Snacks

Lemon Buddies

June 20, 2011

In our house we seem to go through more snacks during the summer than we do during the rest of the year. Does anyone else have this problem? There is something about playing hard outside, working in the garden, the kids swimming, and just the general business of summer that makes my kids think they are starving [...]

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Homemade Chocolate Covered Raisins

March 7, 2011

My kids are almost always hungry, especially my eight year old son, so I am always trying to find snacks that are healthy and inexpensive to make. Does anyone else have this problem with kids and snacks? These homemade raisins don’t exactly fit into the healthy category, but they are semi healthy, and are better than sitting down [...]

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Apple Nachos

October 20, 2010

This recipe is adapted from an Apple Nacho Recipe I saw in a recent Taste Of Home magazine. However, I really adapted the recipe and made it much more simple. The original recipe had you making your own caramel sauce, which you could do, but I took the easy way out and opened a jar [...]

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Easy Guacamole

April 27, 2010

My husband has been telling me for a while that I should post this recipe. I kept telling him that it is not really a recipe. I told him that this was so quick and easy that no one would care about how I do this. But every time we ate this he would ask, [...]

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Caramel Chex Mix

April 5, 2010

I just want to start by saying that this caramel chex mix is so good. It is kind of like regular chex mix in the fact that it is a bit addicting. You just eat a little here and there and the next thing you know you ate way to much. This is really like [...]

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Homemade Granola Bars

March 15, 2010

I had several people email me asking for the recipe for the granola bars that I pictured in my menu plan. I had planned on posting this in a week or two, but since you requested it, I decided to go ahead and post it now. I hope you enjoy! My kids love granola bars, [...]

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Homemade Chocolate Covered Craisins

February 11, 2010

I think I am addicted to chocolate covered craisins, otherwise known as cranberry raisinets. They are so good and I have been eating way too many of them. As I was eating my cranberry raisinets recently, I thought that I could easily make a version of these myself at home. They are basically just chocolate [...]

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Vanilla Wafer Ice Cream Sandwiches

July 30, 2009

It seems like every once in a while I have a conversation with one of my parents that gives me a glimpse of their childhood that I have never seen before. I enjoy this when it happens. It is good for us to hear the stories of previous generations. We can learn a lot from [...]

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Frugal Snacks

July 23, 2009

This week I made some frosting for a cake and I decided I did not need it all. So, I used some of it to make these for my kids. Graham crackers with frosting. Have you ever had these? They make a great, easy, and frugal snack. Not the healthiest, but they are a great [...]