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Several banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies on a cookie sheet lined with a silicone baking mat.

The Best Banana Oatmeal Cookies

Side salad with sliced Roma tomatoes, sliced cucumber, Romaine lettuce, and crumbled feta cheese.

Easy Greek Side Salad

Texas Sheet Cake in a large baking sheet cut into 25 square pieces.

Texas Sheet Cake

Ice cream cone cupcakes with vanilla frosting and sprinkles on a cookie sheet.

Easy Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

Broccoli slaw salad in a dark blue and white bubble patterned Polish pottery serving bowl with a set of tongs held diagonally from the right partially inserted in the salad and grabbing some salad.

Broccoli Slaw Salad

9-photo picture collage of cranberry fluff salad, easy quiche, biscuits and gravy, baked potato with peas and meatloaf, spaghetti and sauce, chicken tetrazzini, chicken parmesan with angel hair pasta and green beans, stuffed meatloaf with mushroom gravy, and pork chop parmesan with linguini. The title Simple yet "fancy" Christmas Eve Dinner Ideas for busy families is overlayed and centered on the photo collage.

Simple yet “Fancy” Christmas Eve Dinner Ideas for Busy Families

A serving of ground beef rice casserole and two scoops of pumpkin on a dark blue plate. A fork is inserted into the casserole from the left and a spoon in the upper left corner.

Dinner in a Pumpkin

A food processor with cilantro ranch protein dip in it and triangular corn chip with dip on the tip being held above the food processor.

Cilantro Ranch Protein Dip

The Best S'more Fudge on brown parchment paper partially cut with two pieces of fudge stacked on top.

The Best S’more Fudge

A few cut sweet and salty rice Krispy treats stacked in the middle with single squares of sweet and salty rice Krispy treats surrounding the stack.

Sweet and Salty Rice Krispies

A glass mixing bowl with carrot kimchi with a spoon held above with a scoop of carrot kimchi on it.

Carrot Kimchi

Stacks of soft and chewy toffee cookies on a wire cooling rack.

Soft and Chewy Toffee Cookies

A serving bowl of orange tapioca jello salad.

Orange Tapioca Jello Salad

5-vertical-picture collage of a chocolate dessert topped with whipped cream and berry sauce. Strawberry Delight Sheet Cake with a piece cut out, three mini cherry cheesecakes, decorated heart shaped cookies, and a chocolate flourless cake topped with whipped cream, sliced strawberries and drizzled with chocolate sauce.

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A cooling rack with soft and fluffy sugar cookies.

Soft and Fluffy Sugar Cookies

A dark blue Polish Pottery plate with white polka dots filled with cranberry orange oatmeal cookies and dried cranberries scattered around the plate. A half of an orange is in the upper right corner and bottom left corner.

The Best Cranberry Orange Oatmeal Cookies

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