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Easy Strawberry Recipes! Tasty Ways To Use Strawberries!

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Here are some easy strawberry recipes that are perfect for when you find a good sale or are just overwhelmed with strawberries! There are lots of tasty ways to use strawberries including strawberry jam, strawberry sauce, strawberry desserts, popsicles and more!

Here are some easy strawberry recipes and tasty ways to use strawberries including strawberry jam, sauce, desserts, popsicles and more!

How To Use Strawberries

Ah June! –In the spring we think of a mouth-watering strawberry patch. Now it has turned into a forest with enough strawberries to feed most of the U.S. Undaunted by the mounds of berries in our kitchen, we have visions of row after row of beautiful jars of strawberry jam on our shelves.

Then it happens! The first pot boils over leaving a red mess all over the stove, up on the walls and on the counters and floor. Hours later after the kitchen looks like World War III was fought in it we stand in our kitchen and proudly display our 2 pints of strawberry jam.

Don’t despair. Canning isn’t the only way to use excess strawberries. In addition to the strawberry recipes below, here are some other suggestions to help you use strawberries:

Yummy strawberry shake recipe!
  • Think small. Don’t plant too many plants in your garden. Plant just enough for what you need.
  • File all your recipes for fruits and veggies in order by the name of the fruit. Then when you need to find recipes for all the extra produce you can easily find several recipes.
  • To freeze berries: Throw extras into a bag and freeze. Don’t waste time freezing them on a tray, they do just as well thrown in a bag. These are great to use later for virtually any strawberry recipes!
  • Use extra strawberries in milkshakes, homemade smoothies, homemade popsicles, and fruit gelatin.
  • Use strawberries to top cereal or oatmeal; add milk for a strawberries and cream flavor.

Easy Strawberry Recipes!

If you need strawberry recipes for something a little more complicated than a bowl of strawberries with a sprinkle of sugar, the following strawberry recipes should give you a great variety of tasty options you can use all year!

This easy strawberry jam recipe is one of those strawberry recipes that's a great way to preserve extra strawberries or take advantage of a big sale on strawberries! This strawberry jam is super tasty!
This strawberry fruit leather recipe is an easy and cheaper way to make a strawberry snack like homemade fruit roll-ups. This strawberry recipe is a great way to use extra strawberries!

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Kiwi Lime Strawberry Dessert

This is one of those easy strawberry recipes that makes a very versatile dessert. It is great for this time of year when we want lighter and easy desserts. The green and red color, along with the ease of preparing it make it great for Christmas too so you might want to file it with your Christmas dessert recipes, too.

This recipe calls for frozen strawberries but if you want to use fresh strawberries just chop the fresh strawberries and sprinkle with a little sugar. Let them set overnight for a few hours and they will produce the juice that you need in the recipe.

The strawberry juice can be used to make strawberry sauce anytime for strawberry recipes like strawberry shortcake. Making it this way is much cheaper than buying the sauce in the packets and it tastes so much better. You can make any kind of berry sauce you want using the strawberry sauce recipe below. It requires no baking and it’s quick. Does it get any better than that?

Strawberry Recipes For Cool Summer Treats!

If you’re looking for great strawberry recipes for summer treats, this easy strawberries and cream popsicles recipe makes a wonderful treat that the kids are sure to love! They’re much tastier and a lot cheaper than the store bought fruit popsicles. And if you have extra strawberries from your garden or find them on sale, this is a great recipe to use them!

If you're looking for great strawberry recipes for summer treats, this easy strawberries and cream popsicles recipe makes a wonderful treat that the kids are sure to love!

This strawberry banana popsicles recipe is one of our favorite easy strawberry recipes for a cool summer treat! It makes a tasty snack and works out to be much less expensive than buying fruit popsicles at the store!

This strawberry banana popsicles recipe is one of our favorite strawberry recipes for a cool summer treat! It makes a tasty snack and works out to be much less expensive than buying fruit popsicles at the store!

This homemade fruit popsicles recipe is another of our easy strawberry recipes that’s great for summer! It’s very versatile and you can use your favorite fruit! Virtually any fruit will work, so don’t be afraid to experiment!

This homemade fruit popsicles recipe is another one of the strawberry recipes that's great for summer! It's very versatile and you can use your favorite fruit! Virtually any fruit will work, so don't be afraid to experiment!

This strawberry mousse is an easy strawberry recipe that makes a quick and easy strawberry dessert your kids are sure to love!

This easy strawberry mousse recipe makes a super yummy and creamy strawberry flavored mousse! Light and fluffy, it's perfect served as-is, but if you like you can top with more whipped cream or swirl it together with the chocolate mousse recipe below! Get this and more Valentine's Day candy recipes here!

This Berries on a Cloud Dessert Recipe makes a delicious light and fluffy dessert resembling meringue. It’s soft and sweet with a yummy strawberry flavor!

This Berries on a Cloud Dessert Recipe makes a delicious light and fluffy dessert resembling meringue. It’s soft and sweet with a yummy strawberry flavor!

This strawberry dessert recipe is probably one of my favorite desserts, partly because it is not too rich. It is a very light dessert. It is an especially good one to keep made up in the freezer for when unexpected company comes by.

I like to use it not only for graduation parties, but also for baby showers or any other get-together because I can make it a week ahead of time and that means one less thing to have to deal with the day of the special event!

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Cheap, Quick And Easy Snacks For Kids – Snacks On The Go

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Here’s a quick list of some cheap, quick and easy snacks for kids! It’s easy to choose something quick and healthy from this list that fits your kids’ needs!

Here's a quick list of some cheap, quick and easy snacks for kids! It's easy to choose something quick and healthy from this list that fits your kids' needs!

