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To Answer Some of Your Questions…

June 16, 2008 by Laura 8 Comments

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You’ve all been so encouraging as I write my posts about healthy eating…and all the other homemaking and parenting and random stuff I blog about! I love your comments and emails…KEEP THEM COMING!

I’ve received lots and lots of questions from you, and just so ya know, I’ll try to answer all of them. If it’s a question about healthy eating, I’ll try to answer it somewhere within my Getting Real With Food series. Thanks for being patient with me.

If you asked a question a long time ago about something else and I still haven’t responded….ask again. Sometimes (most of the time) I don’t even call my kids by the right name. I KNOW I’ve surely failed to respond to some of your questions. (“A-Jus-El-Mal-Asa”…I have to go through all of them, just so that I can go back to the one I started with in the first place.) (It’s a good thing we don’t have pets too.)

So before I lose track of these two questions from my last post about the farmer’s market, I’ll answer them now. :)

Here are the pictures I showed you of what I made last Thursday…

First question…

Can you tell us what the other foods are? I think I see pretzels? what else?!?!?! Also, can you tell us/show us how you package these goodies for the market?

Last week I made two batches of pretzels, one recipe of cinnamon rolls (which made five pans of eight), one batch of flourless peanut butter cookies, one batch of giant chocolate chip cookies, a pan of chocolate chip brownies, three loaves of applesauce bread, a double batch of white flour tortillas and a double batch of whole wheat tortillas. (The whole wheat tortillas turned out ugly this time…so we kept them for ourselves!)

I packaged the pretzels in five bags of five, and the rest I packaged individually so people could buy one at a time or several at once. The cinnamon rolls I slid carefully onto a paper plate then put tons of ooey gooey frosting on them and covered them with a baggie. I cut the brownies into 12 large squares and wrapped them in plastic wrap. I wrapped the giant cookies and the applesauce bread in plastic wrap also. I put the peanut butter cookies six to a plate and covered them with plastic wrap. The tortillas went into baggies in sets of eight.

We came home with only seven pretzels (I took 47…not bad!), and a few odds and ends of cookies and such. The cinnamon rolls sold out fast! (Must’ve been the ooey-gooey frosting!) I was surprised that there wasn’t much interest in the applesauce bread. (What, they only want the unhealthy stuff?!) Matt suggested I take samples because if people tasted it…they would WANT it!! (He’s so sweet!) I’ll try applesauce bread one more week and if it doesn’t go well, I won’t make it anymore. (For the farmer’s market that is. I’ll SO keep making it for us!)

Next question…

The food looks fantastic! How do you find time to do all that baking with four kids? I’d love some pointers. I really enjoy baking.I would love to sell some baked goods at our local farmers market:)

If I say, “I don’t know how I do it. I’ve decided that I must be insane.” would that be discouraging? ;)

My insanity aside, I LOVE baking and I’m pretty fast in the kitchen. I have established a bit of a farmer’s market baking system that has worked pretty well so far.

First…the chocolate chip cookies freeze very well so I make them on another day when I have time and freeze them. Done. Also, I think the applesauce bread is moister and tastier on day two, so I bake it on Wednesday night before bed.

I then make sure my kitchen is clean and my ingredients are ready for a baking marathon on Thursday…

I get up early and get my first round of pretzels mixed up. While they are rising, I get the chocolate chip brownies in the oven. While they bake, I do some dishes and mix up the peanut butter cookies. As soon as the brownies come out, the cookies go in.

Then, I mix up, roll out and cook the tortillas.

By then the prezel dough is big and fat and lovely…so I start shaping and baking those. While those bake, I mix up the cinnamon rolls to rise. While they rise…I rest a while. (What a good idea.)

Once I get the cinnamon rolls ready and rising, I mix up my next batch of pretzels (I find that if I mix up a double batch at once, they just don’t do as well…that’s why I do two separate batches).

I bake my cinnamon rolls while the prezels rise…and I work on my mountain of dishes. And package up the food that is cooled enough.

After the cinnamon rolls come out of the oven, I begin shaping and baking the last round of pretzels.

When I’m done with that and the cinnamon rolls have cooled, I frost them. And then I’m done. Shew!

