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The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

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In case you are wondering, these Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups truly are the best. I didn’t just make that up. It’s a proven fact.

Who am I kidding? I rarely eat sugar so I only see and smell these gems when I make them for my family or for guests. But I remember the deliciousness and therefore, I taste them in my mind. (For the record, when I smell something wonderful I feel as though I’ve tasted it. Am I the only weird one? Who can relate?)

Ultimately, you can take any of your favorite cookie recipes and bake them in a muffin cup for a fun cookie twist. But my family has declared THIS Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe to be the best, and who am I to argue?

Scoop your cookie dough (with a large scoop like this one) into a prepared muffin cup. Bake and be happy. Eat and be happier. (Or just smell them and be happy. That works too.)

The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups

The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups
 
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Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • 1 cup melted butter (2 sticks)
  • 1½ cups brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2¼ cups whole grain flour, more or less as needed (I use freshly ground soft white wheat)
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. In a large mixing bowl, stir together butter and brown sugar.
  2. Add eggs, baking soda, salt, and vanilla.
  3. Stir in flour until well combined (tweaking the amount as needed depending on the flour you are using)
  4. Fold in chocolate chips.
  5. Use a large cookie scoop to add dough to 24 prepared muffin tins.
  6. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 15-20 minutes or until cookie cups are golden brown.

There’s something about baking these cookies into a muffin cup that makes them extra chewy and good. These Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups are awesome for packing in a lunch box or taking on the road! Make these ahead and freeze them for easy access to a great dessert when you need one.

While this recipe is made with real butter (yay!) and whole grain (hooray!), it isn’t low in sugar, so don’t go too crazy. These Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups were meant to be shared!

Want to really have fun (while you’re sharing, that is)? Put a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of these cookie cups when they first come out of the oven. Of course then the high sugar dessert becomes an even higher sugar dessert. But wow, so good.

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The BEST Way to Make Mashed Potatoes in the Instant Pot

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Sometimes a girl thinks she is onto something when she learns to make Mashed Potatoes in the Instant Pot. Then her friend Leesa is like, “Girl, you have to try it my way instead.” And then you try making Mashed Potatoes Leesa’s way and you fall down dead.

How is it that the best foods we all love can actually taste even better when we tweak a few ingredients and methods? Can it be that these Mashed Potatoes take so little effort to make? And is it actually possible that making Mashed Potatoes in the way I am about to describe actually adds more nutrients to this delicious dish?

Yes. So these potatoes are better tasting AND better for us, all without any extra work. Hoorah!

The BEST Mashed Potatoes in the Instant Pot

What takes these great Mashed Potatoes in the Instant Pot from good to BEST? Chicken broth. Indeed, instead of simply cooking our potatoes in water, then draining and adding milk and butter later – we are going to cook the potatoes in chicken broth and milk. No draining needed! The nutrients and flavor absorb into the potatoes, we mash them and add butter and salt, then voila. Amazing Mashed Potatoes in the Instant Pot!

NOTE: Never fear the fat! These are full of good fats, so let’s emphasize the GOOD in that sentence. Broth, real butter, and whole milk are all good, nourishing foods. Our brains need good fats for good health. So give a cheer for mashed potatoes that taste amazing and offer great nourishment too!

Don’t have an Instant Pot?

Make these in the Crock Pot instead! Cook on low for 8-10 hours or hi for 5 hours. Mash, add butter and salt, and serve!

Wait. You don’t have an Instant Pot?

I was with you for years, putting it off forever, not wanting to jump on the Instant Pot bandwagon. Then so many worked to convince me that I finally jumped. I’ve found that investing in this lovely appliance truly has saved me time and energy in my real food kitchen.

I LOVE my 8-Quart Instant Pot (because I always make large amounts of food). Some prefer the 6-Quart Instant Pot because it comes to pressure faster.

Beyond the mashed potato, my favorite way to use my Instant Pot is to cook 5-7 pounds of frozen hamburger meat in 30 minutes. For real!

And now for my friend Leesa’s wonderful Mashed Potato recipe and instructions!

