Pear and Pomegranate Salad is a simple salad with feta cheese, pears, almonds, and pomegranates over a bed of fresh spinach. Is there any fruit more festive than pomegranate this time of year?! It just makes me think of Christmas! This Pear and Pomegranate Salad is perfect for holiday parties and entertaining. It's pretty, delicious, and healthy! You can really customize it to your liking--sometimes I use feta cheese and sometimes I use gorgonzola. I've tried it with several kinds of View the Recipe
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White Garlic Chicken and Vegetable Pizza
White Garlic Chicken and Vegetable Pizza with my favorite creamy white garlic sauce and the BEST homemade pizza crust! Pizza is my weakness. (And chocolate cake, because, well...it's chocolate cake). Just throwin' that out there. I love every type of pizza, whether it's a paper thin crispy crust margherita pizza, Chicago-style thick crust or a super cheesy New York Style Pizza. I don't discriminate ;-) . I have a TON of homemade pizza recipes on my site in lots of different flavors. View the Recipe
Creamy Summer Pasta Salad
Creamy Summer Pasta Salad with Greek yogurt, broccoli, olives, carrots, peas, and bell peppers. A great BBQ side dish or have it as your main course! Can we all agree that a summer BBQ is really not complete without a pasta salad side dish? I have tons of favorites, like this chicken caesar pasta salad and this teriyaki spinach chicken bowtie pasta salad...but this Creamy Summer Pasta Salad ranks high among them! It's really similar to classic ranch pasta salads you may have tried in the View the Recipe
Mushroom Bacon Swiss Salad
This spinach salad is one of my favorite family recipes. Fresh greens, mushrooms, warm crumbled bacon, cottage cheese and Swiss cheese come together for a flavorful and unique salad that's sure to impress! The poppyseed dressing is the perfect sweet addition to make this a crowd favorite. This salad is DEAR to my heart. It accompanied us to every pot luck, family party or special event I can remember. It was a staple at family dinner too. I've put off sharing it on the blog because I can View the Recipe
Coconut Chicken Tropical Salad with Creamy Pineapple Vinaigrette
Coconut Chicken Tropical Salad is coconut crusted chicken tenders with avocado, mango, pineapple, bell pepper, cucumber, and a creamy pineapple vinaigrette. It's a rare occasion that I ever eat out for lunch, but if I'm ever running errands and want to treat myself I absolutely love the awesome ready-made salads from Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. The usually change depending on the season--one of my favorites is this Thai salad with edamame and a delicious peanut dressing. Every time View the Recipe
Apple Pecan Salad
This delicious Apple Pecan Salad is made with bacon, chicken (optional), and light balsamic dressing. Serve it as a side or add chicken and make it a meal! This is a copycat of Wendy's Apple Pecan Salad and I love to serve it along side a bowl of soup or with some homemade breadsticks to make it a more filling meal. Apple Pecan Salad I often get inspiration for recipes while eating out and a trip to Wendy's craving a juicy hamburger resulted in me ordering their apple, bacon, pecan View the Recipe
Weekly Meal Plan (35)
Using a weekly meal plan is the best way to cook healthier for your family, save money, and time! Browse all of my free meal plans which include a grocery shopping list and tons of meal planning ideas including healthy and kid-friendly meals. The hardest part meal planning is finding the ideas, and creating a shopping list, so I’ve done that for you! Click the link below to print out your shopping list, and you’re ready to go! **NOTE: You’ll notice the shopping list View the Recipe
25+ Leftover Turkey Recipes
I hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving! Leftovers from the Thanksgiving feast could be my favorite part. We usually enjoy leftover pie for days, I love leftover turkey because you can use it to make so many more meals throughout the week. From sandwiches, soups, and pastas, to hashes and pies--the options are endless! View the Recipe
Garlic-Ranch Chicken Pizza
An easy homemade pizza crust smothered in garlic ranch sauce and topped with grilled chicken, bacon, tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. We are a little bit obsessed with homemade pizza at our house! And by obsessed I mean we make some almost every weekend! We have our favorites of course, like Barbecue Chicken Pizza, classic cheese, and this Garlic-Ranch Chicken Pizza which I'm so excited to share! It has a deliciously easy homemade sauce and all of the toppings I love--tomatoes, chicken, View the Recipe
Berry Almond Avocado Salad
Berry Almond Avocado Salad with a light honey lime poppyseed dressing served over a bed of your favorite greens. With all of the berry recipes I've been posting lately you would think it's already summer! Last week I shared this Raspberry Pretzel Dessert. At least this Berry Avocado Almond Salad is healthy, right? The dressing for this salad is a light lime honey poppyseed dressing. But if you look too closely at my photos you may notice the dressing in these photos doesn't have poppy View the Recipe
Instant Pot Chicken Breasts (Fresh or Frozen)
I love this recipe for Instant Pot Chicken Breasts because I can use fresh or frozen chicken, it's completely hands off, and yields perfectly cooked chicken in about 25 minutes. I love the ease of cooking chicken this way, and there are so many ways to enjoy it, like in chicken enchiladas, white chicken chili, or BBQ chicken pizza. Have you tried cooking chicken breast in your Instant Pot yet? It is so easy and yields juicy chicken breast you can enjoy for dinner, meal prepping, or use View the Recipe