Where are the kids during all of this? I have no idea. Just kidding. Sort of.

No really, they are asleep for the first few hours of it, and that’s when I get a ton of it out of the way. Then they get up and eat breakfast (okay, we did cereal last week…and might just have to do that every Thursday this summer unless I make something ahead of time!). After breakfast, they just play…and I think they get dressed eventually too.

Last week, my very sweet friend Jenny called while I was baking and asked if Elias and Malachi could come over and play with her kids for the afternoon. She came and picked them up and everything. She’s awesome! The boys loved it and it made me feel less like I was neglecting anyone.

For the most part, my kids are pretty good at playing together during these times that I’m baking my brains out (well, that doesn’t sound very tasty, does it?). Or sometimes they come help me…or sometimes I’ll put them on another job doing something else. They actually really get excited about farmer’s market day…and the hardest part for them is that I’m baking all these really yummy things and not letting them eat ANY of it. The nerve.

Now…I wouldn’t want to do it everyday, because it does wear me out…and I don’t get to spend good down time with the kids…but once a week for a few weeks during the summer is good. And if I haven’t mentioned it before…I do love to bake.

Note to self about this upcoming Thursday: Remember to eat. Good grief, I never forget to eat…but I totally forgot until about 2 pm last Thursday when I said to Matt, “Wow, I’m really starting to feel light headed.” Duh. Eating food is usually a helpful way to keep yourself upright.

I’m gonna try to remember that this week. :)

Any more questions?!

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Menu For the Week

June 15, 2008 by Laura 10 Comments

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We made all of Daddy’s favorites for Father’s Day. It was great…and we were stuffed. :)

As you read through the rest of my menu, you might notice how many salads we’re having. It’s because I HAVE FRESH LETTUCE AND SPINACH COMING OUT MY EARS!!! (Want some?) It’s so awesome!

Sunday, June 15
Biscuits and gravy, hashbrowns, scrambled eggs
Leg-O-Lamb, mashed potatoes and gravy, roasted carrots, chocolate peanut butter pie
Who needs dinner after all of that?

Monday, June 16
Whole wheat pancakes
Taco salad, pineapple orange slushie cups
Italian roast wraps, tossed salad

Tuesday, June 17
Yogurt with strawberries and blueberries
Peanut butter and jelly on biscuits, grapes, carrot sticks
Spaghetti, tossed salad, corn

Wednesday, June 18
Strawberry and peach slushies (with fresh spinach hidden inside…I promise you can’t even tell!)
Grilled chicken strips, mashed potato pancakes, peas
Chicken enchiladas (already prepared and in my freezer!), tossed salad (what a surprise)

Thursday, June 19
Breakfast Cookies
Quesadillas, cottage cheese and peaches
Farmer’s Market…pack some snacks

Thursday night, many of my relatives come into town for a family reunion!! The rest of our menu will tell you what we’re eating together!

Friday, June 20
Whole wheat waffles, scrambled eggs, sausage
Picnic in the park
Chicken fajitas, spanish rice, tossed salad, chocolate chip cookies

Saturday, June 21
Applesauce bread, fruit, juice
Ultimate nacho bar
BBQ at our cousin’s house

I’ve got a pretty busy week ahead of me, getting ready to sell baked goods at our Farmer’s Market and getting ready for our Family Reunion! I’m super excited though and have LISTS like crazy to help keep me organized!!

On my blogging list for the week…

In my “Getting Real With Food” series, I’ll share more about eating healthy on a budget (I’ll give you the break down on what we spend our food money on). Also, I MUST share with you my whole wheat cinnamon roll recipe. They are SO YUMMY!

Visit Organizing Junkie for more menu planning ideas. For sure, because of my hectic week…having my menu planned is even more important than it usually is! (It is not pretty to watch me try to prepare food without a plan.) :)

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A Few Pictures For You

June 13, 2008 by Laura 4 Comments

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After showing you this picture…you know I just couldn’t let it rest. I HAD to show you the after shots too. (So you could sleep better at night knowing that I don’t live in that kind of chaos…usually.) :)

Oh, and in the interest of explaining myself and giving you all excuses for why that guest room got so messy…here are a few of my disclaimers:

In the winter, that room gets REALLLLLLY cold. If we have guests, they stay in our other guest room. So, I rarely go in there during the winter, except to throw something in there to put away later and then run back to the fireplace. That happens for months, until the room then looks like this.

