Creamy Tomato Basil Soup

This soup is a family favorite year-round.  Sometimes, we even eat it cold out of the fridge during the summer!
image courtesy Season With Spice

Refrigerator Oatmeal

 

Am I the only mom that has a hard time getting out of bed to make breakfast?

This is one of my go to breakfast or snack ideas. It can be made the night before or a couple days in advance.

It’s supper yummy and easy to make!

Monica over at The yummy life has a TON of different refrigerator oatmeal recipes!

Here are a couple of our favorites!!

  

French Carrots

I love the simplicity of this recipe.  It takes a little while to cook the recipe, but uses only ingredients I almost always have on hand.  My husband got the recipe from a coworker a few years ago. 

image courtesy Kayotic Kitchen

Flourless Banana Bread Muffins

 

I recently stumbled upon this recipe from Running with Spoons!

Yeah! A treat I can make for my hubby! (He is on this crazy elimination diet trying to figure out his allergies)

The kiddos love to help make these. Their favorite thing to add to them is chocolate chips Raspberries or blueberries.

Meatballs / Meatloaf Mixture

Last week a picked up my order of hamburger from Zaycon foods!

I wish I could get fresh (not frozen) beef from my father-in-law but that’s not how they do it where we get the cows processed.  I love Zaycon foods, their meat is just as good as my father-in-laws!

You might think I’m crazy for getting 40lbs of hamburger, that doesn’t come packaged. At times I think I am! I love having easy meals ready to go in my freezer. Sometimes I just don’t want to take the time to thaw, make meatballs then bake them.

For me it is easier to just take one day and mix everything together (bake if needed) and package it for when I need an easy/fast meal!

This is what i made this time

• 24 lbs of meatballs
• 8 lbs of meatloaf
• 8 lbs of hamburger patties

This recipe is so easy and delicious! I often find my kiddos sneaking into the meatballs that are cooling! 

I love having easy dinners in the freezer.

When I make these I use Gluten Free Old Fashion oats and put them in a food processor to break the oats into smaller pieces. If you don’t want to use oats, sub 3 cups bread crumbs. 

What do you use meatballs in? Here are a few of my go to meatball dinner ideas.

• Slow Cooker BBQ Cranberry Meatballs –can be used as a appetizer
• Spaghetti and Meatballs
• Meatballs and Mashed potatoes

 

If you are interested in Zaycon Foods feel free to use my referral Zayconfresh.com/refer/zf14716

Kentucky Hot Brown Sliders

We celebrated Mother’s Day early with my Mother In Law last weekend, and Sweet Mama and I volunteered to cook so she didn’t have to worry about that.  We had decided to make funeral sandwiches since they are so delicious, crowd-pleasing, and easy to make ahead.  I had seen a recipe on Pinterest for these Kentucky hot brown sliders, and they looked a lot like our funeral sandwiches, so I decided to make my half from this recipe instead of our usual one.  They turned out really good.  Sweet Mama and I got compliments all day long about how good the sliders were!  Image courtesy and recipe adapted from The Seasoned Mom

Tater Tot Nachos (“Totchos”)

If I forget or don’t have time to put something in the crock pot on Sundays, we usually end up eating cereal for dinner.  I recently found this recipe on Pinterest and thought it would be a good one for the kids to help make, and it was looking dismally like a “cereal or starve” Sunday last night, so we decided to throw together a pan of “totchos” for dinner. 
image and recipe courtesy The Good Stuff

They were super easy to make, and they tasted pretty darned good, too.  Fun for the kids; I think they could probably practically do this one all by themselves!