Busy With Life

As of late nothing sounds good to eat, nothing sound good to make. I have been in a mood for a many weeks at it is putting stress on a few things $$ and me for lack of eating right what ever RIGHT is...So I have set a plan yes me I am going to try to follow I did really well last week with my menu for most of the week when I hit yesterday Saturday and my car had a few issues I got off track and had to purchase dinner last night $5.00 for a subway sandwich which I could have made at home.But as I didn't have time it was out of the question..

Last weeks menu was

Sunday- Spinach and Veggie Quesadillas
Monday-Chicken Stir Fry Wraps
Tuesday- Turkey Noodle Soup
Wednesday-Spaghetti w/ garlic bread
Thursday-Leftovers
Friday-Stir Fry leftover for lunch
Saturday- Subway

So lets get this weeks plan under way...
Monday will be a wing it day since I have lots of things to do outside the house this day with errands..will plan dinner for Tuesday with DD help....

Tuesday-Dr Appointment then I will do a food inventory with my dd help and create a menu around that for 2 weeks I have already been planning in my head around things I already have on hand which is A LOT to use up.I need to clean my big freezer..So most of the things planning to use will come from there and my full-busting pantry cabinets.

Wednesday-This day while dd is at school I will be shopping early in the AM for this will allow me to get in and out and get any prep cooking done early in the morning..As well as get ready to go back to work on Thursday...

All looks great on paper let see if I can do this...Wishing me luck...

New Year!!!

Ringing in the new year...will post more of my plan....for the upcoming weeks.....

Day after Xmas

The holiday was festive and interesting.. My Canadian neighbors are home in Peoria for the holiday w/ lots of creative decorating and more holiday spirit then my family. It was fun to watch them get ready for the big day.. Light out side and a big huge tree trimmed beautifully..

I have not been in much of a mood to be online as of late this past week DD had her foot surgery and is slowly recovering after her a few days in the hospital...

For the next 30 day I am doing a budget challenge for myself..I will post more about this later....

Holiday Cookies

They always say don't use newspaper well I am going on the big 40 in a few years and my mom still uses newspaper every year to put the cookies on and we are all here to tell the story..

Update Home Life Around the Holidays

Most people think I am just a scrooge since I prefer to skip them if I could however that is not the case. Growing up Holidays for me always meant family drama/BAD gifts or people not getting what they wanted ie all around drama.
Growing up every holiday my grandma made Xmas a pain by trying to cause as much DRAMA as possible to even get everyone fighting over stupid things most the time someone would leave due to this.
I am a very giving-helpful person ..However my brother is just the opposite as possible he is the type of person who forget even simple holidays like Mother's day or will go I didn't realize coffee cups were a very bad gift for my parents. Yet he would expect

Life Update

My car has been fixed I picked up yesterday.
I have decided that I need to clean my car out since having a rental I realize how bad my car really was until I got the rental and I only need 1 box to keep all my must have items in the car for both daily use at work and personal life.
Plus 1 extra item my trusty air compressor pump that comes in very handy
I have saved alot of people including myself time changing a tire by just pumping it up enough to get it to a repair shop quickly.

Over the last week I have been feeling under the weather & going to bed early trying to fight getting sick must be something going around. By 4-5 in the afternoon I am ready for bed so we have been eating early or doing quick meals since I have no desire to cook..

Look What Happens When Teenagers Don't Pay Attention

Thank-ful

Last week I had a life flashes before your eyes experience with a few co-workers we were almost hit by a truck who had got in an accident right next to our vehicle this caused the truck to spin and came right at us. We had to run to get out of the way. It got me thinking about lots of different things..

1. What would happen if I had got hurt?
2. Would my work cover this health costs?
3. What if I had been seriously hurt and couldn't move/walk?

We were very lucky however the lady in the truck was trapped in the vehicle and seriously injured. We learned later that the lady died at the hospital shortly after arriving there.