The BEST Mashed Potatoes in the Instant Pot

The BEST Way to Make Mashed Potatoes in the Instant Pot
 
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Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
  • 5 pounds Yukon gold potatoes
  • 1 cup chicken or beef broth
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • Butter to taste (I use one stick)
  • Sea salt to taste
Instructions
  1. Wash and quarter potatoes.
  2. Put them onto the trivet inside your instant pot along with the chicken broth and milk.
  3. Seal and cook at high pressure for 10 minutes.
  4. Quick release the pressure.
  5. Don't drain the liquid!
  6. Add butter and salt to your liking (the more butter the better, I always say!)
  7. Mash with a potato masher and serve!

These Mashed Potatoes are a must try! Let me know what you think!

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Easy Whole Grain Orange Poppyseed Muffins

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Oh my goodness, can you say “fluffy?” These Orange Poppyseed Muffins are so light and fluffy, the fact that they are made with whole grains and are low in sugar will be easily overlooked.

Allow me to share with you the ingredients that make these muffins so incredible. Drum roll please:

  1. Almond Extract: Do not skip this ingredient. It takes these muffins up a thousand notches.
  2. Orange Juice: The OJ gives a perfectly light citrus flavor that pairs perfectly with the almond extract.
  3. Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: I grind this myself from soft white wheat berries. Oh my goodness, is this stuff amazing! (But if you need to eat GF, I believe your favorite flour blend will work just as well in these muffins!)
  4. Poppyseeds: What even is a poppyseed? What exactly do these add to the recipe? I have yet to figure this out after all my years of baking.

Many times I’ve considered leaving the poppyseeds out of my Poppyseed Bread or Muffins, simply because I can’t figure out the role they play (aside from the fact that a Poppyseed Muffin wouldn’t be a Poppyseed Muffin without Poppyseeds, and that’s what gives the bread/muffins their name). They have no taste, they don’t make the muffin rise, therefore they seem to only be an aesthetic ingredient.

Who can help me solve the mystery of the Poppy Seed? What is its purpose? Who decided to add them to breads and muffins? We may never know…

But no matter. Go make these muffins and then eat one (or three) fresh out of the oven with a glass of milk or a cup of coffee or tea. They are ridiculously delicious!

Whole Grain Orange Poppyseed Muffins

Easy Whole Grain Orange Poppyseed Muffins
 
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Serves: 18-24
Ingredients
  • 3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
  • ½ cup sugar or sucanat
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 Tablespoon poppyseeds
  • 3 eggs
  • 1¼ cups orange juice
  • 1 cup melted butter
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon almond extract
Instructions
  1. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
  2. Add eggs, orange juice, and melted butter.
  3. Stir until just mixed (but do not over-stir).
  4. Scoop batter into 18-24 prepared muffin tins.
  5. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 18-25 minutes or until muffins are golden brown.

By the way, you’ll likely notice the similarity of this muffin recipe with my Orange Glazed Poppyseed Quick Bread. I tweaked that recipe just a bit to make these simple muffins. I love how they turned out!

Pssst! Want to keep Muffin Mix on hand to sub out for the dry ingredients in recipes like this? Simple Mixes to Save the Day truly do save my day over and over. Find our Muffin Mix Recipe and many more in this delightful treasure!

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Simple Baked Beans Recipe

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I love that Simple Baked Beans is such an easy side dish to put together and pair with so many great meats and veggies!

Truly, it is the simplest of foods that make our meals so much better! (Did you download our Simple Ingredients for Simple Meals list yet? It’s FREE! And oh so helpful!)

These Simple Baked Beans take little effort, and are just sweet enough to make us all fall in love. I love adding these as a side dish (along with other veggies and fruits) to a basic meaty main dish.

Consider these Simple Baked Beans when you decide what to serve with any of these Simple Meals recipes:

Phew, so many possibilities!!

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As for these Simple Baked Beans, you’ll love having this recipe in your back pocket to add protein and goodness to your Simple Meals.

Ready for the super simple recipe? Soak and cook your own beans, or keep some canned beans on hand to throw these together at a moment’s notice.

