Our schedule for this week includes swim team practice on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and baseball games on Wednesday and Friday. As you can imagine this means that we are extremely busy. I anticipated this season of busy enough to try a couple of new quick and easy food tricks this week. I am so excited to report that they worked!
Breakfast is always a big deal at our house. We all enjoy eating breakfast but also like a lot of variety. I saw that Harris Teeter had “egg in a cup” on sale for $1.67 each this week. That gave me an idea and after a little bit of research on the internet, I made my own “breakfast bags” Zach fried up a pound of sausage while I diced green peppers and onions. I placed 1/8 cup of peppers, 1/8 cup of onions and ¼ cup in a snack bag, in the freezer they went. My plan was to stir a couple of eggs in a cup drop in the bag contents. This week we have decided that you need at least 2 and usually 3 eggs if you chose to add cheese to the mixture. In the microwave for 1.5 minutes or you can also add the bag to a frying pan and stir. Zach was unable to eat 2 eggs for breakfast so we decided to separate his bag in half and that seems to work well for one egg. We also have some breakfast burritos in the freezer. These simple omelets are a huge hit. HUGE win for quick and cheap breakfast on the run.
Kendall and Zach take their lunches to school every day, at this point in the school year, we are tired and really want something new and fun for lunch. Both Kendall and Zach love uncrustables and we have been able to purchase on sale several times this school year, however at fifty cent each on sale this is an expensive lunch. I had heard of several folks making homemade ones and again after some research decided to try it. I was a little worried at first about needing some special way to seal the outside, however after using one of our glasses to make the circle I was pleasantly surprised to learn that by using the glass it sealed the sandwich. Kendall says that these taste better than the store bought ones. I spent sixty-cent on a loaf of bread for these but otherwise have the peanut butter and grape jelly already in my pantry from sales. I was able to make 8 sandwiches at the average cost of ten cent or less each! I am planning to make another batch of these this weekend!
Lily hand painted the knobs on the dressers and the sign.
Painted this shelf so it would match and he clean out and organized all his toys! The entire bottom row is nerf guns and at least 2 of the boxes have Nerf accessories in them as well.
Trophy shelf and custom hat rack also thanks to Matt
Final look at his bedding. Hopefully my mother can make a matching curtain.
