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 ❤️

CVS coupon shopping - small haul

This week’s CVS deals were not the biggest bargains ever but I got good prices on things we need.

I started the week with $34 in CVS bucks from previous purchases.

I used some personal coupons from scanning my CVS card at the CVS red box coupon machine and price checker. 

The $3 Eucerin coupons were printed from coupons.com and I believe are still available.

The .25 Charmin coupons are from last Sunday’s paper.  

When I shop at CVS, I look for deals that give back ExtraCareBucks.  

Below are today’s purchases 

Before coupons it would of been about $63 ( very high I know, and that’s why I only shop at CVS sales with coupons)

After coupons it was $14 

I have $29 for the next sale and should also earn some Beauty Bucks that will show up in my account in a few days. M

I was especially happy to get more of this Eucerin skin calming cream.  

I have very dry itchy winter skin and this cream truly makes it all better.  I’ve only been using it a couple weeks but my legs and arms are soft and smooth now, never itchy anymore and in my opinion, my skin looks younger. 

I shared some with 2 grands that also have winter skin issues and they both like it.    Their mom says their skin is doing much better with this cream.