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The Tastiest Zucchini in the Ninja Foodie
Is your garden bursting at the seams with zucchini? Or maybe you just love it like I do! Either way this is a simple and easy recipe that you will not want to miss. Prepare yourself to be amazed at the tastiest zucchini in the Ninja Foodie! Kids and Zucchini Getting my kids to eat zucchini is like pulling teeth. They hate everything about the vegetable (to be honest, I think they just see that it was green and decide “Nope”). I on the other hand love zucchini, so occasionally I will make them eat it even though I know dinner time is going to be a fight. Given this…
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Treats Your Chickens Will Love
Chickens are one of my favorite homestead animals. Not only are they super easy to take care of, but they are also big contributors to the homestead with eggs and great fertilizer. All their hard work definitely earns some delicious treats your chickens will love. If you are like us and you have a flock that out produces what your family can consume, check out our post on how to use an abundance of eggs for ideas! Chickens are the garbage disposals of the homestead, right up there with pigs. Chickens eat nearly any table scrap, garden veggie, or bug. They love to eat and will spend a majority of…
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How to Make Cowboy Caviar
This recipe for Cowboy Caviar is a bight and flavorful twist on a Taco Tuesday side dish that your family will love. With just a few simple ingredients you will be on your way to a delicious and simple meal. Potlucks always bring a bit of stress for me. What in the world do you bring?! What if no one likes what you bring, or worse they love it, but you didn’t make enough! Then you have to decide do you make a desert, a main dish, a side. The possibilities are endless and quite frankly it is overwhelming to me. So to get over my potluck anxiety I have…
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How to Use an Abundance of Eggs!
One of the great things about owning chickens is the supply of farm fresh egg. Farm fresh eggs have a richer deeper yolk than store bought which lends to a better tasting egg! And even better, chickens are fairly low maintenance animals, so you get a high yield for very little work. They are also so relaxing to watch as they scratch around. Chicken watching is one of my favorite pastimes on the homestead. To me that is a win win! But even with just five chickens, my family of five was having a hard time keeping up with the ladies production. As we speak I have five eighteen counts…
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Five Tips to Feel Like You Have It All Together
Do you ever feel like you were ran over by the Hot Mess Express while everyone around you seems to have it all together? As a mom with a full time career, homestead, and side hustle, I spend a lot of time on and being run over by that train. I am here to tell you, that the ones you see that seem to have it all together are just as big of a mess as we are! However, with these five tips to feel like you have it all together, you will be the envy of all us Hot Mess Express patrons. Some days I feel like I just…
