Try this easy baked chicken teriyaki for a quick weeknight meal! We like it served with rice and a roasted or steamed green veggie. PrintBaked Chicken Teriyaki Ingredients2 chicken breasts, cut in half horizontally to make 4 cutlets (or you could buy chicken cutlets) 1 cup low-sodium soy sauce 1/2 cup water 1/3 cup brown […]
Are you hitting the road for a trip this summer with your family? While sometimes everyone is in the mood to do their own thing in the car, you can take advantage of extra family time and create connection by doing something together. One of our favorite road trip activities is to listen to an […]
Our cucumber plants in our raised bed garden have been thriving this season, so we are picking between 5-10 cucumbers a day. We’ve made cucumber salad, passed cucumbers onto our friends, and dipped them in homemade hummus, but my favorite way to use them up is to make refrigerator pickles. I’ve shared my recipe for […]
With summer coming and our schedule changing, I’ve been gravitating toward making really simple meal plans for the coming week. However, we still have things going on, and I find that a meal plan is only helpful if it actually takes our schedule into account! After many weeks of doing this, I realized I kind […]
Goodbye single-use products, hello money savings! Have you ever balled up some aluminum foil, tossed a used sandwich bag or dumped your mop pad and thought “what a waste.” While I’m not opposed to flipping the foil or cleaning out a gently used Ziploc, sometimes it just makes sense to get the products MADE to […]
I wasn’t surprised when the orthodontist told me that my twins needed braces, but I was utterly flabbergasted when he told me the price. Being the frugal mom that I am (and knowing 3 more children will probably also need braces), I got to work figuring out how to save on braces. Here are the […]
We are already getting cucumbers from our garden, so I’m remembering back to last summer when I tried to make quick pickled vegetables for the first time. I don’t love raw cucumbers, but I absolutely love pickles. I also experimented with pickling onions and peppers, and the experiment did not disappoint. This recipe is for […]
Summer is coming, and if you have kids, then it probably means a change in your schedule. If your kids go to public or private school out of the house, then it means more kids at home. Even if you have younger kids in preschool, they are probably home more in the summer. And if […]
