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Marvelous Muffins to Make

Muffins are a tasty handheld food that makes a great to-go meal or snack. They are also fun to gift. As I mentioned earlier this week, I have a long held love affair with muffins. Find a recipe that you love and then tweak it to suit your fancy — and whatever you have on […]

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Easier Muffin Making & a Recipe for Lemon Raspberry Muffins

This post does include affiliate links. If you make a purchase through those links, I am paid a small amount in way of advertising fees. Your price does not change, but your purchase indirectly helps support this site. So thanks! I graduated from college one term early and got engaged to be married a few […]

Easier Muffin Making & a Recipe for Lemon Raspberry Muffins is a post from: Good Cheap Eats. All rights reserved © Jessica Getskow Fisher

Grocery Geek Goes On Hiatus

Remember last fall when I had all those crazy book deadlines and Grocery Geek went on hiatus? Well, guess what? I was reflecting on all that is on my plate. The big question was how I can clear some things off until I’m past my last book deadline at the end of the month. This […]

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Budget-Friendly Mexican Food Recipes

Growing up in Southern California, I lean toward Mexican-American food as my favorite cuisine. Even though my parents were Norwegians and Poles from Minnesota, I was more familiar with a tortilla than lefse or the foods of my forefathers. My parents weren’t born adventurous eaters. But, upon their migration west, they made friends early on […]

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5 Great Ways to Use Olive Oil

This post is sponsored by Emile Noel Olive Oil.

Over the years I've tried lots and lots of different ingredients to use in recipes. I've been cooking for myself for about 24 years. I've seen lots of fads and lots of things change within the realm of healthy food. In college, the idea among all the girls wanting to lose weight was that we could eat all the sugar that we wanted, but not the fat.

Now, of course, we know that not all fats are created equal -- and sugar is definitely not a great w...

Turkey & Black Bean Tacos

I've been on a ground turkey kick. Part of it is an effort to reduce our red meat. It's probably not that good for us to eat it as often as we were, plus it's getting more expensive. I just can't swing it when the kids could easily eat two to three pounds in one sitting. We're enjoying it twice a week, which is good.

I didn't used to like ground turkey, but since I tried Trader Joe's, I'm hooked. (Sorry to all you people who don't have TJ's or don't like it. I fell out of love with Trader Joe...

Our Meal Plan for the Week

Meal planning is one key strategy we use to feed our family of 8 healthy, delicious meals and not pay too much. Here’s our plan for the week. Sunday night came sooner than I was ready for it. It’s been a busy weekend. It’s been productive, but now it’s gone. Excuse me while I wipe […]

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Time to Make Some Diet Changes?

You may or may not know that I write two blogs. Yep, true story. I do most of my recipe sharing and food talk over here on Good Cheap Eats, but I can't help but talk about food wherever I go.

Recently, I completed a series over on Life as MOM about ways to improve the family diet. As you know, I'm kinda into this thing about eating healthier and bringing my husband and six kids along for the ride.

If you missed the series or one of the posts, you can catch up here:

Time to Make Some Diet Chang...

Coconut Cashew Banana Bread

While I have many different banana recipes to rely on -- Coconut Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips, Chocolate Chip Banana Bread, Banana Pecan Coffeecake, and Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting -- I decided to try something different.

I wanted something lightly-sweetened. The kids have been great about not going overboard since we went off our sugar fast, but there's been an increase in bad attitudes that has me wondering.

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What to Do with That Leftover Ham

My boys love ham. Love it. My husband can go either way on it, but now that the boys have a larger voice in culinary choices, we make ham about twice a year. I cook up a large honey-baked ham, sometimes in the crockpot, a pan full of the best scalloped potatoes on the planet, and a few vegetable sides.

In the days following we transform the leftovers into something new and different, but still delicious. The potatoes rarely last past one meal, anyway.

If we don't feel like having ham several...