Delicious Recipes to Keep my Family of Four Happy and Full
Mathlete and I try to make sure we take time out from our crazy schedules to spend time as a family. Sometimes this comes in the form of a Sunday morning trip to the pool for a few hours and sometimes we decide to have a family movie night. We’ll pick a movie and plan to go down to the theater area in our basement and hang out. Of course, for movie night, the snacks we choose can be just as important as what movie we are watching!
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Every January, our house gets so excited because it is Girl Scout cookie time. By the end of the month, we are all out of the delicious cookies and it is sad faces all around. While shopping in Walmart the other day, I discovered THE BEST thing in the check out aisle. NESTLÉ® CRUNCH® Girl Scouts® Candy Bars which totally allows us to get our Girl Scouts® cookie fix even though it isn’t cookie season. I totally grabbed all of the Thin Mints® bars they had in the aisle and brought them home. We usually freeze our cookies to get them nice and cold but I decided to make Thin Mints® Ice Cream Pie with the candy bars instead.
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Grilling season is here! From burgers to fruit, we are all about using our grill as much as possible during the nice weather! On top of grilling pretty much all of our meals, we also use the warm weather and beautiful evenings to get together with friends on the deck.
Chicken is one of my favorite things to cook on the grill and, recently, I decided to add one of our #BackyardBash drinks into the marinade for some grilled sticky chicken.
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Weeknights are pretty busy for us in general but now that summer has hit, we seem to squeeze in even more. School ends this week and we’ve been in a summer state of mind since at least mid-May. Now, the kids hit the pool most afternoons and stroll in right as the dinner “bell” sounds. Of course, I’ve spent the day working and commuting home in the heat so I’m not too interested in standing in a front of a hot stove. So, I turn to options like DIGIORNO® oven ready pizzas.
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The weather has warmed up and that means lots of grilling. One of our favorite things to enjoy on the grill are hamburgers. Of course, I get bored easily so our burgers don’t typically just consist of ketchup and mustard. For Memorial Day, we cooked burgers on the grill and I made a jalapeno ranch Colby burger.
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We eat a lot of chicken…like a ridiculous amount of chicken…in our house. I buy chicken breasts in bulk so that I always have them around. This past week, I wanted to break out of our chicken routine. So, on our weekly trip to Costco (yes, weekly), I decided to pick up a package of their pork chops along with my usual fruit, water, chicken and milk. I don’t think a week goes by that something at Costco doesn’t tempt me to go off of my shopping list!
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