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The best tips for how to host a healthy, fun Thanksgiving dinner for your family including menu and recipes whether it's your first time or you're a seasoned pro.

How to Host Thanksgiving The Easy Way – 11 More Tips

23 Time-saving hacks to make hosting thanksgiving easy - Whether you're entertaining for the first time or tenth, you will find lots of good advice and practical tips in this article including ideas for dinner menu items, shopping list, and make ahead preparation. Tips and a checklist for a simple family celebration with kids. Great for a crowd of friends including products you need, recipes to make, and a special method for roasting the turkey.

23 Simple, Time-Saving Hacks to Make Hosting Thanksgiving Easy

BBQ pulled pork

Easy Slow Cooker Pulled Pork With Sugar-Free BBQ Sauce

Hosting a Simple Thanksgiving Dinner Tips - Whether it's your first time hosting or your tenth, this ebook is full of great tips for the menu (full of delectable, easy food like turkey and crockpot mashed potatoes), decorating, and more. Includes a checklist and shopping list printables.

How to Host Thanksgiving Dinner Whether It’s Your First Time or Tenth

Gluten-Free Hot Fudge Brownie Sundaes

Chicken Melts – Quick and Easy Meal in 10 Minutes or Less

11 Kid-Approved Fall Recipes

11 Smart Tips for Cooking with Kids

50 Healthy After School Snacks

Kid-Approved Packed Lunches Without Sandwiches

6 Tips for Easier Lunch Packing

50+ Creative School Lunch Ideas

Patriotic Chocolate Covered Pretzel Twists

Patriotic Chocolate Covered Pretzel Twists

How to Host A Christian Passover Seder Meal with Preschoolers

How to Celebrate a Christian Passover Meal for Preschoolers

your best thanksgiving ever!

How to Make Thanksgiving Dinner – Easier

muffin pan recipes

10 Things to Cook in a Muffin Tin

American Flag Fruit Kebabs – Deconstructed for Kids

what to do with a bundt pan

10 Things to Cook in a Bundt Pan

8 ways to improve your kids health

8 Tips for Kids to Improve the Health of Kids Who Are Picky Eaters

7 Tips for Healthier Family Meals

7 Tips for More Healthful Family Meals

Tips for Making Easter Dinner Easier

10 Tips for Making Easter Dinner Easier

Feeding the children

Onions and Sinners

How to Make Marizpan Piggies for Good Luck

This Can Be Your Best Thanksgiving Ever!

Grilled Pizza on Udi's Gluten-Free Pizza Crusts

Grilled Pizza on Udi’s Gluten-Free Pizza Crust

How to Make Astronaut Pudding

quick & easy recipes

20 Awesome Quick and Easy Recipes Featuring Canned Foods

recipe mishaps

Recipe Mishaps

What I (Used to) Feed My Kids

The best appetizer recipes for the Super Bowl. Great football food for Big Game dinners, your party, or snacks. Cream cheeses, Ranch dressing, meats, cheeses, hot sauces, dips. Mostly low carb and gluten-free. Great for families and friends. Simple and easy. Great for entertaining including New Years Eve.

The Best Super Bowl Appetizers

I Lied About The Fish

how to make snowman pancakes

Snowman Pancakes

how to go gluten free

How to Go Gluten Free

Why I’m Going Gluten Free

8 awesome apple recipes

8 Awesome Apple Recipes

how to cook corn on the cob

How to Cook Corn on the Cob Without Silks

teddy bear cake

Grace’s Bear Cake (or Don’t Be Afraid to Try a Shaped Cake Pan)

what to substitute for eggs in baking

What to Substitute for Eggs in Baking

can I double a cake recipe

3 Baking Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

How to make cheesecake without a springform pan

How to Make a Cheesecake Without a Springform Pan

your best thanksgiving ever!

Your Best Thanksgiving Ever!

Honoring the Man They Call Daddy

Food Fit For A King – Honoring the Man They Call Daddy

7 strategies for empowering a picky eater - Whether they're toddlers, preschoolers, older kids, or teens, picky eaters are a pain! Use these 7 tips and ideas to encourage healthy eating habits at dinner and all meals through the day.

7 Strategies for Empowering Picky Eaters

how to use leftover ham

6 Ways to Use Leftover Ham

Resources for Eating More Seasonal and Local Foods

10 Ways to Use Corn Flakes (Without a Cereal Bowl)

The best BBQ chicken enchiladas. These are so simple and easy, but so amazing!

