Minimalist Lifestyle

So there’s general travel tips, road trip tips (because, when the price of gas is low, road trips are budget-friendly), and then tips for saving at attractions. With A Free Continental Breakfast Booking a hotel with a continental breakfast is one of the best ways to save money on food when you’re on vacation. How To Save Money On Snacks For Road Trips I love snacking when I’m on a road trip. How To Save Money At Disneyland Disney isn’t known to being the most frugal destination, but it’s definitely somewhere most tourists trek to at least once.

I didn’t try making homemade potato chips again until these Air Fryer Potato Chips. If your Air Fryer Potato Chips are soggy instead of crisp after 12 minutes, they’re not done air frying. Shake the basket and put the chips back for another two minutes, checking and shaking every two minutes until the potato chips are crisp. We have an air fryer with a basket, so that’s what we use to make all of our air fryer recipes.

Sure, these photos aren’t perfect and there is pollen EVERYWHERE, like seriously, if you close it’s in my hair, stuck to the pants, the whole nine yards. I like to be inspired when I create, like I said in my last post, instead of just going through the motions of “ This one in particular is soft, still stylish and has perfectly oversized pants, just like I like ’em. n’t personally vouch for, but that look comfy and stylish and won’t break the bank.

It’s pesto, but really it’s a delicious creamy, nutty, cheesy blend of incredibleness. If you’re looking for a way to use the aforementioned Kale and Walnut Pesto, this Kale Pesto Ravioli is the perfect way. This Kale Pasta recipe is so easy, and a great way to use the bunch of kale and package of mushrooms sitting in your fridge. Top the bread with homemade kale pesto, then with tomatoes, and a little parmesan to create the perfect Kale Pesto Bruschetta.

What’s great about these ones is most of them are upcycled crafts, which is a great way to turn your trash into treasure. If you don’t have yogurt jars, you can modify this craft and use mason jars, jelly jars, any sort of glass jar will work. Besides an old egg carton, all you need is paint, a marker, glue, and card stock … all things you probably have at home. As long as you don’t paint the inside, it’s still food safe so you can hide unwrapped candy instead.

When we have company, I like to act like we run a bed and breakfast and make fun brunch recipes, like this Mini Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole recipe. This recipe is the way that we make hash brown breakfast casserole, but you can change up some of the ingredients to make other varieties of this breakfast. If you’re making this Mini Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole recipe as is, storing leftovers is so easy. If you made this recipe as a full sized breakfast casserole, you can put the glass top on the casserole pan and store it in the fridge for two to three days.

I kept the party decor minimal with a simple silver colored theme and made the centerpiece a wall of printed out photos of our family over the past year. The hardest part of this collage wall is a tie between two tedious tasks: going through all of my photos over the past year and making an album of 250+ pictures to be printed out and putting scotch tape on every single one the day of the party. While the tech avenue of sharing photos has it’s own advantages, something about printed out photos really feel like a luxury, especially during such a special milestone. I purchased a happy birthday sign, some silver balloons, a silver back drop for behind Phoenix’s Lalo high chair (for when he smashes his cake!), and PHOENIX silver balloons.

The cheese adds a lot of flavor to the Broccoli Cheddar Soup, so you want to make sure you choose a flavorful cheddar. If you use frozen broccoli, you don’t need to let it defrost before adding it to your Broccoli Cheddar Soup. If you need to make this a gluten free Broccoli Cheddar Soup, you could substitute corn starch for the flour since corn starch doesn’t have gluten. Our version of Broccoli Cheddar Soup isn’t vegetarian because we use chicken broth to build the soup.

It’s also a better way to enjoy pizza since there are way less carbs in a wonton wrapper than there is in a pizza crust. The pizza cups in the recipe post are filled with sauce, cheese, and mini pepperoni, but you can use anything you want to top these pizza cups. Nasoya sells a vegan egg roll wrapper, but I haven’t seen the brand sell any vegan wonton wrappers, though. If you do want to use a wonton wrapper to make potstickers, gyoza, or dumplings, you’ll need to cut it into a circle before using it in the dumpling mold.

I couldn’t find ANYTHING I wanted to buy for our upcoming Key West trip and was feeling so discouraged. But I also stepped out of my usual comfort zone and ordered this floral Free People maxi & shorter black denim dress from ASOS. I know my favorite amazon purchase from last year will be in heavy rotation this spring as well, but it really feels good to add some new pieces to my closet. So, in the spirit of trying to sell you stuff (lol jk, but we all need a little help sometimes) here are some dresses that I am loving, some that have already bought, and some that I hope some of you will buy this season!