Sale at the Christmas Tree Shop and Joann's Fabric

Sale Items

Gardeners look out! I when to Christmas Tree store and I found amazing deals! I got 3 packs of seeds, (I’m freezing for next year’s garden), 1 box of asparagus roots, and 1 box of rhubarb root for under $5.

The seeds were what was on sale. Everything else I paid for price.

Then if those deals weren’t awesome enough I got a garden hat for less than $11 at Joann’s Fabric !

My hat to garden in!

Number of Items	What was bought	Amount I paid	Regular amount
3	Seed packets	$.99	$4.77
1	Asparagus roots	$2	$5
1	Rhubarb roots	$2	$5
1	Garden Hat	$11	$24
	Total	$15.99	38.77
	Savings	22.78

Cass's Peach Cobbler

 My daughter also wanted to make dessert tonight too. Win-win she can make dessert and I can start to get to work on the 44 peaches I bought.  Therefore I let her at the peach cobbler; I pulled up the recipe on the computer and let her at it.

Here is Cass's Peach cobbler
Recipe for peach cobbler  

 

• First she cut the peaches

 

The oven wasn't on only clean work area, I was right next to her.

• Then in a new bowl she add sugar

• Next came the bisquick and she mix the two together

• Then pinch the egg into the mixture

• Then she dropped them into the cooking bowl. 

• Then she cooked it. 

 

It tasted great. She will have a five star restaurant before she is 18.

Meanwhile, I got out the peach that got banged up in the ride home, and cut them in slices for jam in the future. I froze them. I also cut up a trays worth of peaches in chunks, and froze them. (They will be used for yogurt or smoothies in the future)

Jam peaches

chuck peaches for yogurt or smoothies

Can peaches

I put the rest in the frig. I'm hoping to be able to can peach in Friday!

Cass's Cheesy Chicken, Rice and Broccoli

Last night was my little ones turn to cook dinner. OK warning my daughter is 10. She has been cooking with me every day of her life! She a-little chef! She mastered eggs, (scrambled and boiled) grilled cheese, and Mac & cheese last year. 

So we let her pick a meal and cook it. She is in charge. My hubby or I am in the kitchen over seeing while doing something else so she feels trusted. 

Last night she make cheesy chicken rice and broccoli, Brussels sprouts,& bake beans. She did make all box meals but had to put them together and cook them. 

This teaches her do much! It teaches her to read the recipe, to follow directions, to cook (life skill that is need), timing. But most of all it give her self-esteem. Putting a meal that she made on the table had her beaming with pride! She knew she made a wonderful meal for her family.

Weekly Menu for June 4th- 11th

Our Weekly Menu is up!

 Honestly, I write a menu every week but I don't every follow it. Life happens and we are running around not having what was planned. We ended eating out 2x last week!! Hubby and I have an ongoing bet that we won't eat off the menu all week long.
Our weekly menu looks like this;

Monday
Cereal with raisins
PBJ, grapes, carrots
Cass's dinner- cheesy chicken and rice, Brussels sprouts, beans, and rolls

Tuesday Oatmeal & oranges
Spaghetti, bread, peaches
Beef stew

Wednesday
Pancakes, kiwis
Cass is buying, melted cheese sandwiches, grapes, mix veggies
Leftovers

Thursday
Eggs, toast with strawberry rhubarb jam
Cheesy chicken leftovers, Mac and cheese with mix veggies, apples
Shepard pie

Friday Homemade pop-tarts with smoothie http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/homemade-healthy-poptarts
Hot dogs, garden picked peas, garden picked mulberries
Grilled chicken, rest of baked beans, garden picked salad, baked potatoes

Saturday Cereal with garden pick mulberries and strawberries.
Lunch is up in the air because of the wedding. (Most likely leftovers)
Wedding dinner

Sunday
French toast with peach syrup
Tuna sandwiches, garden picked peas, bananas
Ribs, salad

Dessert- peach cobbler http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1737,153165-237194,00.html

I need your help with sticking to a menu!! The next day, I'll post dinner pictures of what was cooked. Let's prove Hubby wrong!!! What are you cooking for dinner? I love hearing about it to get ideas.

 The websites are were i got recipes from for those meals, and the green writing is the stuff i picked from my home garden.

Bottom Dollar Deals for 6/4/12

I'm posting about the deals I find and use!! Now I do follow moneysavingmom.com and forthemammas.com they have many stores and great deals. I will link them up and highlight great deals. But I'm only going to post deals I get.

Today was Bottom Dollar, this is one of my favorite stores. The have some great deals. The kiddies and I were off to there after the library.

