A homemade caramel glaze makes this the best banana bread recipe ever - you'll never make homemade banana bread without this glaze again! It's time to level up your favorite banana bread recipe with a caramel glaze. You'll never make it without the glaze again! With this recipe, I'm sharing 3 different ways to bake this bread. No matter how you bake it, you'll definitely … [Read more...]
2020 Powersheets Review – How I Get Focused and Achieve Goals Quickly!
"Goal Get 'Em!" Words to live by, right in the front of the 2020 Powersheets & Goals Planner from Cultivate What Matters "You know all those things you want to do. You should go DO THEM." Those are Lara Casey's words and also words that I've lived by for years. Even before I knew Lara. Just Do The Thing. "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail." (Or just not … [Read more...]
Scary Messes: A Checklist of Hidden Grime Lurking in Your Home
Use Affordable, Natural Cleaners to Tackle the Scary Messes This Halloween Art Of Green® is the perfect natural cleaner to help with many of these messes! You want to know what's freaking me out this Halloween season?! It's not the giant billboards with the creepy characters from the local haunted houses. It's not the ginormous spider and web … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal Recipe
Your favorite flavors of fall blended with steel cut oats, cooked to perfection in this Instant Pot Oatmeal recipe! Around our house, we made a.l.o.t. of oatmeal in the Instant Pot. It's our preferred "breakfast" cooked in the Instant Pot, except it's not usually eaten for breakfast. It's usually the "2nd dinner" option for the boys. You see, I can start the Instant Pot … [Read more...]
Tortellini Pasta Salad
These addictive little tortellinis...in chilled pasta salad form! What exactly is it about tortellinis that make them so irresistible?! It's probably as simple as - it's cheese plus pasta. But I think it's because they're so cute. And they cook so easily and quickly. And they make for a lovely Tortiellini Pasta Salad - perfect for a summer lunch … [Read more...]
$1/1 Art of Green Coupon: 5 Simple Ways to Afford More Natural Products and Ingredients
Be Inspired by These Simple Ways to Save Money on "Green" and Natural Products Do you ever suffer from "green guilt" - meaning you want to get the best, natural products to use in, on, and around your home, family and life...but just can stomach the sticker price?! Well...I have some ideas that will help you incorporate more green and natural products into your … [Read more...]
Homemade Sloppy Joe Mix
You likely have the ingredients needed to make this homemade sloppy joe mix and sauce in your fridge and pantry! We make A LOT of sloppy joe type meals around our house and over time, I've developed this delicious homemade mix of spices to use to make my own homemade sloppy joe sauce. It's a mix of common pantry spices, that get stirred in with ground beef, … [Read more...]
Imperfect Foods – Get 30-50% Off Grocery Prices!
BREAKING! Imperfect Produce is now Imperfect Foods! MORE BREAKING! During the Week of September 30th, new members get a $20 credit for their first box! Can I step up on a soapbox for a second? I lived in a third world country for 6 years. I shopped in a farmer's market that had AMAZING, picked that morning, straight to the market produce. What was in season is … [Read more...]
$5 Dinners Celebrates 11 Years This Week!
That's right - $5 Dinners turns 11 this week. It was August 22, 2008 that the first ever post was shared here on the website. And we've come a LONG LONG LONG LONG way since then! It has been a joy and privilege to get to spend the evenings with you at your dinner table over the years. And to get to speak encouragement and knowledge into your world and life. And … [Read more...]
You’re Invited! RSVP NOW for the Dinner Made Easy Party!
Cross dinner off your to-do list with these back to school freezer meals. I'd like to extend a special invitation to YOU. I mentioned that I'm hosting 2 "online parties" - the kind where we work together, me in my kitchen and you in your kitchen, and we get ourselves prepared for the MADNESS THAT IS ABOUT TO ENSUE. What madness?! The back to … [Read more...]