This Gluten Free Granola is the best homemade recipe around! Naturally sweetened with real maple syrup (or honey!), this easily customizable recipe is a winner every time! Granola happens to be one of my most favorite snacks on earth so I'm not sure why I've never shared my go to recipe with y'all!?? I love that it's such a healthy snack and that there is lots of fiber, … [Read more...]
No Bake Energy Bites Recipe
Please don't kill me but today I'm sharing one of our favorite snacky-time recipes...our No Bake Energy Bites Recipe. They are an oldie but a goodie here at our house and have been a fan favorite of my kids for it seems EVER! These little balls of energy are freakin' awesome and just like a certain potato chip, you cannot eat just one. I swear, I've tried and it's not … [Read more...]
Grain Free Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Muffin Recipe (Paleo, Gluten Free and Dairy Free)
I have the fondest memories of being in the kitchen with my mom while she baked, cooked dinner, and made her own flours and pasta. My siblings and I loved helping her make anything and everything in the kitchen. She created all sorts of delicious goodies without recipe cards and she let us get messy with her as she told us to add "about a cup of this" and a "palm-full of … [Read more...]
Pineapple Coconut Banana Power Smoothie Recipe
Looking for a great tasting, super filling, nutrient rich, and protein packed smoothie? Well, look no further, this Pineapple Coconut Banana Power Smoothie is all that plus so much more! This is one of our go-to smoothies on busy mornings and perfect for filling bellies during that after-school-before-dinner crunch when you need to run the littles out the door to their … [Read more...]
Hershey’s Kisses Stuffed Coconut Macaroons Recipe
This post brought to you by The Hershey Company. The content and opinions expressed below are that of Smashed Peas and Carrots. Every year my family sits down together and decides which recipes we are going to make over the holidays. The list starts off long and seems to grow every year because we are always finding new recipes we want to try or ones we want to create. … [Read more...]
Pina Colada Popsicle Recipe
Hooray, hooray! We are finally getting some beautifully hot and sunny summer days! It's finally been officially hot enough to go to the pool and Penny is cast-free as of last week so we are living it up, crazy-style! One of my favorite things to make (and my littles to eat) in the summer are popsicles. I'd rather make them myself so I know exactly what ingredients are in … [Read more...]
DIY Coconut Lime Sugar Scrub with FREE printable label
One of my most favorite things to do after a good run or hard workout is to take a hot shower. Well, depending on the time of year, it might actually be a cold shower (sometimes those are so refreshing!) And what I love the most is using a great smelling sugar scrub in the shower to exfoliate my skin. If you have never made your own sugar scrub I highly suggest you do so … [Read more...]
4 Ingredient Almond Butter Bites Recipe {Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Grain Free}
This post is part of my work with Madhava Natural Sweeteners for their Kids Sweet Kitchen campaign. Although this is a sponsored post, all opinions are my own, as always! Over the years I have learned that having four growing kids in our home means having four mouths to feed constantly. They always want to eat. Like All. The. Time. I feel like I am forever making, … [Read more...]
Easy Frosty Pina Coladas (non-alcoholic version)
It's summertime and it's hot. Like, real hot. Like, 100 degrees hot. Every. Single. Day. And not that nice dry heat I always here about, no, here in Chicago we have that lovely humid, can't-take-a-breathe-cause-the-air-is-so-thick type of heat. Ugh. It makes me tired just thinking about it. When it's freakin' hot outside you've got to increase your fluid … [Read more...]
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