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Easy Thanksgiving Turkey Sliders

By: Dana Michele

Thanksgiving is over and you’ve got a fridge full of leftovers. What to make? You may still have a house full of people and want something easy to make and easy to serve. These Thanksgiving Turkey Sliders are the perfect after-Thanksgiving meal and can easily be doubled or tripled for a larger crowd. Everyone loves […]

Thanksgiving Chocolate Turkey Suckers

By: Dana Michele

Looking to add something fun to your Thanksgiving tablescape? Chocolate Turkey Suckers are the perfect answer! Fits the theme of the day but also a bit of fun because everyone loves a chocolate treat. You can even tie on name tags and use them as the place cards so everyone knows where to sit. Chocolate […]

Quick and Easy Halloween Snack Mix

By: Dana Michele

bowl of Halloween snack mix

The best EASY Halloween Snack Mix for your holiday celebration or festive snacking. This sweet, salty, peanut mix is easy to make and tasty. Fill up a few bags, tie them with a ribbon, and gift to family and friends. Halloween Snack Mix is the perfect blend of salty, and nutty with a touch of […]

Easy To Find Dairy-Free Sweets for the Easter Basket

By: Dana Michele

Dairy-free Easter Candy

Easter is a big ‘candy holiday’ and a lot of the popular Easter candies have dairy in them. But just because you and your kids may eat dairy-free, doesn’t mean you need to miss out. Peeps are one of my favorite Easter candies and I’d be happy with a basket full of them – there […]

Don’t let your cookbooks just sit on a shelf, cook with them

By: Dana Michele

basket of cookbooks

Do you own a lot of cookbooks but never cook from them? Don’t let them get lonely on the shelf – cook from them! First I would suggest going through your cookbook collection and purging ones that you don’t enjoy or fit your current lifestyle. I recently purge 100 books from my collection (I still […]

Top 10 FAVORITE Cookbooks

By: Dana Michele

Top 10 cookbooks

 I am a cookbook collector. I started collecting in my early 20s when living in my first apartment after graduate school. At the time, there weren’t as many recipes available online. However, even today I still love my cookbooks and keep adding to my collection. After sharing my pantry organization project on social media so […]

Why We Love our Butcher Box Meat Subscription Service

By: Dana Michele

Butcher Box meat delivery

Butcher Box delivery day is always a good day. The last few years I’ve been focusing on ways to simplify. Reduce the number of errands. Reduce the number of things I need to think about to keep our household running. As a single self-employed mom, sometimes I feel overwhelmed with all my responsibilities. I want […]

The Best Cookbooks for Healthy School Lunches

By: Dana Michele

cookbooks for healthy kid lunches

Making lunches for school every day can be a parenting challenge. How to make them healthy? how to make them tasty so they’ll eat them? It’s a balance between making them healthy, easy ideas, and something they will eat.  Now that my son is a teenager, I don’t make themed or cutesy lunches but I […]

The BEST Cookbooks for Easy Weeknight Dinners

By: Dana Michele

Best cookbooks for weeknight meals

Anyone else finds it a struggle to get dinner on the table during the week? With work, taking care of the home, driving the kids around town, and everything else we’re trying to manage, being prepared for dinner for the family every night is not easy.  As I see it there are 6 ways I […]

12 Easy Dairy-free and Egg-free Lunch Ideas

By: Dana Michele

Dairy-free and Egg-free lunch ideas

Do you eat dairy-free and egg-free and looking for inspiration for new meal ideas? We’ve got 12 ideas for you so you don’t need to revert to PB and J.  Always check the ingredient list for bread, cured meats, and deli meats for added dairy or egg. Dairy can be listed as specifically as milk, […]

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Hi there and welcome to Sweet Shoppe Mom. My name is Dana and my son is Brendan, also known as B. Welcome to our blog where we chat about every day life with tweens and teens, midlife and perimenopause, and preparing for empty nest

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