Also, the matress got flopped over recently because the boys saw it in there and immediately flopped it over so that they could enjoy some sumo wrestling and etcetera. ‘Nough said.

And, all of my HeavenlyHomemakers business stuff is in there, and again, in the winter I just go quickly grab what I need, thaw it out and ship it. Everything sort of gets scattered in that process but I’m too cold to care. (It is so weird to talk about fireplaces and being cold now that it is NOT cold.)

Okay, need more excuses? Because I can give you more…

Nah, let’s just get on to the pictures.

Again, here’s the before picture (like you needed to see THIS again…)

And after spending a couple of hours re-arranging and re-organizing…

Now don’t you feel refreshed and feel like you can sleep better now?! (I’m sure Char is sleeping better in there than she would have otherwise!)

While I’m showing you pictures of how busy I’ve been…here are some pictures of most of my baking for the Farmer’s Market yesterday. I spent the entire day baking…and it was a BLAST!! I LOVE TO BAKE!

After I baked these cinnamon rolls…I slathered them with frosting. I had five pans, and they all sold EASILY! Everything else sold well too…and we had a super fun time.

Now, I just need to recover and get geared up for next week!! Whew!

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Getting Real With Food, Pt. 5 Our Food Budget

June 12, 2008 by Laura 26 Comments

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When I told my friend Anne a few weeks ago that I was going to start this “Getting Real With Food” series, one of the first things out of her mouth was that I needed to be sure and tell you how much money we make and how in the world we eat the way we do.

Because isn’t that the biggest dilima? We all want to eat healthy food…but healthy food is expensive. Many of us think we can’t afford to eat healthy.

I won’t come right out and tell you how much we earn…but I will tell you that we meet the income guidelines to qualify for WIC (which we don’t use) and medicaid for the kids. The maximum income for a family of six to qualify for these services is somewhere around $51K…and we don’t come close to touching that. Okay…so now you know.

I share that with you so that when I tell you more about my view point on spending money on food…you don’t just assume that we’re rolling in dough and don’t have to care or think about what we spend on food. FAR from it, I promise.

I believe there is a big mis-conception about spending money on food. All the time I hear, “We just can’t afford to eat healthy.” If I wanted to pull out the “we can’t afford to eat healthy” card…I could. And I used to. And I struggled like crazy to come to the place in my thinking that I am today….that spending money on real and wholesome food is important and neccesary.

Let me share my Food Budget/Healthy Eating Journey with you…

When our first two boys were babies, we lived in Colorado Springs where there were a great variety of grocery stores…many of which doubled coupons. I thus became the “Coupon Queen”. (Ask any of my relatives…I was famous…or…something like that.) I spent $100 a month on groceries and got TONS of stuff for free all the time. I had a blast with my “hobby” and I loved it.

After our third son was born, we moved to Nebraska. There are no stores that double coupons here…and I was really sad. I still used coupons and did rebates and saved a lot of money on groceries. I probably at that time was keeping my budget to around $175 a month. We ate anything I could get for cheap or free, and nothing that I couldn’t. My mind set was about saving money, and although I did feed my family fruits and veggies and very little candy or junk food…I didn’t give much thought to eating healthy. I was all about spending as little as possible on groceries.

When our fourth son, Malachi, was born in 2004, some of my friends started reading and learning about a healthier style of eating. When Malachi was only two months old, he developed horrible eczema. I was ready to put him on whatever drugs my doctor offered me because a good mama does whatever her doctor says, right? My friends then started telling me about some of their diet changes that might help Malachi and about the ill effects some of the drugs being offered would have on him.

Thus began my quest and struggle to change our eating habits.

We began changing our whole lifestyle really. I was completely on board to change the way we ate and to start focusing on eating real food. Healthy food. Making up my mind about that was easy.

However, wrapping my brain around the changes in my food budget were actually very painful for me. That might sound a little silly…but I had been the “Coupon Queen” for years. I had been the amazing money saving shopper. The one who could feed her family for less than $200 a month. That was a big part of who I was.

