97 - Eric has learned how to make some flat bread and it is always gone within 30 min. of taking it out of the oven. It only has 3 ingredients: 1 cup whole wheat flour, 2 Tbs. applesauce, and 4 Tbs water. Roll it out thin and bake it for about 20min at 400 degrees.
98 - Still making crackers and letting them eat then all up. I can't keep them around for one day! Even though I always make two batches.
99- Made some homemade tuna and noodle bake. The girls loved it!
100 - We did it and have learned a lot. Something will stick with us and how we will try to keep eating. Some things will go on the way side. I will try to let you know soon what some of the things are that we learned, but that will be for another night when it is not so late.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Day 96
Day 95 - The children loved the muffins! When we got home from church we had a roast with potatoes and carrots in the oven waiting for us! Was it ever good! I think that is one of my favorite meals!
Day 96 - Our fist day of getting any snow. Of course the children had to go out and play with it for a little while! They are also use to getting some hot cocoa when they come inside, and so they asked for some today. So after a little research and a little more here is what I came up with:
Homemade Hot Chocolate
Ingredients:
1) Chop the chocolate very finely.
2) In a medium saucepan, bring the milk and cream to a low simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally.
3) Add the chocolate, maple syrup, vanilla, and salt. Whisk vigorously until all of the chocolate has melted. Cook for an additional 4 minutes, whisking constantly.
4) Serve with maple whipped cream (recipe follows) if desired.
Serves 4 generously
Maple Whipped Cream
Ingredients:
Place all ingredients in a large bowl and beat until stiff.
I did not make the cream! But I would have loved to try it with it! And I also used 60% cocoa chips! So my children ended up getting their hot chocolate and asking for more!
Day 96 - Our fist day of getting any snow. Of course the children had to go out and play with it for a little while! They are also use to getting some hot cocoa when they come inside, and so they asked for some today. So after a little research and a little more here is what I came up with:
Homemade Hot Chocolate
Ingredients:
- 3 1/2 cups milk (whole milk for creamier)
- 1/2 cup heavy cream (or milk)
- 8 ounces chocolate, preferably dark
- 3 teaspoons maple syrup or natural sweetener of choice
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
1) Chop the chocolate very finely.
2) In a medium saucepan, bring the milk and cream to a low simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally.
3) Add the chocolate, maple syrup, vanilla, and salt. Whisk vigorously until all of the chocolate has melted. Cook for an additional 4 minutes, whisking constantly.
4) Serve with maple whipped cream (recipe follows) if desired.
Serves 4 generously
Maple Whipped Cream
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 teaspoons maple syrup (more if you like your whipped cream very sweet)
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Place all ingredients in a large bowl and beat until stiff.
I did not make the cream! But I would have loved to try it with it! And I also used 60% cocoa chips! So my children ended up getting their hot chocolate and asking for more!
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Day 94
Day 91 -
Day 92 - We tried a little something differant for our meal! I made homemade mac-n-cheese and then put some cooked broccli in it. I was going to put carrets in it too, but ran out of time to get them cut up and cooked. At first the children would not eat any for it was differant, but after they tried it, they eat it up and asked for more!
Day 93 - Homemade beef stew! Yummy!
Day 94 - So today was the Christmas parade here in town! Oh no! Here comes the candy! Ya! Three of my children are in the parade on the churches float! One young one watching the float and We didn't come home with any candy! I liked that! Have had the oven on for supper tonight, so I went a head and started some muffins for church tomorrow! We are having Whole wheat pumpkin-applesauce muffins! They sound good, but I will have to wait for about another 15 min. for them to come out of the oven. I also just cooked a squash in the oven, so I used that instead of pumpkin. Anyways here is the recipe if anyone else would like to try it!
Day 92 - We tried a little something differant for our meal! I made homemade mac-n-cheese and then put some cooked broccli in it. I was going to put carrets in it too, but ran out of time to get them cut up and cooked. At first the children would not eat any for it was differant, but after they tried it, they eat it up and asked for more!
Day 93 - Homemade beef stew! Yummy!
Day 94 - So today was the Christmas parade here in town! Oh no! Here comes the candy! Ya! Three of my children are in the parade on the churches float! One young one watching the float and We didn't come home with any candy! I liked that! Have had the oven on for supper tonight, so I went a head and started some muffins for church tomorrow! We are having Whole wheat pumpkin-applesauce muffins! They sound good, but I will have to wait for about another 15 min. for them to come out of the oven. I also just cooked a squash in the oven, so I used that instead of pumpkin. Anyways here is the recipe if anyone else would like to try it!
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 cup raw brown sugar
- 1/3 cup fructose
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1/2 cup pumpkin
- 1/3 cup buttermilk (1/3 c. milk plus 1 tsp. lemon juice - let it stand for 5 minutes!)
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1/4 cup golden raisins (optional)
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)
Directions
- Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups, or line the cups with paper muffin liners.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice; set aside. Combine the brown sugar, fructose, oil, applesauce, pumpkin, buttermilk, and beaten eggs and mix until well blended. Pour the pumpkin mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until combined. Fold in the raisins and pecans, if desired.
