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These healthy recipes will make feeding your family a breeze. From easy dinner ideas to delicious dessert recipes! I’ve got every meal of the day covered.

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Lemon Chiffon Cake is like a zesty combination of pound cake and angel food cake... It's light, fluffy, and citrusy without any fussiness.

Lemon Chiffon Cake

Crispy and Crunchy Baked Chicken Tacos are a quickly thrown-together and satisfying meal, complete with baked chicken, taco seasoning, black beans, hard taco shells, and plenty of shredded cheddar cheese.

Crunchy Baked Chicken Tacos

Cinnamon Granola is a simple snack that's bursting with mildly sweet and crunchy goodness, thanks to the oats, honey, shredded coconut, dried cranberries, cinnamon, vanilla, and nuts.

Homemade Cinnamon Granola Recipe

Easy Roasted Cauliflower only requires three basic ingredients and comes together to make a crunchy, decadent side to any meal.

Easy Roasted Cauliflower

This classic Basic Waffles recipe yields a rich batch of waffles that have a perfect crunch on the outside with a soft and moist interior. (Heart waffle iron encouraged but not required!)

Basic Waffles

This comforting Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup will brighten any gloomy day and combat any head cold with its hearty combination of shredded chicken (or turkey), egg noodles, carrots, peas, corn, and lots of flavor-packing spices.

Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup

Vibrant and hearty, Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Pork Chops come together super fast with minimal ingredients--pork chops, salt and pepper, garlic, honey, soy sauce, and ketchup--and a few hours of cook time in the slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Pork Chops

No-bake Scotcheroos combine the delightful flavors of butterscotch, chocolate, and peanut butter with the perfect amount of crunch from crispy rice cereal.

No-bake Scotcheroos

Bop's Favorite Meatloaf Recipe is a super savory and easy comfort food that's generously flavored with onion, green bell pepper, spices, and of course, ketchup.

Bop’s Favorite Meatloaf Recipe

Creamy Cilantro Lime Dressing (great on tacos)

Quick and easy Mexican Black Beans for Tacos and for a side to all your favorite Tex-Mex dishes, made with canned black beans and lots of vibrant seasonings.

Easy Mexican Black Beans for Tacos

Flavorful Cilantro Lime Rice made in the Instant Pot with loads of bright lime and cilantro flavor and done in less than 30 minutes.

Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice

How to cook Pork Tenderloin for Tacos in the Crock-Pot so that it makes moist, super flavorful meat, with only 5 minutes of hands-on time and 4 hours of cooking.

Pork Tenderloin for Tacos in the Crock Pot

What makes these Perfect Classic Rice Crispy Treats so perfect? A whole lot of love, and a whole lot of butter.

Perfect Classic Rice Crispy Treats

These bite-sized Easy Mexican Wedding Cookies are festive pops of a sweet and nutty dessert that isn't over-the-top rich.

Easy Mexican Wedding Cookies

With all the traditional toppings of lettuce, tomato, cheese, and pickles — you might decide these Veggie and Lentil Burgers are just as tasty and flavorful as a regular meaty hamburger!

Veggie and Lentil Burgers

Extra Crunchy Baked Chicken Strips are a delicious spin on fried chicken strips, without the splatter on your stovetop (score!). The Fire Roasted Vegetable flavor of Milton's crackers brings the crunch and full flavor to this seriously delectable dish.

Extra Crunchy Baked Chicken Strips (gluten free)

Pizza just got a snackable upgrade with these buttery and filling individual Pepperoni Pizza Sticks.

Pepperoni Pizza Sticks

Not only are Pink Lemonade Cupcakes absolutely adorable--they're also the fluffiest tart and refreshing bite of lemony cake and frosting, perfect for any summer celebration.

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

Quick and easy Homemade Ground Beef Stroganoff is an easy dinner that the whole family will love, made with ground beef, mushrooms, and sour cream, and done in less than 30 minutes.

Homemade Ground Beef Stroganoff

Banana Waffles have the dreamiest crunch to softness ratio and deliver the best flavor of subtle-yet-sweet banana fruitiness in this hearty breakfast dish that the whole family will salivate over and love.

Banana Waffles

All the heartiness of a baked potato comes together in this rich and fast-as-can-be Instant Pot Loaded Baked Potato Soup, topped with shredded cheddar, crispy bacon bits, green onion, and sour cream.

Instant Pot Loaded Baked Potato Soup

Greek Yogurt Sugar Cookies are the softest, fluffiest sugar cookies of all time, and they keep their shape super well. The not-so-secret secret ingredient? Greek yogurt, of course!

Soft and Puffy Greek Yogurt Sugar Cookies

A simple and fresh appetizer, Summer Tomato Bruschetta brings lively flavors of tomato and basil to crunchy, well-buttered slices of toasted baguette.

Summer Tomato Bruschetta

It doesn't get better than these tried and true flavors of starchy potato, chopped egg, and green onion tossed in a dill, celery, mayo, and mustard sauce in my Classic Potato Salad Recipe.

Classic Potato Salad Recipe

Bring the fiesta to your taste buds with this classic rendition of everyone's favorite Bean Dip. Refried beans, sour cream, cheese, tomatoes, black olives, and green onion meld with taco seasoning and salsa for a festive kick that's sure to impress.

Classic Layered Bean Dip

Summer is right around the corner, and this Spinach Bacon Pasta Salad is the freshest side dish for all the picnics, barbecues, and pool parties your heart desires.

Spinach Bacon Pasta Salad

Caramelized onions are sweet, creamy, and luxurious to the palate. The low and slow cooking method cuts any of that tangy, sharp flavor that raw onions are so well known for, making these the perfect addition to just about any entree!

How to make Caramelized Onions

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Bless This Mess - About Me

I’m Melissa, and I want to help you feed your family wholesome food.

As a hobby farmer and mom of five, I’m all about keeping it simple in the kitchen. I want healthy meals that feed my family well, and then I want to get back to my (messy) life. Let’s work together to find something yummy for your dinner table.

Dinner Ideas for Busy Moms