Simple Baked Beans

Simple Baked Beans Recipe
 
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Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
  • 32-ounces canned pork and beans (or soak and cook your own pintos or navy beans!)
  • ¼ cup ketchup (give or take)
  • 1 Tablespoon prepared yellow mustard
  • 3 Tablespoons dried minced onion
  • 1 Tablespoon honey or brown sugar (optional)
Instructions
  1. Stir ingredients together in a 8x8 inch baking dish.
  2. Bake uncovered in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes or until bubbly.
  3. (In a hurry? Cook in a pot on the stove for 10-15 minutes in a pinch!)

I love that if I plan ahead, I can bake these in the oven. Or if I need to throw these together in less time (story of my life), I can simply stir this recipe into a pot and heat it to bubbly on the stove. So simple and good!

P.S. Make these beans into a main dish by adding leftover cooked hamburger and/or cooked bacon!

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Easy Peaches and Cream Muffins Recipe

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Once upon a time I had a box full of fabulous peaches. So I used a few juicy peaches to make these Peaches and Cream Muffins and the family declared them to be delicious. Good talk.

Allow me to share a few secrets to making the most deliciously moist muffins – even if you are baking with whole grain flour!

  1. Use whole grain pastry flour. I grind soft white wheat, which turns into a lovely, fine, fluffy flour. I love that it acts like white flour while actually being whole wheat! (Read more about whole wheat pastry flour here.)
  2. Stir in some sour cream. This makes the muffins moist instead of dry and crumbly. So yum!

One of my favorite, favorite tricks to making these Peaches and Cream muffins even easier to whip up is to use the Muffin Mix recipe in this Simple Mixes to Save the Day eBook. Use 4 cups of Muffin Mix in place of all the dry ingredients in the recipe, and you’ve just cut out much of the work involved in stirring together these muffins. I LOVE having all those homemade mixes on hand!

This recipe is quite versatile! Sub out peaches for berries or apples. Stir in some cinnamon. This recipe is fun to play with!

Easy Peaches and Cream Muffins

Easy Peaches and Cream Muffins Recipe
 
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Serves: 18-24
Ingredients
  • 3 cups whole grain flour (I use freshly ground soft white wheat)
  • ½ cup sugar (sucanat, brown, white, or raw)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt (Or use 4 cups of Muffin Mix from Simple Mixes to Save the Day eBook instead of these dry ingredients!)
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup melted coconut oil
  • 3 fresh peaches, pealed and diced
Instructions
  1. Stir together dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
  2. Add sour cream, milk, eggs, and melted coconut oil and stir until just combined (do not over-stir).
  3. Fold in diced peaches.
  4. Scoop batter into 18-24 prepared muffin tins.
  5. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 18-25 minutes or until muffins are golden brown.

Be sure to check out Simple Mixes that Save the Day. They truly do save my day – many days a week!

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Stick of Butter Rice – AMAZING!

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Now that I have discovered how to make this Stick of Butter Rice, I will never go back to making it “the regular way.” Wow, wow, and then some. It’s because of the butter, of course. Wait until you try this!

Some people be like, “Go easy on this rice because it’s so high in fat because of the butter!” But Laura be like, “What a great and delicious way to add good fat to a whole grain carb dish!”

I’m not a huge fan of empty carbs, which turn to sugar in our bodies, which offer little if any nourishment, and therefore can turn to fat in our bodies as they try to serve some sort of purpose for us. So if there’s any reason to go easy on this rice, it is because our bodies don’t need loads of carbohydrates or grains for nourishment (unless we are avid athletes with rigorous daily workouts).

As for me? I enjoy this wonderfully flavored, high fat rice in small quantities with a large side of veggies and a delightful portion of meat.

The flavor of this rice, though!!! Wow, you must try it. Between the broth, the onion, and the butter (the obvious MVP of this dish), I think you’ll be like me and decide to never go back to making plain rice again!

See how simple this Stick of Butter Rice is?

Measure uncooked rice and minced onion into a baking dish. Cut butter into pats and add to rice.

Add salt and chicken broth and stir.

Cover and bake in a 350 degree oven for one hour. Your job here is done.

We love serving some sort of shredded meat with this rice, such as:

Those are our favorites, though this Stick of Butter Rice makes a great side dish with just about any meal!

Enjoy the simplicity of this wonderful dish! Once you try it you’ll never go back!

Stick of Butter Rice

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Stick of Butter Rice - AMAZING!
 
