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A serving fork in a brown bowl filled with Shredded Brussel Sprout Apple Salad with dried cranberries and red onions.

Shaved Brussel Sprout and Apple Salad

Sheet pan with parchment paper filled with pumpkin spice granola with dried cranberries and pecans with a spoon scooping some granola.

Pumpkin Spice Granola

A white bowl filled with chuck roast chili garnished with cheddar cheese, sour cream, and jalapeño slices.

Slow Cooker Chuck Roast Chili

A black crockpot with baked crockpot ziti with a serving spoon digging in to reveal tender pasta.

Crockpot Ziti Recipe

i’m lauren

Welcome to my food blog, The Schmidty Wife. I’m all about making Real Fresh Food for Real Fun Families. Here you can find delicious recipes to bring the family together at the table. My recipes are for any home cook, they focus on real ingredients that people are familiar with. From crockpot meals, to easy chicken recipes, fun pizzas, and drinks everyone will find something to love!

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Fall

A halloween veggie tray idea made to look like a pumpkin with carrots, cucumber, and black olives.

Halloween Pumpkin Veggie Tray

On a black background on a black plate sits five mummy hot dogs wrapped in golden brown dough and mustard dot eyes.

Halloween Mummy Hot Dogs Recipe

Hard sun light hitting two nice whiskey glasses full of apple cider bourbon cocktail garnished with cinnamon sticks and apple slices.

Apple Cider Bourbon Cocktail

blackberry halloween sangria in a wine glass with fruit and pumpkins and skeletons on the table

Spooky Black Halloween Sangria

A bowl filled with half rice and half chickpea tikka masala made in the slow cooker garnished with fresh cilantro.

Slow Cooker Chickpea Tikka Masala

A black crockpot with cooked carrots, potatoes, and chicken legs.

Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Legs and Potatoes

A small slow cooker filled with buffalo chicken dip garnished with green onions and a chip dipped in.

Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Dip

A white bowl filled with crockpot white chicken chili garnished with sharp cheddar, jalapeños, and lime wedge.

Crockpot White Chicken Chili

A large gray pot filled with butternut pasta sauce with a large wooden spoon for serving.

Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce

A glass with orange colored pumpkin chia seed pudding topped with pecans and pumpkin puree.

Pumpkin Chia Seed Pudding

Overhead view of a white baking dish filled with baked pumpkin Mac and cheese with golden breadcrumbs on top and a gold spoon scooping some out of the corner.

Baked Pumpkin Mac and Cheese

Sheet pan with roasted maple butternut squash with pecans, some scooped together with a wooden spatula.

Roasted Maple Butternut Squash with Pecans

make meals fun!

Meals around the table don’t have to be stressful and
boring! Have fun and get the whole family involved!

A bowl filled with cottage cheese ice cream garnished with crushed peanuts and banana slices.

Cottage Cheese Ice Cream

Sheet tray full of red and white parfait popsicles and ice cubes surrounded bu sliced strawberries, bananas, and bits of granola.

Parfait Breakfast Popsicles

Large wooden platter filled with many California rolls next to some chopstick, soy sauce, and pink sushi ginger.

Homemade California Roll

A cooked and cut pizza showing of how to make home pizza on a wooden pizza peel surrounded by ingredients.

How to Make the BEST Homemade Pizza

grilled chicken sandwich board filled with a variety of sauce, garnishes, buns, and grilled chicken

EPIC Grilled Chicken Sandwich Board

healthy best chocolate hummus in a white bowl sprinkled with chocolate shavings and slices of strawberries

Easy & Healthy Chocolate Hummus

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