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Appetizers

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

Simple & Delicious Cheese Ball

kraft dressing

Delicious Avacado Ranch Dip

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

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

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

Easy Homemade Salsa

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

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Breakfast Ideas

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

It's best to keep your families stomachs as happy as possible when you travel over summer. Try these road trip breakfast ideas and you should be good to go!

Road Trip Breakfast Ideas

Delicious Fall Muffin Recipes for the season!! YUM!

Fall Muffin Recipes

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 holiday breakfast ideas are just what you need to plan for Thanksgiving or Christmas breakfast! Tons of great holiday breakfast ideas to satisfy!

Holiday 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

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Dessert Recipes

Texas Rio Star Grapefruit

Rio Star Grapefruit is a Texas Treat

mini fruit pizza cookies recipe

Pecan Sandies Mini Fruit Pizza Cookies

snickers cupcakes

Snickers Cupcakes

Pumpkin White Chocolate Cookies

Pumpkin White Chocolate Cookies

baked sopapillas

Baked Sopapilla Recipe – Simple Snack for Diabetics

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

Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

smores bars

Cinnamon S’Mores Bars

If you are looking to add something sweet to your 4th of July, you don't want to miss out on these amazing 4th of July dessert recipes. All #1 in my books!

The Best 4th of July Dessert Recipes

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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

moscoto party mixer

Moscato Party Mixer 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

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

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

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!

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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

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

homemade pigs in a blanket

Easy Homemade Pigs in a Blanket with Spicy Mustard Dipping Sauce

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

Fall Lunch Ideas

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

Fast Lunch Idea Using Jimmy Dean Steak Bowls

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

Cooking semi-homemade meals can be a great way to save money and also get dinner on the table in a hurry. Try this quick chicken stir-fry tonight and enjoy dinner in 15 minutes!

Quick and Easy 15 Minute Chicken Stir Fry Recipe

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

Enjoy this delicious fall off the bone ribs as well as the dry rib rub that makes them even more scrumptious with your family. They will melt in your mouth!

Fall Off the Bone Ribs + Dry Rib Rub Recipe

Poor Boy Chicken Fried Steak recipe

Southern Poor Boy Chicken Fried Steak with Gravy

bacon wrapped chicken with shrimp and cream cheese filling

Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bombs With Shrimp

Back to school meals are much easier to manage with this list of 20 Delicious and EASY Dinner Ideas!

20 Easy Dinner Ideas for Back to School

Chicken Pizza With A Twist!

Chicken Pizza With A Texas Twist!

Five Cheese Stovetop Mac N Cheese...the perfect blend of flavors

Fifteen Minute Stovetop Mac ‘N’ Cheese

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Salads

Easy Pasta Salad Recipe

Easy Pasta Salad Recipe with Italian Dressing

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

cucumber ranch summer salad

Summer Salad: Zesty Cucumber Ranch

New York Style Coleslaw Recipe

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

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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 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

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

Texas is…TexFest and Bourbon Jalapeno Bacon Jam!

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

You need to try these 5 Minute Potatoes. They are cheesy, delicious, budget friendly, and something the whole family will love any night of the week.

5 Minute Potatoes

Enjoy this easy pepper jack macaroni and cheese recipe

Pepper Jack Macaroni and Cheese

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

Best Green Beans Ever

Best Green Beans Ever!

These sweet southern style candied yams are the perfect side dish for any holiday dinner. You must try them this holiday season!

The Best Sweet Southern Candied Yams

Are you ready to try a recipe that will knock your socks? It’s Fried Cabbage and loaded with bacon too! Can't go wrong with that!

Fried Cabbage – the ultimate side dish

barbecue baked beans in a bowl

The Best BBQ Baked Beans Recipe

Easy Pasta Salad Recipe

Easy Pasta Salad Recipe with Italian Dressing

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Snack Ideas

Bring awareness to breast cancer with these delicious popcorn balls!

Breast Cancer Awareness Popcorn Balls

Great resource for fall snack ideas to enjoy this season!

Fall Snack Ideas

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

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

Healthy Halloween Grills

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

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

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Soups & Stews

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

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

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

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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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