Strawberry Adventures

We are blessed to live in an area where food is plentiful! We are surrounded by strawberries, blueberries, peanuts, and so many other small farm operations. I am thankful for this proximity to "the country" so I can raise my kids to know where their food comes from.

Last year Raylen sat in the fields and ate berry after berry to his hearts' content. This year, he got to help pick! that was so much fun! By next year, we will have all three of them running around picking [mostly eating] berries!

This great little farm is only 20 minutes from our house and is the perfect drive for a fun trip every couple of weeks. I hope we get to take advantage of it this summer!

Stay tuned for recipes we plan to use our strawberries for. These include strawberry pie, chocolate covered strawberries, and strawberry ice cream!!

Some other recipes we like are strawberry lemonade, strawberry shortcake, and freezer jam. I am hoping to stock my freezer with jam so that I don't have to buy any from the store this year! We shall see.

March Grocery Haul Week 3

This week I should be coming in at a total of about $60 spent on around $95 worth of wholesome and some stock up groceries!!

Here's what we are eating for dinner:

Meatless Monday: Creamy Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna

Taco Tuesday: Beef Tacos

Whatever Wednesday: @ Mom's or leftovers

Italian Thursday: Salmon with Mango Salsa and Rice (or quinoa)

[We are having fish Thursday since Friday is date night.]

Fish Friday: DATE NIGHT

Grillin' Saturday: Homemade Bun-less Burgers with slaw and Baked Potato Bar

Soup Sunday: Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese

Here is what we are having this week for lunch.

I am trying to be better about planning lunches and this is my first week actually writing it out. let's see if we can stick to it.

Kyle

Monday: OOT

Tuesday: OOT

Wednesday: OOT

Thursday: Wrap and Fruit

Friday: Burrito Bowls

Saturday: Egg Salad Sandwiches

Sunday: Eat out

Shani and Raylen

Monday: Leftovers

Tuesday: Leftover Lasagna

Wednesday: Quesadillas

Thursday: Wraps

Friday: Burrito Bowls

Saturday: Egg Salad Sandwiches

Sunday: Eat out

There's the plan for the week! If you have any recipe ideas, please send them my way. I am always looking to try new ones.

Happy saving and see y'all next time!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Our favorite treat are these delicious homemade cookies! They are so fast and easy to make and a whole lot better for you than store bought ones (at least I tell myself that).

Here is the full recipe.

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened to room temperature

1/2 - 3/4 cup peanut butter

1 egg

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. vanilla

1-1/2 c flour

1 (12 oz) bag chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 F.

In your mixer bowl, or other bowl, cream together the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, and cane sugar.

Beat in 1 egg.

Add baking soda and vanilla. Mix.

Add half the flour. Mix.

Add the rest of the flour. Mix

Stir in chocolate chips.

Scoop spoonfuls of dough onto trays lined with sil-mats or baking paper.

Bake for 10-15 minutes (based on your preference of gooey vs crunchiness).

Grab a tall glass of ice cold whole milk and ENJOY!