4-27-11

8:00am

Kids are having testing this week

at school and they are allowed

to bring in healthy snacks to munch on.

This is what I came up with-

celery filled with peanut butter

topped with cocoa puffs cereal

since they don't like raisins.

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10:35am



Ever since making sloppy joes
for Tony's potluck today the kids
now want sloppy joes for supper.
So today I scrounged around to
find ingredients in the pantry
and freezer to make some for supper.
Throwing all these ingredients
below except for the bread
into the crock pot.

3/4ths bottle of mild picante sauce- $1.00
1 pound deer burger- free
1 can tomato soup- .50 cents
mustard- free
dark brown sugar- .05 cents
garlic powder- .01 cent
loaf of French bread sliced- free

Now just set it and forget it
til supper time.

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Rain, rain, go away!

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For a snack tonight I made
some jazzed up snickerdoodles.
snickerdoodle cookie mix,
1 tablespoon orange zest,
and half a puck of Mexican chocolate grated.

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6:45pm


While out and about and almost
back home we saw a car get pulled
over by the police.  The funny thing
about this situation was that the car
pulled over was an old police car
probably purchased at an auction
that looked just like the regular
police car with the stripes on the side
minus the words police and the
badge on the door.


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Tomorrow for supper
we will be having chili dogs
using up some of the leftover
sloppy joe mix.  There's a bunch
leftover so at least half will go
into the freezer for another time
for maybe some chili mac.

So as you can see one pretty basic
recipe made in the crock
can then be divided up into
many container or zip bags and
put into the freezers for different meals.
You could also add more ingredients
to the mix at a later time such
as chili powder.
Using ground turkey is much cheaper
than using ground beef.
Ground turkey was around $1.19 at Aldis
for one pound.  I priced a pound of
ground beef at Kroger and it was
around $3.29 a pound.


Sloppy Joe Mix-


1.  sloppy joes
2.  chili dogs
3.  chili mac
4. chili 
5. tacos
6.  taco salad
7.  over rice
8.  use like a spaghetti sauce over pasta
9. dip for nachos or frito chips


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