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Ingredients
  • 2 cups brown rice (uncooked)
  • 4 cups beef or chicken broth
  • ¼ teaspoon sea salt
  • 2 Tablespoons dry minced onions
  • 1 stick of butter (1/2 cup)
Instructions
  1. Measure rice, broth, salt, and onions into a 9x13 inch baking dish and stir.
  2. Cut a stick of butter into 8ish "pats" and spread over the dish.
  3. Cover dish and bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour.

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3 Big Ways I Cheat in My Real Food Kitchen (Without Compromising Taste or Health!)

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Want to hear the 3 biggest ways I cheat in my real food kitchen without compromising what actually matters? Come closer, my friends. Learn a little bit more about my crazy (or perhaps brilliant?) ways and methods.

First a story —>

Malachi (our 13-year old) had a friend over this summer who watched incredulously as I opened 7 pounds of frozen hamburger meat and put it into my Instant Pot.

Malachi’s friend: “What are you making with all that meat?!”
Me: “I’m not sure.”
Friend: “Uhhh???”

Just another day at the Coppinger house in which I affirm that Mama Copp is a little bit nuts.

While it doesn’t seem to make sense that I would cook a huge batch of hamburger meat without a firm plan, it actually makes perfect sense in my mind because when I have 7 pounds of cooked hamburger meat on hand, I can very quickly make up any of these 33 meals:

Hmmm, seems that Mama Copp isn’t quite so crazy after all. (Except that she is, but hey, at least she has lots of good food on hand.)

That is just one of the ways I get ahead in the kitchen in order to make our real food life so much simpler. If you ask me, when trying to keep up with a busy family without having stress over those 3 meals a day everyone must eat, keeping it simple is THE ONLY WAY.

3 Ways I Cheat in My Real Food Kitchen (Without Compromising Taste or Health!)

1. Cook meat ahead of time (so you can throw together meals quickly).

I obviously just shared this above, but the same goes with chicken and other favorite meats that are easily stirred into casseroles or soups. Cook meat in large batches, then freeze or refrigerate in meal-sized portions. Meal prep goes so much faster and simpler this way!

2. Serve easy fresh fruit and veggie sides.

I cannot emphasize this enough (though if you’ve been reading my blog for a long time, you know that I do say it over and over!). It is ridiculously easy to wash strawberries and serve them with your pizza. It takes no effort to steam green beans, peas, or broccoli to go with your casserole. Make your simple main dish, then slice a few peaches and set out a salad. IT IS SO EASY.

3. Buy mixed greens so you don’t have to make salads.

Please allow me to remind you of the magic of a container of mixed greens. This fabulous container takes all the work out of making salads. Plus it provides excellent nourishment and did I mention that THERE IS NO WORK INVOLVED? No washing, no prepping, no work. Just set it on the table and have at it. Add baby carrots and grape tomatoes if you want more in your salad than just greens.

And there you have it. My three favorite cheat methods for putting great meals on the table without going to extra trouble or compromising on nourishment!

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Why Eating Three Meals a Day is Hard (and What You Can Do to Make it Easier)

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Actually, it’s not very difficult to eat three meals a day. But cooking and serving and cleaning up after three meals a day? Every day? For an entire lifetime? For our family and family’s friends and our family’s friend’s friends? Well now, that is a lot of meals and a lot of food.

Food is a constant need and a never ending item on the to-do list. It’s kind of like the never ending laundry, only a bit more challenging because at least the hungry people can wear the same dirty socks. They cannot very well go without food.

I actually love to cook, and sometimes the three meals a day thing is still hard for me. So for all of you who don’t like to cook? I can’t even imagine how stressful it must feel to try to figure out dinner night after night when cooking is not fun for you.

So let’s talk about the challenge of feeding a family three meals a day. Then let’s talk about what to do to make it easier!

Why Eating Three Meals a Day is Hard

1. Because we make it harder than it has to be.

If you don’t like to cook and you spend a lot of time preparing difficult dishes and meals, you need to learn to pare down your work load and keep your meals simple. I love to cook, but I only love it when the food is simple to prepare and easy to clean up after. Complicated meals are for gourmet cooks, not for people who have to feed a family three meals a day, every day, forever and ever, amen.

