a week of homemaking

Hello friends

I didn’t mean to not blog for so long.  Some days have been busy and some days I just didn’t do much 

The second quilt is finished and on the bed.   I really like seeing them when I walk past this room.  

Before my husband retired,  I always kept breakfast sandwiches in the freezer.  He liked being able to heat them and eat them at morning break time.  

When our daughter’s family lived with us for a year,  I kept them on hand too.  

Lately,  I am not always hungry at breakfast so I made a batch for him to heat up when he is hungry but I am not.  

For these,  I always use Grands biscuits or a similar store brand and 1 pound of sausage cut into 8 pieces,  then flattened into a thinner patties.  

When these went in a lunch box,  I put them in sandwich bags.  But since these would all be eaten at home,  I put some in a plastic container to keep in the fridge,  and the rest in to 1 big zip bag for the freezer.  

I restocked our pantry with homemade taco seasoning and the spice mixture that goes on meat before my husband smokes it.  

This makes a quart full-  I made just a half recipe this week.  

One day we drove to Oklahoma City.  Walmart now has a joint membership with Walmart Plus and now Sam’s Plus.  

Walmart Plus works great for us.  I’m a big fan of their free shipping.  Because I recently renewed our Walmart membership,  I was able to add a year of Sam’s plus for about $13.  

So we went to check out Sam’s as we had not been in at least 10 years.   

Sam’s has good prices on some things but some things are just so large,  they didn’t seem practical for us.  

Then we had lunch at a restaurant we like and we drove over to air force base.  

I read online  they had Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage for about $2.50.  

I was very surprised to see they were so well stocked on it and we bought about a dozen rolls.  

I also wanted to get just a couple roast beefs.  I looked at them and they were about $20 each.  

Then we saw the big meat boxes than we’ve bought before.  

We didn’t need this much beef but It was $57 and contained 4 roasts,  3 stew meat and 4 rolls of 80% ground beef.  

It seemed silly not to get a box.  

I added up the labels and if I’d purchased them individually, it would have been $93.  

You all know for several reasons,  beef is just expensive right now!  

Before I froze them,  I rewrapped them all we probably won’t need any of them for a while.  

Now I need to go do some homemaking in my kitchen.  I’m making porcupine meatballs and apple crisp for our late lunch/early supper.  

Hope you’re all have a nice weekend 

❤️ Rhonda 

Another normal today

Hello everyone,  

I don’t have a new photo but the second scrap quilt is completely tied and pinned. 

 I need to spend about an hour at the sewing machine sewing completely around the border and then it will be done.  

Yesterday I did a grocery pickup from the Walmart close to my house.  
My town has 3 Walmarts, 1 Aldi and 1 Sprouts.  
We aren’t crazy about driving to Oklahoma City anymore for groceries so Walmart is where I do most of our shopping.  

Before I placed that order,  we inventoried our frozen meat.  We have a good amount of pork and already cooked meat like beef taco meat, lentil taco filling,  shredded roast beef.
We had 2 packs of chicken so I bought a whole chicken and a tray of boneless skinless chicken breasts.  
That chicken was 7 pounds!
  I remember when whole chickens were 3-4 pounds.  
It’s illegal to sell chicken in the USA that has hormones or steroids so thats not why chickens are so much bigger than they used to be.  

It would take all week for my husband and I to use a 7 pound chicken.
So before I freeze them,  I cut out the backbone and wingtips.  I save those in a freezer bag until I have enough to make chicken broth.  
Then I bag up each half chicken to freeze.   

The chicken breasts were about 1 pound each.  
Each one was put in a small bag by itself.  

These bags will probably last for 2 meals

ready to freeze 

there were 2 small packs of ground beef in our freezer.  
This meat store at our local university is only open on Friday afternoons.  
Their meat is raised on campus and packaged by students.  
Everything we’ve bought there has been first rate.  
My husband went today and bought 10 pounds of ground beef and a small ham.  

I’m happy to be so stocked up and don’t expect to need to buy meat again until after Christmas.  
But we do eat almost all of our meals at home so it may not last that long.  

I’m  still liking this Walmart great value dishwasher detergent.
It gets all the tea and coffee stains off.  
It just seems to do a really good job.
This measuring cup is a quarter cup because that’s what size I had to use as the scoop but we only fill it about a fourth full so I use about 1 tablespoon a load.

we got a new roof in the spring and the roofers did a great job.
They cleaned up, but apparently these nails fell into some of our garden beds that were overgrown and that we never cleaned out in the spring..
We did very little garden or yard work this year as my husband had back surgery. 

Anyway,  my husband and I did some garden cleanup this morning and found these nails down in some bushes.  
We had 4 inches or rain yesterday and our temperatures finally dropped into the 50s so it was pleasant outside and the soft ground made it easy to pull up stuff.  

I’m not an expert gardener by any stretch but I’m going to brag a bit on my jade plant.
  I bought it 5 years ago at Walmart and it was just  
 a little 3 or 4 inch pot.  
It stays on the patio in warm months and comes indoors during cold months.  
I put those nails in front of it for scale.  
It’s grown way bigger than I ever imagined.  


Hope you all have a really good weekend 
❤️ Rhonda