It's been a busy week here on the farm!!
Wednesday we continued on our CAT5 test and spent the afternoon on a field trip at The Evergreens, a Christmas tree farm owned by my friend and fellow homeschooler Jamie. We learned about insects and creepy crawlies. (Did you know insects and bugs aren't the same thing??? Actual BUGS have an X on their back, everything else is an insect??) I really wish I would have gotten some pictures, but we were having too much fun. (And now I have to make the boys some insect nets to catch their own!) It was very interesting learning about the different ones too, like how to distinguish a female from a male cricket. Thanks for the fun Jamie!!
Yesterday was a busy day as Thursdays usually are. I spend the morning baking, then off to market in the afternoon. (It was a REALLY DEAD market day, unfortunately.) My daughter also sold her car that the insurance company totaled (due to an accident in January... a lady was texting and driving and hit her. The body repairs were expensive enough they totaled the car.) Her dad bought it for a daily driver, so he came to get it last night so I had to be home for that since she was working. (She has been saving up, and after she FINALLY got the insurance check, bought a REALLY NICE car - all by herself!) Proud Mom moment!!
Fridays I don't work, and didn't have a whole lot planned. Scrappy has been working on finishing his CAT5. Monkey and I are working on letters and sounds. He was really getting in to his favorite ABC YouTube video today!
We did some signing practice with Jack Hartman, which is another of his favorites.
We changed up PE a little today. Mama needed a workout, so I went to split some wood.
And the boys got to stack it up. It was pretty warm in the barn today!
And we did!
And now on to the Pantry Challenge for the last couple days!!
Here's what we ended up with on Tuesday night....
I had leftover chicken thighs for later, and Hubs took one of the peppers to work for lunch. We also had squash for leftovers.
Wednesday for lunch we had leftovers. Hubs called me before he left work to see if I needed anything from the store when he stopped to get his Coke. He remembered I was doing a budget/freezer challenge. I said only if cheese is on sale!
He called me 20 minutes later - cheese WAS on sale... for $1.78/bag. Around here, that's a GOOD price (he said the tag said "You save $1.61") Since I had only spent the $2 earlier this week on the squash, I told him to go ahead and get 10 bags divided between colby jack, cheddar jack, and mozzarella. He didn't tell me right away that he'd bought a loaf of bread. That set us $2 over this week's budget. But I guess it's OK since we were able to stock up a little on cheese (my family LOVES cheese!)
Supper was mock lasagna with rustic bread. I was able to use an entire container of cottage cheese that was in the fridge, and some Italian sausage from my freezer. My kids are LOVING this bread and eating a loaf a day when it's made!
With everything happening on Thursday we had leftovers for both lunch and supper. Cleaning the fridge out.
Today Princess was home (staff workshop day at school to get ready for distance learning starting next week) so I cooked lunch. Her boy was over too. I had been watching one of my favorite YouTubers Christine at Frugal Fit Mom and was inspired for lunch. I can't eat much pasta, and spaghetti is really difficult for me. I had some frozen meatballs still from a spaghetti dinner a friend had sent when Monkey had his surgery. Christine was making teriyaki meatball bowls in the latest video, so I decided that would be fun but substituted the frozen meatballs. I baked them for half an hour while I was making the sauce and rice. Scraps really likes teriyaki anyway. It was actually pretty good! And I got a bag of meatballs and a bag of green beans used up from my freezer!
We have some leftovers for lunch this weekend too.
Yesterday I asked a friend for suggestions on how to use up a few containers of French Onion dip I got for free. Other than for chips or on potatoes, we were both lost. Google to the rescue!! I looked at several suggested recipes but decided a cheesy hash brown casserole sounded best. I used this recipe as inspiration, but made a few changes based on what I had on hand. I didn't have any cream of onion soup, so I made some from scratch using this recipe. The changes I made were 1) I shredded potatoes because I didn't have frozen hash browns (and I have a TON of potatoes I need to use), 2) I used open cheeses already in the fridge instead of a block of cheddar (chipotle cheese inside the casserole and colby jack on top), and 3) I used the rest of the bag of sausage from the mock lasagna on Wednesday, browned it up, and put it in the hash brown mixture.
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| I had to put one of my bags of cheese in a tortilla bag cuz it had a hole in it. |
It was a hit with the whole family!!! But when can you ever go wrong with cheese and potatoes?!?!
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