How to make it easier: 

Choose recipes that are super easy, but still made with real food. I have been learning to make real food main dishes that take about 5 or 10 minutes of prep, and it has been amazing! Look through this huge list of over 60 Simple Recipe links. These recipes have saved my family dinner time and again! The simpler I keep our meals, the easier it is to keep my family fed well. (Pssst, we’ve got a FREE eBook offer below, which provides you with 40 super simple recipes. Keep reading!)

2. Because we’ve taken the joy out of food.

Seeerrrriously we have so many delicious foods available to us. Either we have forgotten to appreciate it or we haven’t tried anything new for a while. We’ve gotten stuck in a rut, eating the same boring foods over and over.

How to make it easier: Go to the store when you’re hungry and pick up a few awesome (real) foods that you haven’t eaten in a long time. A fresh peach, a pack of blueberries, a bag of shrimp…whatever real food you love that you can afford and haven’t eaten in a while. Make a simple meal or snack out of these delicious foods and be reminded of all the incredible food God provides for us!

3. Because we think we have to do it ourselves and we don’t ask our family for help.

I fight all kinds of bitterness and grouchiness when I’m running like a mad woman to keep up with all the responsibilities of the day and my family is lounging around playing games on their phones. For the love, this is terrible for us and terrible for our kids. Cooking (and all household responsibilities) should be a team effort.

How to make it easier: Establish a new normal in which everyone who is available and capable helps with meal prep and clean up. Hand out jobs, delegate, and teach your family to work as a team with you in the kitchen. Imagine never having to grate cheese or load a dishwasher again. Glory hallelujah.

4. Because our attitudes are bad.

We are a blessed people who have been blessed with many blessings! We’ve got to remember this truth and choose to appreciate the food that keeps us healthy.

A little perspective: I have a friend fighting for her life against cancer right now. I guarantee that she would much rather “struggle through the challenge” of figuring out how to feed her family three meals every day instead of enduring the suffering and pain and illness she is currently experiencing. Let’s keep perspective and know that our normal, daily grind is actually a beautiful thing and nothing to complain about!

How to make it easier: Pray for God to change your attitude and perspective on feeding yourself and your family. Praise Him for taking care of you and for providing. After all, He always does! Take that attitude with you into the kitchen. Is it really so hard to do normal tasks on a normal day to keep our families healthy? It really and truly is not so hard.

We CAN put three meals on the table every day and it DOESN’T have to be difficult or stressful. Let’s continue learning ways we can pare down our real food kitchen work load so we can enjoy our families and our food too!

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We’ve Never Done This Before!

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We’ve never done this before, or really anything close to it. But in an effort to help us all live healthier and KEEP IT SIMPLE so we can focus on loving God and loving our neighbor, drum roll please…

We included an entire years Simple Meals Subscription (worth $52) in this year’s Healthy Living Bundle. That means you can get your first year subscription for just $29.97! That’s almost half price. (Complete real food, simple menu plans every week for $0.58 each!!!!)

Ultimate Healthy Living Bundle 2018PLUS, your purchase instantly gives you 95 other Healthy Living resources that help you learn more about keeping yourself and your family healthy. And if that isn’t awesome enough, we decided to sweeten the pot even more by creating a brand new Simple Recipes eBook and giving it to you for…

FREE.

Yes. When you buy this year’s Healthy Living Bundle through our links,  not only will you be getting an entire year’s worth of Simple Meals complete planning packets for almost half price, you’ll get 95 other products (worth $2235), 6 bonuses…

Then you can email me and we’ll throw our brand new Simple Recipes for Simple Meals eBook into your inbox!

But I don’t want the Healthy Living Bundle!

Oh. Well, I think if you look at all that is included in this year’s brand new collection, you might change your mind about not wanting it. But hey, I get it. Sometimes the idea of having the entire bundle can feel overwhelming.

So say you don’t want the Bundle, but you DO want a One-Year Subscription to Simple Meals. And you want our new Simple Recipes eBook too. But of course. 

You can pay full price for both of those if you want to, but I suggest buying the bundle anyway so you can get Simple Meals for $29.97 instead of our regular $52. And you’ll get our free new eBook, regularly priced at $8.95.

