You know those wonderful desserts that you feel like you could make a meal off of? However, you are always disappointed because they come at the end of a meal when you are already full! My mom figured out how to fix that! Usually a couple of times a year she would serve a dessert…
Menu Plan Monday: Detox Week 5
I can’t believe it! I’ve made it five weeks! I will be writing a post soon about the things that I’ve learned, but for now let’s get on to this week’s plan! I think the highlight of last week was probably the gluten-free sugar-free blueberry muffins. I couldn’t believe that they were sugar-free they tasted…
Homeschool Memories: The Toronto Trip
My mom is an amazing person. Not only did she cook meals, do laundry, and bandage scraped knees, she also homeschooled 3 kids for almost 13 years of schooling each! In addition, when money was tight she also somehow handled a part-time job here and there when we were older. One of her part-time jobs…
A Favorite Snack: Healthified!
One of my favorite snacks when I was in an office and got the afternoon munchies was a bag of microwave popcorn! It was hot, smelled good, and when I was feeling ornery, annoyed my coworkers! When I decided to go the less processed route popcorn was one of those things that I scratched my…
Menu Plan: Week 4 Detox
Last week was rough…from a butternut squash rotting (someone forgot to tell it that it was supposed to last for weeks!) and requiring me to make QUICK alternate plans for one meal, to not grooving on the baked potatoes because they were cold (its hard to warm up sweet potatoes without a microwave!) and I bought the…
The Status of My Household Servants
I sometimes feel sorry for myself…what I wouldn’t give for a maid to clean up some of junk or even to just wash the kitchen floor! Really, I have so much that I feel ashamed of myself afterwards. To help me remember how much I really have I look around my kitchen at my household…
Menu Plan Monday: Week 3 Detox
This week wasn’t as hard as last week. Apparently, I like some grains in my diet! This week will be similar to last week. We aren’t adding anything new back in so we didn’t branch out a whole lot when we did our planning. My favorite from last week was the Banana “Oat” pancakes. They…
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Cook 1 large ham hock for about 2 hours or until the meat is falling off the bone. Reserve the broth. Fry several links of sausage. Cut sausage into pieces. Pick the meat from the ham hock. Discard the bone and any excess fat. In a 4 or 5 quart pot, layer the following ingredients:…
A Green Smoothie?!
Once upon a time I was rather a peaked child. My mother decided that vitamins were the way to go to get me to be more healthy and besides taking a multi-vitamin she insisted that I start drinking wheat grass with my breakfast. (I wasn’t singled out though–I think the whole family came in for…
Homeschool Memories: The Hans Herr House
Homeschooling was the way I was educated for most of my educational career. My favorite subject was history and part of the reason that I enjoyed it so much was we took field trips and made the places and times in our history books come alive! When I was around 12 we started volunteering at…