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Did You Know Our New “Search By Ingredient” Tool Can Save You Money?

March 18, 2014 by Laura 1 Comment

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It’s been a few weeks since we installed our Heavenly Homemaker’s Recipe Search By Ingredient Box. Have you used it yet? Has it been helpful to you?

If you haven’t used it yet, you’ll find it over at the top of my right sidebar, just waiting to help you. It looks like this:

search by ingredients

Here’s how it works:  Let’s say you have a lot of eggs in your fridge you want to use up for dinner tonight. You know you have plenty of cheese to go with it. You could just scramble up eggs with cheese (always tasty!), but what other ideas are there? Simply head over to the top of my sidebar, type “eggs, cheese” into the recipe search box – and it will pull up recipes from our site that will hopefully fit your needs.

It’s not fool proof. (Type in “cabbage” and you’ll get my Pudding Pops recipe since I talked about my cabbage patch doll memories in that post!)  But our hope is that this tool will simplify your meal and snack planning, and help you come up with new, fun recipes for your family.

In addition, we feel that the Heavenly Homemaker’s Recipe Search By Ingredient Box will save you money! How? Well, we all have ingredients tucked away in our fridge that might go bad and be wasted if they aren’t used up. If you need fresh inspiration as to what to do with those ingredients, simply type them into the search box and see what comes up! No one wants to waste money by throwing away food!

The search box will also save you money by giving you meal ideas so that you don’t feel like you have to resort to going out to eat or picking up take-out. Seriously, sometimes we just want someone else to do the thinking for us so that we don’t have to figure out what food to prepare! Let the Heavenly Homemaker’s Recipe Search By Ingredient Box do your thinking for you, then have fun putting together one or more of our simple, healthy, and tasty recipes.

Go over to our sidebar and check it out!

P.S. If you type in “butter” you’ll likely get blasted with recipes. Go figure. ;)

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Menu Plan For the Week

February 23, 2014 by Laura 4 Comments

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Have you tried using our new Ingredient Search feature yet? It will be very helpful to use while you’re planning meals or snacks. Simply type in an ingredient or two you would like to use this week, and several relevant recipes should show up for you to pick from and work with. Find this search box at the very top right of my side bar. Have fun finding tasty recipes that will work with the ingredients you have on hand or that are on sale this week!

Easy Noodle Stir Fry

This Easy Noodle Stir Fry recipe is a super way to get lots of veggies into one meal.
We love this simple dish!

Here’s our menu for this week:

Sunday, February 23
Oatmeal breakfast bars, blueberries
Lasagna casserole, tossed salad, butterscotch bars (lunch with friends)
Chili cook-off church fellowship

Monday, February 24
Chocolate chocolate chip muffins, apple slices
Easy noodle stir fry with broccoli, carrots, and zucchini
Italian cream cheese chicken, tossed salad, green beans (friends coming over)

Tuesday, February 25
Easy breakfast casserole, oranges
Pizza boats, sweet peppers, olives, cucumbers, carrot sticks, peaches
Cheeseburger soup, tossed salad

Wednesday, February 26
Blueberry streusel muffins, applesauce
BLT wraps (new recipe I created for a new eBook I’m working on), grapes
Alfredo sauce with pasta, steamed broccoli and carrots, tossed salad

Thursday, February 27
Fried eggs on toast, creamy orange cooler
Tuna casserole, peas, raspberries
Chicken tacos, fruit salad

Friday, February 28
Quick mix biscuits, sausage gravy, blueberries
Black bean salsa, organic corn chips, fresh pineapple
Taco potatoes

Saturday, March 1
Scrambled egg sandwiches, raspberries
Hoagie sandwiches on the road, pears, carrots, cucumbers
Leftovers

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Trying To Figure Out What to Cook or Bake? Check Out Our New “Search By Ingredient” Feature!

February 21, 2014 by Laura 14 Comments

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I am doing a little dance (don’t picture it) with excitement over what I’m about to share with you! Our hope is that the new feature we just completed for our site will be super helpful for all of you.

Introducing, the Heavenly Homemaker’s Recipe Search By Ingredient Box. It looks like this:

search by ingredients

You will find this lovely search item over on the top, right hand side-bar of our site, just waiting to help you figure out what to make for dinner. Or breakfast. Or snack. Or dessert. Or potluck. Or party. Or brunch. Indeed, the search box will do your thinking for you and help you plan!

How does this work? You simply tell the search box what ingredients you have on hand to use – and it will pull up recipes from our site that will hopefully fit your needs. Easy as that.

For example, say you need something quick for dinner. You know off the top of your head that you have chicken, cheese, and peppers in your fridge, but you can’t think of what you should make with those ingredients. Simply type in “chicken, cheese, peppers”  and three great recipe options pop up for you to scroll through. Or what if you need to use up some apples – and you know you have oats and sucanat that you could use to make some sort of dessert or breakfast? Type in “apples, oats, sucanat” and instantly, several recipes will appear for you.

Now, smart as this box is, it’s not a miracle worker. So if you type in “fish, cocoa, tomatoes” – it might roll its eyes and say, “Are you kidding me?” But as I’ve been testing it, most of the time I’ve had very relevant recipes pull up.

The search box won’t work if I don’t have any recipes that include every ingredient you list. So, if no recipes come up for you, try narrowing your search to the basics. It may take some trial and error until we all get used to how this works. But how wonderful that we can take some pressure off by letting this search box do some of our thinking for us. And it’s always fun to find new recipe ideas, right?

Okay, head over to the top right of the Heavenly Homemakers Site and start searching for delicious food to make!

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