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 Where does potato peeling rank on your fun list? Whether you like it, dread it or try to pass this task on to another family member or friend this is a trick everyone needs to know ✨ It makes peeling go so much faster 💨 This hack is especially good for kids!

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🥔🤩 POTATO HACK: FORK PEELING🍴🤯

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Simply stick a fork into your potato and use it as a handle while you peel!

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🥤❤️ DIET COKE CAKE HACK: 2 Ingredients🎂🤩 

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Do you remember the 2 ingredient cakes from the 80’s? My mom Norma Jean made a ton of them, especially the ones like this with the lower Weight Watcher points, boy that’s a flashback, isn’t it?! 😂 Well, sis, I’m brining it back and it’s better than ever!

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DIET COKE CAKE

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What You’ll Need

• 1 box of chocolate cake mix (any brand will work!

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🎢🏰 18,000 steps and 15 years later, the annual 🎃 pilgrimage to Disneyland is in the books ✅
Not one trinket, no sweatshirts (and you know how much I love a good sweatshirt 😉) not even a set of mouse ears was purchased 🐭 At this stage of the game, we’re laser focused on just the rides and the food 🤩

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Looking at the pix you’d think we would have been stuffed by the end of the day, yet we all hopped in the car feeling like we hadn’t had a “meal”, probably because we hadn’t 😂 Have you ever done that?!

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🍪🤫 4 COOKIE SECRETS: Works with ANY Cookie Dough

Do you ever wonder why bakery cookies aren’t burnt on the bottom? Why they all look uniform and are soft & chewy? Turns out, it isn’t their cookie dough, it’s what they’re doing with that dough 😉 Here are the Tips & Tricks that will make you look like a pro and they don’t cost a thing ❌💰 Works with both homemade AND store-bought dough 🎉

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Did you know those brightly colored pricey bell peppers started as green bell peppers? Same plant, same vine 🤯

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🛒🤩 GROCERY SECRET 🤫 MONEY SAVER💰

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Can you believe red, yellow and orange bell peppers all start out GREEN?! 🫑 As they ripen, they change color and get sweeter, which also helps explain why those colorful peppers can cost up to THREE TIMES as much as the green ones!

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Do you have time to whip up a cake? I guess it depends on the day, but honestly, most days I don’t have that kind of time right now⏱️💨 What if you had the cake layers AND the frosting in your freezer ready to go?

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🎂🤫 SAM’S CLUB SECRET HACK 🤯

If you’re a cake lover, you need to know about this one! You can grab a premade box of 8 cakes for just $28.

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Are you a lemon lover? I know we’re in the throes of PSL season, but to me, lemon is a perennial favorite 😍 If you feel the same, you must try these! Don’t be scared off by the word scone, these are one of the easiest things you’ll ever make and I promise you’re going to love to them 💝

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🍋💛 LEMON SCONE HACK only 2 INGREDIENTS 🤩

Lemon Scones:
Preheat oven to 350F
1 1/3 cups + 1 Tbsp self rising flour
2/3 cup lemon curd
Fold lemon curd into flour, leaving the mix lumpy
Pour onto floured board and press mixture into a ball, this will happen pretty quickly, make sure not to overwork the dough, we’re not kneading it, just making it combine until it holds together and you can form a thick disk shape.

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Have you been to the Costco food court lately? Yes, the churro is back (for now) but there’s a secret treat that blows it away 💨 Introducing The Mini Costco Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich 🤩

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🍪🍦COSTCO FOOD COURT HACK 🤯

Skip the giant cookie and make these mini Costco cookie ice cream sandwiches instead! 🍪🍦 Grab a $9.99 container of 60 mini chocolate chip cookies from the bakery, then pick up a $2 cup of ice cream from the food court.

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Have you ever pulled up to a ticket booth and were too far away because you didn’t want to hit your review mirror on the pole? I’m being oddly specific because that’s a real concern I have every time I pull into a parking garage 😂 Or how about just struggling to grab something out of the backseat? A dropped phone, glasses or that straw you just begged the barista for🧋😁 The best part?

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FULL HEART 💕 THANK YOU 💗

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When I say a cookbook is a team sport, I mean it! These honors are because of YOU! The @usatoday AND @publisherswkly Bestseller awards are something I will always share with you! They’re because you’re here and have made this possible, that is not lost on me and never will be 🫂 Your support means the world 🌎

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When the bestseller lists came out this week, I was blown away, in fact, I started crying 🥹 This might be TMI, but I lost my dad 45 years ago this week when I was 11 years old, although decades have passed I often wonder what he’d think of all of this…what he’d think of his youngest and “oops” baby carrying on his love for food (he owned a chain of restaurants in the Midwest) 🍽️ Well, this week it’s like he gave me a little wink from heaven when these two accolades arrived 😇
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The journey from Pittsburg, Kansas to here is almost hard to believe, especially for me.

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