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Inside Motherhood

August 10th, 2008

Lazy Sunday Cooking

One of my most favorite ways to cook is to use my crock pot, especially in the summer. I also tend to be in the mood to cook in the mornings or early afternoons anyway.
I put this in about two hours ago and will make some scalloped potatoes to go with it later. Yay […]

By Heather -- 3 comments

July 19th, 2008

Gigantic Giveaway for Moms!

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With the help of a lot of generous companies I’m very happy to roll out a gigantic giveaway for moms! This giveaway has dozens of prizes and dozens of winners!
As always, I encourage you to stop by their websites (all prizes have one linked) and learn more about them!

To Enter:

To enter, simply leave a […]

By Heather -- 1142 comments

July 17th, 2008

Mom’s Meal Planning

How do you plan your dinner menus?
My method seems so complicated when I write it out but it’s what’s worked best for me over the years! I usually start to write down dinner ideas a couple of days before payday, which is every two weeks, and I write down enough dinners for two weeks’ […]

By Heather -- 4 comments

July 11th, 2008

The Grocery Shrink Ray

One of my favorite websites, The Consumerist, has a section of the site dedicated solely to what they call the Grocery Shrink Ray. Basically manufacturers are shrinking product amounts while keeping the packaging and pricing the same.
I first ran into this several months ago when I needed to get some yogurt for a recipe […]

By Heather -- 0 comments

July 8th, 2008

Cool Summer Snacking

It’s, well, really hot outside! I don’t like to complain about the heat because I know it gets old: Yeah, we live in the desert southwest so of course it’s going to be unbearable, why bother getting wound up about it, you know?
So we find ways to beat the heat, and easily one of our […]

By Heather -- 17 comments

June 24th, 2008

Homemade Granola Bars

During the summer when the kids are out of school I find it easy to slip into lazy snacking. When I pack their lunches during the school year I tend to put more thought into it when I shop ahead, but come summer time we just kind of wing it and that’s not always a […]

By Heather -- 1 comment