Now I had to learn how to actually spend money on food. (And not only on food, but on detergent and soap and shampoo and bathroom cleaner, as I began to learn about harmful chemicals and such. I only had coupons for the toxic kinds. Hmph.)

During this time too, my boys were of course growing and beginning to eat more. My two healthy eating friends were constantly having to remind me of the value of feeding my family well and that it was okay to spend money on good food. And gradually it began to sink in.

I now recognize that it is the FOOD that is meant to NOURISH OUR BODIES that we’re talking about here. This is not a splurge or a luxury. It’s not cable TV or fancy clothes. It’s food. We should not compromise on the single most important thing that has the power to make our bodies healthy or unhealthy.

I get that now. I have come full circle. I have gone from working very hard to spend little to nothing on groceries…to questioning a food’s nutritional value if it doesn’t cost very much. Funny.

Now, I spend around $500 a month on food. Sometimes a bit more. This is for my family of six. Five out of the six are male. Five out of the six eat like there’s no tomorrow. Five out of the six love asking the question, “What else can I have to eat?” (It’s a good thing one out of the six loves to cook!)

I think that the $500 a month I spend is actually pretty impressive for what we eat. We eat real food. I know other families who spend more than that amount on processed foods.

My family is proof that eating well on a limited budget can be done. You have to eat. You need to eat well. You need to.

I’ll break down our food budget for you next time and tell you what specifically we spend our food money on. Stay tuned! And be sure to leave any specific questions about this in the comments! It’s fun getting real about food with you!

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Learning to be a Happy Loser

June 10, 2008 by Laura 16 Comments

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Remember how I told you that we love playing card games around here…especially in the summer time?

Well…you know when you play a game with your kids…someone’s gonna lose. It’s how a game works. There are winners and there are losers.

(And I’m SO NOT gonna let my kids win just to save their sweet little hearts from being broken. I’m ~~way too competitive~~ much more interested in teaching them about real life.)

So, here’s what we’ve found that really works for us!

If you are the loser of the game…you get to stand up and do the “I Lost the Game Dance.” Bust out some moves. Break dance if you want. You’re the one who lost. You’re the one who’s earned the privilege of doing the loser dance. None of the rest of us winners get to do it. We have to just sit there on our boring little bottoms with our big pile of winning cards and watch you have fun doing your version of the “Loser Dance”.

I’m telling you…this system has been a perfect way to take away the sadness of losing a card or board game. Instead of being sad, as soon as a game ends, the loser hops right up and start “showing us what they’re made of”. Then we all have a nice round of giggles together before we re-shuffle and start another game.

(Don’t you dare even ask what it looks like when Mama is the loser. I don’t-got-much in the way of “moves”. Bless my heart.)

Oh yeah…and if we’re playing “Old Maid”…the one who ends up losing with the Old Maid card at the end has to do their Loser Dance in Granny Style. With an old maid look on their face …and a walking stick…and arthritis. It’s beautiful.

Alright, we’re getting ready to play Go Fish. I’d better go stretch out.

;)

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Char’s Coming! Char’s Coming!

June 10, 2008 by Laura 13 Comments

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Char’s coming!! I can’t wait!! She’ll be here in two more days…and we’ll have so much fun!!! Woohoo!!!

But…

Do you think I should finish getting my guest room ready?

Okay, what in the name of complete and total insanity possibly possessed me to show that to you?

More Wordless Wednesday here and here.

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Gratituesday: Sweet Relief

June 9, 2008 by Laura 14 Comments

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You might remember me asking for prayers for our littlest guy, Malachi, and his struggle with his eczema. I’ve appreciated all of your comments and emails expressing concern as well as your prayers for him. I know some of you also have kids who struggle with severe eczema. It is SO NOT FUN.

We’ve continued to work with our chiropractor who has been so gracious and kind. We’re currently working to get to the bottom of some food allergy issues, and just continuing to work to get to the root of the problem.

In the meantime…now that the SUN is shining…we’re throwing Malachi outside as much as possible. It is AMAZING how much the Vitamin D from the sun helps him. Really amazing. (Go God!)

