Leanne’s Favorite Food Swaps

In life, it’s the little things that count. Not the great big momentous occasions, but the daily moments that all strung together, make up your own personal circle of life. We cannot measure the quality of our lives by the big events like birthday celebrations, weddings, baptisms, and graduations. It’s the day-to-day stuff that makes […]

The “I Don’t Like Cooking” Fix

The "I Don't Like Cooking" Fix | SavingDinner.com

Over the years, I’ve received a lot of emails from various people in all walks of life who plain and simple just do not like cooking. Cooking for them is on the same par as toilet cleaning–they’ve said as much. So they opt to go out to dinner or do take out–healthy and otherwise. So […]

Never Let Your Kids Do These 3 Things in the Kitchen

One of my favorite pastimes is cooking with my children. Do you have kids? If you do, I want to heavily recommend that you teach them the joys of the kitchen while they’re still young and look up at you like a superhero that has all the answers. Teaching your children how to cook is […]

Favorite Things Friday: Instant Pot

Favorite Things Friday: Instant Pot | SavingDinner.com

This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through my link, I will receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. I broke up with my crock pot (sad story) How can I express how much I love my Instant Pot? There are no words flowery enough, there are no sentiments mushy enough […]

Crock Cooker vs Instant Pot

Crock Cooker vs Instant Pot | SavingDinner.com

True confession: I’ve been caught cheating on my crockpot and now I have to come clean. Bear with me, will you? Oh Crockpot–how long have we been together? 30 years? Longer? Do you remember the early years when your crock stubbornly wouldn’t budge out of your heating element? Or those colors–avocado green and that strange […]

Don’t Be Intimidated!

Don't Be Intimidated | SavingDinner.com

There is a true intimidation factor in cooking for some people—I get the emails from them so I know this is true. For me, having grown up in a home with parents who cooked, rarely eating out, I learned how to navigate my way in a kitchen early on. It was (being honest here) a […]

How Clean is Your Fridge?

How Clean is Your Fridge? | SavingDinner.com

Why is it the last thing to get cleaned in a kitchen is the inside of the refrigerator? I know that’s true for a lot of people; it certainly was for me! The fridge was the last frontier for me in the kitchen. I could keep the kitchen clean, unload the dishwasher regularly, keep the […]

7 Tips for Reducing Food Waste

Reduce Food Waste | SavingDinner.com

Hands up if you ever questioned your parents when they told you not to waste your food because there are people starving in Africa. As a child this really doesn’t make a lick of sense. How can the food I don’t eat help a starving person? Are we actually going to ship our leftovers to […]