It’s important to make cooking fun for kids, and I know my little fashionista always gets excited [...]
Roasted Tomato Hummus
Homemade hummus is one of the simplest healthy snacks to make. All you need is a food processor or blender and a handful of ingredients, and within minutes you can have a delicious dip for veggies or chips. Full of protein from the chickpeas, hummus also makes a great sandwich spread. As you may have [...]
Groupon Deal for 50% Off Raspberry Plants
Groupon is offering a nice deal for 50 percent off raspberry plants. Raspberries are one of the easiest fruits to grow in your garden. Our little raspberry patch yielded so many raspberries last summer that I was able to make raspberry jam and several other goodies with our home-grown berries. They’re perfect to put [...]
Coconut Apricot Energy Bites
These coconut apricot energy bites are a delicious snack to grab when you’re on the go. One of my favorite store-bought snack bars used to be the Almond and Apricot Kind Bar. I loved the combination of apricots, almonds, and coconut. However, when I realized that those bars contained 12 ingredients including soy lecithin and [...]
