Dipped Preztel rods

We have such a great time making chocolate dipped pretzel rods!

TFL DebDuzScrappin

Kids - mini pizzas

Nummy mini pizzas using pop-open biscuits pressed into muffin tins. Added sauce and pizza toppings. Kids luved the little personal pizzas.


The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

OMAC - Once a Month cooking....ahhhhh

Ahhhh it's been a great day! I now have roughly 30 meals in the freezer set for the month! You have no idea how happy this makes me. I struggle daily with getting home from work and wondering what I should cook for dinner...and then getting it together before we have to run out do sporting activities and have it ready when we return.



I just got my freezer all cleaned out last weekend and had space available and decided to tackle this fabulous cooking adventure...So roughly $225 and 6 hours later I have 30+ meals made and ready to pull from freezer...that comes to about $7.50 per meal. A number of these meals are too big for it all to be eaten in a single setting, so the leftovers will feed hubby a number of lunches as well.

Some of the meals require a lil prep work like cooking the sides, others are complete meals for just tossing in the oven and being ready when we get home....ahhhh heaven!!!

So what did I make you ask?

Chicken Tetrazinni (2)
Ham slices (4)
Ham chunks (1) for adding to our favorite pasta sauce not pre-made
Chicken (precooked) (3) for adding to enchiladas or other dishes
Taco pie
Ham & Swiss pastry pie
Aztec quiche
Chicken Broccoli
Baked ham & eggs
Taco meat (2)
Chicken Packets
Sloppy joes (2)
Chinese Chicken morsels
Oriental Chicken chunks
Sausage & wild rice
Chicken & wild rice
Brisket & gravy for sandwiches
Marinated round steak
Poulet de France
Bird's Nest pie
Chicken fajitas (2)
Chili

Most of the recipes are from the Once-A-Month-Cooking cookbook by Mimi Wilson & MaryBeth Lagerborg- (looks like they have a new version of this book out now and my old copy is no longer in print)....I didn't follow the book to the T - I picked out the recipes I think my family will eat and then figured out the rough amounts of ingredients to create them all and hit the grocery store on Friday to buy the goods. Saturday I cooked up all the chicken and made chili and fajitas and put the Brisket in the crockpot and pulled out ground elk for thawing. Sunday I made the rest of the meals.

I have done this before - back when I was first pregnant and was trying to prep for the birth of my first kiddo to arrive...worked great back then, don't know why I didn't do it sooner!! I think I will research a few more recipes between now and my next adventure and do a repeat to keep me stress free (okay well maybe just less stress...)!!!

Recipe - Low carb Pizza....yummers!!

So now that I can eat a little more food, I have been dying to try this low carb pizza that I found the recipe online for...

here is the link:
Cauliflower Pizza Crust recipe

You can't even taste the cauliflower and I told the kids that this was healthier pizza and they are like "but it just tastes like normal pizza" uhhh yeh that is the point!!

I did notice a fair amount of water that came from the cauliflower as I riced it, I would recommend letting the riced mixture sit in a strainer for a bit to drain all the liquid out. I actually did 1 head of cauliflower and it made 5 dinner plate sized pizzas. I cooked up two tonight and will freeze the others for a little later.

debduzscrappin'

Recipe - Low carb Nacho chips....

These look yummy yummy and if prepared just right - could work on my diet here before too long!!

The chips are made from zucchini or cauliflower...go here for the recipe and how to!!

Check this out...Egg & Bacon on a Stick Recipe

Ran across this when looking up a different recipe.

If you wanna see the full recipe, check out MrBaconPants.com

On that site they have named this lovely high fat protein snack as:

The Heart Attack Snack

Items needed:

• Eggs
• Mayonnaise
• Bacon
• Kabob sticks

Yummers!! I am sure a real hit for those folks on Atkins!!