BBQ Chicken Enchiladas

Colossal

how to use a crinkle cutter

10 Uses for a Crinkle Cutter

cooking with kids

10 Ways to Get Small Children Involved in the Kitchen

10 Awesome Pizza Recipes You Haven't Tried

10 Pizzas to Cook on a Pizza Stone

what to cook on a baking stone

10 Uses for a Pizza Stone

Food safety tips for the Super Bowl - Rules, tips, and ideas for keeping hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Don't get food poisoning at your party!

Food Safety Tips for your Super Bowl Party

red velvet whoopie pies

Homemade Valentine’s Day – Gifts of Food

6 inexpensive ideas for holiday entertaining - These 6 tips and ideas are great! Including fun things to do on a budget with kids or the whole family, these will keep you under budget - maybe even with money left over!

6 Inexpensive Ideas for Entertaining this Holiday Season

Our Traditional Thanksgiving Menu – on Bed Rest

spatchcocked turkey

Our Spatchcocked Turkey

kitchen tongs uses

10 Uses for Tongs

roasted vegetable stuffing

The Great Stuffing Debate and Cornbread Stuffed Chicken Breasts

uses for a colander

10 Uses for a Colander

cheese grater

10 Uses for a Cheese Grater

pumpkin pie with pecan topping

‘Tis the Season for Pumpkins

Grace's bedtime snack

Bedtime Snacks featuring Yoplait’s Gogurt and a Giveaway

egg slicer

10 Uses for an Egg Slicer

trifle

10 Uses for a Trifle Bowl

cookie sheet

10 Uses for a Cookie Sheet

blender

10 Foods to Make with a Blender

ways to use a coffee grinder

10 Ways to Use a Coffee Grinder

Our Thoughts on the New George Foreman Evolve Grill

how to use bamboo skewers

10 Foods to Make with Bamboo Skewers

decorator tips

10 Uses for an Icing Decorator

how to use a springform pan

10 Things to Make in a Springform Pan

How to make DIY homemade watermelon jam with pectin - This simple and easy recipe uses sugar and pectin to cook the best watermelon jam you've ever eaten!

How to Make Watermelon Jam

mandoline

10 Things to Make with a Mandoline

Muffin Tin Monday – Circles

10 things to make with a scoop

10 Things to Make with a Scoop

Muffin Tin Stir Fry

homemade apple butter

A Home Preserving Party

How to Buy Cheaper Tomatoes

cookie cutters

10 Foods to Make with Cookie Cutters

Eating a muffin tin meal

Another Supper Saved by a Muffin Tin

Grace’s Muffin Tin Supper

Muffin Tin Swap 2010

Summer is for Smoothies

Muffin Tin Monday

How to Keep Your Water Bottle Cold All Day

How to Eat Snow Peas

New Party Products from Wilton

how to make a princess castle cake

How to Make an Amazing Princess Castle Cake

Wilton’s Romantic Castle Cake Set

How to Cook Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

How to Make a Meal Plan with Google Calendar

heart shaped pizza

How to Make an Easy Heart-Shaped Pizza

Homemade Pizza is Frugal and Healthy

Heart-Shaped Banana Pancakes with Chocolate Chips and Peanut Butter

How to Make a Heart-Shaped Omelet for Your Valentine

There’s Something Wrong With My Juice

Fabulous Foods at the Pennsylvania Farm Show

The Best Shrimp I Ever Ate

Have a Coffee Table Picnic

How to Make a Snowman Cake

What Are We Eating for Christmas?

Double Chocolate Pecan Cookies

Cooking Holiday Treats is a Treat

Eebee’s Mix & Mash

Plan Ahead to Simplify Thanksgiving Day

Easy Thanksgiving Menu

The Right Tools Make All The Difference

Easy Clean Up for Broken Eggs

Double Chocolate Candy Corn Cookies

Grace’s Apple Crisp

Let’s Make Cookies

Homemade Apple Crisp: So Easy, a 2-year-old Can Do It

The Two Bites Rule

Making Pretzels Together

Sandwich Ideas for Back to School Lunches

Making Lunch Special

Eat The Rainbow

Just Like Momma

The Secret to the Best Homemade Pizza

How to prepare and use dried beans - Dried are healthier and better tasting than canned, and they produce less gas! There isn't really a quick method that makes beans soft and nice, but you can soak and store a healthy amount of beans overnight to cook the next day. Includes recipe for crockpot, slow cooker, and instant pot or pressure cooker. Great for simple and easy dinners!

