Posts Tagged cooking

My new favorite cooking trick is to cook up a bunch of ground beef or turkey in one pound batches and freeze it. It makes meal prep so easy! For example, tonight It was almost 8 pm and we hadn’t eaten dinner yet. But with some cans of beans and tomatoes and chili seasoning, I had homemade chili in about 15 minutes. Much easier than trying to thaw beef and cook it or cook it frozen.

Yes I know. Lack of blogging. Sorry. No one else seems to be much either. The only people reading this are probably people with google reader and my mom. Everyone else probably stopped checking in.

We have been eating out ridiculously lately. So today I tried to get back on the wagon. Lots of wagons actually. Cooking, menu planning, coupons, taking reusable grocery bags, buying organic and now blogging. All these things I think are important but am rarely able to do them with any consistency. So today I perused the freezer to see what we had, checked the balance in the grocery section of mvelopes, printed off some coupons, checked the HEB flyer for the current combo loco, and headed to the store with my list, coupons, and bags. I did pretty well, but one thing that I cannot seem to do well is actually eat what I buy. Some things we eat up fast, but there are so many things that just stay in our pantry and never get eaten. Like the case of chex mix bags that we bought at Sam’s.

Now I have a happy tummy, full of a meatball sub that was inspired by the meal at Kara’s for home group several weeks back. I have been dreaming of those meatball subs ever since then and I finally bought stuff to make them, after having to hunt all over HEB for the meatballs. Check back later this week for the recipe.

I checked out a new store the other day, Charming Charlie’s. My friend Jess raves about this accessory store where things are grouped by color. I thought it was only jewelry, since that is what she usually gets there. But no! It is all kinds of accessories including some super cute purses! I think I am going there next time I need a purse! I got a fun silver necklace and a pink beaded necklace with earrings. Since my ears aren’t pierced, the earrings will go to the first commenter who wants them. They are just dangly pink beaded earrings, really cute!

Now everyone go write a blog post so that we can start up blogging again!

Here are some good links I found lately:

From Simple Mom: Back to the Basics: 10 Recommended Kitchen Items

From Simple Mom: Back to the Basics: Batch Cooking ( I want to try this!)

Improve Your Posture (I need to do this!)

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