His neck was completely and miserably broken out, inflamed and itchy all winter long. It is now totally clear. His legs are usually covered…and they are mostly better now.

It has provided sweet relief for our sweet boy…as he usually doesn’t sleep well at night because he is so itchy. He’s had several nights recently that he has slept all the way through without waking up. That is one big deal for this three year old. (and his parents)

We’ll continue to pray and seek answers for Malachi. But for now, I’m super grateful that he is feeling better and has been given some relief. :)
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Yummy Apricot Breakfast Bars

June 9, 2008 by Laura 62 Comments

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One day a few weeks ago, I was getting ready to make my Giant Breakfast Cookie recipe…but decided to play with it a bit and create some kind of breakfast bar instead. (I LOVE playing with recipes!)

I came up with these yummy apricot bars and knew I’d have to share it with you.

And then I forgot. (So sorry.)

Then, last week, Marie emailed and asked if I’d try to come up with a good breakfast bar recipe (I think she said something about “since you’re so brilliant in the kitchen”…yeah, that was it.). And I was reminded that indeed – I had already come up with one. So Marie (and everyone else), here you go! (I hope you like them, but if you don’t, can we still be friends?) :)

Apricot Breakfast BarsYum

2 sticks butter
3/4 cup honey
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
1/4 cup sesame seeds
3/4 cup dried apricots

Melt butter and honey together. Remove from heat. Pour mixture into a mixing bowl and add baking soda, salt, vanilla and buttermilk and eggs. Stir in flour, oats, coconut and sesame seeds until well combined. Cut dried apricots into small bites (I usually cut mine into fourths). Fold apricot pieces into dough.

Bake in a 9 x 13 baking pan at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

apricot_bar

You can play with these yourself and add any combination of fruit and nuts – I know I’ll continue to mix and match different ingredients! Enjoy!

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Getting Real With Food, pt. 4

June 9, 2008 by Laura 19 Comments

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Finally.

It’s been a while since I promised to show you the inside of my freezers and refrigerator. But finally…I opened ’em up and snapped some shots.

I’ve gotta be honest. (It’s not like I’m usually not honest. Why do we use that phrase anyway?) But seriously? Opening up my pantry and trunk to show you was a lot more fun and a lot less embarrassing. I almost took the time to clean out my fridge and re-arrange everything a little more nicely…but then…that wouldn’t quite be telling the truth would it? And my freezers? Well…let’s just say Laura needs to learn to de-frost occasionally.

Okay, ready?

Here are the two freezers we keep in our storage room.

Freezer number one…the meat freezer:

The top shelf is full of Smart Chicken brand chicken breasts that I found on sale for $2.29 a pound. I loaded up…can you tell? (And that’s the part that reallllly needs to be defrosted…can you tell?)

We bought a half a cow last fall and a whole lamb. Pictured is what’s left…plus some frozen baked goods and chicken broth and a casserole. And a pan of frozen buns. I just made them and as soon as they’re frozen, I’ll take them off the pan and throw them into a baggie.

Okay…moving on to freezer number two…the one I call my fruit and veggie freezer:

This freezer is looking a bit more bare than I like…but just wait until the end of gardening season!!! That’s when this freezer is so crammed full of food you can’t get even one more pea into it.

But I still have plenty of green beans and a bag of corn left. I also have strawberries, peaches, blueberries, grapes and rhubarb.

There’s also a big bag of ice for our shaved ice , and a jar of tomato sauce. The door of that freezer also has more tomato sauce…just in case I run out of all the tomato sauce in my pantry. (Which is not likely to happen…ever.)

(BTW…when one is typing the word “pantry” and speaking about things being in one’s “pantry” multiple times in blog posts…one must make sure one does not leave out the letter “r”. It is a mistake easily made…but a mistake one would want to be sure to catch. I’m just saying…)

Okay, moving on back into the kitchen to my fridge and freezer. I have a side by side. It was here when we moved in and it is very nice, but if I were given the choice, I would not choose a side by side. The freezer is too skinny and the ice machine takes up too much space. (But with two large freezers in my storage room…who’s complaining?)