Cheap, Quick And Easy Snacks For Kids

Donna writes:

I am faced with getting two boys to soccer and baseball practices in the evenings. I am hoping to pack drinks and a hearty snack to get them through practice. I leave work at five and practice is often at 5:30. What can I feed the kids that fits the following criteria?

  • Can be eaten in the car on the way to practice
  • Can be made in the morning and either kept in the car or at my desk
  • Will be hearty enough to get them through practice and home again for dinner

Jill: You can adapt most snack foods to take in the car. You can even bring things that need to be refrigerated. Just use a small cooler or lunch box. Even a brown paper sack keeps things nicely insulated. You can buy small ice packs to pack with the food. (You should be able to find them by the coolers and thermoses at your store.) Another good idea is to freeze water, lemonade or some other drink in a plastic bottle. When you pack it in with food, it works as an ice pack and as something cold to drink for the kids. If it is going to be an extra long day, I sometimes use both the ice pack and the frozen drink.

If you can, pack the boys their own individual snack boxes using either small shoe boxes or lunch boxes. They can then hold these on their laps to catch the crumbs and when they’re done, the boxes are a great way to “pack out the trash” so you will not have quite as big a mess in the car!

Keep things as easy as possible. For example: if you are taking oranges, have them peeled and broken into segments for them. This will make it easier for them and reduce the mess in the car.

Keep a running list of the snacks you take each day for a couple of weeks. At the end of that time you will have a list of about 20 to 30 snack items to refer to when you can’t think of what to take.

Without knowing your food preferences, it is hard to tell you specifically what to take but here are some general ideas. Some may be a little messy in the car depending on the age of the children and some may need to be kept cooled (use my ideas above for keeping these cool). To expand the variety, give them different variations of my suggestions. For example, with fruit, give them an apple one day, an orange the next and so on.

Try starting with these cheap, quick and easy snacks for kids:

  • Sandwiches (to prevent them from becoming soggy take packets of ketchup,mustard etc. to be put on right before they eat them) peanut butter, cheese, turkey, roast beef, ham, chicken
  • Crackers with cheese
  • Popcorn or Popcorn balls
  • Sandwich bags filled with cereal
  • Granola
  • Banana bread
  • Dried fruit
  • Nuts
  • Muffins
  • Fruit
  • Veggies
  • Pudding
  • Yogurt with fruit
  • Hard boiled eggs
  • Burritos
  • Cheese
  • Chips

If your kids don’t mind leftovers, bring that leftover piece of chicken or small container of leftover fruit salad for them too.

-Jill

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Easy Taco Pie Recipe, Uses For Leftover Taco Meat And More!

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This taco pie recipe is a quick and easy recipe you can make with canned crescent rolls for a Mexican themed meal everyone loves! It is a great way to use leftover taco meat! You’ll also find a tasty Sour Cream Lemon Pie for dessert!

This taco pie recipe is a quick and easy recipe you can make with canned crescent rolls for a Mexican themed meal everyone loves! It is a great way to use leftover taco meat!

This easy taco pie recipe can be even faster to make if you do a little prep work ahead of time. Keep leftover cooked ground meat in your freezer, so it’s handy when you need it.

The day before you plan to make this taco pie recipe or that morning, cut up your lettuce and tomatoes and grate your cheese (or even easier– buy grated cheese).

Then, when it is time for dinner, all you have to do it toss all of the ingredients into the pie pan. The baking time is so short that by the time you change your clothes, set the table and check the mail, it will be ready to eat.

Tips:

  • From Jennifer: When I have leftover Taco meat, I put it in a container in the freezer. Over about a months time, I will have accrued enough frozen Taco meat to make a big pot of 30 minute Chili….Yum!! My husband loves this chili and doesn’t even realize he is eating leftovers…
  • From DD: I bought some Sloppy Joes (cans) on sale. No one in my family cares much for Sloppy Joes, so I added it to spaghetti sauce. Surprisingly, it was quite good and there were no complaints. 🙂
  • Pour your leftover chili over a bar of softened cream cheese for a quick and easy dip. Serve with chips or crackers. Use this quick snack idea when you’re watching a game on TV or use it as an after school or evening snack.

Meal Plan For This Taco Pie Recipe:

Easy Taco Pie
Tortilla Chips or Corn Chips
Sweetened Ice Tea
Sour Cream Lemon Pie

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Pear Fruit Compote Recipe

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delicious pear fruit compote recipe

This time of year it is still cold enough to enjoy what I call a nice “winter” fruit recipe.

Tasty Pear Fruit Compote Recipe

1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 tsp. cornstarch
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup concentrated orange juice
2 Tbsp. margarine
1 can (20 oz.) pineapple chunks, drained
1 can (15 1/4 oz.) pear halves, drained
1 can (15 oz.) Mandarin oranges, drained

Topping:

1 (3 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 Tbsp. concentrated orange juice

In a large sauce pan, combine the first 5 ingredients in order. Bring to a boil and cook for 2 minutes until thickened. Add fruit, turn down heat and just heat through. In a small bowl, beat topping ingredients until smooth. Serve fruit with a dollop of topping.

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Homemade Beef Hash Recipe

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beef hash recipe

Beef Hash Recipe

1/2 lb. ground beef
1 large onion, chopped
1 large green pepper, chopped
1 (16 oz.) can tomatoes, cut
1/2 cup regular rice, uncooked
2 tsp. chili powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper

In large skillet, brown beef, onion, and green pepper. Drain fat. Add tomatoes, rice, chili powder, salt and pepper. Heat through. Pour into 2 quart casserole. Cover and bake 1 hour at 350°.

This Beef Hash Recipe is from our Dining On A Dime Cookbook. For more quick and easy recipes your family will love, check out Dining On A Dime here!

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