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Upgrade your family’s Sunday dinner dessert with Patti Labelle’s Banana Pudding!

Upgrade your family’s Sunday dinner dessert with Patti Labelle’s Banana Pudding!

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Walmart. The opinions and text are all mine own. Growing up Southern, Sunday dinners were always a big deal. That’s when Grandma brought out good pots and pans, the cast iron skillets, and created magic in the kitchen. Even though Sunday Dinners were always great, I couldn’t wait for the best part, and that was dessert! Even though I’m not a huge dessert person, there were a few tasty sweets that I would make exceptions for. Put a piece of carrot or red velvet cake in front of me…

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Poached Pear with Sea Salt Caramel Apple Granola

Poached Pear with Sea Salt Caramel Apple Granola

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #FueledByGranola #CollectiveBias Labor Day has come and gone. Now the only thing left to do is to put up all your bright whites and prepare for the flavors of fall. Apples, Pears, Pumpkin, and Cranberries are some of my favorite foods to enjoy during the fall season. Since there is Pumpkin Spice galore everywhere you turn I try to incorporate the other flavors of fall into our family meal plans.  My husband loves granola. He’s always putting it on top of his yogurt…

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Strawberry Coconut Greek Whip Cake.

Strawberry Coconut Greek Whip Cake.

Many thanks to Yoplait for sponsoring today’s story and encouraging me to try Yoplait Greek 100! Whips. Since starting Weight watchers I been on this huge greek yogurt kick. I have it for breakfast almost every morning and now I can even replace it for Sour Cream without my husband complaining or noticing. Since my husband travels a lot through the week I always try to make him something tasty over the weekends. Lately, I’ve been really strict on sweets and so when I saw that Yoplait had a new yogurt called Yoplait Greek 100 Whips! I came up with…

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Game Day Strawberry Cheesecake Shots

Game Day Strawberry Cheesecake Shots

The big Game Day is soon to be upon us! I was really more interested in deflate gate  than anything cause you know I love me some good scandalous news but since the NFL isn’t going to do anything about the Patriots cheating I guess I’ll settle for getting excited about the snacks! We’ve been invited to so many SuperBowl parties and  the menu’s look absolutely delicious. There’s just one problem though. I’m currently doing Weight Watchers and I’m pretty sure about 90% of what will be served at these parties will use up all my points in one bite.…

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