Instant Pot Smashed Potatoes
Smashed potatoes are my family’s new favorite potato side dish. We’ve tried all the classics: mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, roasted potatoes, homemade fries. Honestly, it’s…
Instant Pot Tomato Soup Recipe
This tomato soup is a real food crowd-pleaser at my house. It is budget-friendly simple food at its best, and you can make it in…
Instant Pot Honey-Mustard Salmon with Potatoes Recipe
Let’s talk about how hard it is to make dinner every night. We are the kind of family that rarely eats out, so we eat…
Quick Ground Beef Recipes: Instant Pot Sloppy Joes
If we’re talking about pure comfort food and classic family-friendly meals that you can make in the Instant Pot, I’m gonna talk about sloppy joes.…
Quick and Healthy Instant Pot Ground Turkey Recipe
Soup season is my very favorite time of the year for frugal, real food cooking. All you need to make really delicious soup is a…
Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
Homemade chocolate chip peanut butter cookies – they are so so good, and not too hard to make a little healthier! I love dessert, and…
Healthy Instant Pot Chili Recipe
Chili season is here! If you don’t have a favorite go-to chili recipe, let me fix for you that right now. There are all kinds…
Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies Recipe
I love a good sugar cookie. They are a part of my childhood in a deep way because my mother and my grandmother used to
30+ Healthy 20-Minute Dinners for Families
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30+ Cheap & Healthy Instant Pot Dinner Ideas
Dinner time cooking has two modes: relaxing and fun – usually with music and a glass of something on the weekends, and that weekday rush…
Pinto Beans Tostadas Recipe | Budget Friendly Dinner
I love an easy, fresh, fun, real food meal. Pinto bean tostadas are simple, delicious, comforting, and oh-so-very flexible, depending on what you have in…
Quinoa Tabbouleh Recipe | Healthy Quinoa Salad
Quinoa is one of my favorite hearty cold salad ingredients, and using it in my Americanized version of tabbouleh makes an easy, healthy quinoa recipe.…
5 Healthy Plant-Based Dinner Recipes
Okay, we’re trying to eat better and take baby steps towards more healthy living. We’re also trying to be better stewards of the planet and…
Instant Pot Vegetable Soup Recipe
One thing we’ve tried really hard to do as a family is making plant-based, plant-forward recipes that we all love. A recent discovery is this…
Real Food Blueberry Spelt Muffin Recipe
I love a good blueberry muffin. Actually, what I really like are the blueberry muffin mixes that don’t even use actual blueberries – just those…
5 Things to Do with Leftover Potatoes
Potatoes are such a versatile side dish. They go with all kinds of cuisines, and flavors, they’re budget-friendly and gluten-free. It’s no wonder we love…
Dairy-Free Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
It’s Christmas! Let the Christmas cookie baking begin! Listen, even before I was trying to make our food a little healthier, I loved baking homemade…
Naturally-Sweetened Sweet Potato Casserole With Maple Syrup
It’s the holiday baking season! Literally my favorite food of the year. I’ve been cooking real food holiday dishes for over a decade now, and…
Instant Pot Beef Roast Recipe Greek-Style
A beef roast is one of my favorite meals to serve to guests. It’s simple to make, made with a budget-friendly cut of meat, but…
I Let My Kids Plan and Cook All of Their Own Meals for a Month. Here’s What Happened.
Does it sound crazy? Maybe a little, but believe it or not, letting my kids plan, buy, and cook all of their own food was…