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Appetizers

Easy Homemade Salsa

simple deviled eggs on a brown platter with eggs in the background

Simple & Easy Classic Deviled Eggs Recipe for Thanksgiving

Easy Cheese Ball Recipe - Tastes delicious and is super easy to make too! | Moms Confession

Simple & Delicious Cheese Ball

homemade baked tortilla chips with salsa

Homemade Baked Tortilla Chips Recipe Under 20 Minutes

Put a little spice in your life with these easy stuffed jalapenos. Enjoy these at your Super Bowl party in a few weeks or just hanging out with friends.

Easy Stuffed Jalapenos with Sausage and Cream Cheese

Wolf Brand Chili Thicker & Heartier Recipes

kraft dressing

Delicious Avacado Ranch Dip

My mom has a way of making any Tex-Mex dish appealing and scrumptious, but this homemade guacamole recipe is perfect! I'd say it's the best damn guacamole.

Homemade Guacamole Recipe

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Breakfast Ideas

These winter breakfast ideas are perfect for the family to enjoy on a cool winter day. Check out this amazing list of winter meal ideas today!

Winter Breakfast Ideas

Pecan Pie Muffins

Pecan Pie Muffins

Pumpkin Pancakes are a great way to wake up to a crisp and cool fall morning. These pumpkin spice pancakes are filling and flavorful with all the amazing spices of fall.

Pumpkin Pancakes

Delicious Fall Muffin Recipes for the season!! YUM!

Fall Muffin Recipes

Back to School Breakfast Ideas - simple breakfast meal ideas to help you get back into your back to school routine!

Back to School Breakfast Ideas

My family has a love love relationship with pepperoni! It’s good on everything including these Southwest Pepperoni Breakfast Tacos! Go ahead and grab a bite

Southwest Pepperoni Breakfast Tacos

Banana nut bread recipes are a dime a dozen on the internet, but the sweet smell of this bread recipe baking makes my heart go pitter patter. It's so good!

DELICIOUS & EASY BANANA NUT BREAD RECIPE

These 5 minute breakfast tacos are easy to make and so tasty. They are perfect for kids and busy moms to enjoy a quick back to school breakfast.

Back to School Tips for Busy Moms + 5 Minute Breakfast Tacos

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Dessert Recipes

baked sopapillas

Baked Sopapilla Recipe – Simple Snack for Diabetics

Enjoy this tasty twist on the traditional chocolate sheet cake as a vanilla white Texas sheet cake. Who knew you could make something so yummy, more delicious!

White Vanilla Texas Sheet Cake – a Texas twist you have to try!

4th of July Moscato Cupcakes #MeEncanta

Gallo Family Vineyards Moscato Cupcakes

Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

banana pudding in a bowl on a cutting board

Easy Banana Pudding Recipe

You can't go wrong with chocolate, peanut butter and oatmeal all in one deliciously good cookie!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Pumpkin White Chocolate Cookies

Pumpkin White Chocolate Cookies

Texas Rio Star Grapefruit

Rio Star Grapefruit is a Texas Treat

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Drinks & Smoothies

Winter Drink ideas like Hot Cocoa, Cider, and more are amazing for cold winter evenings! Check out our ideas and recipes here!

Top Winter Drinks Ideas

This is the easiest and best tasting apple cider recipe you will ever make! Must try!

How to Make Your Own Apple Cider

Stop cold and cough season with this hot toddy shot recipe | Moms Confession

Hot Toddy Shot

Making this good moscato cocktail at home tastes so much better on a cool summer day. Plus it's great for the upcoming your 4th of July parties.

The Best Strawberry Moscato Cocktail EVER!

Looking for the perfect summer drink for a hot day? Learn how to make sun tea with strawberries and lemon. It's tastes amazing and is so easy to make.

Sweet Strawberry Lemon Green Sun Tea Recipe

Fall Drink Ideas are great for using at your first fun fall bonfire party! Grab this list of ideas and create delicious drinks everyone will love!

Fall Drink Ideas

moscoto party mixer

Moscato Party Mixer Recipe

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Lunch Ideas

Fun Fall Lunchbox Ideas - Fall is FINALLY here, and that means we get to pack fun lunches for our kids. If you’re curious about what type of lunchbox ideas you can pack for your children this fall, consider these tips.

Fun Fall Lunchbox Ideas

These creative winter lunch ideas are perfect to enjoy all season long. Try one or try them all...you won't be sorry!

Creative Winter Lunch Ideas

beef and bean burrito

Mexican Beef and Bean Burritos – A Classic Recipe Idea for Burrito Lovers

Easy spring lunch ideas are a great way to lighten up your meals as the seasons change. With these simple spring meal ideas, you can do just that!

Spring Lunch Ideas

This homemade peanut butter recipe will definitely impress your friends and family if they are not used to you making food from scratch.

The Best Homemade Peanut Butter You Will Ever Make

Baked Tortilla Pepperoni Pizza

Crispy Tortilla Pizza with Pepperoni

veggie fingers

Birds Eye Veggies = Great Snack & Lunches

Teaching kids independence starts with something like having them to make their own lunch. These lunch ideas for kids to make themselves are simple for all.

Lunch Ideas for Kids to Make

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Main Dishes & Dinner Ideas

Make dinnertime a little easier this school year by planning some of these easy and delicious back to school dinner ideas into your weekly menu.

Back to School Dinner Ideas

This Homemade Chicken Alfredo is better than any copycat Olive Garden recipe you will find on the internet. Give this recipe a try...you won't regret it.

Homemade Chicken Alfredo

These easy healthy weeknight dinner recipes in 30 minutes or less are the perfect solution for dinner time. Check out the ultimate list of weeknight dinners.