- Divide the batter evenly in the prepared muffin pan. Bake in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool the muffin pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes before removing the muffins from the pan.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
30 Day Shred!
As I am writing this, I just got done with the 30 Day Shred! It was a challenge that I took on along with some other ladies for the month of November!It was a great workout and it helped get me moving! One thing that I have noticed from doing it is that I have more energy. When it is getting towards the evening when I just want to sit down and relax, I still have power to fool around with the children. It has also helped get the children motivated into doing some workouts! Even though I am done with the 30 Days, I think I need to keep doing something so I just don't go back to where I was. I will take a couple days off during the week though. Any little movement helps out, even if it is tapping your foot when you are sitting down, to dancing around the living room with your children. How my children love that! Thank you to the ladies that kept me moving and kept me going. Good Luck at finishing up.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Dump Truck birthday party!
Day 90
Day 85 - Thanksgiving day! We went down to the community Thanksgiving meal! Thank you to all that helped out with it. So I don't know how well we would have stayed in our real foods! I think it would have been pretty close!
Day 86 -
Day 87 - We had a birthday party for our turning 3 year old. He had a pound cake made into a dump truck! It was good, but the toppings were not all real foods! The frosting was homemade, but I have not figured out how to make frosting without powdered sugar and it to turn out good.
Day 88 - Another day without a doughnut! This can be hard on one of my youngsters.
Day 89 - Eric is starting a new adventure as we are finishing up ours! He is starting the Danial Fast for 21 days. Good luck to him. I am not going to be trying it any time soon! So with that being said, we tried split peas for supper! The children all had a spoonful. We also had chicken and baked potatoes with yogurt on top.
Day 90 - 90% of our days are done! So tonight for supper I used mayo! I was making open-faced tuna salad sandwiches and took out my homemade mayo to use and it didn't look all that good. I didn't have time to make any more, so I just used the mayo that was in the fridge from before we started.
Day 86 -
Day 87 - We had a birthday party for our turning 3 year old. He had a pound cake made into a dump truck! It was good, but the toppings were not all real foods! The frosting was homemade, but I have not figured out how to make frosting without powdered sugar and it to turn out good.
Day 88 - Another day without a doughnut! This can be hard on one of my youngsters.
Day 89 - Eric is starting a new adventure as we are finishing up ours! He is starting the Danial Fast for 21 days. Good luck to him. I am not going to be trying it any time soon! So with that being said, we tried split peas for supper! The children all had a spoonful. We also had chicken and baked potatoes with yogurt on top.
Day 90 - 90% of our days are done! So tonight for supper I used mayo! I was making open-faced tuna salad sandwiches and took out my homemade mayo to use and it didn't look all that good. I didn't have time to make any more, so I just used the mayo that was in the fridge from before we started.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Day 83
Day 75
We have made it to day 83 and I have not had much time to let people know how things are going. I can't do my day to day telling right now, because I don't remember them. But here I go to try to get some of it down.
Day 78 - We went out to Pizza Hut for lunch. The older children are doing the booklet program, so we thought that we should let them get their little pizzas. We felt that they worked to get them and that they should be able to have them.
Day 80 - Eric was gone and I decided to take the children out to subway for lunch. They had 2 school buses outside and were packed inside. We then went to our local ice cream place called Smilies. We had their subs on their homemade bread, but it was white. I went to a Ladies Night Out event that evening and I do have to confess that I did have a very small piece of pumpkin bread that I am sure was not all real. But they had a lot of samples and I didn't give in very often.
Day 81 - My youngest boy really would have liked to have a doughnut this morning at church. But he did good to not keep asking for one.
Day 82 - Eric made us a wonderful lunch. He made homemade spaghetti sauce with chicken pieces, spaghetti, and spaghetti squash. He even made some cookies for us. We had a homemade vegetable soup for supper.
Day 83 - Had some waffles for breakfast and leftovers for lunch. Then we had scrambled eggs and potatoes with homemade smoothies for supper! I didn't make enough eggs!
It is getting easier to know by looking at things if we can have them or not! It is hard to believe that we are just over 80% of the way done! We can finish strong, even with Thanksgiving in a couple of days!
We have made it to day 83 and I have not had much time to let people know how things are going. I can't do my day to day telling right now, because I don't remember them. But here I go to try to get some of it down.
Day 78 - We went out to Pizza Hut for lunch. The older children are doing the booklet program, so we thought that we should let them get their little pizzas. We felt that they worked to get them and that they should be able to have them.
Day 80 - Eric was gone and I decided to take the children out to subway for lunch. They had 2 school buses outside and were packed inside. We then went to our local ice cream place called Smilies. We had their subs on their homemade bread, but it was white. I went to a Ladies Night Out event that evening and I do have to confess that I did have a very small piece of pumpkin bread that I am sure was not all real. But they had a lot of samples and I didn't give in very often.
Day 81 - My youngest boy really would have liked to have a doughnut this morning at church. But he did good to not keep asking for one.
Day 82 - Eric made us a wonderful lunch. He made homemade spaghetti sauce with chicken pieces, spaghetti, and spaghetti squash. He even made some cookies for us. We had a homemade vegetable soup for supper.
Day 83 - Had some waffles for breakfast and leftovers for lunch. Then we had scrambled eggs and potatoes with homemade smoothies for supper! I didn't make enough eggs!
It is getting easier to know by looking at things if we can have them or not! It is hard to believe that we are just over 80% of the way done! We can finish strong, even with Thanksgiving in a couple of days!
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