Crockpot Ranch Chicken
Ingredients:
6 boneless skinless chicken breast
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
1 envelope ranch dressing mix
½ cup water
½ cup sour cream
2 tbsp ranch dressing
2 tbsp flour
Spray crock pot with non-stick cooking spray. Place chicken breasts in crock pot. In a small bowl, combine soup, ranch dressing mix, and water; pour over chicken. Cover and cook on low 8 hours or high 4 hours. Remove chicken from crock pot. Stir in sour cream, ranch dressing, and flour; replace chicken. Cover and cook on high 20 minutes.
Ranch chicken leftovers are perfect …

Cook once a month during the holidays? You’ve got to be kidding! Nope! It can be done and believe it or not, it can make things so much easier. The holidays are a time when you want to spend more time with your loved ones and you just can’t do that if you spend most of your time in the kitchen.
To learn more about once a month cooking, pick up this holiday cooking menu sampler to discover how you can take some of the stress out of the holidays and …

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  Unfortunately, many of us neglect breakfast.  And there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that your body and mind will suffer unless you have a healthy breakfast each morning. You spend six to eight hours sleeping.  After that time, your body needs fuel to keep going.  Without breakfast at home, your options for on the run nutrition may amount to too much fat, too much sugar and too many carbs.  And, that convenient run to the fast food joint is not …

I made this recipe last night for dinner – because I LOVE Calzones and figured they would’nt be too hard to make. I was so right – although, they were a little dry. I think perhaps next time I will add a little olive oil to the dough to make it a little more moist. Otherwise it was tasty!
 
Pizza Dough
The recipe I used was the “Astonishingly Easy “yeasty” Bisquick Pizza Dough” – but there are plenty out there.
I made a dough and a half for three people’s worth of calzones.
 
Filling …

I had some leftover bits of food and decided to mix it up and call it “Cheeseburger Mac” last night! That’s my huge issue lately – I meal plan, but not tightly enough and then run out of food money yet still need to cook. So, I end up needing to cook and not having one thing that it needs. But – the meal ended up okay, tasty even.
Here’s the recipe:
Cheeseburger Mac

1/2 Bag Egg Noodles
1/2 Bag of Organic “fake” Meat (the chopped beef wanna-be) OR 1/2 lb of regular chopped …

I made meatloaf last night for supper and happily ended up with enough leftover loaf for another meal. So, I think I’m going to freeze it! I only made enough mashed potatoes for that one meal – but they were OH so good! Meatloaf and potatoes is an excellent cheap (and filling) meal!
Family Meatloaf Recipe
1 1/2 to 2 lbs of chopped meat1 small chopped onion1 small can of tomato sauce3/4 cup oatmeal1 eggsalt and pepper
I also added some Worcester sauce because I love the way it tastes! My mom also …