Life, Family, and Home - Simplified & Sweetened
This week we’ve been exploring easy meal time solutions. Whether it’s a busy Monday or a football Saturday, sometimes our schedules get in the way of making a homecooked meal, and for these days it’s good to have convenient, yet delicious options on hand. [Read more…]
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A couple of weeks ago I shared a delicious recipe for Pulled Pork Nachos. Pulled pork is an absolute Southern staple and one of my favorite foods! I love ordering it from local barbecue places, and I also love making it at home!
The only problem with making it at home is that it takes several hours to cook, which means I always have to plan ahead and be prepared to spend a day or an evening watching over the meat as it cooks. It’s definitely well worth the time and effort, but I don’t always have time to do this! And when I’ve been busy working all day and it’s time to pick up Noah from school, I definitely don’t have the time to cook a whole pork roast in time for dinner….until now! Enter Farm Rich® Smokehouse Pulled Pork BBQ!
This pulled pork is just as delicious as anything you can make at home or get from a bbq stand, and it cooks up in the microwave in minutes! Today I’m going to show you how I paired this delicious pulled pork with some Birds Eye Steamfresh® Flavor Full Sour Cream and Onion Potatoes to make a delicious and easy weeknight meal!
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It’s Monday again! Do you ever struggle to come with delicious and easy weeknight meals that are easy and quick to make but still taste delicious? Then read on!
Today I’ve got a delicious Chicken & Shrimp Stir Fry recipe that goes great with Uncle Ben’s® Rice and cooks up in about 30 minutes. It is a fantastic restaurant quality recipe, featuring lean protein and vegetables, and it packs a flavor punch! In short, it’s something the whole family can enjoy and Mom will approve! [Read more…]
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Monday is usually the busiest day of the week for me. It’s usually when I have the most work to do for my business, and then we have a lot of things happening at school as well. All of this usually means that I have to come up with a SUPER easy and quick meal to cook. One option I often turn to is Manwich and Manwich Monday Recipes.
Manwich sauce comes in three great varieties: Original, Bold, and Thick & Chunky.
As a kid, we ate Manwich Sandwiches all the time with Original Manwich sauce, but nowadays I use the all the varieties. (My favorite is the Bold!)
Manwich Sandwiches are truly a great meal for the family. Apart from being delicious, the Kid-Stopping Power of Manwich makes meals a messy-licious treat to be enjoyed with both hands. And Manwich offers moms and dads an easy, quality ingredient to bring the family’s attention back to mealtime and away from everyday distractions (like video games and text messaging).
And I now use the sauce for so much more than sandwiches. A couple of my favorite meals are Sloppy Joe Pies to Meat Loaf!
A few days ago, I used Manwich to make Sloppy Joe Walking Tacos. Have you heard of Walking Tacos? They are one of the latest food crazes!
Basically you take a bunch of different ingredients and just mix them together in a cup. It offers you a tasting meal that you can eat on the go without the mess!
For the Sloppy Joe Walking Taco, I mixed Manwich sauce with cooked ground beef, just as I normally would for sandwiches. And then I spoon the meat mixture in to a large mug, layering it with Frito Chips and cheese. (You could also use other ingredients of your choosing, such as lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, and other veggies or condiments.)
Not only is it a delicious meal to serve, but it’s also less messy! You could say this recipe and method of serving takes the sloppy out of sloppy joes!
This fun and less-mess, individual serving method also makes this a great food to serve at football parties and other events. Guests will be able to grab their walking taco and eat while standing up or while mingling with other guests!
I took this picture of my husband and I a few days ago. It’s a great picture of us, if I do say so myself, and we look so happy. You’d never know from looking at us, what a struggle this year has been.
If you’ve read my blog regularly you may have seen a few posts this year where I’ve talked about my husband being hospitalized. He was there for 7 days, including 2 days in the intensive care unit. He was initially admitted and treated for pancreatitis and low blood sodium, but was also treated for other ailments like gastritis and neuropathy. [Read more…]
Happy Friday and Welcome to October! Once again this week I have been OVERWHELMED with a busy schedule, from posts to band events, and even a wedding! Not to mention, we had a yard sale last week, and I’m STILL dealing with the aftermath!
So…..just one more time I’m going skip features this week….but just so that you’re not left completely without something fun to look at, I’m going to highlight a few of my own recent posts. I know it doesn’t make up for the lack of features, but I promise I’ll get everything together soon and will have some of your awesome content featured here next week!
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We may be falling in fun fall festivities, but I still have to stay on task when it comes to keeping my family fed. After the first couple of months of school, those same old breakfasts and snacks start to get old, and finding new food choices our boy loves can be a challenge. Luckily Kellogg’s is here to save the day.
With so many great products like Pop Tarts, Nutri-Grain bars, Eggo waffles, Rice Krispies Treats, Kellogg’s has so much to offer for breakfast and snack time. And of course, Kellogg’s also offers an amazing assortment of cereals, including Fruit Loops, Frosted Flakes, Frosted Mini Wheats, Rice Krispies, Corn Pops, Apple Jacks, and Krave. [Read more…]
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The number one question I hear people ask on Saturdays in the fall is, “What time is the game?” Almost everyone I know has a team they root for, a team they root against, and few teams they watch just for the fun of it! Each week we have OUR teams that we watch as well, and good food is a key ingredient to making our football Saturday great!
Last week we were super busy working on various projects, but thanks to Red Baron Pizza and Edwards Pies, I still managed to put together a little spread for the big game. [Read more…]
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The fall season is here, and holidays are just around the corner. For me, this means the season of good eats and sweet treats is upon us! But when you’re a wife and mom, you usually don’t get to just enjoy the treats around you, you also have to come up with your own dessert ideas to bring for functions.
Whenever it’s time for Thanksgiving and Christmas parties, I’m usually tasked with bringing desserts. (And I’m okay with this, because desserts are my favorite recipes to make!) But if your family participates in a lot of activities, you may find yourself in a pinch for a quick dessert recipe! School and church parties, fall festivals, and school fundraisers (like a bake sale or cake walk) are just a few events I can think of where you may need to bring a dessert, and I’m sure you can think of many more!
For these occasions, I find it’s easy and cost-effective to create a “semi-homemade dessert.” For example, purchase a Sara Lee® cheesecake, pound cake, or other dessert, and then add Hershey’s® syrups and other ingredients to customize the dessert. [Read more…]