In this skinny little freezer, I keep one bag of each veggie and fruit you saw in my other freezer, so that I don’t have to run out of the kitchen every time I’m making a smoothie or cooking vegetables for a meal. I also have butter and cheese in here, and chocolate chips and pecans and some frozen bananas. This picture turned out kind of dark, so it’s hard to see ~~what a mess this freezer really is~~ all the great food inside.

And now my refrigerator:

See my pretty brown eggs in the door there? And my pretty jars of milk under them? That’s my favorite part of my fridge. Again, this picture is kind of dark, but I’ll try to walk you through it anyway. I have a drawer up at the top where I keep a few random things like cheese sticks and homemade chocolate chips. I also have my rennet in there that I use for making mozzarella cheese. (Wanna learn about that sometime?)

Next I have my big ice cream bucket full of freshly ground flour. (By the way, thanks Marnie for reminding me that it needs to be kept in the fridge. During the winter my kitchen is so cold it doesn’t matter…but once the weather got warmer I forgot to put it back in the fridge!) Also on that shelf there are jars of pears and applesauce and homemade salad dressing. And a big container of Brown Cow yogurt. Yum.

Then of course, more milk, a quart of cream, and some bottles of juice for our shaved ice. I’m really looking forward to putting those juices into our new fridge down at our Shaved Ice Shack ONCE WE CAN FINALLY OPEN because they are kind of taking up space in my fridge and making it hard to keep everything as organized as I would like. (The open date has now been pushed back to June 17…don’t ask.) *ahem*

Under that shelf we have our crisper drawer which is currently full of carrots, broccoli, oranges, grapes and lettuce. And, in the drawer under that, we have 3 loaves of homemade bread and a bag of homemade tortillas. It’s a happy day when I can actually make bread and tortillas and have some left at the end of the day for future use. Yea.

Okay…I hope that freezer and refrigerator tour didn’t bore you to pieces. Don’t worry…I won’t tour you through my closets (“…and here we have our everyday shoes…and our shoes for working in the garden…and our shoes for when it’s raining…”) (snore).

Now that you’ve seen my food stash…we’ll continue through the series and I’ll tell you why we eat all this stuff.

I think my next post in this series will be about our food budget and how we manage to eat what we eat. Sound good?

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Menu Plan For the Week

June 8, 2008 by Laura 10 Comments

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Today (Sunday) is Asa’s birthday which means he got to choose what we ate all day long! Mmm…great choices.

Sunday, June 8
Cereal (Asa chose this as a treat, since we rarely eat it!)
Grilled hamburgers on homemade buns, homemade potato chips, strawberries, chocolate pound cake with whipped cream
Nachos, grapes

You HAVE to try these chips!!

Monday, June 9
Whole wheat pancakes (here’s a fun way to shape your pancakes!)
Grilled cheese sandwiches, fruit smoothies, carrot sticks
Deer steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas

Tuesday, June 10
Scrambled eggs, oranges
Sloppy joes, baked beans, cantaloupe
Grilled chicken, stir fried rice and veggies

Wednesday, June 11
Orange muffins, bananas
Pizza Casserole, corn, apples
Spanish rice with chicken, tossed salad

Thursday, June 12
Peanut butter honey toast, fruit and yogurt delight
Hearty bean casserole, pineapple orange slushies
“To Go” foods to eat while we’re at the Farmer’s Market (Homemade pretzels, cheese sticks, carrot sticks, apples)

Friday, June 13
French toast, fruit
Homemade chicken nuggets and fries, watermelon
Homemade pizza, fruit salad

Saturday, June 14
Homemade whole wheat donuts
Cheeseburger macaroni, steamed broccoli and carrots
BBQ meatballs, baked potatoes, green beans

And…if you’d like some free downloadable menu planners to help make your menu planning fun click here!

On the blogging menu for this week: I promise to show you inside my fridge and freezers and continue on with my “Getting Real With Food” series. (In case you need to peek into my pantry again, here you go!) I also plan on talking a bit about my food budget and how we eat real food on a real budget. And…Marie asked me if I could come up with a yummy breakfast bar…and I just couldn’t let her down! I’ll be sharing that recipe this week! :)

Have a great week…and I hope to see you back here soon. Head on over to Org Junkie to find more menu planning ideas!

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