grocery budget

I am challenging myself to a grocery budget.  Once a month I will take out 350 cash and stick to that for the entire month.  I will exclude diapers from this budget.

what do you think? think I can do it? anyone want to join the challenge and share your ideas??

give me some tips as I am a recipe shopper and turns out this is the worst way to make the dollar stretch.

happy may long!

have a great long weekend mommies!!!

Simple Chicken Parmesan

1 jar (700 mL) pasta sauce

6 Tbsp. parmesan cheese (or however much you want, I put lots)

6 small boneless skinless chicken breasts or use chicken thighs
1-2 cups of mozza cheese

PREHEAT oven to 375°F. Pour sauce into 13x9-inch baking dish. stir in 1/4 cup of the Parmesan cheese. Add chicken; turn over to evenly coat both sides with sauce. Cover with foil.

BAKE 45-60 min. Uncover.

TOP with mozzarella cheese and remaining Parmesan cheese; continue baking 5 min. or until chicken is cooked through and cheese is melted.

I serve it on it's own or sometimes with rice

Kelly's Birthday

We went to lavish for a mini mani and then some make-up.  Top it off with blush zinfandel and chocolate and it was good...

Off to arms reach bistro in deep cove for supper; we all ate pasta. yum.

We had a fun night.

Now I have to figure out what for dinner???

Teriyaki chicken

1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
1tbsp water
2 tbsp rice vinegar
2 tsp sesame oil
2 tsp corn starch
2 tsp minced garlic

Cook this sauce on the stove until thick, sometimes I will double the recipe for extra sauce.

Any kind of chicken you want (thighs, breasts, drumsticks) it also tastes good with salmon.

Tonight I'm making chicken drumsticks. I'll cook the sauce and pour it over the drumsticks then bake the drumsticks for almost an hour at 375 degrees. Usually we would BBQ the chicken but it's raining today. We'll have potato salad and sauteed zucchini with it.

ideas for mommies' day....

what's your plans for mother's day?? I'm stumped trying to figure out exactly what i want to do to celebrate my first mom's day.
ideas???

Friday night dinners.

What does everyone else do on friday nights? Friday night is kind of a relief to me knowing that I will have some more hands for 2 whole days. Therefore, I kind of give up on the cooking idea and usually opt for freezer pizza and a glass of red wine. What about you? We usually watch a movie after Clark goes to bed and then lights out. Friday is not an exciting night...but then there is saturday.


I like Friday nights too and it's nice to have the hubby home on the weekend! We usually watch a movie with wine...tonight Pat's cousin is playing at the Bourban downtown (he's in a group called the Turn) so I am here on my lonesome but kinda looking forward to it. Tomorrow Pat has tricks up his sleeve and says he's stealing me all day because my wonderful friends are stealing me on my birthday!

Greek Orzo Salad

Orzo (as much as you want)
Handful of grape tomotoes
1 red pepper
1 yellow pepper
1 cucumber
1/2 red onion
1 package of greek feta
You can use bottled greek dressing or I just use olive oil and some balsamic vinegar to taste.

Very Yummy one Jaxson's favorites!

Plum Sale

Hey,

plum is having a jean sale until may 17 on mavi and dish jeans; so if you need jeans, they are 75$$  go get em!

What are you guys making tonight???

share, share, share.

ATTENTION KELLY

can you put your greek orzo pasta salad on here.  

Greek Pasta Salad

A Salad that has been enjoyed by me, robin, and toby; and super easy to make. 

3 cups bow-tie pasta, uncooked

2 cups baby spinach leaves

1 cup greek feta

1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved

3/4 cup drained and canned chick peas, rinsed.

1/2 cup greek dressing. (you will have to go on jennyslittlehome to find a recipe for greek dressing if you want it from scratch).

Cook pasta as directed on package; drain. Place in large bowl.

Add remaining ingredients; mix lightly

Serve or refrigerate.

hug hug kiss kiss, Lisa

Hi

Are you sick of scrubbing gross dried on food microwaves? Put half a lemon in the microwave and cook if for about 30 sec to a minute. This should loosen up all the dirt, which makes it easier to wipe.

chow
Jenny



I also use a microwave safe bowl filled with water and a few tbsp of vinegar. I put it in the microwave for 3-4 min and it loosens everthing up making it very east to clean!!!

K

Potato Salad

Hey moms

I made this tonight but I didn't use all that mayo.  I also didn't use that many potatoes 'cause it was just two of us eating it.  YUMMY.  I also served ribs and corn.

1/2 cup mayo

1/4 cup chopped fresh dill

4 cups cubed new potatoes

1/2 cup chopped green onion

salt and peppa

combine mayo, dill, salt, and pepper in large bowl.

Add potatoes and green onion.  refrigerate until chilled.

Here is a cute way of covering your outlets....a store in Deep Cove might sell them, I'll check it out on Friday and let you know!

http://www.stylishhome.ca/products/Animal_Plug_Safety_Covers_Set-8089-6.html

Formula

Hey all,

formula is on sale at superstore.  It was yesterday anyways.  

Welcome

This blog is to help our little circle of mommy friends to get ideas on many different avenues.  For example, what did you cook for supper last night?  Did you find a sale on diapers?  Is there a cool new pair of jeans out there that make your butt look good?  Is there an event that we must go to?  Get it?  Just add it in and we can have our own little community of ideas.  Mainly though, how many times are we pulling our hair out trying to think of what to make for dinner or what to pack for lunch, or what food to try for our kids.  Lets let it all out and tell each other everything!!!

hug hug kiss kiss,

Lisa