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If you have been around SIMPLE very long you know how scrupulous I am about the food I feed my family. I want to know *every* ingredient. I want to be able to pronounce *every* ingredient. I want to know the food I am feeding my family isn’t full of toxic GMO’s, hormone altering…
Lunch time ruts can get super frustrating. My middle child especially eats better when there is variety during the week. I certainly don’t come up with something new and exciting for lunch every day of the week though! I have a handful of several “lunch time staples” that I rotate to keep the peace. And…
Ok friends. For real. It’s almost over. You know…winter. We are *so* close to spring! Can you feel it?! Thought I would give you a taste of impending warmer weather with a salad dressing. It is wonderfully Mexican in flavor, perfectly creamy in texture, and also makes for a great sandwich spread or chicken salad…
Have you ever tried coconut water? Yeah the one cute little cardboard container that looks all refreshing and yummy until you take a drink. Yes, you know what I’m talking about. And I’m sorry if I just dissed your favorite drink, but the taste of coconut water just is not refreshing or yummy to me…
Born and bred in the Midwest…casseroles are just sort of indoctrinated in you from childhood. There is just something about them that gets you through the winter I think 😉 A couple years ago, I took my mom’s chicken divan recipe that I grew up loving, and tweaked some things to make it more real…
Quick lunches. Fast snacks. On the go dinners. Those terms have some people thinking drive through or the frozen food section. Which usually means nothing but junk on the food label. Most of you know me as quite a stickler on ingredient labels. So you know if I am doing a review on a food…
How about changing up breakfast this weekend a little? This time of year most people are looking to lower their grain intake. And if you are bread crazy, that is probably a great idea to promote weight loss. It is important, however, not to take it too far the other extreme and lower your carbohydrate…
I absolutely LOVE the Paste E Fagioli from Olive Garden, so I went on a search to create a recipe that would compare. Unfortunately I didn’t come up with anything that was an exact match, but this is a super substitute! This recipe ends up being a little bit more like a goulash, but it…
Happy winter to YOU! So if we have to deal with all this cold (and it is frigid here!), we might as well enjoy some warming and comforting meals for dinner, right? And since we are making these meals from real food, there is *no* guilt! You can still keep your new year resolution and…
Colds and flu sort of come with the territory of being in the middle of winter in Michigan. And probably most places for that matter. We are so sun deprived here, that a few months into fall/winter everyone is so vitamin D deficient, holiday overloaded, and schedule crazed, that at some point – crash. I…
My family loves broccoli. There are some weeks where we have it multiple times. We steam it, we cover it with cheese (everything is better with cheese), we put butter on it. So in the hopes of mixing it up a bit, I went to Pinterest. Oh, how I love Pinterest for recipes. I could…
In general, I’m more of a savory snacks kinda gal, but every now-and-again I want a good sweet dessert. Sure, it’s easy to grab a handful of candies or one of the billion candy bars they have at the grocery store check out but it’s not very wholesome or filling. This recipe might not be…