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Cheesy Ranch Potatoes with Sausage

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Lemon Blueberry Oven Pancake

Rhubarb Crisp

Slow Cooker Spicy Mango Chicken

Budget Dinner Recipes for Your Meal Plan: WEEK 38

Roasted Red Pepper Pasta

Lemon Pretzel Bars

Air Fryer Cheesy Toast

Sloppy Joe Pasta Bake

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Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

June 15, 2020 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

These Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins are the best way to eat your veggies... but also have a treat! Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins are the breakfast you need in your life right now! Double chocolate. Double delicious. Does it get any better when you get chocolate and some veggies in the form of a cute little fluffy muffin?! They are kid-friendly too, because … [Read more...]

How to Bake Donuts: Funfetti Donuts Recipe

June 2, 2020 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

Ah, Baked Funfetti Donuts. Because when you think donuts couldn't possibly be MORE fun... and then you take a delicious bite of rainbow colors and sweetness. Learn how to bake donuts... And just like that - donuts will never be the same again! Sweetness at it's finest. A donut at it's finest. These funfetti donuts take homemade donuts to the next level. Kids will … [Read more...]

7 Easy Snacks for Family Movie Night

May 27, 2020 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

easy snacks for movie night

You need these delicious and easy snacks for your next family movie night! Family movie night isn't even truly a movie night without the most important part... SNACKS! And if you're like us, it's been one family movie night after another right now.  (We have loved introducing our boys to classics like the Back to the Future series!) There's no reason to … [Read more...]

Quarantine Cake – A Yummy Twist on Depression Cake

April 27, 2020 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 2 Comments

Depression Cake became popular when ingredients were scarce during the Great Depression. Quarantine Cake became popular because we have all these ingredients and need chocolate. :P  An egg-less and milk-less cake was first made popular during the Great Depression when cake, milk and even flour were very difficult to come by.  During this season of social … [Read more...]

Quarantine Virtual Recipe Swap and Recipe Ideas List

April 27, 2020 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 1 Comment

Leave a Favorite - Find a New Favorite in This Quarantine Virtual Recipe Swap and Recipe Ideas List Quarantine have you making the same thing over and over?! Feel like you've cooked dinner about 413 times this month?! Running out of ideas of what to cook?! Seems like you've made the same meal 5 times this week already?! Tired of all the pasta and meat … [Read more...]

School Cancellation & Kids Cooking Lessons

April 20, 2020 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 5 Comments

The New Whis-Kid Student Guidebook is NOW AVAILABLE!  I want to turn your kid into a WHIS-KID in the kitchen. Get it - see what I did there. We are going to WHISK UP CONFIDENCE and CREATIVITY in the kitchen!  My boys and I have loved teaching your kids how to cook in the School Cancellation Kids Cooking Lessons. I wanted to make things a little more … [Read more...]

The Best Homemade Recipes

April 2, 2020 by Lauren Drawdy 1 Comment

homemade recipes

Have some extra time on your hands? Trying to use up some pantry ingredients? You are going to adore these homemade recipes!       … [Read more...]

7 Hacks for Baking the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

March 31, 2020 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

Learn important tips for making the perfect chocolate chip cookies at home Want to know why bakery and delivery cookies are always so perfect?! The dough has had time to hang out in the mixing bowl or storage dish, letting the ingredients mingle and meld and mix together. It's true, the butter and flour, and eggs and leavening, need time to mix together. It's a chemistry … [Read more...]

ROUNDUP: 13 Best Baked Oatmeal Recipes

March 31, 2020 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

When Oatmeal and Cake Gets Together and Has a Baby...You End Up With the Best Baked Oatmeal!!! That's right - it's like an oatmeal cake. And you MUST TRY IT!!!  It's a hearty, filling, and delicious baked oatmeal that will fill up even the hungriest of bellies.  Here on $5 Dinners, we believe in making every meal of the day affordable and simple. And Baked … [Read more...]

Encouragement and Inspiration for Intentional Living – Introducing the Erin Chase Show

March 24, 2020 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom Leave a Comment

Join Erin on her new show where she inspires an intentional, well-balanced life   Intention. It's one of my favorite words. It's become a part of my mental, emotional, and spiritual framework. It's a concept that is interwoven across all areas of my life. And it's one of the guiding principles in my personal and professional success. I'm beyond ecstatic to … [Read more...]

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