menu stuff

I like trying to find some new recipes and I like this site that I found http://orgjunkie.com/. So while on the sight I found a link that gives you 40+ make ahead meals. http://www.melskitchencafe.com/2012/09/40-make-ahead-meals.html. So hopefully I will be looking at those a bit more later and use some of those recipes.

Nothing new really to post on here. Well besides trying to loose weight and so far I have lost 6lbs. as of 9-6-12 I am so excited about all that I have accomplished and can't wait to see what the future holds for me with more weight lost.

Kids are doing great. Sweetness is in 11th grade and its hard to wrap my head around that. She is an awesome young lady and I look forward to see what the future holds for her as she is going to rock this world. The Boy is in 9th grade and I can't accept that as well. He is growing up to be a great young man and trying to go into Trio Upward Bound for Snead State Community College. Grumpy is in 6th grade and loves middle school, she recently got glasses and looks so cute but only needs them while at school (looking at the board). Little Diva is in 4th grade and she also got glasses but wears them majority of the time just so she don't need to squint and omg she is so cute as well. Hubby is working hard at work. Growling is enjoying her new leach outside and runs and barks at everything outside. Well that is all the updates. Hope ya enjoy all of this, until next time, Laters.

meals

So me and hubby will be doing some grocery shopping this weekend and I am so tired of always figuring out what to eat for dinner so I found a site on Pinterest and its freezer cooking. That means you get all that you need fix most of the stuff and add them into a freezer bag and label it and then when you want to get dinner together you pull out the bag and add a few items and put it into the crock pot, now when I saw this I was trying to hit print. I love my crock pot and so I am going to make these recipes and possibly a few more and freeze the dinners.

I also started using my ipod app called fitnesspal and let me tell ya I love it so much. I am determine to loose 30 lbs before my next dr. appt. which should be in December. I am wanting to get off my meds as of now I am on 5 prescription meds and 1 over the counter fish oil pills. Yuck I hate meds., but there is always a plus about it and that would be I am now determine to loose this weight.

Well that is about all for now. That is until next time.

going to do...

I am going to start doing the menu planning from http://orgjunkie.com/ but I think as I am looking at this site I think I will try to do some freezer cooking though just to make my life a bit easier and with us heading into fall and the weather will be turning colder there is nothing like the house being warm with the oven going and the smell of goodness filling the air. So lets wish me luck on this adventure I will be on.
I do normally do my menu planning with what we have on hand but I like to try to find different things to make as recently I found out that my bad cholesterol is high, my thyroids are low, my hc1 level is only 2 point to high so I am now on medicine for all of this along with blood pressure medicine augh this isn't how my life is suppose to be. But if I loose some more weight then most of my problems shall go away, so fingers and toes cross.

pop tart recipe

With the price of things increasing this is nice to save some money and this is one I will be trying very soon. I feel there is nothing like homemade items to make the kids feel good.


Pop Tarts
3/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
3 3/4 cups flour
3 teas. baking powder
1/2 cup fruit preserves
FROSTING
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teas. vanilla
2 Tbls. milk
Preheat oven to 350F.
In mixer or food processor, cream shortening and sugar together
and then beat in the eggs, one at a time.
Sift together flour and baking powder and and stir into shortening
mixture to make a soft dough. Chill for 1 hr.
Turn dough out onto a floured surface and roll out 12 rectangles,
each 8 x 12 inches. Spread one tablespoon of preserves over half
of each rectangle, staying well within the edge of the pastry. Fold
pastry dough over the preserves and trim the edges with a pastry
wheel or crimp with a fork to close.
Place tarts on a greased cookie sheet and bake for 20 min. Let cool.
Mix vanilla, milk, and powdered sugar until you have a thin frosting.
Dribble frosting on cooled tarts.

Jury Duty

Yes that's right I got called to jury duty & I am not happy about it, I mean not only do I have to take hubby to work then get home to break up any fighting but then get kids out to wait for the bus (which is coming earlier) then I got cleaning, laundry & Thursday I got a doctor appt. like omg really jury duty along with all of my other fricken life jobs I need to do. So I will let ya know how it goes.