• A Simple Sweet & Salty Dip For Any Potluck with Chobani Yogurt
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    A Simple Sweet & Salty Dip For Any Potluck with Chobani Yogurt

    September 26, 2016 - By 

    We had a potluck at work on Friday – we have monthly potlucks. I normally don’t bring anything, but this week was National People Week at McDonalds. Where they take a week to thank the crew & managers, which is kinda cool. So I could of just went to the store and grabbed something, but I like coming up with fun healthy ideas. So I decided to make a cookie dip & ranch dip using Chobani yogurt. Since I work 3 jobs currently, I needed something quick and easy to put together for work. Being that I work in fast…

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    Healthy Snack Choices With Graze | #GrazeBox

    September 16, 2016 - By 

    Are you looking for a healthy snack option? A Graze box would be the way to go. When you go to their site, make sure you have your ebates button activated on Chrome, you get $1.50 cash back on ever purchase you make. YES! Your first sample box has 4 examples and every box after that, you get 8 snacks per box. There’s over 100 snacks of yummy choices, you can check out them here. With the exception of our flapjack box which is $13.99, all of our other 8 snack boxes cost just $11.99 including delivery.  Specialty 4 snack boxes,…

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    Making Healthy Lunches With Annie’s Homegrown | #YumForAll

    September 5, 2016 - By 

    Remember when bento lunches were a thing for kid’s school lunches. Every mom was making panda face made out of bread and whatnot. It’s not about what the design is, but what you’re feeding them. When you can make healthy choices with Annie’s Homegrown and make it with love? Yea, that can’t be beat. We want to find our kiddos the best stuff – well I’m hear to save you the time and hassle with all of that! Your kitchen needs Annie’s Homegrown products! Let me share with you the best places to find Annie’s products, but it gets tricky. There’s some…

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    4 Healthy Choices While Working Fulltime with Lean Pockets

    August 21, 2016 - By 

    I thought being a stay at home mom and taking care of the blog was tough. Trying working a full-time job outside the house, being a single mom and taking care of this blog is like 3 full-time jobs. Crazy right? I work normally second shift at McDonald’s, on those days I normally eat at work. Eating healthy while working in fast food is hard to do, here’s 4 Healthy Choices While Working A Full-Time Job with Lean Pockets!   #1 Drinks LOTS of Water! Working in the hot kitchen, when the AC rarely ever works. Even when it does, it’s…

  • Peanut Butter Banana Rice Cakes w/Honey
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    Peanut Butter Banana Rice Cakes w/Honey

    April 24, 2016 - By 

    I wanted a healthy snack one day and I already knew that rice cakes are great light snack. But I know what you’re thinking, how can you make this cardboard NOT taste just like cardboard. (I said the same thing, haha). So what do I do when I need a yummy recipe? I go to Pinterest and hope to goodness that I don’t get sucked into the black hole of Pinterest. With that said, that’s when I found this totally addicting peanut butter banana rice cakes drizzled with honey. When I made these for myself, just like every other time…

  • Cauliflower Grilled Cheese Sandwich | #NationalGrilledCheeseDay
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    Cauliflower Grilled Cheese Sandwich | #NationalGrilledCheeseDay

    April 12, 2016 - By 

    Did you know that April 12th is National Grilled Cheese Day? I didn’t know that was a thing. The things you learn via trending on Twitter. Here’s my attempt at the cauliflower grilled cheese sandwich, first seen on The Iron You. For the record that site has some amazing food, it makes me super hungry, so you’re welcome in advance! Who doesn’t love grilled cheese sandwiches? Like, they’re crazy right!?! So I was chilling on Pinterest, because that’s what I like to do when I am bored at 3 am and I am putting off working on blog post. #guilty…

  • 18 Healthy Snacks You Need In Your Life | Utterly-Amazing.com
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    18 Healthy Snacks You Need In Your Life

    April 10, 2016 - By 

    To snack or not to snack, that may be the problem. Healthy snacking improves overall health, curbs cravings, fights weight gain, regulates mood, boosts brain power and gives you the energy you need to keep going all day. Many snacks provide calories, saturated fat, sugar or salt and are low in important nutrients. If you prefer to eat “small and often”, remember that the “small” is usually more important than the “often”. A healthy snack generally has about 60-100 calories – about what you’d get from a piece of fruit, a slice of raisin bread or 1/2 cup of low-fat yogurt. If you’re anything…

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    Easy Oven Baked Bacon Ranch Chicken

    April 5, 2016 - By 

    Having chicken is always a favorite in our house. My kids eat chicken like it’s going out of style, so I always try to come up with fun ways to change it up, no one likes the same thing every night. One of my favorite things to do is rolling chicken in cracker crumbs. So when RITZ bacon flavored became I thing, I knew I had to try some oven baked bacon ranch chicken. It works with any kind of crackers – any flavors. I’m a lover of anything bacon, when it’s cooking – it legit smells like bacon in…

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    Electric Mac & Cheese Maker

    January 1, 2016 - By 

    When I first heard about the Electric Mac & Cheese Maker from Smart Planet, I oddly amused. But who doesn’t love mac & cheese? My kids would eat mac and cheese for every meal if I let them. So I was actually pretty excited for this bad boy.

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    Oreo Holiday Candy Bark | #HeftyHoliday

    December 3, 2015 - By 

    Doesn’t this Oreo Holiday Candy Bark look amazing? Let me tell you, I’ve been wanting to make candy bark since the first time I saw it on pinterest. So what a more perfect recipe to make. Because you can’t just let candy bark sit around, you have to keep it stored cold, so it doesn’t melt. So I decided to make some Oreo Holiday Candy Bark. This is something that’s a great family friendly activity to do with the kids or by yourself. It’s an anybody snack and great for last minute gifts for people! When I made this only half…