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How to: Freeze Onions
When I was in high school I worked at a quaint sandwich/soup shop where one of my duties was to prep the fresh vegetables for the sandwich bar. I quickly learned waterproof mascara is my friend as I...
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How to Host a Holiday Cookie Exchange
How to host your own cookie exchange. It’s that time of year again, when thoughts of holiday baking dance around in my head! I love to bake and I love to entertain, so what better way to combine my...
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Do It Yourself Recipe Scrapbook
I am a sentimental person at heart and I love creating special memories for our kids and family. Over the years, I have dabbled in the scrapbooking craze, but found that it overtook a good portion of...
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Homemade Wine Cork Board
Open your kitchen junk drawer, come on it’s okay, no one can see. If you could have seen in mine, beyond the clutter, screw drivers, pens, sticky notes and bread bag twisties, there was a untidy...
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Make Your Own Treat Gift Tags (FREE Printables)
Most of the time I’m really excited about DIY projects, crafts, and homemade gifts–especially at Christmastime. But most of the time I’m not expecting a December baby. Being due anyway day now would...
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Homemade Heritage Recipe
One of the most treasured Christmas presents I received, was this recipe. My mom had taken on a little DIY project and the end result was a framed recipe in my late Grandma’s handwriting, including a...
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Gifting Freezer Meals
We can’t have a Do It Yourself Gifts Week without including a post on gifting meals now could we? It is, after all, what we do! I am not a crafty person, I clearly am not a decent baker either. But...
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How to Roast a Turkey
When my husband and I moved to North Dakota five years ago, we suddenly found ourselves celebrating our first Thanksgiving without our families nearby, and I was determined to roast my first turkey and...
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Homemade Cereal Bar Cookies Video Tutorial
We have had many a person comment that their cereal bar cookies were good but crumbly. I have mulled over the reasons in my mind many a time and haven’t come up with a common problem in the recipe. I...
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How to use Glass Containers for OAMC
Our typical freezer cooking instructions generally include some form of plastic freezer bag, plastic wrap, or foil pan. But we often have reader ask if they can use glass containers they already have....
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How to Use the Paleo Dessert Mini Menu
Readers, you often ask us for instructions for AFTER the big cooking day. For example, I have all this food in my freezer, now how do I use it up? Or this mini menu sounds delicious, but how do I use...
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How to Save Grocery Money in 2014
We have spent a few weeks giving you tips on how to meet your goals for a healthy lifestyle in 2014, but now we want to talk about how to do it without going broke. By choosing to OAMC, you have...
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How to Use the Meals that Heal Menu
Spring is on the horizon, but sadly the cold and flu season is still in full swing. I was recently out of commission for a few days due to illness – it was truly awful to be so helpless! Usually I am...
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Best Backyard BBQ Tips
Fire up the grill, invite the neighbors, and start sipping your favorite refreshing beverage under the shade of your favorite tree. It is time for back yard BBQs, cookouts, grilling, or whatever you...
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Kids in the Freezer Cooking Kitchen
Parents everywhere breathe a collective sigh of relief when the first day of school comes around. But after the first week or so of quiet we remember how much we miss them and start looking for ways...
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Ultimate Holiday Helps List
It is bound to happen. T minus 6 hours to turkey time, and you realize, “I forgot the _____!” And cue facepalm. But then you start thinking, “Maybe I can make it myself or find some kind of...
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DIY Cupcake Liners
DIY Cupcake Liners One day I was all geared up to make cupcakes for my son’s school party. I had all of the ingredients at home already. This made me super happy because it meant no trek to the...
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Top 10 Freezer Cooking Essentials
It’s true that someone could get started freezer cooking with the very basics of kitchen tools, but it’s always nice to know what “seasoned professionals” like to call their favorite products. While I...
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How to Use the Holiday Appetizer Mini Menu
Throwing a party isn’t easy. We just warmed our new home with a holiday party, and I feel like it took a week of prep and a week of recovery to pull it off! But it is always worth it to create those...
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Peak Produce Picks – Spring
If you like to plan your meals by the availability of seasonal produce, then our new quarterly post on Peak Produce Picks is for you! Eating seasonally ensures that produce is fresh, flavorful, and...
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Peak Produce Picks – Summer
Welcome to our second installment of Peak Produce Picks! Farmer’s Markets, CSA’s and co-ops will be full swing if they aren’t already. In my area I’m already seeing roadside stands popping up all over...
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Marinate It! – 5 Easy Steps to a Freezer Cooking Party
How much do you love freezer cooking? Have you ever tried to share the love with a friend, and been met with quizzical looks and skeptical remarks? Something along the lines of, “Ain’t nobody got time...
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How to Freeze Peak Produce
The heat is on, and the harvest is coming in! Farmer’s markets, roadside stands, CSA, backyard gardens, and even the grocery stores are full of the season’s best produce. Sometimes it is almost a...
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Peak Produce Picks – Autumn
“You know, I really just don’t like fall.” Said no one ever! We could all use a drop in temperature (of course without them getting too low), nature takes on its most beautiful hues, and our taste...
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Peak Produce Picks – Winter
We don’t often think of winter as having a lot to offer produce wise. With modern farming methods and transportation, you can have a tomato in January, but why? And of course you can always rely on...
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