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Easy Weeknight Pork Roast with Smithfield

December 14, 2016 By Brian Leave a Comment

Easy Weeknight Pork Roast with Smithfield

This post was sponsored by Smithfield as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own. Sometimes, you have to make time to sit down at the dinner table. That can be especially difficult during the holiday season. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Food Tagged With: #realflavorrealfast, dinner, fast, food, pork, pork tenderloin, real flavor real fast, tenderloin, weeknight dinner

Winter Comfort with Marie Callender’s Pot Pies

December 8, 2014 By Brian Leave a Comment

Winter Comfort with Marie Callender’s Pot Pies

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CollectiveBias #PotPiePlease Sometimes life gets the best of you and you just need a bit of a slow down. You need something to warm you up and provide a little comfort and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Food Tagged With: dinner, easy, family, kids

Making the Return Home Effortless

July 22, 2014 By Beth 15 Comments

Making the Return Home Effortless

This is part of a sponsored conversation about Effortless Meals from Walmart.  Thanks to The Coca-Cola Company for providing compensation for this blog post.  All thoughts and opinions are my own. When you get home from vacation, you want things to be easy.  We even go so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Family, Simply Food, Uncategorized Tagged With: dinner, easy, family dinner, Walmart

Family Friendly Summer Meals with Kraft

June 27, 2014 By Brian 23 Comments

Family Friendly Summer Meals with Kraft

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CollectiveBias #RollIntoSavings During the summer months, many families experience tight times around the 1st and 15th of the month.  We were challenged to use some KRAFT … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Food Tagged With: barbecue, bbq turkey burger, cooking, dinner, food, kids, kids in the kitchen, Kraft, mushrooms, pasta salad, summer meal, turkey burger, Walmart

Adding Veggies to Lasagna

November 4, 2013 By Brian 1 Comment

Adding Veggies to Lasagna

One of the hardest things for us to do for dinner in our house is to add green to any food.  We regularly have to hear complaints about not liking "green stuff".  It's actually kind of funny since they will gladly eat raw broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, etc. dipped in ranch … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Food Tagged With: cooking, dinner, family, food, kids, lasagna, veggies

Back to School with Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits

September 19, 2013 By Brian 1 Comment

Back to School with Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits

School is back and we are in full swing.  As a work at home dad, I couldn't be happier!  I only have one charge during the daytime and he's in preschool 3 1/2 hours a day.  It's glorious! Still, with elementary aged students comes elementary aged after school activities. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Food Tagged With: dinner, kid friendly, recipe

GIANT Meal Planner #cbias

May 22, 2013 By Brian 9 Comments

GIANT Meal Planner #cbias

During our weekly meal planning, as part of a sponsored post for Collective Bias®, we used the GIANT meal planner to help inspire us and prepare our shopping list for a trip to our local MARTIN'S Food Store. If you are a regular reader of our blog, you know that we are big … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meal Plans, Simply Food Tagged With: budgeting, cooking, dinner, meal planner, meal planning, Recipes

Dinner without This Cookin Dad X 8

April 7, 2013 By Beth 2 Comments

Dinner without This Cookin Dad X 8

Dear gosh. Eight dinners?! I can fake my way through breakfast and lunches. I cover those most days for myself and the kids. I am the lunch packin' queen after all but dinner ... dinners are all Brian. Maybe you caught wind that he is headed to Chile for the Foods from Chile … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meal Plans, Simply Food Tagged With: dinner, kids

Lazy Meatless Monday Dinner

March 11, 2013 By Beth 4 Comments

Lazy Meatless Monday Dinner

Today was a long day at our house. Maybe it was the switch to Daylight Savings Time? Maybe is Brian STILL being sick with bronchitis? Maybe it is me just being worn out. It was Meatless Monday day though. Thankfully we had planned for a lazy meatless Monday dinner. Part of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meatless Monday, Memes, Simply Food Tagged With: dinner, family, food, meatless, meatless monday, vegetarian

Wishin’ For Summer Sunday Dinner

March 10, 2013 By Beth 3 Comments

Wishin’ For Summer Sunday Dinner

Last week when we had 10 inches of snow on the ground, I dreamed up this Sunday's dinner. Then I named it. I have no idea why I named the dinner as we don't generally name our dinners but I told Brian it was the "Wishin' for Summer" dinner. Today is was 63 degrees outside at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Food Tagged With: cooking, dinner, food, Summer, sunday dinner

When Appliances Aren’t Delivered … Dinner Plans Change!

December 19, 2012 By Brian Leave a Comment

When Appliances Aren’t Delivered … Dinner Plans Change!

What exactly happens when your appliance isn't delivered? Dinner plans change. (Background: Brian was blessed to win  new oven at the Mixed Conference thanks to The Fresh 20 that sent him on their behalf.) Brian borrowed a dolly to move the old oven out the house last night. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Simply Life Tagged With: appliances, changes, delivery, dinner, oven

Bertolli’s Weeknight Meal Special Challenge

February 2, 2012 By Brian 2 Comments

Bertolli’s Weeknight Meal Special Challenge

We got an opportunity to try out Bertolli's newest product, their Meal Soups.  We have, for some time now, loved Bertolli products.  We have tried frozen meals, sauces, and olive oils, and we are always pleased with whatever we get.  So the chance to try out something new was a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Promotional, Reviews, Simply Food Tagged With: Bertolli's Weeknight Meal Special Challenge, dinner, dinner idea, review, soup, soup for dinner, Tomato Florentine and Tortellini with Chicken, weeknight dinner idea

Turkey Leftovers: Pot Pie and Enchilasagna

December 29, 2011 By Brian 9 Comments

Turkey Leftovers:  Pot Pie and Enchilasagna

Some people do ham for Christmas, but I've always fancied turkey.  Just like with Thanksgiving, though, you always have the problem of what to do with all of the leftover turkey.  You want to use up the turkey, but turkey dinners, turkey sandwiches, and turkey salad can only get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: cheap, Christmas, christmas leftovers, cooking, dinner, easy, enchilada, enchilasagna, food, leftovers, mexican lasagna, pot pie, recipe, Recipes, simple, tasty, Thanksgiving, thanksgiving leftovers, turkey enchilada, turkey enchilasagna, turkey mexican lasagna, turkey pot pie

The Daring Cooks Challenge: Char Sui Bao

December 14, 2011 By Brian 19 Comments

The Daring Cooks Challenge:  Char Sui Bao

Our Daring Cooks’ December 2011 hostess is Sara from Belly Rumbles! Sara chose awesome Char Sui Bao as our challenge, where we made the buns, Char Sui, and filling from scratch – delicious! Thanks so much Sara for a great challenge.  I've seen these sorts of things on some of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Simply Food Tagged With: Cantonese, Cantonese BBQ pork, Cantonese BBQ pork buns, challenge, char sui, char sui bao, cooking, daring cook, daring kitchen, dinner, pork, pork barbecue, pork bbq, pork buns

Meatless Monday: Slow Cooker Vegetarian Garden Chili

December 5, 2011 By Brian 2 Comments

Meatless Monday:  Slow Cooker Vegetarian Garden Chili

It's getting on wintertime and, here in Virginia, it's starting to get cold.  As such, soup and chili are going to start being staples around our house.  What better way to cook these comforting meals than using that slow cooking crockpot?  Hook it up in the morning and you're … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meatless Monday, Memes, Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: chili, cooking, crockpot, dinner, food, meatless, meatless monday, recipe, slow cooker, vegan, vegetarian, vegetarian chili

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