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Made another soup. Not sure what to call it, but my daughter is eating it. Yay! It was inspired by the Sample Guy at Kroger. Honestly. I don't know what they were calling it. They made a "sauce" that had chicken, Rotel and refried beans and put it over rice. So I got those packages of rice that cooks up in 90 seconds (2 of them) 1 can of Rotel 1 can of Refried beans 2 cans of chicken (optional, can use left over chicken or beef or cook up fresh - you can leave it out too) Then I took the left overs, put them in a pot and added in broth. Add as much broth as you want. Ta-da! You can add any meat or leave it out. You can use old rice or make instant. Add in any other veggies you want. Eat as is or serve with crackers.  The kid liked it. 

On my old blog (that I occasionally update) I had a section on there filled with Mommy Recommendations. I created blog posts about things that we have loved using in the early months of motherhood and I shared it with my friends that were becoming new moms. Things that have either saved us or that we felt we could live without, that was the goal of that part of the blog. I thought I would bring that section over to this blog. But instead of copying and pasting all of those posts, I will just insert the link here  and you can check out things I've recommended in the past. Today, I bring you a new recommendation and the first one for this blog. I honestly don't care if people feel my daughter is too old for a pacifier (we are working on weaning her - with everything takes time and it is a process. Just a bit more work with her than some other kids.) We just bought a new pacifier (against our better judgement, but the others were getting old). Let me just say, I wish we had...

My daughter will be 3 in February (2017) and she is a very picky eater. She likes the strangest "foods". I say "foods" because she will stick her finger in ketchup..barbecue sauce..salad dressing - those types of things that aren't a food, but goes on foods or are used to dip. Yeah. She's that kind of kid. My brother is the same way, still to this day..maybe. We will see if she outgrows that or not. But with a picky eater, she will almost always eat certain foods consistently. She LOVES pasta. So macaroni and cheese or just noodles with butter. Pretty simple kid. If my grandma makes chicken and dumplings - she will scarf that down too. If you eat salad with tomatoes, she will eat all of your tomatoes and try to steal your dressing. Her latest thing is "soup". But to her, everything liquid is called "soup". If she's eating a fruit cup (peaches) the liquid is called soup. She will eat the peaches too - which is good, but she always ...

I got the idea for Foodie Mommies almost a year ago. It started out as a hashtag #FoodieMommies , between a friend and myself on Facebook. Every time I wanted to share one of those Facebook cooking/recipe videos I would tag her and add in that hashtag. Eventually, with having kids and many friends online the #FoodieMommies posts would get pushed down. I decided to create a Facebook group dedicated for these recipe posts. I also share other recipe links and some Mommy related Life Hacks and activities for the kids. Right now, though, this blog is going to be dedicated to just the Recipe portion of Foodie Mommies. I hope you enjoy!

*Edited to add (11/10/16): As I was heating up the leftovers (in the oven) I noticed that mine was getting a bit dry on the inside. You can avoid this by scoring (just take a knife and poke all the way to the bottom) all around the crust. Then pour chicken broth/stock or other broth/stock of your choice - roughly a 1/4 cup or so to start. Add more if you feel it might need it. Then I baked it in the oven until warmed through. It didn't make the crust soggy and the layers were nice and moist all the way through. I'm not a professional chef. And I am certainly not a professional blogger. I'm okay with that though. Why? Because, I am confident that I can cook creative meals that I know my hubby will eat. The kid is still a little bit picky, though. So how did I come up with this recipe?  - A month or so ago we decided to take that shortcut and buy a frozen lasagna. We went with the veggie lasagna, with a white sauce. It was pretty good. My creative mind thought, ...