I don't have a monthly or a weekly menu plan! Since we just got back from an awfully expensive trip I am trying to hold out going to the store as long as I can. We got home October 24th, so it will be two weeks tomorrow. I have gone to the store twice to get some basics, milk, bread, eggs and fruit. I went today to get snacks for movie night and eggs and a few other household items like a furnace filter only to come home and find out we had 28 eggs outside in the coop! The chickens have either been laying double time or our daughter has been forgetting to get them. I will let you guess which. We were able to bless someone with two dozen eggs so it worked out wonderfully.
What have we been eating you ask?
Salisbury steaks, mashed potatoes and corn
Pizza-- twice
A ham steak and scalloped potato casserole-twice
Ranch chicken thighs with roasted potatoes and green beans (a new favorite!)
Spaghetti with meat sauce
Easy Red Enchiladas with beef and topped with an egg (YUM)
White turkey chili-twice
Rump Roast, mashed potatoes and green beans-twice
Sandwiches
Broccoli Soup
Breakfasts have been:
Instant Oatmeal
Chorizo and eggs
Pancakes
Lunches have been:
Left overs
Spam Sandwiches (Sam's favorite)
PB&J's
Pizza
I am using a lot of my pantry items and stuff form my freezer. I think I am going to see how long I can go before doing a big shopping trip....just for fun. Of course not sacrificing nutrition. I have a ton of pork left from when we butchered our pig, but I have to say I am not a fan of fresh ham steaks and I have a lot of them and fresh bacon and ham roasts. I don't know what to do with them, maybe smoke them??
Friday, November 6, 2015
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Off to Brownwood!!!!
The day had finally arrived! We had this trip planned for a year and the day to leave was here! We were planning to be gone for a month or maybe more. I had arranged my work schedule in a way that I didn't have to be back to work until November 14th. We left on October 8th so we had lots of time to do and see whatever we wanted. We have never been able to take a trip anything like this. I think our longest vacation ever was 11 days and that was our wedding, almost 15 years ago. And I wouldn't even call it a vacation. It was mostly wedding prep, we didn't even go on a honeymoon. The runner up vacation was a trip to San Antonio, we were there for 5 days I think but we had 6 kids, 4 of them foster children. I think I can say we have never had a real vacation, but we have gone places.
The girls were so excited to go. Rhileigh, who is my child that is not a morning person sprung out of bed that morning! It was great to see them so excited. The really cool part about this trip is that we just got finished studying the Mid-Atlantic states and they had a poster board project they had to do. The project required them to plan an imaginary trip to the Mid-Atlantic states, map out three places they would like to visit, find pictures online of the places and describe what they would see and do at each location. They didn't have to imagine it, they got to actually go to the places! It was perfect and accidental, really. We bought them each a camera to document the trip and take pictures of whatever they wanted to. They took a lot of pictures of squirrels. A little side story for you: We were in Washington D.C. surrounded by all things that make up Washington D.C., incredible buildings, history, it really is an amazing place to visit. As we were walking down the street there was a family stopped on the sidewalk and as we walked closer we saw that their kid was feeding two squirrels and they were really, really close to the boy feeding them. Half and arm's length I'd say. The girls could hardly stand it they were so excited by this! We watched for a while and then thanked the family for making not only our kid's day but their whole trip! Anyway, back to the school project. Poor Harper left her camera in a Cab in D.C. But, we took enough pictures for her to choose from.
We had a bit of crock pot drama......
The girls were so excited to go. Rhileigh, who is my child that is not a morning person sprung out of bed that morning! It was great to see them so excited. The really cool part about this trip is that we just got finished studying the Mid-Atlantic states and they had a poster board project they had to do. The project required them to plan an imaginary trip to the Mid-Atlantic states, map out three places they would like to visit, find pictures online of the places and describe what they would see and do at each location. They didn't have to imagine it, they got to actually go to the places! It was perfect and accidental, really. We bought them each a camera to document the trip and take pictures of whatever they wanted to. They took a lot of pictures of squirrels. A little side story for you: We were in Washington D.C. surrounded by all things that make up Washington D.C., incredible buildings, history, it really is an amazing place to visit. As we were walking down the street there was a family stopped on the sidewalk and as we walked closer we saw that their kid was feeding two squirrels and they were really, really close to the boy feeding them. Half and arm's length I'd say. The girls could hardly stand it they were so excited by this! We watched for a while and then thanked the family for making not only our kid's day but their whole trip! Anyway, back to the school project. Poor Harper left her camera in a Cab in D.C. But, we took enough pictures for her to choose from.
We had a bit of crock pot drama......
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
I'm Back!!
Back to the Blog and back to real life. We took an epic road trip, that was dubbed the "OCD Road Trip," traveling from New Mexico to Boston! My husband's mom wanted to see the changing of the leaves, it was a bucket list kinda of thing for her. So, we left on October 8th, headed for Texas to meet up with Sam's mom and niece then we started out on our trip. The original plan was to go to Maine but, somehow that changed to Salem, MA. We made stops in Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Washington D.C., and Salem of course. Once our time with his mom and niece was up we continued on with our little family. We went to Boston, back to Washington for another day then to New Jersey to visit my family I haven't seen in a decade, then we headed to Mississippi to visit our daughter, her boyfriend and our grandson. We had planned on making two more stops in Texas before heading home but the hurricane (Patricia?) cut our plans short. We were on the road for 17 days and honestly I was ready to come home anyway so it worked out!
I vlogged the whole thing and will be sharing it with you! This first video is us prepping to leave. I had the great idea (I am saying "great idea" in a mix of, it really was a good idea and sarcasm) of cooking food in a crock pot along the way to save money and to be able to eat healthier on our trip. I told my husband my idea and he loved the idea and put a two battery system and inverter on Dav (said, Dave, he is our van) so we could do it. I have to say it wasn't my idea, I saw it on Pinterest, it really is a good idea, it was just harder to pull off than I thought. I got some other good ideas on Pinterest too, you'll have to watch to find out what they are.....
I vlogged the whole thing and will be sharing it with you! This first video is us prepping to leave. I had the great idea (I am saying "great idea" in a mix of, it really was a good idea and sarcasm) of cooking food in a crock pot along the way to save money and to be able to eat healthier on our trip. I told my husband my idea and he loved the idea and put a two battery system and inverter on Dav (said, Dave, he is our van) so we could do it. I have to say it wasn't my idea, I saw it on Pinterest, it really is a good idea, it was just harder to pull off than I thought. I got some other good ideas on Pinterest too, you'll have to watch to find out what they are.....
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