Summer is here!  Summer is here!  Summer is here!  Bring on the picnics.  The baseball games.  The soccer games.  The pool days.  The vacations. All those things are fun.  But they can add to the craziness and hecticness of life.  And they can have an impact on your wallet.  One of my favorite ways to Read more

Wow – It’s May already!  (Well, practically).  The year is flying by.  Soon kids will be out of school.  Summer vacations will be had.  Pool days will be attended to.  Baseball and softball will be in full swing. Fireworks will be bursting in the air.  Man, oh man!  I’m ready!  I think. But first, I Read more

Oh man, oh man, oh man.  Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight?  How’s that going?  Still a resolution?  Fall off the diet wagon? Maybe you didn’t want to lose weight per se, but maybe you just wanted to eat healthier.  How is that going?  Getting in your fruits and veggies?  Making Read more

April is almost here!  No fooling about that.  I ain’t joking — April IS almost here.  Time to plan for it!  For us, April is where I start notice that our schedule is starting to ramp up in activity level.  It’s looking to be calmer than May will be, but busier than March was.  Two Read more

Time marches on.  Well, it must as we’re already talking about March and what to eat this month.  Craziness!  I, for one, am excited to see if “In Like A Lion And Out Like A Lamb” is true of this month.  It seems that lately I’ve been thinking “Man, this is soup weather!”  And as Read more

I don’t know how long the slow cooker has been around, but it’s been treasured appliance by many a cook over the decades.  Its ability to take food, cook it for long periods of time without using your stove or oven space is wonderful!  It’s an appliance that I use often – at least 3-4 Read more

Hello February!  Glad to see you!  We’ve had such a strange January with really cold weather one day and pretty darn mild weather the next.  I don’t know what February will bring weather wise, but I hope it isn’t any more of the -40 degree wind chill days.  I can certainly do without those! But Read more

Have you read the story about the gal who lost 125 pounds by using the Instant Pot?  Now, she did a lot of other stuff too – it wasn’t ONLY about the Instant Pot, but the main takeaway is that the Instant Pot made it significantly easier for her to cook at home instead of Read more

2018!  Almost time to ring in the New Year again!  As I write this, the weather has been weirdly warm and not at all snowy, so it’s hard to believe we’re in the winter season, much less approaching the new year.  I’m sure that will change – us Nebraskans can’t go a whole winter without Read more