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Appetizers

kraft dressing

Delicious Avacado Ranch Dip

Simple and easy dessert bread to share with everyone...Pull Apart Cinnamon Bread | MomsConfession.com

Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread

Deliciously Cheesy Bacon Ranch Pull Apart Bread...YUMMO!

Cheesy Bacon Ranch Pull Apart Bread

If you’re tired of eating store bought salsa and you’re looking for a little zing, RO*TEL Salsa is the perfect recipe to try!

The Best Rotel Salsa Recipe EVER!

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

Simple & Easy Classic Deviled Eggs Recipe for Thanksgiving

Wolf Brand Chili Thicker & Heartier Recipes

Looking for easy Super Bowl Party Recipes? Get 40+ easy football party recipes that will have your guests mouth watering on Super Bowl Sunday!

40+ Super Bowl Party Recipes for the Big Game

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

Simple & Delicious Cheese Ball

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Breakfast Ideas

Do you love the summer, but never know what to make for breakfast each morning? Try these simple summer breakfast ideas and personalize them for your family today.

Summer Breakfast Ideas

These delicious pumpkin spice scones pair well with a rich cup of hot coffee. You must try this fall recipe idea today. They are SO GOOD!

Easy Pumpkin Spice Scones

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

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Enjoy these spring breakfast ideas all season long to get the most of your meal & start your day off right!

Spring Breakfast Ideas

Simply delicious fall breakfast ideas that are great all season long!

Fall Breakfast Ideas

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

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

This scrumptious, quick and easy blueberry muffin bread from scratch is so delicious! We made this blueberry muffin loaf and it was devoured in about 5 minutes flat! You must try it yourself!

Quick and Easy Blueberry Muffin Bread Recipe

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Dessert Recipes

Stupid Simple Pumpkin Spice Carrot Cake - perfect for the fall and holiday season

Simple Pumpkin Spice Carrot Cake

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

Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Strawberry Ice Cream

Strawberry Ice Cream

snickers cupcakes

Snickers Cupcakes

Pumpkin White Chocolate Cookies

Pumpkin White Chocolate Cookies

Tex-Mex Condensed Milk Fudge

4th of July Moscato Cupcakes #MeEncanta

Gallo Family Vineyards Moscato Cupcakes

Try this healthier spin on the traditional ice cream sandwich with this Chocolate Graham Cracker Surprise!!

Summer Snack Ideas for Kids: Chocolate Graham Cracker Surprise

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Drinks & Smoothies

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!

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

moscoto party mixer

Moscato Party Mixer Recipe

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

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

Hot Toddy Shot

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Lunch Ideas

Easy Fall Lunch Ideas...perfect meal ideas for the season

Fall Lunch Ideas

These quick, easy back to school gluten free lunch ideas for kids are fantastic, nutritious, filling and easy options you have to try today.

Gluten Free Lunch Ideas for Kids

Fast Lunch Idea Using Jimmy Dean Steak Bowls

beef and bean burrito

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

Use these batch cooking tips for tentative home cooks to get dinner on the table quickly. These tips for batch cooking are great for meal planning too!

Batch Cooking Tips For Tentative Home Cooks

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

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

Not sure what will make a good lunch this back to school season? Here are a few back to school lunch ideas your children are sure to love.

Back to School Lunch Ideas

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Main Dishes & Dinner Ideas

These stuffed taco shells are a little spicy and pack a Tex-Mex punch! Try these stuffed tacos for your next Taco Tuesday meal...everyone will love them!

Southwest Tacos Stuffed Pasta Shells with Queso Fresco Cheese

whiskey chicken dinner idea

Simple Whiskey Chicken Recipe – A Dinner Idea Your Family Will Love

bacon wrapped chicken with shrimp and cream cheese filling

Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bombs With Shrimp

You need this one dish dinner meal solution idea for back to school. This chicken bacon pasta salad is the perfect 20 minute meal idea to start the school year off with an easy family meal.

One Dish Dinner Idea – Chicken Bacon Pasta Salad

One of my favorite recipes with Lone Star Eggs is a Tex-Mex twist on huevos rancheros called Chilithro. It's loud, proud and Texas style. Try it yourself!

Huevos Rancheros with a Twist

These leftover turkey ideas are delicious, unique and creative. See how the many ways you can use up all that leftover turkey from the holidays here.

Simple Meal Ideas for Leftover Turkey After Your Holiday Dinner

Corn Chili

easy stuffed peppers

Easy Dinner Idea – 30 Minute Beef and Rice Stuffed Peppers Recipe

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Salads

cucumber ranch summer salad

Summer Salad: Zesty Cucumber Ranch

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

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

Easy Pasta Salad Recipe

Easy Pasta Salad Recipe with Italian Dressing

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Sauces & Spreads

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

Homemade Tartar Sauce

Homemade Tartar 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 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

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

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

Texas is…TexFest and Bourbon Jalapeno Bacon Jam!

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Side Dishes

If you are looking for a creamy and very tasty dressing, make sure to put this homemade thousand island dressing on your list! You won't regret it!

Homemade Thousand Island Dressing

barbecue baked beans in a bowl

The Best BBQ Baked Beans Recipe

veggie fingers

Birds Eye Veggies = Great Snack & Lunches

This is the best 30 minute pork stuffing recipe. Serve with our jazzed up cranberry sauce and it's perfect on your Thanksgiving plate!

Easy 30 Minute Smithfield Pork Stuffing Recipe for the Holidays

Enjoy this easy pepper jack macaroni and cheese recipe

Pepper Jack Macaroni and Cheese

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

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

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Snack Ideas

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 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

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

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

With the seasons changing, we all need great spring meal ideas to enjoy with our families. These 5 spring snack ideas are great staples for the season.

Spring 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

Bring awareness to breast cancer with these delicious popcorn balls!

Breast Cancer Awareness Popcorn Balls

Check out one of our favorite Kitchen Hacks: How To Cut A Pineapple easily! This makes meal prep and snacking so much easier!

Kitchen Hacks: How to Easily Cut A Pineapple

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Soups & Stews

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

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

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

30 Minute Hamburger Soup

Pizza Soup

Alea’s Pizza Soup 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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