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Apples, apples everywhere! My aunt shared ten whopping bushels with us this year! As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, there were many delicious things we did to preserve the apples but I tried something new this year: Fruit Roll-Ups!
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Did you know that you can substitute some (or even ALL) of the oil in your baked treats with applesauce? The result can be fewer calories, more fiber & vitamins and nearly zero difference to taste.
Whaaaaa….??? No, really!
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Did you know you can make cookies using a cake mix? It’s a huge shortcut when you want to bake a batch of cookies. And cake mix cookies only have 3 ingredients – a box of cake mix, an egg and a softened stick of butter.
Since cake mix cookies are so simple I don’t even need to look up a recipe. I just mix & bake. Check it out, y’all
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I make fresh pico de gallo in minutes using fresh garden vegetables such as ripe tomatoes, onion, garlic, jalapenos and cilantro. Go ahead, ENJOY eating your vegetables!
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These double chocolate banana-chunk cookies are primarily sweetened with the natural sugars of banana and honey. Fluffy, soft & chewy cookies that are bursting with chocolate flavor. 
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Did you know you can make a sweet cherry chewy candy from excess garden squash? It’s TRUE! Making the candy is simple, we loved the cherry flavor best.
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Refined sugar free Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake cookies using honey & coconut oil. No oven heating up the house during the summertime plus it’s CHOCOLATE!
I used to make chocolate no-bake cookies for our kids all the time when they were growing up. It was one of their faves and they begged me to make them often. Even our youngest who was not a big chocolate-flavor fan. (I know, hard to believe she’s actually my kid, huh??)
Anyway, our guest-poster Ashley recently shared with us her four-week journey of a diet with NO refined sugar at all!
This no-sugar version of chocolate no-bake cookies was shared on her FINAL WEEK’s update. What a great sugar-free spin on a favorite recipe!
And since it’s no-bake there’s the added bonus of not heating up the house on a hot summer’s day. You’re gonna want to make these SOON!
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How easy is it to make homemade crackers? I love to make things for myself for both financial as well as environmental reasons. So now my mind got to rolling. Hummmm… I saw something online the other day about how easy it was to make your own crackers …
