Baked Summer Vegetable Medley (Easy Ratatouille)
A simple baked (or grilled!) side vegetable starring fresh summer produce and simple, budget-friendly ingredients.
Side Dish
Simple Mediterranean Yellow Rice
Our favorite, simple recipe for yellow rice – with no artificial colors! Perfect with chicken, beef, fish, or vegetable curry – a savory, flavorful bed for any Meditteranean or Eastern-inspired dish. This post may contain affiliate links. You can view my full disclosure policy here. A …
Cheap & Simple Guacamole (& How to Store It!)
A frugal guacamole recipe you can make with ingredients you probably already have at home! Plus how to store guacamole without turning it brown. Guacamole is one of those foods that I eat all the time, but I don’t eat it the right way. Know …
Deeply Flavorful Baked Sweet Potatoes
An extra-flavorful, easy way to make baked sweet potatoes even better. Whole30, paleo, dairy-free, gluten-free, CHEAP, and just plain good. The best baked sweet potatoes I’ve ever had. This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. For a while, I called these …
Crispy Baked Home Fries
These healthier home fries are baked, not fried. They’re drizzled with healthy fats, tossed with garlic and paprika, and work perfectly for breakfast as well as dinner.
The Salad the Guys Will Eat (Caesar Salad Dressing)
It’s just a Caesar salad. But the dressing makes all the difference. It takes about 3 minutes to shake together. If it makes my brothers and dad will eat a mixing bowl of salad, it’s worth the extra effort to me. I think it’ll be the …
Cheap & Simple Nachos
Did you ever have junky days, growing up? 6 days of the week, my family tried to eat fairly healthy. Sundays were junky days. Fur lunch, we made nachos. Not loaded like Pioneer Woman makes. There was no meat, no hidden veggies, nothing redeeming about …
Frugal, Real Food Buffalo Chicken Dip
This is the part where I’m supposed to draw you into the post with a fun story that has something to do with this recipe. But honestly, do we ever read this part? I mean, I try to make it entertaining. I try to …