The Ultimate List of Weeknight Dinner Ideas Ready in 30 Minutes or Less

Mealtime rolls around every day, even if you aren't prepared. With these family mealtime solutions for busy moms, the fear of what's for dinner is gone!

Mealtime Solutions for Busy Moms

This Easy Chicken Parmesan Recipe is amazing and so simple to make at home. Y'all have to try it!

Easy Chicken Parmesan

Mini Taco Salad

Mini Taco Salads

Spring showers bring May flowers, but Spring dinner ideas bring families together. Try these great easy meal ideas with your friends and family.

Spring Dinner Ideas

These summer dinner ideas are perfect for enjoying a summer meal outside. Enjoy all of these delicious meal ideas with your family this summer.

Summer Dinner Ideas

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Salads

The long hot days of summer are upon us and light dishes are on the menu. A refreshing cucumber salad is the best summer salad side dish for a light meal.

Refreshing Cucumber Salad

Easy Pasta Salad Recipe

Easy Pasta Salad Recipe with Italian Dressing

This simple spring salad recipe is sweet and tangy. You don't want to keep this recipe to yourself, your friends and family will love it too! Check it out!

Simple Spring Vegetable Salad Recipe

New York Style Coleslaw Recipe

cucumber ranch summer salad

Summer Salad: Zesty Cucumber Ranch

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Sauces & Spreads

Do you love sweet and spicy food? This sweet and spicy bbq sauce recipe is the perfect pairing for your next backyard barbecue dinner party.

Sweet & Spicy BBQ Sauce Recipe

This Cranberry Barbecue Sauce topped on a Smithfield All Natural Fresh Pulled Pork sandwich is one of our favorite recipes. Try it yourself!

Smithfield Pulled Pork with Cranberry Barbecue Sauce

A good cocktail sauce can really make a seafood dinner go from okay to amazing! This homemade cocktail sauce recipe will take your dish up a notch!

Simple and Easy Homemade Cocktail Sauce Recipe

This homemade peanut butter recipe will definitely impress your friends and family if they are not used to you making food from scratch.

The Best Homemade Peanut Butter You Will Ever Make

Texas is…TexFest and Bourbon Jalapeno Bacon Jam!

Homemade Tartar Sauce

Homemade Tartar Sauce

This homemade butter recipe is super easy to make and like a mini science lesson for the kids all wrapped into getting them in the kitchen to cook! WIN!

10 Minute Homemade Butter Recipe

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Side Dishes

Italian Corn Flake Chicken

Easy Italian Corn Flake Chicken Dinner Recipe & Veggies

Easy Pasta Salad Recipe

Easy Pasta Salad Recipe with Italian Dressing

barbecue baked beans in a bowl

The Best BBQ Baked Beans Recipe

Jazz up your brown bag routine with these Mason Jar Salad Tips and Recipe ideas. With these mason jar salad ideas you can enjoy lunch and eat healthy too!

Mason Jar Salad Ideas and Recipe Ideas for Lunches on the Go

Best Green Beans Ever

Best Green Beans Ever!

Having the perfect steak, chicken, brisket, or ribs on the grill or smoker are great, there is always room to spice up meals with a delicious side, like an easy pasta salad.

Easy Chipotle Ranch Pasta Salad

Enjoy this easy pepper jack macaroni and cheese recipe

Pepper Jack Macaroni and Cheese

veggie fingers

Birds Eye Veggies = Great Snack & Lunches

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Snack Ideas

Need some inspiration for road trip snack ideas for your next road trip. Look not further than this great list of ideas!

Road Trip Snack Ideas

These delicious summer snack ideas make it easy to fill up between meals so that you can have summer fun all day long. Not only are these snacks delicious, but they also include healthy fruits and vegetables, so you don’t need to feel guilty about snacking.

Summer Snack Ideas

Great resource for fall snack ideas to enjoy this season!

Fall Snack Ideas

These halloween grills are so fun to make with the kids as an afternoon snack or for your halloween party!

Healthy Halloween Grills

These simple back to school snack ideas will help make sure the kids are refueling their minds after a long day with simple staples for them to grab & go.

Back to School Snack Ideas

Is there anything better than Christmas movies and the butterbeer popcorn? No, then you need this butterbeer popcorn recipe in your life today!

Have You Ever Tried Butterbeer Popcorn? If Not, Now Would Be A Perfect Time

Need something to munch on that’s gluten free? Snacking has got to be one of the best parts of the day! Check out some of these gluten-free snack ideas that you won’t want to pass up!

Gluten-Free Snack Ideas

These winter snack ideas are the perfect treat for the season. Hot cocoa, apple cider, and delicious gingerbread cookies are only a taste what's to see!

Delicious Winter Snack Ideas

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Soups & Stews

Pizza Soup

Alea’s Pizza Soup Recipe

30 minutes to the best Hamburger soup ever! | MomsConfession.com

30 Minute Hamburger Soup

Have you ever tasted a soup so amazing, you couldn’t wait to get your taste buds back on it? That’s how I feel about Zuppa Toscana Soup! It's amazing!

Copycat Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana Soup Recipe

Try a twist on the traditional chicken and dumplings and turn it into Green Chile Chicken & Dumplings with the help of HEB Primo Picks. Great family meal!

Delicious Green Chile Chicken and Dumplings Recipe

This easy loaded baked potato soup recipe is the best on the internet. The thick and creamy base using heavy whipping cream makes this potato soup recipe one that has everyone coming back for more! Give it a try!

The Best Easy Loaded Baked Potato Soup Recipe on the Internet

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Hey y'all! I'm Kristi, a go with the flow mom of two teen boys. Here at Moms Confession I share my life hacks [or creative ways] to keep my home organized and get dinner on the table in a hurry. Come as you are-- you'll find inspiration here, not perfection.

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