This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #EffortlessMeals #CollectiveBias For about four years now, we have been fortunate enough to head to the beach for one week each summer. We always have a great time with the … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
Meatless Monday: Pizza di Spaghetti
I'm not a big fan of leftovers. Eating the same thing two times inside of a week is just not something that excites me. That having been said, I can't in good conscience just throw out perfectly good food. It wastes money and teaches my kids a terrible lesson. So I like to … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Veggie Quiche
No frills this week for Meatless Monday! We made a quiche with some veggies that were sitting in the fridge. We took some onions, mushrooms, and broccoli and sauteed them up with butter, salt, and pepper until the broccoli was tender. We poured the veggies into a pie shell and … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Fried Mac & Cheese
Going meatless for a day, a month, or a lifetime doesn't mean that you cannot have fun with your food. I think that, in the South, there is a consensus that, if it can be fried, it should be fried! Today, we are looking to fry Macaroni and Cheese! Let me tell you, it felt … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Pancake Dinner
Sometimes dinner on a Meatless Monday needs to be really simple. Pancake dinner fits that bill for sure. Our kids would eat pancakes for dinner every night if we let them. They love pancakes so dinner tonight was a hit for sure! We ... haha, that is funny! Brian tends to break … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Vegetarian Tapas
We are all about keeping our dinners simple, affordable, and tasty. On the other hand, I'm still just a big kid who still likes to play with his food. Sometimes, experimenting with new flavors or new types of food can really negate these factors (especially the tasty part). … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Spinach and Mushroom Quiche
Sometimes after a long day, we just need a dinner that is quick, easy, and not too heavy. We tend to keep pie shells, eggs, mushrooms, spinach, and cheese around at all times so it's only natural that a quiche would find it's way into our repertoire from time to time. Quiche … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Macaroni and Cheese
Having a meatless meal does not mean sacrificing comfort. Macaroni and Cheese is one of those meals that takes just about everyone back to some point in their childhood. Unfortunately, as a nation, we have taken to using those electric orange yellow powder packages of cheese … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Baked Potatoes
Ok, so I know that we did Twice Baked Potatoes last week, but potatoes are a great multipurpose staple, and, if you shop on a budget like us, you are likely to buy them in 5-10 pound bags. Potatoes keep for a while, but not indefinitely, so it's smart to plan a few meals around … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Vegetable Minestrone
Some days you just know that Monday night is going to be a little rough. That's when the good old slow cooker is worth its weight in gold! So this Monday, we've pulled out our trusty copy of Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly and have made a Vegetable Minestrone. The thing that … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Stuffed Peppers
Finally, the hardest part of our journey comes to an end. Our six-week vegan diet period is over, but we still have another six weeks of vegetarian fare ahead of us. When we say vegetarian, we are including honey and dairy products (including eggs) in our diet, but all flesh … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Black Bean and Rice Burritos
So we are officially into Week 5 of our New Year's diet plan. That means that we are still on a vegan diet, but we can eat bread and actually feel full from time to time. That's kind of a nice feeling. The problem is that we are both quickly getting a bit bored and the comfort … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Spinach Pesto and Mushroom Pizza
This week, we finally finished the 2012 Whole Living Action Plan, a three week detox. The plan left me hungry, craving every bad food that you can imagine, and generally feeling yucky all over. At the end of the plan, though, I am down 20 pounds and a pant size, my energy … [Read more...]