BEDA #2 - mostly outdoor day

Hello everyone 

In the house,  I ran the self clean cycle on my ovens.  It took all day but I’m glad it’s done.  And it was a beautiful day so having the windows open was very pleasant.  

I had several frozen bags of chicken pieces and veggies scraps so I filled up the big crockpot and made a batch of chicken broth. 

It turned out so nice! 

If you want to see exactly how I do this  Homemade chicken broth 

The only cost is the electricity as it’s made with only scraps.  

I got an email from a company I work with occasionally.  

Right now,  I’m trying out a household product that most everyone uses and will get paid $90.  The company mailed me the products and I do short surveys explaining what I think of it.  

This email asked me to tell my family and friends about the research company.  

I do recommend them.  

I did not qualify for the survey in this email but I’m sharing it to show what their emails look like and that they do want people to sign up.  

I’m not positive but I’m guessing this is for  USA residents only.  

The company is www.esearch.com 

ESEARCH

I am not supposed to talk about the surveys I do but I can tell you I did another one in the fall. 

They sent me a months supply a cleaning type product and the next month they sent a different variety of the same cleaning product.  

I answered 2 short surveys for each and was paid $85 for that one.  

The cleaning product was something I buy and use anyway so besides the $85, I also didn’t need to buy that cleaning product.  

Outside,  I planted all the vegetable plants into raised beds.  

We’ve got tomato, potato, peas, green beans, asparagus, assorted peppers, broccoli and assorted lettuce in the ground now.  

Supper was just an easy meal -and I couldn’t cook on the stove as it was cooling down from the self clean cycle.  

My husband cooked hot dogs and hash browns outside on the grill.  

Our favorite dogs are Hebrew beef 97% fat free dogs.  


❤️ Rhonda 

April 1- Sheet pan supper and BEDA

Hello everyone 

It’s April 1st and my goal is to blog everyday in April- or BEDA

It may not happen but I’m going to try.  

I had some errands in the afternoon so I planned ahead for a supper that would be easy to complete.  

I decided to make a sheet pan meal like I see everywhere.  

I peeled and diced  the sweet potatoes and cut the asparagus into 2 inch pieces.  

For seasoning, I mixed together 

 2 t paprika

 1 t onion powder

 1 t sugar

 a few shakes of red pepper and garlic powder

 Salt and pepper to taste 

When I got home, I preheated the oven to 425. 

Then I mixed the sweet potato cubes with a tablespoon of olive oil and a small amount of purple onion and put them on a baking sheet and sprinkled with part of the seasoning,  

The potatoes baked for almost 20 minutes. 

I tossed the asparagus with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and sliced a package of Turkey smoked sausage.  

I added them to the potatoes and more seasoning and baked for 20 more minutes.  

It turned out so good! 

Most sheet pan recipes say put all the ingredients on the pan and cook all ingredients for the same length of time.  But sweet potatoes take longer to cook than asparagus and turkey sausage.  

And for these ingredients, I think it was best.  

Melanie  we are having an Easter gathering of some of our family.  The adults all have had Covid vaccines and I’m hopeful we can do it outside.  This will be our first family gathering since the  party back in Feb. 2020 

Valentines Gingerbread House

❤️Rhonda