Meal Plan

Two weeks without blogging...I can't believe it myself; where did the time go. I am so sorry that I haven't been blogging as much lately as usual but life has gotten busy. We also got a new computer so I am trying to learn how to get my pictures on here so I can blog with them.

I have also fallen off the pattern of blogging with the nicer weather now but don't worry I am still around and still creating and I have lots to share with you lovely readers. Some times as bloggers we don't think that many people are reading what we write because there are hardly any comments left but its days like last Friday when a wonderful reader announced to a crowd of people how much she loved my blog that makes me jump back on the blog wagon!!

So here is what I am cookin up this week

Monday: Spaghetti and garlic bread

Tuesday: Something on the grill (Kebabs)

Wednesday: Spaghetti pizza

Thursday: Taco salad

Friday: Picnic in the car (rice burritos)

Saturday: Wedding

Sunday: Fathers day


For more great ideas check out Laura's site

Quesadillas

Today's frugal Friday is a great meal idea. Quesadillas are one meal idea that I just haven't thought about until my friend Genieve whipped some up for us when we were visiting with them a couple of weekends ago. There are lots of different variations you can make depending on whats in your fridge; which makes this meal very frugal! For our Quesadilla we enjoyed the other night I started out with left over rice and added a can of maple beans, red peppers, salsa and a bit of melted cheese whiz.

Then I placed the mixtureo onto tortillas and sprinkled with cheese. Baked at 350 for 10 minutes or so and ta da!!
Fast and Frugal meal that can be enjoyed with sour cream, salsa and maybe a side salad. These puppies are defintaly going on my meal plan for the summer.

For more frugal ideas check out Life as mom

My yard sale find

This past Saturday the babe and I went out yard sale shopping. I found some great stuff but my favorite find is this thing!! I am not sure if it has a proper name so I will call it the easy drink server! That's right readers it is a long stick with 4 slots to place glasses in and serve them to your guest.


That afternoon I put it to work by offering my dear husband a cold glass of water! I can't wait to have company over so I can use it! hehe..

drying muffin cups

So ever since finding out about these great silicon muffin cups I have been making muffins once a week for us to enjoy at breakfast!


The only pain in the butt to these cups is getting them to dry. They would fill up our dish rack and were awkward to dry...that's until my very bright husband came up with this idea. After he washed them up he laid them on a cookie sheet and placed them in the oven at 200 to dry for about 10 minutes.


This trick has been great for getting the cups washed, dried and put away!

For more kitchen tips check out Tammy's recipes

Meal Plan

So here is my last meal plan for the month of May. I can't believe it has gone by so quickly! So here is what we are cookin up

Monday: Sweet and Sour sausages

Tuesday: Pita, pork souvlaki and salad

Wednesday: sandwiches

Thursday: Pizza, garlic bread

Friday: Pork chops, baked potatoes and salad

Saturday: Either BBQ steak or out to supper.

For more great meal plans check out Laura's site

Make your own grocery bags!!

Here is a re-post on how to make your own grocery bags; these directions may come in more handy now that they are charging you to buy plastic bags here at one grocery store!

These hand bags were made from old T-shirts. Most often it turns out whenever I attend events I am usually left with an over sized T-shirt that I can only wear when 9 months pregnant. Some of these T-shirts are really nice and I just find that they sit in the closet or get used as rags. It wasn't until one day my good friend Laura told me that she had been making re usable grocery bags out of old T-shirts with a quick search on Google I found the directions and it became my number 2 sewing project. Here is how they turned out.

They can be used at the grocery store to put your groceries in. One thing they suggest in the directions is not loading them up with really heavy stuff like jugs of milk.
With the remaining scraps from the sleeves I put in a inside pocket on the inside back of the bag. This will be useful to put my grocery list, pen, calculator or anything else I may need to take to the store.

These bags may also be used for a diaper bag for when I am just running some quick errands. All my belongs plus some diapers (its big enough for the cloth diapers) and wipes can be placed in here. I also made this beautiful purple bag out of my favorite ZOOM T-shirt. I will be using this one as a purse as I made the handles a little larger to put over my shoulder.



For more frugal ideas check out life as mom and don't forget to check out my announcement post yesterday about my new Etsy shop!!

The annoucement you have been waiting for!!

First let me start this post off by reminding you all that 1. I am not pregnant and 2. I didn't sign a cookbook contracted. Today I want to let all my readers know that I have started my own Etsy shop!! For those of you who are like "Etsy...what is that"?? Well let me tell you Etsy is an online site that allows people to buy and sell things homemade!!


After posting about starting up a card company called Scatter Joy Cards. I realized with the flood of emails that not all my readers have excesses to buy my cards. So I have been working on this site (long with hubby who did such a wonderful job putting together my banner!!) to offer my readers a chance to enhance the Kingdom of God by buying from our mission based card company!!



Our mission statement is on the site but just to give a little bit more information about us is that we are using our gifts (our talents) to enhance the kingdom of God by allowing all profits to go towards missions. That's missionaries and mission trips; so every card bought really does make a difference. Also the cool thing about our little on line shop is that we will send the card to the recipient with a personalized message from you (kind of like a flower shop). All you have to do is provide us with the message you want and we will hand write it in and the mailing address....pretty cool eh!

Please come on over to scatterjoycards.etsy.com to check out our selection...which isn't big right now we are just testing the water here!! But we have lots more in stock so don't hesitate to buy!! Hope to hear your feed back (good or bad)!