(You’ll end up saving $31! Which is more than the cost of the entire bundle!)

Why is this worth it?

The best thing I can say is that we all want to feed our families well so we can be healthy, but there are more important ways to spend our time and energy than planning, shopping, and cooking for hours every week. It is much more important to love God and love people. We must turn our focus from work to love!

That is the inspiration behind Simple Meals. Every week our team creates and sends you super simple, real food menu plans, grocery lists, recipes, and more – so you can very easily put great meals on the table every night. You’ll be able to feed your family tremendous food while spending very little time in the kitchen. This will free you up for:

  • More family time
  • More time spent in ministry
  • More time to rest and find refreshment in God’s word

That’s more of everything that is most important. All while feeding your family well too.

Your kitchen life is about to make a big change for the better.

This Healthy Living Bundle offer is only good through Monday, September 10.

Take advantage right away! You’ll get immediate access to Simple Meals, and you’ll benefit from it for an entire year. Then email me ([email protected]) and I’ll email you a copy of our brand new Simple Recipes for Simple Meals eBook for FREE!

Then look through all the other (95!) products that are included in the bundle too. They are yours forever, so you can take your time in looking through them all.

Ultimate Healthy Living Bundle 2018

I can’t wait to connect with you through Simple Meals!

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How to Easily Steam or Roast Vegetables

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Every time I say something like, “Simply prep some veggies to go with your meal and you’re good to go!” I get email requests saying, “Yes, but how exactly do you prep your veggies?” So here I am, finally giving a little more instruction on how to easily steam or roast vegetables. How silly that it’s taken me ten years to write this post.

We’ll start with steaming then move on to roasting. And hang with me until we get to the bottom of this post so you can grab our pretty new Veggie Preparation Guide!

How to Easily Steam Vegetables

Confession: I used to go to a little more trouble when steaming vegetables, putting one of these great stainless steel steamers in the bottom of my pan before adding my veggies. But just like everything I do in my kitchen these days, I’ve pared down the work (and the dirty dishes created as a result of the work) to make food prep as simple as possible.

Now what do I do when steaming vegetables? I dump in the veggies, I add a shot of water, I add some fat (butter or bacon grease), and I cook them for a few minutes until they are tender. It truly is that easy!

How to steam veggies:

Place vegetables in a pot with about 1/2 inch of water. Cover and heat on high until the water begins to boil. Reduce heat and cook vegetables according to this approximate time chart or until veggies are tender:
Peas: 3 minutes
Broccoli Florets, Cauliflower Florets, Green Beans: 5-7 minutes
Chopped Carrots, Potatoes, Turnips, Squash: 8-20 minutes
This info will be included in our handy printable below, so you’ll always have easy access!

How to Easily Roast Vegetables

Cut vegetables so they are uniform in size. Toss with a mixture of refined coconut oil, sea salt, and pepper and spread evenly on a baking sheet. Roast veggies in a 425 degree oven according to this approximate time chart or until veggies are tender:

Beets, Potatoes, Carrots: 30-45 minutes (depending on how small or large you cut them)
Butternut Squash, Acorn Squash: 20-60 minutes (depending on how small or large you cut them)
Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts: 15-25 minutes
Asparagus, Green Beans: 10-20 minutes
Onions: 30-45 minutes (depending on your crispiness preference!)
This info will be included in our handy printable below, so you’ll always have easy access!

Download a FREE Printable Veggie Prep Guide!

How about an easy-to-reference guide to print and post in your kitchen? As you prepare your veggies every day, give it a quick glance to be reminded of cooking times for each veggie!

(See what I did there? A little passive-aggressive “prepare your veggies every day” to give you a hint that it’s important to prepare and eat veggies every day.) ;)

Don’t forget Raw and Stir Fried Veggies!

It’s the easiest thing in the world to throw out a container of mixed greens for salads each night. Or open a container of baby carrots, grab out some snap peas – raw veggies are your friend because of their nutritional content and ease for serving!

And stir-frying veggies adds fabulous flavor. Read my favorite way to stir-fry here. We make this often, with and without the noodles.

Go get your free Veggie Prep Printable!

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