This got me thinking about alot of other things like what am I thankful for?

I had the best friend in the world even if it was only for a short time
I have a great daughter who is a senior this year
I have a fiancee' who loves me for me even when I am crazy or silly which he tells me I am all the time.

Life Sucks

I have for weeks decided I hate

• Dirty Dishes
• Dirty Laundry
• What is for Dinner?
• What is for Dessert?

I am sure there is more that drives me crazy but today is these:)

Home Life

I am working on updatings, sorting reorganizing my recipes onto 4 X 6 homemade recipe cards which I will then print out. I didn't want borders or flowers just the template.

I had to find a Blank template for a 4 x 6 card found it @ Avery.com website ( postcard 2 per page)

Deciding on a font I can't make up my mind just yet.

Copy and Paste the files to the index card template and save documents

Then upload the recipe cards to Media Fire for others to pick up as needed :)

B-day gift for my 2nd child is to copy the recipes to postcards (pre-made found 2 boxes of nice leaf postcard stock paper at the thrift store about 8 months or longer ago for $1.99 each box or 50 ct)

I also at the same time picked up a 5 X 8 Index Card File Box with tab dividers for 99 cents to put the cards into..

Only issue is to get this done her B-day is the end of July.

Home Life

This past week I derailed my freezer meals and tried to just cook this or that and uses things up well let me tell you it is Friday night and I have no meal planned HELP!! Ok so I am realizing I need to get my freezer foods back to work ASAP. So I plan to pull out something tonight for tomorrow.

March 22 to April 30th I have realized I need to step up my meal ideas and try a few new recipes as well as plan better. I tend to just pull out what sounds good Monday night for Tuesday. But I want to basically say ok Monday is BBQ chicken and Friday is Lentil Tacos and not have to plan guess which day but I want to say plan it weekly on Sunday what to have for that week.

Hit the Dollar Store & purchased the following deal.

3 bags of Sara Lee Mini bagels for a $1.00 a bag

2 bags of Sara Lee Plain Regular bagels for a $1.00 a bag

1 bag of Sara Lee Blueberry bagels for a $1.00 a bag

Seperated the Mini bagels 2 or 3 per ziplock then placed all of the bags into a large gallon Freezer Ziplock bag for easier space saving, locating in the freezer and my keep freezer burn out better. That way when DFiance's reaches for his daily bagels for making Sausage Mcbagel they are easier to locate and stay fresher longer.

At Walmart I purchase a bag of frozen sausage patties pre-cooked approximently 18 patties for $4.99 he pulls out 2 nukes them as needed with the bagels for breakfast.

I also noticed at Wal-mart in the freezer area they have pre-cooked eggs patties for making Egg Mc Muffins as as well for about the same price so for under $10.00 if you purchase bagels, sausage patties and the eggs you have 18 sandwiches.

Home Life

Well things went semi ok with OAMC cooking however I still went for random things. But I need to get a better plan this time around :) Plus hopefully by monday I will have my new stove/oven and I can really bake now I am so looking forward to this.

Home Life

Well my home life got crazy on Thursday. Decided to buy a pizzas with breadsticks ( $14) and I had earlier in the week purchased a can of pizza sauce for this day which cost was pretty good for a 28 oz can $1.30.

That all went well except I got sick a few hours later went to bed at 5 PM and slept like a baby until I got up at 2 am to go to work.I think my not sleeping enough caught up with me. I work 40 a week getting up at 2 in the morning and going to bed at night at 8 PM. You see I take care of my daughter who is currently staying at Grandma's house due to a surgery on her foot she was born 17 years ago with a birth defect called Bilateral club feet as most know from AR she just had surgery in Jan 09 to starting the last I hope phrase of surgeries to correct the issue we had to wait until her feet stop growing to do the surgery. I will listed a link that explains her birth defect and shows pictures of kids with it. So I have been working very hard being a mother :) . Guess what she plans to come home for a few days this weekend and I needed to get the house cleaned ( floors etc) for her Germ free zone so I had to clean her room which was teenager nightmare got to love teenager rooms, clean the walk ways and bathroom and kitchen the common areas she will be in alot over the weekend. Plus fold like 10 loads of laundry, cook and take her to the Dr office Friday ( yesterday) for an update on the foot. Good News it is finally healing as it had not been. So last night had to pick up all the stuff at grandma's including , wheelchair, walker, crutches and kid stuff to bring her home :) Plus get this I forgot about dinner Yes dinner!!

