I figured Labor Day is almost here (and back to school!), so putting together a weekly round up of easy to make recipes for the end of the summer camping trip would be nice. These are easy to make year round, and even in your own backyard! These are the most yummy and out of … Read more
I don’t know about you and your family, but my family and I are huge chip eaters. We eat all sorts of chips. They’re so easy to put in school lunches and put in a bowl for snack… But they’re so full of sodium and other yucky stuff that I would rather not give to … Read more
Ah, mornings. While I’d love to be one of those cheerful souls who bound out of bed at the crack of dawn, the reality is far less glamorous. Picture this: I’m cozied up under my blanket, hitting the snooze button one too many times, already mentally bargaining with my coffee maker to brew that life-giving … Read more
In my house, pizza is considered its own essential food group. When I ask the kids what they want for dinner, pizza is inevitably always the first request shouted out. We could probably eat it every day and never tire of the endless possibilities. While I indulge the pleas for pizza night frequently since it’s … Read more
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Seems only fair that since I did a WRU of pasta salads, that I should do one for potato salad. These are more likely to be gluten-free, too, which it seems like a lot of people are looking for. … Read more
One of the coolest things about having 5 kids is that it doesn’t take much to turn an ordinary dinner into a party. Add a cuple friends and one set of grandparents, and there you go – party central! As you can imagine, it’s kind of hard to turn to an offer to host a … Read more
Last summer, we fell in love with grilling. For years before that, we want without grilling because we didn’t have the backyard space for a grill. But once we moved to a home with plenty of room for a grill, we started firing it up on a regular basis and my husband happily became the … Read more
Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful New Year’s Eve and that 2012 is off to a great start for you! 2011 was a great year for our family. It was filled with many changes, a lot of hard work, tons of fun and love, and some really great food! Here … Read more
Although we have many family members that are members at Costco, Eric and I had never been in one until this past weekend. We love warehouse club shopping and have been known to make a day out of walking around the aisles with the kids. So, we were very excited about becoming members at Costco … Read more
Do you ever have one of those weeks where everything you try in the kitchen turns out wrong? And I don’t mean wrong to the point of thinking “hmm, this could have been better,” but wrong to where you have to tell your husband who’s on his way home to eat a late dinner after … Read more