This mexi-spiced version of fried rice is great as a side dish, or just eat a big bowl full on it’s own. It will be a hit with your taco loving kids and family! My kids are stuck in a food rut. All they want to eat is mexican food. I can add taco seasoning […]
Cheap and Easy Kid Friendly Vegetarian Dinners
Even if you are not vegetarian, these kid friendly vegetarian dinners are a great option for healthy, budget friendly and tasty meals. You may think that kids won’t love eating meat-free meals, but most of these simple, vegetarian meals for kids, are so delicious I’ll bet your family doesn’t even notice they are vegetarian! Of […]
Chicken Mushroom and Broccoli Pasta
There are not many dinners that make everyone in our house happy. If three out of four kids like a meal, I call that a huge win. If four out of four kids like a meal, I call that a miracle! This easy chicken, mushroom and broccoli pasta is a double miracle meal. Not only […]
Pizza Pockets – Easy Calzone Recipe
You might call these calzone, but my kids call them pizza pockets, and they are a fun and easy family dinner idea. Get the kids to help you make some pizza dough (or use store bought) and they can fill each pizza pocket with a filling of their choice, for a budget-friendly meal that even […]
Six Easy Ways to Make Dinner Awesome
This post is sponsored by La Famiglia Garlic Bread. “Why do they want dinner, every, single, night?” I’m sure you’ve seen the meme on facebook? The woman with her head in her hands lamenting the fact that her family want dinner every darn night? Right now, that woman is me. Not only do my family […]
Grow It and Eat It – 12 Super Spinach Recipes
I am not a winter gardener. I just can’t bring myself to battle with the frost and ice and mud that we get here over winter, so I pretty much give up gardening during the colder months. But despite crazy icy mornings this year, and total and utter neglect, good old reliable spinach is growing […]
Quick and Easy Flat Bread.
It’s a sad reflection on my crazy life that it is easier just to make flat bread from scratch than it is to load all four kids into the car and drive all the way into town to buy some! But it’s also a reflection on how quick and easy this flat bread recipe is. […]
Tomato and Broad Bean Pasta
This is the first year in forever that I didn’t plant broad beans (you might know them as fava beans), and it is also the first year that I have come up with a broad bean recipe that my kids will not only eat, but hey love it! Thankfully my mother-in-law did plant some broad […]