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Soup and Salad

How to make Homemade Chicken Stock

Stop buying seasoned rice packets or cans of soup and start making your own homemade chicken stock. Chicken stock can replace water in almost every recipe you make, and it helps add a depth of flavor to any dish.

chicken noodle soup
Soup and Salad

Quick and Easy Chicken Soup

This is my absolute favorite comfort food when I’m not feeling well or when it is unexpectedly freezing outside and I don’t want to leave the house! I try to keep these ingredients in my freezer / pantry at all times because it’s what I make when I wasn’t planning to make a feel-better soup! I nick-named it “Cheaters” Chicken Soup because it comes together in 20 minutes with no effort and it uses every shortcut possible but still hits the spot!

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Breakfast, Recipe Templates

Overnight Oats: Breakfast Recipe Template

Overnight oats are an easy, affordable, versatile choice for a meal prepped breakfast. It takes minimum effort and time ahead of time, and can be heated quickly in the morning. It can be made with as few or as many ingredients as you’d like. For people who don’t like to […]

chili with cheese and jalapeno
Main dishes, Recipe Templates

Easy Chili Recipe Template

Football equals fall. My favorite time of year is when both baseball and football are on TV. It means it is still warm out, you can enjoy the outdoors, but you can slowly introduce some fall flavors into the mix. For me, that means making chili. I just love the […]

meal prepped chicken fajitas
How to Meal Prep

Six Truths about Meal Prepping

If you are starting out with prepping your meals, you may have already read many recipes, how-to posts, photos and accounts of people with fridges and freezers full of meals ready to go. And you may be thinking there’s no way I can pull that off. I’m here to tell […]

butternut squash soup
Recipe Templates, Soup and Salad

Smooth Soup Template

These soups are healthy, hearty and simple to create! I love recipes that are forgiving. Especially when I’m busy, or meal prepping a few things at once, I don’t have time to worry about missing a step or doing some things out of order. That’s why I don’t bake! It’s […]

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Main dishes

Meal Prep 101: Baking a Whole Chicken

My mother meal prepped before meal prepping was a cool mom thing to do. Back then I had no idea that’s what she was doing. It wasn’t trendy. In fact, it’s the most old fashioned thing I can remember her doing: baking a whole chicken dinner on Sundays. Now I […]