Tag: homemade

Groceries Gone Wild!

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Oh my goodness! It’s the beginning of a new month and I just sat down to do my monthly orders plus place my weekly grocery order and I about fell off the kitchen stool when I saw the totals in my carts!

SERIOUSLY! I moved to the dining table so the fall wouldn’t be as bad and where I could settle in with a fresh cup of coffee and figure out what the ‘essentials’ also were and make sure to cut out the ‘extras’ which have already been pretty slim on my budget.

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Oily Chat – February

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I haven’t really talked a lot about essential oils lately but they are still a big part of our lives. I had gotten away from the boxes that I used to receive from Simply Earth but I have signed up again as the quality of the oils I’ve been getting from other places just isn’t as good.

I love lemongrass and lavender but Mr. Awesome prefers the grapefruit and other citrus scents.
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Peanut Butter Icing

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This is so good and it is often requested in our home for birthdays and such but for some reason, I’ve just never posted the recipe but here it is now…

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Granny’s Red Beans and Rice

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Mr. Awesome loves his Momma’s Red Beans and Rice, This is the recipe, as she wrote it down for us. I know I have a DIY version of the boxed mix but I’ll have to look it up later and edit this post when I find it. This is one of those meals that is even better the next day.

Granny’s Red Beans & rice

As written down by Granny 😊

Ingredients:

  • 1 box of Zatarain’s Red Bean Mix
  • 3 bouillon + 6 cups water
  • 1 pound Jimmy Dean ground sausage, cooked and crumbled
  • 2-3 links Nettles sausages, cooked and sliced into rounds
  • (1 c. rice)**

Directions:

Add to crockpot. Cook on low until done.

 (high for 4-6 hours or low 6-8 hours)

**I use 1 cup (uncooked) rice to fill crock pot up.

I also like to use a little onion and Bell or sweet peppers.

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Easy Pulled Pork

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This recipe is so easy to put together and it is one of my oldest daughter’s favorites.

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