Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. Making a purchase through these links gives me a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. When we are deep in winter, there are some meals I just instinctively turn toward. Beef stew is one of those meals, and whether you use an instant pot or a crockpot, it's a delicious meal you can cook up without much effort on your part. I've been making this for years in my crockpot, so I knew that it would probably work … [Read more...]

Last winter, my husband found these fun mini marshmallows in the beverage section at Target, near all of the hot cocoa packets. (They're like these, but you can probably find them cheaper in store.) Since we generally make our own hot chocolate, these were a fun addition. But we had some left over, and I wanted to switch up our normal energy bites with something new. Enter the S'mores Energy Bites. To really make it taste like a s'more, I crushed up a few graham crackers, added some … [Read more...]