In the Kitchen — Stacy Makes Cents

Peanut Butter Chocomole + New Trim Healthy Mama Link-Up

I’m really enjoying this series of cooking through my stash – and I’m also enjoying incorporating my eBooks into it as well. This week I’m making Chocomole for you guys – and it’s a recipe directly from my friend Katie over at Kitchen Stewardship. Katie’s recipes are always delicious. I’ve already told you I love her granola bars and her White Bean Pasta…now you can add Chocomole to the list, from the cookbook Healthy Snacks To Go 2^nd Edition.

What is Chocomole? It’s pudding made from AVOCADOS! I’m sure you’ve seen it all over Pinterest. I’ve tried a few recipes, but this is HANDS DOWN the best one EVAH! See, all those caps mean that I really mean it. I don’t lie.

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Top 10 Ranked Slow Cookers

17 May 2013

Y’all are always asking me which crock pot you should buy. So, I did a video recently of my crock pots, but then I thought maybe I would just devote an entire post to buying a crock pot.

Everyone has different preferences. Some of you might want a programmable slow cooker – while I would rather take a beating. Some of you might want an insert that lifts out – and some of you might not care because you use crock pot liners (I’m way too cheap for those). There is a crock pot for just about everyone – no matter what you want. Even if you want it with a football team on it.Continue reading

Chicken Italiano

16 May 2013

When I see a recipe that calls for “cream of yadda-yadda” I always take that as a personal challenge. It’s like that recipe says “Hey…hey, Stacy! Think you can conquer me?! I was made for casseroles, so think again, sista!” Then, of course I have to make the recipe without the soup and then say “Booya” at least 4 times during dinner.

I love Italian food – I think I must be part Italian. I love Mexican food too…and Asian food. I’m Italimexian. Yep, that’s me. Country Italimexian.Continue reading

Change Your Life: Become a Trim Healthy Mama

14 May 2013

WARNING: This post is very long - the longest one I’ve ever written…but that’s because this is a subject I have become very passionate about and I want to share it and my heart with you – I want it to change your life like it’s changed mine…and I want to make sure I don’t miss anything important.

Over two years ago, our family changed our eating habits – we moved away from the “coupon lifestyle” we had been living and teaching. It was a hard switch for us – and for most of my readers…but you’ve stuck with me.

Over the past two years, I’ve searched high and low trying to find what I thought was “right” for us. I knew eating so many convenience foods wasn’t good for our health – so we happily cut those out and moved to a “whole foods lifestyle.” And I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but there are OODLES of roads you can take eating that way: you can be hard-core Weston A. Price Foundation; you can be hard core Bread Beckers; you can go 100% organic; you can ditch gluten; you can go Paleo or Primal…or you can just lose your mind, scream, and want to pull all your hair out – and honestly, a few times I fell into the last category.Continue reading

Crock Pot Red Chicken with Spinach

10 May 2013

I dreamt this recipe up in my sleep. Actually, I probably wasn’t asleep. It was probably 3:30am and I was nursing. I do a lot of thinking while I nurse – and reading. But it’s hard to read in the dark, so I think about food instead.

This is a take off an Italian dish that my roommate Niki used to make in college – except it involved beef….and cream cheese. So, yeah – maybe this is way different, but still it’s where the idea started. Does anyone else’s thoughts start in one place and end up somewhere else? Kinda like thinking about doing laundry and then ending up organizing under the kitchen sink instead?Continue reading