Easy Comfort Food

We've covered easy gifts, now let's cover food because, let's be real, who doesn't love junk food?! I know I'm a real big fan.

These are all easy, cheap and require little effort. :) Let's do this!

1. Marshmallow Popcorn Bars

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 bags of popcorn (microwaveable)
• 4 cups mini marshmallows
• Non-stick spray (Pam works perfectly, and I'm sure you have some somewhere!)
• 1/4 cup butter
• 3/4 cup MnM's or some candy coated chocolates similar to those

This recipe is essentially like making rice crispy treats. Pop your popcorn bags, then dump it all in a bowl but pull out all the unpopped kernels. Then take a baking dish and spray your non-stick Pam or whatever in the pan lightly--just to coat it because you're about to have super sticky marsmallow all over. haha

Now, put your marshmallows and butter into a bowl and microwave for 2 minutes. Once they're done, you've got to move fast. Carefully stir the popcorn in with the marshmallow mixture and then add in the MnM's once it's all coated nicely.

Put it in your pan, toss it (not literally) in the fridge and you're done! Once it's cooled down, you can leave it out on a counter or whatever and enjoy. I really love popcorn so I think I'd probably eat the entire pan myself, which you can certainly do!

BONUS: You can also melt some chocolate slowly in a microwave (10 second increments or it will probably burn) and drizzle it over top or mix in pretzels with your popcorn and MnMs.

2. Handmade Jolly Rancher Pops

INGREDIENTS:

• Jolly Rancher candies
• Lollipop sticks

First, you need to preheat your oven to 200 degrees F. Once that's done, using a non-stick pan, stack up a few Jolly Ranches (2-3) and put them in the oven for 7-8 minutes. Basically, until they melt. Once they've melted, quickly add in your lollipop sticks and let them cool. After they've cooled, you can simply pry them off! Bam. The best part is that you can choose whatever flavors you like.

3. Pizza Ring

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 Tubes of Crescent Rolls
• 1/2 cup Tomato Sauce
• 1 cup Mozzarella (shredded is better than slices, in my opinion)
• 1 tablespoon Garlic Powder (totally optional but highly recommended)
• 1 tablespoon Italian Seasoning
• Pepperoni slices

This is a more complicated recipe, but if you're skilled in using an oven and have used crescent rolls before, I can't possibly recommend this more.

First off, preheat your oven to 425 degrees F and open up your crescent rolls. You want to take those out but not as triangles--use the rectangles, as you can see pictured below and place them on a pizza stone or a baking sheet (make sure you spray the sheet with Pam or something so it doesn't stick!). Once you've done that, spoon out the tomato sauce only in the first 3rd of the circle, layer on cheese and add in the pepperoni! The photo has pepperoni only on the right half, but you can do pepperoni on both sides. :)

Once that step is done, fold in the outsides to the inside and bake for 15-18 minutes. Once they're baked, sprinkle the garlic powder and Italian seasoning on top. They'll puff up pretty big and pull apart easily. Super yummy.