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Summer Dinner Idea: Family Favorite Summer Salad
Sometimes a salad is just the thing to satisfy an appetite on a hot summer day. No one wants to spend a lot of time in the kitchen cooking on a 100-degree day. But spending a few minutes chopping some crisp, cold lettuce, and throw in some berries and a quick and easy protein like chicken breast and you have a deliciously light, full of flaver summer salad. Which is a great summer dinner idea. This post contains affiliate ad links to 3rd party sites. I’m sharing with you one that I make often. It has been a family favorite for many years. I take it along to potlucks,…
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40 + Easy Recipes for Crazy Busy Moms You’ll Want to Really Use
During the homeschool season family life is busy. I want to be prepared in as many areas as possible. One of those ways is to prep some meals for quick and easy recipes. One of the ways I’m going to be doing this is by using freezer dump recipes. This post contains affiliate advertisement links. Another way to be ready for meal time is to be prepared with ingredients for slow cooker recipes. There are so many recipes available these days on the web, weeding through them can be intimidating. I’ve been looking for a few weeks and as I’ve been shopping and pulling together freezer meal packs and easy recipes.…
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20 Meals for Family Dinner Ideas
Homemakers are most often the family meal maker as well. I’m no exception. I enjoy cooking for my family. But I don’t enjoy meal planning. Which is why I have a few meals that are my go to meals for each season. These are meals that I know how to make without having to pull out a recipe so meal planning is pretty easy as long as I keep my pantry well stocked. My 5 Favorite Winter Time Meals Cabbage Rolls Lasagna Vegetable Beef Soup Meatloaf Orecchiette with Ham & Asparagus But that doesn’t mean I’m not willing to try new things. In fact, I love trying new recipes to see if…
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Homemade Cinnamon Rolls for Breakfast
There is nothing quite as delicious as warm and gooey cinnamon rolls. If you’re like me add a cup of hot coffee on the side and you have the most delectable breakfast treat. Of course cinnamon rolls can be eaten any time of the day, but I think they are perfect for a breakfast meal. In the winter time, I love making cinnamon rolls for breakfast on a Sunday morning. I use my family bread dough recipe to make the dough. It’s a versatile sweet bread dough that has just the perfect rise for cinnamon rolls. For the cinnamon part of the roll I prefer using brown sugar with the…
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10 Days of Meal Planning Free eBook
Download your eBook free Today After participating in a 10 day hopscotch series where I shared Meal Planning When You Don’t Like to Plan. I’ve heard from several of you that you have been encouraged, inspired and even gotten some great tips. So I decided to turn the series into a downloadable e-book. Meal Planning Free eBook Download now for FREE. Happy Meal Planning without a plan. While your here visiting, why not become a regular subscriber Just enter your email here: You’ll get a regular update of all my blogs in your inbox, occasional newsletters and notes of…
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Repurpose Leftovers
Being Intentional with Extra Food Being Intentional to Repurpose Leftovers No matter how good a planner you are, or how precise your measurements may be, as a home-cook there will be days where you will have leftover foods. Perhaps this is one of the biggest areas of wasted food there is in this country. Most of us do not like eating for more than one day in a row. Often leftovers get re-purposed for lunch the next day. That is a great re-use of a dinner meal. But what do you do if you have more than that left over? Tips for Repurposing Leftovers Left over meats can be frozen and…
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My Go To Meals
Quick and Easy Meals As a part of my meal planning series I’m sharing some of my favorite pantry products as affiliate links. You can find these products at amazon.com and if you choose you can purchase them there. Which will earn me a small commission. Thanks for supporting Great Peace Academy. Sometimes I just don’t want to cook. Sometimes, I just want someone else to decide what the meal will be. But the reality is, I’m the wife and mom. The reality is, it is my responsibility to provide meals for my family. It really is my good pleasure and for the most part I find peace in the…
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Free Meal Planning Printables
Planning to Stock Up Your Kitchen Meal planning is an area of homemaking where many women struggle. We know it’s a daily necessity. Yet it meal time often seems to sneak up on us. As a wife, mom, and homeschooler we generally have to plan 21 meals every week, plus snacks, and desserts. Then there are times we even entertain guests. To help you in your planning efforts I’m sharing some free meal planning printables. If you’ve been following this meal planning series you have come to learn that my method of meal planning consists of keeping a well stocked kitchen. Then I make daily choices based upon what I have…