So my plan was Taco Salad I just had to pick up 2 ingredients Turkey meat and Catalina dressing. So I ran in the store and bought one and not the other left the parking lot and remebered had to turn around go back. Got to love when you forget :)

FAMILY LIFE

This week was slow. Plus even thou I had meals in the freezer. Just nothing sounded good. Weird huh. I have about 25 meals left until I need to cook again. Which to me sounds and looks great. I am so addicted to this new meal idea that I have been reading books at the library and surfing the net to get as many meal ideas as I can so I can precook for 1- 2 months and not have to worry about the what is for dinner game any more when my daughter returns home again. This will make daily meal time even more less stressful for everyone. Plus we don't have to worry about running to the store ever night. Got to love that..

Fiance' Strikes Again

Well my Oamc cooking was going well until my dear Fiancé forgot to pull out the frozen dinner. So I need to stop at the store anyway to pick up lettuce anda few other items and found Boneless, skinless chicken breast big pieces for 5 breasts

for $5.43. (1.97lbs) Great deal at Fresh and Easy a local store that has food on

clearance/marked down when it is close To expire. However these packages of chicken are good until

April 8th next week. Plus there weekly chicken special on the breast were posted

as 2.67 lbs so I got it cheaperThere chicken is my fave it is large, moist and 1 breast and

feed my and my Fiancé a nice dinner usually they are so big.Can't wait to Crockpot them tomorrow to chop/shredded and

pre cook a few Oamc meals.Tomorrow after work. Now I have to find a few recipes to

make.

Family Life

I have been trying very hard to budget.. Yes that bad bad word.. I am not doing well so I have decided to budget with 1 thing at a time.. First stop is food... Yes that must have can't enough of item food..

Plan

1. Once a month cooking meals
2. Use all the items in pantry before buying more
3. Only shop weekly for milk, bread , small things
4. Create Menu's that doesn't work for me or my family so I have been making freezer meals and daily decide what we will eat and that is working well. Been doing this for over a week :)
5. Locating more uses for rice so I can create more side dishes that are cheap

I am sure there is more I wish to add but I can't think right now :)

Kitchen Plan

Well Time to organizing the freezer and pantry. I have alot of SH**.. Need to get a plan.. I have alot of this and that.. You see my fiance and daughter prefer the same meals over and over. But I don't I prefer to try new things. So I purchase the "Mystery Ingredient" and then I forget:) hide things lol.. so I guess it's time to locate items/organize them. Then type a recipe search to use up those items..

I hear also my mother is purchasing my stove this weekend. So I need to get organized since next weekend they will be tearing out my kitchen stove top removing my wall unit and guess what just for funtearing out the cabinet under the stove top to put the NEW stove in it's place.. Dang.. What a mess.. Then we must place shelves in the area where the old wall oven was with a door on it later ( Fun plan huh) Wish me lots of luck..

Family Life

This weekend I went to the libary to hit up them for some more recipe books..

I also spent the weekend with my daughter at Grandparents house. As most people know she had surgery back in Jan for a foot condition and has to stay at grandparents house due to a wheel chair and lack of space where we live...So I am also planning up coming meals for when she comes home she has already requested Taco Salad and Lasagna..For a kid who is picky now she is getting to understand trying new foods she had eaten since staying at grandma's house Roast w/ cranberry sauce and Roast with grape jelly yes my kid..