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Homemade Vegetable Soup Recipe

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Since we started our 24-day healthy eating challenge, we’ve eaten a lot of grilled chicken and salad.  As I was racking my brain trying to come up with an idea for dinner that didn’t involve chicken, vegetable soup came to mind.  It’s one of my all time favorite meals, and it reminds me of my precious daddy.  He always called it “Red Soup,” one of his favorite meals to cook when my mom had to work late.  Of course he’d cook a steaming pan of delicious cornbread, I always loved crumbling a big piece of moist cornbread right in my vegetable soup.  But……cornbread isn’t part of the plan during our 24-day healthy eating challenge.  So, I asked our Time 2 $ave Facebook community their secret to homemade vegetable soup.  I incorporated several suggestions to make the best Vegetable soup ever!!

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Homemade Microwave Popcorn: All Natural Healthy Snack Idea

Homemade Popcorn

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I’ve been posting this week about our 24-day healthy eating challenge.   It’s been an eye-opening experience for sure, I would have told you that I rarely snacked.  However, since during the challenge we are only eating certain kinds of foods I quickly realized how often I would walk through the kitchen and grab a cracker or two or a couple of chips while cooking a meal.  I also didn’t realize how many foods that I ate were processed, or the amount of additives added to foods that I previously thought were healthy like microwave popcorn. [Read more...]

FREE Menu Planner & Coupon Booklets from Home Made Simple!

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Subscribe to Home Made Simple and get a FREE Menu Planner!

When you subscribe to Home Made Simple weekly newsletters – you’ll get great recipe ideas as well as alerts whenever their new coupon booklet becomes available.  But I really just want the cute menu planner… ;)

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I just subscribed and there are 14 adorable menu styles to choose from when you make your custom planner!

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Crockpot Mexican Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe

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I’ve been looking for a good Crockpot Mexican Chicken Tortilla Soup recipe – and I finally made this one this week!!  It’s unbelievably delicious – warm, spicy, bursting with flavor and textures – with great chunks of chicken.

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Green Eggs & Ham Breakfast (For Dr. Seuss’s Birthday)

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Green Eggs & Ham Breakfast for Dr. Seuss’s Birthday!

My children have been asking me all week if I’ll make “Green Eggs & Ham” for breakfast on Saturday, for Dr. Seuss’s Birthday. (March 2) Of course – you just can’t say no to cuteness like that! (even though waking up early on Saturdays to cook is NOT my thing…)

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Easy Crock Pot Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup


A friend of mine, Laura H. posted this image and recipe on facebook this week for Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup.  It looked so yummy, I immediately asked if I could share with y’all.  It sounds super easy, which is very important in my world and it looks delicious!  I think my homemade 5 ingredient bread I shared with you a couple of months ago will pair nicely with this recipe!
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Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients

  • 3 boneless skinless chicken breast cubed
  • 2 cans of cream of chicken soup
  • 48 oz of Chicken Broth
  • half a cup of butter, sliced.
  • bag of egg noodles
  • I can mixed veggies
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Add first four ingredients to crock pot.
  2. Cook on low for 8 hours.
  3. The last hour add a bag of egg noodles and 1 can mixed veggies.
  4. Add salt and pepper to taste.
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Mexican Recipe: Crock Pot Cheesy Tortilla Soup

Cheesy Tortilla Soup

Here’s another recipe a friend of mine posted on facebook this week, Cheesy Tortilla Soup.  I can’t wait to try this, it looks fantastic.  Nothing like a hot bowl of soup on a chilly winter day.  I would pair this with tortilla chips, or possibly Mexican Cornbread.  If you have a recipe you’d like to share with us, we might feature it on the blog.  Send an email to time2save@hotmail.com with “recipe” in the subject line.  Include detailed instructions along with photos.

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10 Creative Uses for Coffee Filters!

10 creative uses for Coffe Filters

Jamie here, being frugal oftentimes means being creative – making do with less, and making it into more!  I’ve often told my husband that if I could get a gold medal for only one thing – it would probably be the ability to “Make Do”.   When something I want/need just isn’t on hand – or isn’t within my budget – I can usually look around and find something and “make it work”.  (Case in point – the Tinfoil Heart Pancake Molds I showed you a couple weeks ago.)

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