Weekly meal plan: 5 easy meals for the week ahead, including easy make-ahead tips.
Grab your pen and grocery list, because next week's meal plan is ready! We've found 5 great recipes that make smart use of your time in the kitchen. We have tips to stretch your cooking, so one session in the kitchen lasts for more than one recipe (whoo!). We also...
10 easy and delicious 5-ingredient soups you can easily get on the table
With our kids home from school for weeks, while many of us are also trying to juggle work at home too, now's a great time to bookmark this list of 10 quick, 5-ingredient soups to make for lunch or dinner. With healthy, easy-to-find ingredients you probably already...
Weekly meal plan: 5 easy dinners with loads of veggies your kids will actually eat
Grab your pen and grocery list, because your weekly meal plan is ready! I'm not sure what it is about winter that has my family craving loads of carbs, but it's time for some veggies around our house. So, we've found 5 easy meals with loads of veggies that we think...
10 easy and delicious cold and flu recipes made with natural immune system boosters.
If you're looking for natural immune-system boosters during cold and flu season, the key ingredients for reducing inflammation and boosting our immune systems to look for are: -garlic -turmeric -ginger -green tea -vitamin C from citrus and dark, leafy greens. So I've...
12 of the most indulgent pancake hacks: Jazz up your favorite breakfast recipe for National Pancake Day!
If your family loves pancakes, Tuesday's National Pancake Day is a perfect excuse to try out these pancake hacks that take breakfast to 11! Of course there's nothing wrong with celebrating with your tried-and-true from-scratch recipe or one of our favorite boxed...
Weekly meal plan: 5 recipes that only require you to cook 3 nights. Whoo!
Grab your pen and grocery list, because next week's meal plan is ready! We've found 5 great recipes that make smart use of your time in the kitchen. We have tips to stretch your cooking, so one session in the kitchen lasts for more than one recipe (whoo!). We also...
How to keep an avocado from turning brown after you’ve cut it. (And it’s not what you think)
I've been an avocado lover for a long time, but when I don't want to eat the whole thing on my own, I've discovered a little trick that can help keep it from turning brown that's so easy it's kind of ridiculous. And best part: no extra ingredients or fancy tools or...
10 tasty ways to doctor a boxed brownie mix. You’ll never go back to plain brownies again.
There's no easier or more satisfying way to satisfy a sweet tooth than a quick boxed brownie mix. But if you want to take your brownie game to the next level with minimal effort, then try some of these clever boxed brownie mix hacks. You get the easy benefit of...
Weekly meal plan: 5 easy meals including great ideas for using leftovers
Grab your pen and grocery list, because next week's meal plan is ready! We've found 5 great recipes that make smart use of your time in the kitchen. We have tips to stretch your cooking, so one session in the kitchen lasts for more than one recipe (whoo!). We also...
Moving? This incredible service will donate your food to food pantries in your community.
This week on Spawned, we got wind of one of the coolest cool picks of the week: Move For Hunger. Recommended by our guest, Art of Happy Moving author Ali Wentzke. She recommends Move For Hunger to her clients and readers as an incredible idea for making your kitchen...
Last-minute Valentine’s treat ideas for the kids: 150 ideas from sweet to savory, homemade to…not so much
Need some help with last-minute Valentine's treat ideas? Good ones? No need to explain to us. Whether you've got Valentine's classroom treat duty, you're looking for a thoughtful after-school snack or want to surprise the kids with heart-shaped bit of edible love in a...
Ideas for 6 low-sugar Valentines treats the kids will love. No artificial sweeteners either.
I've been cutting back on sugar lately -- yes I know, right in time for Valentine's Day, yay -- so I've been searching for low-sugar Valentine's treats. And I have company! So many of our readers and followers have been asking for low-sugar treats and desserts lately...
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Yes, you can bake bread! Here are 7 easy yeast bread recipes for beginners, plus all the tips you need
I know I'm not the only new baker who's been looking up the best yeast bread recipes for beginners these past few weeks. Based on the flour and yeast shortages in my local supermarkets (and the photos in my own Instagram feed), I have now learned first-hand how...
Easy make-ahead lunch ideas for those of us not used to making our damn lunches every day!
Do you have a love-hate relationship with the kitchen these days? On one hand it's like OMG BAKE ALL THE THINGS! FAMILY DINNERS! EXPERIMENTING WITH COUSCOUS! On the other, I hit 12 or so each day it's like, wait.. I have to think about this again? So, hi. Raising...
Where to get fresh produce delivery: Creative options when you just can’t get a supermarket delivery slot.
Finding a fresh produce delivery service that works for you is the most genius idea right now -- as in, one that specializes in just fruits or veggies or both. If you're in an area where you can still safely visit your local supermarket, they may not have the best...
The surprise egg substitute for baking that you probably already have in your pantry.
The last few times I've been to the grocery, the dairy section has been completely out of eggs, which has me thinking about the best egg substitutes. Especially for baking. And, especially for those of us who've already hard-boiled our entire stash of eggs and...
Your weekly meal planning tip: Cook in bulk for easier dinners later.
Like everything else in your life, our regular weekly meal plans are hitting pause right now. We're not running to the grocery every time we run out of something, and we're trying to be really conscientious about using what's in our pantry before we buy more food....
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Weekly meal plan: 5 no-cook dinners for the week ahead. It doesn’t get easier than these.
It's time to think about planning dinners for next week, and if you're as tired of cooking (and meal planning) as I am, then I think you'll love this entirely no-cook weekly meal plan. No, this isn't transitioning you to a 100% raw diet. But we're looking for...
70+ of our favorite summer grilling recipes, from burgers to veggies to dessert
Why yes, it is time to start bookmarking all the best summer grilling recipes out there. And here we are to help! After two long months of cooking soooo many meals, I'm pretty excited that Memorial Day gives me an excuse to make more use out of that grill, and our...
Weekly Meal Plan: 5 perfect meals to kick off the beginning of summer. Oh, and a perfect cocktail, too.
This Monday officially kicks off the unofficially beginning of summer with Memorial Day. And Memorial Day cookouts. While holidays feel a bit different for most of us right now -- or a lot different -- I am still determined to bring some normalcy back to our lives...
6 kid-favorite hot lunches your kids can easily make themselves. Should they be missing their cafeterias.
I know that many kids out there have been missing their school lunches -- because yes, some schools actually do have great cafeterias and no, the salami-and-cheese-stick meals I've been throwing together aren't quite the same. So while we've already talked about...
Weekly meal plan: 5 easy meals that require almost no cleanup. Yay for fewer dishes!
Now that most of us are settling into our dinnertime routines for our families during quarantine, making use of pantry and freezer staples, cooking in bulk more often, and adding some super easy, 30 minute recipes into the rotation, we thought we'd start getting...