How to Make & Use Dried Beans – Stove, CrockPot, and Instant Pot Directions

Lunch packing tips & ideas for kids or adults - Whether it's back to school time or not, most of us pack lunches every day. Make lunches fun and simple with these good ideas for work, school, or road trip meals!

Back to School Tip: Make Mornings Easier by Planning Ahead

Sara Lee Back to School Nutrition Summit

You Be the Judge

How to Make Perfect Pancakes

How to Make Perfect Pancakes

Sara Lee Soft & Smooth Bread

What Are Whole Grains?

garlic scapes

What is a Garlic Scape?

Leftover Cake

What is Honey?

What To Do With Leftover Buns

easy homemade ice cream recipe

Homemade Ice Cream

Growing Vegetables

Let Them Experiment

Goodies Are a Sometimes Food

Cranberry Lemonade

Skinny Cow Review

Grace Ate…

Chocolate Orange Cheesecake

Freezing Yogurt

WomenHeart’s All Heart Family Cookbook Winner

Feeding an Independent Child with the Baby Dipper

I’ll Do It Myself

Our Easter Menu, revised

My Menu for Easter Dinner

More Whole Day Food Plans for Toddlers

Do you belong to a CSA?

The best simple healthy eggplant lasagna recipe - This easy, vegetarian, low carb, gluten free veggie lasagna is meatless (but meat can be added if you want) and is perfect for a Whole30, paleo, or keto diet. It's made with ricotta and baked to bring all the flavors together. The recipe calls for eggplant, but you could substitute zucchini instead.

WomenHeart & Eggplant Lasagna

Whole Day Food Plans for Toddlers

WomenHeart’s All Heart Family Cookbook

Lasagne Verdi al Forno – Green Lasagna

homemade baby food

An Unbalanced Diet? How to Deal When Your Toddler Refuses a Whole Food Group

What Should I Offer My Toddler?

Tips and ideas for losing or maintaining a healthy weight by avoiding junk food and candy. It's necessary for healthy eating and healthy living. You CAN stick to your diet for life and feel amazing! Great how to avoid article.

How to Avoid Junk Food and Maintain a Healthy Diet

Make It From Scratch Carnival #107

What Does a Toddler Need to Eat?

Cooking but Not Eating

The best flourless chocolate cake recipe - This simple healthy and easy cake is low carb, keto, paleo, and gluten-free. If you use sugar-free chocolate, the cake would also have no sugar. You can use any chocolate, so it is entirely customizable to your tastes and dietary preferences. 3 simple ingredients. Cake is rich, fudgy, dense, and moist. Makes one small cake.

Flourless Chocolate Cake (Gluten-Free) with Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

Kids in the Kitchen Resources

Let Your Toddler Help in the Kitchen

Organizing Your Play Kitchen

Pierogies for Supper

Traditional pierogies with butter and onions - This simple and easy recipe starts with a box of frozen pierogies and takes just a few minutes to sauté with butter and onions. Topped with a bit of sour cream, they make a perfect side dish.

Pierogies for the Super Bowl – Here we go Steelers!

Accessories for a Play Kitchen

Falafels with Tzatziki Sauce

Choosing a Play Kitchen

Snacks for Toddlers

homemade baby food

How to Make Homemade Baby Food the Cheap & Easy Way

Introduction to Grace’s Kitchen

Grace’s Kitchen – a preview

My most unusual Christmas dinner

Breakfast

The ghost of Thanksgiving past

Make It From Scratch Carnival #91

My Thanksgiving Menu

Easy Thanksgiving Recipes – Mashed Potatoes & Candied Sweet Potatoes

Apple Crisp

How to cook with fresh pumpkin - It's simple and easy to use fresh pumpkins to make puree. You can freeze it to save it for later use in recipes like pie, bread, and cookies. What to do with a fresh pumpkin to make a healthy meal. Great for fall and especially Thanksgiving.

How to Cook with Fresh Pumpkin

Easy Thanksgiving Recipes – Cherry Pie & Green Bean Casserole

Country Bob’s All Purpose Sauce

TasteBook – my dream come true

Beans – yummy and fun

Hawaiian Style Crispy Pork Dumplings with Ginger Chili Sauce

In over my head

Banana pizza

How to make homemade jam

CSA Produce – July 2

For my fellow semi-crunchy mommas