Category: Recipes

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I’ve made lots of shredded chicken by roasting a chicken in the oven!  Of course, once I got my Instant pot, I wanted to see it if was as easy everyone else claimed it to be.  They weren’t wrong, but what I did notice is that my chicken didn’t have much flavor!  I missed the taste of a Sunday roasted chicken shredded up to be put into casseroles or soups!  There seemed to be something missing, so I was determined to recreate that flavor in my Instant Pot!

Life Is Busy

I can’t even being to tell you how busy life has been recently!  Between 2-3 nights of basketball each week, 1-2 meetings a week, I’ve barely had time to do the regular chores (laundry and meals) in my house!  Thankfully, last fall when I was having back problems, T and I decided that we would hire a cleaning lady!  She comes 1 hour every other week and it’s the most glorious thing!  She cleans both bathrooms, cleans the kitchen floor, and whatever odd and end jobs I ask when she has time!  It has been a game changer for me!  I used to spend my weekends cleaning, laundering, and then meal prepping leaving no time to relax. I was going back to work on Monday stressed and almost more exhausted than I was during the week!  Not to mention, she will put away my clean dishes from the dishwasher, and folds my bathroom towels like those in a hotel!  (It’s the little things in life, right?!)

Roasted Chicken

Like I said before, there is something about the taste of roasted chicken when it’s shredded and put into soups and casseroles.  I love the ease of using my Instant pot to make shredded chicken, but not the taste!  So, I was determined to achieve both!  Here’s how I did it!

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The holidays are here, eating healthy is harder than ever! Thankfully, these Parmesan Herb Turkey Burgers make it easier than ever to provide your family with a healthy meal!  Using oats instead of bread crumbs makes it clean friendly and healthier for us!

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Eating healthy doesn’t have to be boring and these Cinnamon Sweet Potato Fries with Yogurt Dipping Sauce prove that to be true!

Growing up in a family where meals were meat and potatoes, it’s been  a tough transition to cutting carbs down!  I’m also a big texture person when it comes to food, so I have to be strategic about cooking things that are good for me otherwise it makes me not like them!

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Growing up in my family, the other part of food was growing our own food!  We grow green beans, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, etc!  While we don’t have room to grow a little bit of everything, my dad does and he loves to share, so sweet potatoes are easy to come by!

The holidays are fast approaching and we all feel our pants getting a bit tighter! Thanks to this Healthier Taco Skillet, you can worry a little less! When you live in Iowa in the winter, all you want to eat are comfort foods! Comfort foods are usually associated with words like creamy, gooey, cheesy, etc! That also usually means they pack on the fat and calories too!  I knew I needed an ooey, gooey comfort good without all that, so I came up with this dish!

Eating Clean

I’m in a round of the 21 Day Fix right now! (I know, how many times have you heard me say that?!) But, seriously, I have to stay after it or my addiction to sugar just goes crazy!  A good friend of mine is a coach and decided to run this challenge before the holidays and I thought it was a great idea, so I joined in!  For the most part, I’ve done REALLY well (except for that ice cream on Saturday night and that Oatmeal Cream Pie on Sunday night)!

Thanks to Iowa, I’m craving warm comfort foods sooner than normal!  We seemed to have skipped over fall for the most part and our temps are already consistently in the 30’s and have even dipped into the 20’s already!  UGH!  It’s going to be a long winter at this rate!  Thankfully, I have this new Taco Skillet in my arsenal to help me get through it without having to just eat salads when it’s so cold out!

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