Are you frustrated with the meat selection in your local supermarket? Wish you could find a way to order farm fresh meat directly from the farm? You're not alone. Once you start paying attention to the ingredients in your food and the path your meat took to get to your plate, you'll likely start wondering...
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How to Easily Make Pesto Without Pine Nuts
When you're looking to make some pesto but don't have any pine nuts (or don't want to spend the money on them) this pesto without pine nuts is the way to go. It's a budget-friendly flavor packed sauce you're going to love. Traditional pesto is made with a mortar and pestle by smashing pine nuts,...
The Best Healthy Tarragon Chicken Salad Recipe
This tarragon chicken salad is such an easy, healthy, and delicious meal prep option for your lunches during the week. This easy healthy chicken salad recipe comes together fast and is a great meal prep lunch option. It's also Paleo, Gluten Free, Dairy Free, and Whole 30. A few weeks ago, my lack of healthy...
Paleo Zucchini Fritters [Gluten Free, Dairy Free]
These Paleo zucchini fritters are gluten free, grain free, and dairy free. They're perfectly spiced with a simple Mexican seasoning blend cooked in your skillet or oven. What Tools You'll need: Cheese grater or food processor - I love using our Cuisinart food processor whenever there's a lot of grating involved in a recipe, but...
Creamy Avocado Lime Dressing With Cilantro [Vegan, Dairy Free]
Packed with nutrition, this avocado lime dressing is a delicious and creamy flavor-filled healthy dressing. This avocado cilantro dressing is made with simple ingredients and comes together quickly in your food processor or with an immersion blender. Tools to make avocado lime dressing Blender - Food processor, immersion blender, or a blender to blend up...
12 Amazing Gifts to Pamper Mom and Give Her a Break in 2022
Think of all the moms you know. Specifically moms of young kids. ...Babies. Toddlers. Preschoolers. Do they look tired to you? Chances are they feel tired, overwhelmed, and in desperate need of a break this Mother's Day. Keep reading for awesome gifts that will pamper any tired, overworked, and overwhelmed mom. Speaking from personal experience,...
Fish Tacos with Cilantro Lime Sauce
Make these fish tacos with cilantro lime sauce today and you won't be disappointed. These fish tacos have it all. Amazing flavor, great texture, and a delicious creamy sauce. What more could you ask for? How to make fish tacos with cilantro lime sauce The process is super simple. Make the fish (we use cod,...
4 Ingredient Honey Mustard Salad Dressing
This honey mustard salad dressing recipe is tangy, sweet, and is made with only the simplest ingredients. In five minutes or less you will have a delicious homemade honey mustard sauce that you can use as a salad dressing or drizzle it over grilled chicken for a punch of flavor. Homemade Honey Mustard Dressing is...
How My Kids Eat 30+ Fruits & Veggies Daily With a Smile on Their Face
You spend hours over the stove, cooking a healthy homemade meal... ...with food that cost a lot of money to buy at the store. And when you finally finish the meal with a few different veggies added in, you walk over and set it down on the table only to be met with this response...
How To Easily Make Pizza Sauce With Tomato Paste
This pizza sauce from tomato paste is quick, easy, and is seasoned with simple ingredients for an extremely flavorful red sauce that requires no cooking and no added sugar. Just dump, mix, and enjoy this quick and easy homemade tomato paste pizza sauce! Keep reading for the recipe. We love pizza. I mean, who doesn't?...
Yummy Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Recipe
This Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken is super tasty, and has is perfect for the spice lovers in your home. Use it in buffalo chicken sliders or throw it on some greens for a tasty salad. You can make shredded buffalo chicken in your crockpot (or Instant Pot with a slow-cook option) for tonight, OR you...
20 Meal Planning Templates That Will Take The Stress Out Of Cooking
Do you want to take control of your meal times during the week? Using a meal planning template is one of the easiest ways to make a weekly meal plan and a menu for what's for dinner throughout the week. It's time to take the stress and overwhelm out of home cooked meals...for good. By...
