Last Saturday I was feeling pretty homemaker-y and I decided to get my kitchen all in order. This post is to chronicle that yes, I can be a kick butt house wife. I have my moments.. And this was one.
Our family is the worst for being lazy when it comes to making meals, so I decided it was time for me to stock my freezer with ready to eat food. NOW.
We have been crazy over sweet potatoes lately and I have been trying to think of new ways to use them. I shredded up a few to make Sweet Potato Hash Browns to put in our freezer and use as a quick add on to eggs for breakfast!
I cooked 12 (12!!!) cups of brown rice and quinoa and put them in individual serving bags and put them in the freezer. I got the idea from Trader Joe's (LOVE that place! I have been known to force my family to drive an hour and a half to find one when we are on vacation in AZ since they don't have a ton of locations) anyways they sell individual pre-cooked brown rice bags that all you do is throw them in a pot and re heat or microwave them for 3 minutes and voila! rice is ready! (As opposed to waiting 45 + mins for brown rice to cook on the stove.. which I obviously don't have time to do seeing as I'm a stay at home with 1 baby who sleeps all the time)
I made an olive oil spritzer to replace my non stick aerosol spray can (They are filled with tons of chemicals including petroleum gas, propane, and butane... No thanks!) I got the idea from Pinterest, and yes the picture I pinned was 100x cuter than this humungo spray bottle but hey it was a dollar at the dollar store and we are on a budget my friend!
Okay so I might be turning into my mom but a HUGE pet peeve of mine is when I just get back from the grocery store and I've stocked the fridge with tons of good healthy food and Ry wanders into the kitchen and complains that there is nothing to eat (Are you kidding me!) So I decided to make a list of things we have to eat, so that I don't have to hear the phrase "There's nothing to eat" again. I've been updating it after I go grocery shopping to add/take off items but for the most part I buy the same types of things so it has worked out good!
Our Pinterest recipe of the week this week was this Vegetable Tian which I had seen pinned and repinned by everybody for months! The flavour was awesome but I wasn't sold on the recipe just because the vegetables turned out slightly mushy. The recipe can be found HERE
On a side note...
Our sweet little Cambree bug had her 2 month shots last week and after hearing everybody's horror stories I was ready for a long day of tears and a fussy baby.. But she did awesome! She cried for about 20 seconds while they were giving her the shots and then SHE FELL ASLEEP! She slept most of the day and that was that! We are so lucky to have such a good little girl.. But it kind of scares me because I worry the karma gods are going to curse me with a little devil baby next time around!
Anyways, thats all from this domestic diva!
Car :)