Orange Pomegranate Salad
This Orange Pomegranate Salad is the perfect easy holiday side dish. Layered with sweet pomegranate arils, avocados, fresh oranges, thinly sliced onions, toasted walnuts and feta cheese. It has the perfect crunch and sweetness to accompany any dinner! Hooray for pomegranate season! I honestly think I love eating pomegranates on my salads more than anything else, but I also can't ever resist them on this yummy Coconut Veggie Bowl--YUM. My kids love to eat them plain, with a spoon, or even View the Recipe
BBQ Chicken Pasta Salad
BBQ Chicken Pasta Salad with penne pasta, black beans, corn, tomatoes, and cheese over a bed of green lettuce. Mmm good! Since it's Monday and all I wanted to share another yummy 30-minute meal to get you through the busy week! If I don't have a few easy meal ideas on hand the first days of the week I go crazy! My husband doesn't get home until around 10pm each night, which means my days with the kids can be loooonnnggg. The last thing I have energy for at the end of the days is making View the Recipe
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Using a weekly meal plan is the best way to cook healthier for your family, save money, and time! Browse all of my free meal plans which include a grocery shopping list and tons of meal planning ideas including healthy and kid-friendly meals. The hardest part meal planning is finding the ideas, and creating a shopping list, so I’ve done that for you! Click the link below to print out your shopping list, and you’re ready to go! View the Recipe
Shredded Chicken Taco Salad with Chipotle Ranch Crema
Shredded chicken taco salad with chipotle ranch crema is shredded chicken layered on a delicious taco salad packed with fresh veggies and drizzled with a Chipotle Ranch Crema. I'm a sucker for big, delicious salads loaded with protein and tons of veggies. Here are some of my favorites!: Coconut Chicken Tropical Salad with Creamy Pineapple Vinaigrette Grapefruit Avocado Salad with Shrimp Applebee's Oriental Chicken Salad Copycat Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad Spinach Chicken View the Recipe
Roasted Butternut Squash Salad
Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with pecans, bacon, onion, dried cranberries, parmesan cheese and a simple balsamic vinaigrette. Hooray for cooler weather and all things FALL. This roasted butternut squash salad has been one of my go-to's for two years now (in close tie with this Brussels sprout salad). I'm a little obsessed with the flavor combination here. It starts with a bed of greens. I love serving it over kale, a spring mix, or spinach. You could use a combination of any of those, View the Recipe
Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas
Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas are a simple one pan dinner that includes seasoned chicken and vegetables roasted all on one pan and served in warm flour tortillas with your favorite toppings. We specialize in Mexican food here at TBFS. Don't miss our NEW homemade Taquitos and fresh pico de gallo! Nothing makes dinnertime better then when my kids will happily and hungrily sit in their seat and eat their entire dinner without complaint. These chicken fajitas are one of those meals that totally View the Recipe
Teriyaki Pasta Salad
This delicious Teriyaki Pasta Salad includes farfalle, spinach, mandarin oranges, water chestnuts, peanuts, Craisins, chicken and a simple teriyaki sauce dressing. It's been our family's favorite for years! Years ago my Aunt Diane brought this salad to a family party and we all fell in love with it! It has since become a huge family favorite. We often enjoy it as a main dish, but it's also hugely popular served as a side dish at BBQ's and potlucks. View the Recipe
Week #2 Vegetarian Meal Plan and Shopping List
A 5 day Vegetarian Meal Plan with easy and healthy vegetarian dinner options and a free grocery shopping list; perfect for cooking on a budget. The hardest part of meal planning is finding the ideas, and creating a shopping list, so I’ve done that for you! Click the link below to print out your shopping list, and you’re ready to go! **NOTE: You’ll notice the shopping list includes categories like “pantry staples”, and “spices”. Hopefully those are items you already have on hand, and you View the Recipe
Weekly Meal Plan (18)
Using a weekly meal plan is the best way to cook healthier for your family, save money, and time! Browse all of my free meal plans which include a grocery shopping list and tons of meal planning ideas including healthy and kid-friendly meals. The hardest part of creating a meal plan is finding the ideas, and creating a shopping list, so I’ve done that for you! Click the link below to print out your shopping list, and you’re ready to go! View the Recipe
Hawaiian Haystacks
These delicious Hawaiian Haystacks start with a bed of rice, then a spoonful of chicken in gravy sauce, and add all of your favorite toppings. They're make for a quick weeknight meal using ingredients you have on hand. Quick and easy dinners are what weekdays are all about. Don't miss all my easy 30 minute meals including Penne Arrabbiata, Pesto Chicken and Vegetables, and Tostadas. Hawaiian Haystacks were always one of our favorites growing up because everyone was able to customize View the Recipe