5 Minute Creamy Cilantro Lime Mayo
Looking for a delicious sauce to compliment all your summer grilling? Then look no further, because this tasty cilantro lime mayo is delicious on fajitas, tacos, zucchini fritters, burgers, grilled chicken, you name it. With lots of yummy flavors and creamy texture, this zesty sauce doesn’t just taste great, it is SO simple to make!...
Chocolate Cookies Without Butter (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)
You're going to LOVE these chocolate cookies without butter. And actually, these are DOUBLE chocolate cookies. They're dairy free and gluten free too, and full of flavor and yumm factor. If you like the idea of chocolate desserts made without butter, gluten, and dairy, I've got more just like that. Check out these Paleo brownies...
Paleo Brownies with Almond Flour (No Eggs or Dairy)
Looking for Paleo brownies with almond flour? This one will knock your socks off. These are made with almond flour, sweetened with honey, and made without eggs or dairy. Make 'em vegan by swapping the honey with maple syrup. Even with all these ingredient swaps, these brownies are moist, rich, ooey-gooey, and delicious. These brownies,...
Chocolate Frosting Without Butter (Paleo, Gluten Free, Dairy Free)
Did you know that you can make chocolate frosting without butter or cream or milk or any dairy at all? This recipe takes just a few minutes, and uses a surprising healthy super-food ingredient...avocados. This frosting is my go-to frosting on all my kids' birthday cakes (and the cakes I make for fun). Sometimes I...
Slow Cooker Chicken Curry Recipe
This slow cooker chicken curry is quick, easy and packed with flavor. It uses a variation of my 5 minute coconut curry sauce which has become one of my top posts on the blog over the years. And I'm not at all surprised why—it is simple, healthy, and delicious. This post will give you instructions to...
Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup
Are you in the mood for a creamy & delicious soup tonight? Make this butternut squash and sweet potato soup with coconut milk and apple for a meal your whole family will love. Here are directions for making your soup in the crockpot, as well as how to prep it ahead of time as a...
Crock Pot Spaghetti and Meatballs Recipe
Last week I shared my Crockpot Chicken Tortilla Soup recipe, and we're continuing the winter soup series this week with a new fan-favorite my crock pot spaghetti and meatballs recipe! This recipe is one you're gonna want to keep on hand as a family staple and a quick weeknight meal the whole family will love....
Crock Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe
It's soup season, friends! And what better way to celebrate than with this delicious (and easy) crock pot chicken tortilla soup recipe! Bust out your dutch ovens, crock pots, and instant pots because here on Scratch to Basics we're about to get soupy. Last year, I spent a month or two developing a bunch of...
DIY Food Stocking Stuffers - 90 Delicious Homemade Food Gift Ideas
This is a giant list of homemade food gift ideas to use this year as food stocking stuffers. Perfect for any occasion really, but especially great to give as a hostess gift, party favor, or a Christmas gift stuffed in a stocking. Some of them take a little bit of planning so it never hurts...
Following Our Unexpected Dreams & Moving Away From The Farm
What do you do when the life you've been dreaming of turns out to be not quite what you want? What do you do when "simple living" in the country turns out to be not so simple, after all? I never pictured myself as a country girl, to be honest. My husband introduced me to...
Where to Find a Free Range or Pasture Raised Turkey in 2021
When you're a conscious meat consumer and pay close attention to how animals are raised, you might be wondering where you can find a free-range turkey or pasture-raised turkey for your Thanksgiving dinner this year. And if that's you...you're in the right place. I've got your turkey needs covered this year. Or, actually, Crowd Cow...
Halloween Snack Board - Savory & Delicious
The following post is sponsored by Secolari. All reviews and opinions expressed in this post are 100% my own. While the kids are putting on their costumes, waiting for that perfect time for trick-or-treating, doesn't it sound nice to have some non-sugary snacks to fill them (and you) up? That's where this savory grown up Halloween...