Here's a recipe that's so simple and so delicious, once you make it, it will forever be in your dinner rotation. It's chicken taco soup, and it's filling, flavorful, and phenomenal.

Similar to a tortilla soup, this recipe adapted from All Recipes is a bit heartier as it contains beans, tomato sauce, taco seasoning, and more. The chicken cooks right in the soup, so you can just start with raw breasts. Served with cheese, tortilla chips, avocado slices, and any other Tex Mex toppings you like, it's a one-bowl meal that everyone will crave.

Just yesterday I was analyzing the not so subtle differences between date night before kids and date night after, when it dawned on me that I spend most should be "date nights" with my children anyway.

Yep, my Saturday nights are more Carnival than candlelit, more pizza than pizzazz, more cartoons than concerts. Have you ditched ambiance for arcades? If the Then vs. Now below sounds familiar -- the answer is a resounding yes:

As a modern, 21st-century, go-getter mom I have to multi-task a lot. For example, at this very moment I'm composing this post, tending a sick child, doing my kegels, and IMing Kate Middleton baby name ideas (really weird how she's not responding to me). So shouldn't my appliances multi-task, too? That's what I asked my dish-washing machine this morning.

See, it does a fine job of washing the dishes for me. But what I could wash the dishes and cook dinner at the same time using the dishwasher?!? Readers, I made that happen. Check it out.

Kraft Macaroni 'n' Cheese has been a dinner staple for moms for as long as we can remember. Kids absolutely adore it. Heck, parents adore it. It's a classic, iconic comfort food. I've literally had friends say that if their mac doesn't have that orange yellow-y signature color of Kraft's cheese, then it's just not the same. Still, it's that food coloring that's causing quite an uproar among some concerned consumers.

Two North Carolina food bloggers -- Lisa Leake and Vani Hari -- felt similarly warm and fuzzy about the product until they learned that the U.S. version contains the additives Yellow 5 and Yellow 6. In turn, they created an online petition in hopes of garnering support to demand a change. Amazingly, so far, more than 155K people have signed the Change.org petition, requesting that Kraft to made the U.S. version of the mac additive-free, too.

It never occurred to me until I started looking for meat loaf recipes, but you can totally cook meat loaf in your crock pot! Of course -- why didn't I think of that? It makes perfect sense. Here's a recipe for what's called Melt-in-Your-Mouth Meat Loaf. That sounds promising, doesn't it? It's super simple to prepare, too. It's one of those life-simplifying meals that cooks itself while you get everything else in your busy life done. Or while sledding! If it's still winter where you are, this is a great snow day dinner.

There's nothing that warms your body and soul better than a hot bowl of soup on a chilly evening, especially when you don't have to put a ton of effort into making it. And when it comes to cutting down on prep and cooking time, whipping up a delicious batch of soup in the slow cooker is the only way to go.

After stumbling across this Crock-Pot Creamy Tomato Soup recipe from Crockin' Girls, I know what's going to be on my dinner menu one night this weekend. With healthy ingredients that most of us probably already have in our pantries, this soup provides the ultimate dose of good old-fashioned comfort food with little to no effort. (Seriously. My 7-year-old could throw this dish together.)

Ugh, it's March -- such a tricky month. On one hand, it feels hopeful because you know spring is right around the corner. On the other hand, it's still chilly and windy, and so blah! And what's to eat? By now I'm sick of heavy winter food. But on the other hand, I'm not exactly ready for grilling and salads, either.

It's funny, I was just thinking about March food this morning when a friend of mine posted the same exact question -- what do you eat in March?!? Foods that are still warm and cozy, but a little lighter. Foods with a lot of flavor and maybe even a little spice. Don't you think? Here's five recipes to liven up dinner this month.

Although we've been hearing for a while now that "breastaurants" are on the rise, Hooters seems anxious to draw new meat into their nationwide restaurants. So much so that they've resorted to attacking other popular chains as a way to convince potential consumers that Hooters is The One, The Only, The AWESOMEST Place to have dinner tonight! (Uh huh ...) Okay, really, they've zeroed in on just one popular chain: Chipotle. 

Hooters would have us believe you'd have to be totally lame, dude, to pick Chipotle's boring, bland, and cookie cutter food over their ... sexy waitresses and colorful salads, crab legs, and of course, wings! Ha ha ha. Check out the ad ...