Category: Food

  • 13 Easy and Cheap Slow Cooker Meals to Prep in Your Third Trimester

    13 Easy and Cheap Slow Cooker Meals to Prep in Your Third Trimester

    In your third trimester? Now is the time to make some easy and cheap slow cooker meals to last many months postpartum!

    So the time has almost arrived…

    It has been a long couple of months waiting in anticipation for your little one to finally make their appearance.

    You have the nursery all set up, all of their adorable little outfits perfectly folded in their dresser, and the car seat strapped into the car and ready to go.

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  • 12 Cheap Dinners (Even Toddlers With Love)

    12 Cheap Dinners (Even Toddlers With Love)

    Get some cheap dinner ideas that even a picky toddler will enjoy!

    Oh the picky toddler…

    Finding cheap dinners picky toddlers will eat seems like a never ending battle in some homes.

    One day they love noodles, the next day they are spitting them all over the floor and feeding them to the dog.

    What’s a parent to do?!

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  • 6 Meal Planning Ideas on a Budget

    6 Meal Planning Ideas on a Budget

    Get 6 awesome meal planning ideas when you’re on a budget mama!

    Before having children, I used to scoff at meal planning. Making dinner shouldn’t be that much work, right?

    WRONG!

    Not meal planning, especially if you have a family, is a waste of time and money!

    It happens to moms everyday, the kids get home from school, hubby gets home from work, everyone is starving and you are supposed to whip up dinner out of thin air.

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  • 20 Make Ahead Christmas Cookie Recipes

    20 Make Ahead Christmas Cookie Recipes

    Make ahead Christmas cookie recipes for the busy mom!

    There is no time in a mother’s life that she feels more rushed and bombarded than when Christmas sneaks up on her.

    As summer’s hot days fade into autumn’s crisp nights, Christmas can seem like a lifetime away.

    Until you wake up one morning and realize your little ones are already eating chocolates out the advent calendar.

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  • 20 Crock Pot Freezer Meals for Stress-Free Nights

    20 Crock Pot Freezer Meals for Stress-Free Nights

    The yummiest crock pot freezer meals for the entire family!

    As if grabbing an already prepped dinner from the freezer to cook for supper wasn’t great enough – what if you could simply dump that dinner into a crock pot and forget about it all day?

    The thing about evenings is that everyone is busy getting home from work and school, doing homework, participating in extracurricular activities and then, at some point, relaxing and getting ready for bed.

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Elna is a mom to twins who blogs and writes for a living. She loves all things mom. While she’s not blogging, you can find Elna meal planning, organizing and helping other moms in her Facebook group, Ready Set Blog for Traffic (From Mom to Mompreneur).