Baked Spinach & Pepperjack Chicken -- Trim Healthy Mama Recipe #Sponsored #NutrishforCats #MC

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Last week, Elisha, 11, made this super awesome and deliciously healthy Baked Spinach & Pepperjack Chicken dish for our family. It was a big hit! If you're doing the Trim Healthy Mama plan, this is a great recipe for that. Just like we know the importance of feeding ourselves a healthy meal, our family also tries to make sure our pets are fed healthy meals too!

I was really excited to get this great sample package in the mail from Rachael Ray's new line of healthy cat food called, Nutrish. Real meat, like chicken or fish, is the main ingredient in these great blends. There's no artificial flavors or preservatives and you won't find the by-product garbage bits in these tasty (for cats!) recipes. Only simple, wholesome meals with a flavor your cat will naturally love. 

Make sure to enter the contest at the end of this post to win your own sample of Nutrish for cats. In the meantime, grab coupons here. Here's a list of stores stocking Nutrish.

I've featured our Flame Point Siamese cat, O'Neill, before. He's a good cat, and if he didn't shed so bad, I'd let him come in the house! Still, he's been an excellent outside guard cat. I've never seen a mouse and he's really great about fighting off possums and raccoons. See his weird upper lip? That's a raccoon battle scar! 

We've been feeding O'Neill the Salmon and Brown Rice dry blend all week and he totally loves it! Yesterday, he got to try some Sardine and Mackerel wet food and didn't stop 'til he'd eaten every good bite. We don't give him wet food very often, so it was a real treat for him. Check out his Instagram too see how much he loved this natural food for cats!

We like to eat healthy, wholesome foods also. That's why this spinach and cheese dish was such a dinnertime hit. With just three ingredients, Elisha put it together fast and I could feel confident feeding it to the family since I knew what went into it!

Baked Spinach & Pepperjack Chicken
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 pkg. frozen spinach
4 slices Pepper Jack cheese

Place chicken in a greased baking pan and top with spinach. Cover and bake at 350º for 30 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through. Remove from oven and lay cheese across the top. Bake another 10 minutes, until cheese is melted.

Looking for some great Trim Healthy Mama Recipes? Try these! 

THM Lunches & Dinners

Creamy Tomato Basil Chicken
Pork Egg Roll in a Bowl
Spaghetti Squash Casserole (No Pasta Spaghetti)
20 Squash Recipes
Baked Spinach and Pepperjack Chicken

THM Breakfasts

List of THM Breakfast Ideas
Chicken Ranch Omelette

THM Treats
Chocolate Peanut Butter Candy

THM Misc.
Homemade Ranch Dressing
Make Your Own Chicken Stock & Broth
Zesty Burger Spread

Date Night Pizza Party #FoodMadeSimple #shop #cbias

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Back to school time always brings a change of routine around our house. As homeschoolers, we school all year round, but we always start the new schooling year in August. This means earlier bed times for the kids and longer movie nights for Jamie and I. I had been working on writing projects for several nights in a row, so last night I put it all aside to watch Duck Dynasty and enjoy some DiGiorno pizza strips with my husband.

I put the younger kids down to bed early, as they were sleepy and not feeling well, and Lynzie held down the fort while I ran out and grabbed some dipping strips at Walmart. I'd seen these in the pizza aisle before, but hadn't tried them. DiGiorno is one of our favorite brands of pizza, though, so I knew we'd enjoy them.

I came home to find the kids watching their favorite show, I Love Lucy. That's usually what they pick for their movie nights, but one can only take so much Ricky Ricardo. Then again, one can only take so much Willie Robertson... Still, it's quality marriage time, right? 

The dipping strips box gives microwave directions, but since we cook everything in the oven, I stuck them in at 375º. I put the dipping strip package in a pot of water and let it warm on the stove.

Before we headed to the back of the house to have our movie night, Lynzie took a picture of us. I'm glad the kids can see how important it is for Dad and I to have our date nights---even if we don't actually go anywhere!

It was nice to take a break from writing for the night and have a little pizza party with my husband. Although I've been hinting for weeks that I want to watch Jane Austen's, Emma, I'm happy to say I survived Uncle Si and enjoyed our DiGiorno, too!

Check out this link for some great recipes from Nestlé.

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Commercial Break Snacks & Games with MARS Candy #Chocolate4TheWin #shop #cbias

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Football season is upon us so it's time to start planning some great snacks and entertainment for game night fun! I've got a few ideas to keep your get-together lively during commercial breaks and half time, along with a super simple dessert recipe featuring chocolate candy bars.

This past Friday, some of the kids and I were running errands while the older girls were at ballet. My boys had never been in Sam's Club before and I had time to stop, so I took them in with me to grab some party snacks and other groceries. It was definitely a Mommy of the Year experience, as they oohed and aahhed over all the awesome stuff. Michael thought it was pretty awesome that I took them straight to the candy aisle and grabbed this big ol' 48-count box of SNICKERS®.

I was even more awesome as we went around the corner and picked up a 105-count variety bag of candy bars. Just to dispel any ideas you may have about me keeping this bag in the cupboard and making it last over a few weeks or so...

Yeah. This is what the bag looks like at the end of the weekend in a house with nine children and a dad. Of course, I'm not to blame for any of this. Moving on...

Part of putting on a fun football night party is keeping the guests excited and energized. Here are some ideas for games that can be played in under five minutes, making them perfect for filling in commercial breaks or half-time.

The Right and Left Game. Make up a story using the words "right" and "left" as much as possible. (Ex: I left my house and headed to Larry Left's for the big game. Unfortunately, I left my phone right on the kitchen counter. I turned around and drove right back to grab it from the place I left it....") Give a candy bar to one person and begin reading the story. Every time you say, "left" or "right", the bar is passed that direction. When the game comes back on, the person with the candy bar keeps it.

Candy Bar Towers: You've only got the time it takes for the game to come back on to build the highest candy bar tower. Last one standing wins!

Football Flash Trivia: The hostess calls out a question and the first person to shout out the answer gets a candy bar thrown at them.

Here's the kids' idea of the perfect commercial break game: SNICKERS® box football:

Finally, if you don't happen to have nine children to split 105 candy bars between, hold a "guess the amount" game at the end of the party. The person who comes closest to guessing the number of candy bars in the bowl takes them home!

Here's a simple and sweet dessert recipe for your snack table: Sweet Apple Slices.

Just spread half an apple with your favorite nut spread (we used chocolate hazelnut and peanut butter) and top with chopped up candy bars. This is also good with cheese on top, believe it or not!

What party plans do you have for this year's football season?

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