The deals I got were

1. Maruchan Ramen Noodle soup $.20each.

I don't like eating this but they are a quick meal for my hubby on his days off while I'm working.

2. Mac and cheese $.45 a box

I love homemade Mac and cheese but these are so much cheaper. So I normal bump it up by adding 2 cups of veggies.

3. Peaches $.67 a pound

I stocked up on these! I think all together there are 44 peaches. Yes I know thats a lot but I got so many to can.

Now I got many other thing I need milk eggs, bread, rolls, dinner's for my little one to make, and some other need house things.

All for under $50, therefore I'm happy and hubby is happy. Saving money is great for us. There is at least a week of meals in here for my family. But as you see in the weekly menu. I not going to plan this all for this week!

This sale ends Wednesday!

Monthly grocery bill $47.16.

My goal is to spend under $150 a month. (That's 83 breakfasts, 83 lunches, and 47 dinners. This number are different because of my nanning, hubby gets feed at work and child custody agreements changes everything)

Cass's Garden Box

I have many gardens all around the house! The reason being I love gardening. I love planting things and watching them grow, looking at them when they are in full bloom, and producing food and herbs for my family.

The garden saves me hundreds of dollars during the gardening seasons. My most favorite part of gardening is weeding! I know lots of people disagree, but I think of all the stressful things going on in my life and I just pull them out! It helps me a lot because there are many stressful things in my life I would love to pull out of my life but can't!

Come garden with me!! It will be fun. Let me know what you are planting and any ideas and suggestion are welcome.

Today I'm working in one of the garden boxes in the back yard! Cass’s box. This is the only box in on my property that isn't going to be used for food or medical propose. This box was planted 3 years ago so my daughter would have a place to pick flowers. I'm not even sure what I planted in here, therefore once the plants bloom I'll go to Low's and check what types they are. The only things I remember are daisy. I am planning to plant sunflowers and raspberry zinnias in the garden today, but as you can see I have not even weed this box yet this year! Here are the steps I'm going to take to plant the sunflowers.

Steps to planting Cass Garden

1. Weed the garden! (this will take some time but so needed)

See my angle. She is helping, but only for her garden though!!

2. Pick out the seeds I want to use

       I need to add dirt to level out the garden boxes

3. Read the direction on the packet and follow them.

4. Dig the little hole.

5. Plant 2 seeds in each hole

Mark were the seeds are (I normal use a stick)

6. Then cover the seeds with dirt

7. Then water, but I didn't need to because it rained!! (I love the rain it, I don't have to water the plants!!)

Last I pray that the seeds grow

Now the box will be ready in a few weeks, my daughter will be picking flowers for her room! She loves it!!

What do you have growing? What at your favorite plants.

Weekly Menu

My Menu I will be posting recipe if you ask for them and I will post some picture throughout the week!

Nov 11 - Friday
Blueberry Muffins ~ out of freezer (Breakfast)
Spagetties Os (Lunch)
Stroganoff (Dinner)

Nov 12 - Saturday
Pumpkin Gingersnap Cookies (Freezer Cooking)
Pumpkin Pancakes (Freezer Cooking)
Pumpkin Pancakes (Breakfast)
Fruit Salad (Weekly Fruit)
Tossed Salad (Weekly Salad)
Leftover (Lunch)
Chicken Potato (crock-pot Recipe) (Dinner)

Nov 13 - Sunday
Leftover

Nov 14 - Monday
Pumpkin Pancakes ~OOF (Breakfast)
Chicken Noodle Soup~ OOF(Lunch)
Meatloaf (Dinner)

Nov 15 - Tuesday
French Toast (Breakfast)
Taco Salad (Lunch)
Chicken Pram (Dinner)

Nov 16 - Wednesday
Muffin ~OOF (Breakfast)
Chicken Nuggets (Lunch)
Leftovers (Dinner)

Nov 17 - Thursday
Egg Sandwich ~ OOF(Breakfast)
Tuna Crackers (Lunch)
Taco Dip W/ Chips (Dinner)

Nov 18 - Friday
Cereal (Breakfast)
Broccoli Cheddar Soup ~ OOF (Lunch)
Bread Pork Chops (Dinner)

Nov 19 - Saturday
Egg Sandwich ~ OOF (Breakfast)
Hot Pockets ~ OFF (Lunch)
Cassi Cooking (Dinner)

Nov 20 - Sunday
Leftovers
 
Personal note ~ OOF are things I cooked already and froze so I have healthy home cooked meals for my family. Also I do not cook or do any work on Sunday. Sunday is for church and church actives. 

What are you cooking up this week?