Weekend meals

Hello everyone

5 of our grands were here a good part of this weekend so I tried to plan meals ahead. 

At Aldi, I got celery and strawberries.  We all like raw celery with peanut butter, or spreadable cheese or just plain. 

The strawberries were on sale and were so good!  They smelled like ripe berries in the store and at home, I was amazed they were very sweet and flavorful.  See how they are shaped kind of long and pointed? I don’t know if that denotes their variety or what but they were just delicious! 

I got a couple containers of donuts at Aldi as the grands like them for a treat or dessert.

And I almost always keep ready to eat bananas, especially when grands are here.  

We are all fans of orange Jello with lots of mandarin oranges.

Friday night meal was goulash, asparagus and bagged Asian salad.  

Saturday breakfast was eggs, sausage, toast and fruit. 

Saturday lunch was pizzas on Naan bread- decorated by the children.  

Saturday supper was grilled chicken tenderloins and turkey sausage

 homemade macaroni and cheese, fruit and jello 

Sunday breakfast was cinnamon toast, bacon, scrambled eggs and fruit.  The 3 year grandson was so proud that he got to shake the cinnamon sugar on to the bread.  

Thrifty tip 

When I cleaned the celery, I saved the scrappy pieces in a plastic bag.  I added the onion peels from the goulash.    

I labeled them and they will stay in the freezer until th next time I cook a chicken in the crockpot.  

I’ve got some more to post but my blogging app is not happy doing long posts so I’ll add the rest on another post later.

Have a good Monday everyone ❤️

March meals and other home things

I made this list for the fridge,  it’s my version of menu planning.

After we shopped,  I wrote down meals I could think of that could be prepared with ingredients we have on hand.  

I don’t think I’ll cook all these things in March but this gives me a daily aid to decide what to cook as the month goes on.  

One of the first meals of the month was a whole chicken cooked in the crockpot.  I just put the plain whole chicken with onion and celery scraps in the crockpot and covered it with water.  It cooked about 5-6 hours. 

The chicken was so moist and tender 😋

If you want good broth,  make your own. 

That simple cooking method made the best, flavorful chicken broth and it wasn’t full of salt like most canned varieties.  

With that broth and some of the chicken,  I cooked a bag of noodles in the broth and added diced potatoes, chicken and some frozen vegetables.

It was so good with the homemade broth and made 3 meals for us.  

This shrimp is from Aldi and I think it’s ones of their special items and not something they will carry all the time.  It was $4.79 at my Aldi. 

I cooked it just like the package said and served it on top of hot rice. 

It was just delicious and tasted like a good restaurant meal.  

If you like an easy meal every so often, we highly recommend them.

It’s also nice to find convenience foods that aren’t just highly processed too.  

BEFORE 

In February, I did a few organizing tasks.  

The silverware drawer was so full and very unorganized.  I really had just got frustrated with it wasn’t even trying to keep it organized. 

And sorry about the horrible photo quality ........

AFTER

After a lot of downsizing,  this drawer is functional and not frustrating anymore,  

Having dividers helps but I think the real key to organization is not having too much stuff.  

SEWING 

Am I the last seamstress to make one of the quick table runners?  I think they are called 20 minute runners and there are tutorials all over Pinterest and YouTube.  I made this one for Valentine’s Day.  

If a person can follow directions and sew on any level, they could successfully sew up this runner.  

I was scrolling through Instagram one morning while grandson JJ sat by me.  

He got bug-eyed when this photo came by and said 

“That’s not right, that’s just cray-cray” 

I think this little terrarium is rather cute and shows it’s OK to just use what you have.  

Thank you for visiting  🏠 

Hope you all have a great week ❤️