Category: Food Love

  • Freezer Crock Pot Meals {Round 2}

    Freezer Crock Pot Meals {Round 2}

    With such a great turn out for my first post (over 1,200 likes of that post alone on facebook!) in freezer crock pot meal preparation I couldn’t leave you all hanging without posting for each and every time I did something crazy like that again! Today we had Chicken Taco Soup (one of my favorites!) and…

  • Crock Pot Freezer Cooking FAQ

    Crock Pot Freezer Cooking FAQ

    I’ve had so many questions about how I do my crock pot freezer cooking I thought it would be a good idea to compile all of the questions into one place for everyone else to see! This is a great place to look over  before you delve into chopping as there are also some great…

  • How to make cake pops

    How to make cake pops

    Riley’s first birthday was a ball themed party. I wanted to try to get all the food to be ball-esque. What better way than cake pops! My problem? I had never made them before, and my oven was dead until the day before his party. I thought I might be a tad crazy for wanting…

  • How to make a man with the yellow hat cake

    How to make a man with the yellow hat cake

    Landon’s Curious George Birthday party wouldn’t be complete with out a man with the yellow hat cake! I found this idea on pinterest, but it was a cake from a professional cake decorator and all they had no tutorial at all. First I started by baking 3 9×9 square cakes and one in my smallest pyrex bowl…

  • Freezer Crock Pot Recipes

    I talked here about my mass prepping of food for freezer crock pot cooking, to have easy to prepare and super low cost meals for the next few months. Here are all the recipes I pull from when I do my mass meal making. Try them out and let me know how you like them!…

  • Freezer Crock Pot Cooking Day

    Freezer Crock Pot Cooking Day

    Welcome Pinners!!! First I have to say: WOW! I am totally shocked at the response to this post! I’ve had a lot of people ask about the shopping list I used. Here it is! This includes all the things I wouldn’t normally have in my pantry. Things like salt and other spices I didn’t include…

  • Oats and ‘Nanner Drops

    We’ve been introducing new foods to Riley very slowly. With the family history of allergies and his already found sensitivity to dairy through my breastmilk, AND his eczema, his pediatrician and Landon’s allergy doctor want us to just go slow with food, especially the top allergic foods. For the longest time (it seems) we’ve just been doing single food…

  • Breakfast Cookies

    I’ve tried several baked oatmeal recipes but they all had so much sugar in them that I didn’t feel right serving it as a main meal. These have NO added sugar. They get their sweetness from the applesauce (I even use unsweetened) and the dried fruit you put in. If they are to “unsweet” you…

  • Snickerdoodles and life lessons

    More cooking adventures today. Landon’s allergies make baking more challenging, but over the last two years making some gluten free, dairy free, egg free snickerdoodles doesn’t scare me. There are so many wonderful food blogs out there now dedicated to gluten free cooking. There are many wonderful ones also dedicated to vegan cooking (takes out…