Thursday, August 23, 2012

What's to come...

So, I have been trying to organize EVERYTHING at once in my house & life.. What a mess!!
I moved in with my boyfriend almost 10-11 months ago, just recently in the last 3 weeks I emptied my storage & brought it all to the house. *sigh*
The house I lived in before I think I tried to fill every drawer/closet/cabinet I could & that house was really big! LOL  So now I look like a hoarder with my craft supplies, kitchen appliances & dishes. Unbelievable what we keep and buy, yes, I say WE as woman! hee hee
My craft supplies have to be condensed, I had enough for a huge closet (the closet was really the size of the wall in the bedroom) and now it has to all fit into a 5 shelf rack. Ohh goodness. I have been looking online at all the different ideas on how to organize my supplies. I have to narrow it down by pricing and the room I have. It is so great to have the internet. OG would be to buy magazines or watch tv to see and probably never get something that works well for oneself.
My other organizing I am trying to get together and prep is dinner- I work full time & get off at 5pm, I have to drive in 30 min of traffic to get my kid from daycare, drive 20 minutes back home. If I do not prep our dinner the night before, then we eat at 7pm, which I prefer no later than 6:30pm. My daughter goes to bed by 8:30pm and she needs a shower before hand, don't through in any homework if that needs to be done!

A couple of things I am doing or learning as I move through my life. I love to wake up early- 6am to do a load of laundry, so I don't have to do that when I get home. If I am going to use ground meat for dinner (I don't eat red meat, so it will 98% of the time be ground turkey or ground chicken)- I will cook it the night before, this saves me about 20 min at night. I cut up any vegetables, needed or measure out dry stuff if needed.. I am now looking at making breakfast muffins also. My boyfriend usually eats his sandwiches at breakfast and then buys lunch. I understand that sometimes, but why waste the $$ if you don't have to.

I have to share my stuffed Zucchini recipe:
I made my ground turkey the night before because I was going to make an enchilada pie. So I put a taco/fajita seasoning pack into my meat, I added chopped jalapenos. Needless to say my stuffed zucchini was a mexican style. I love HOT/SPICY things and so does my boyfriend, unfortunately he gets heartburn, so I have to mellow on the hot stuff sometimes. Of course, our girls can handle a little bit of heat, but not much.. Since this was going to be a mexican style stuffed zucchini- I added spanish rice, salsa, garlic, sauteed onions, shredded mexican mix cheese,  & cotija cheese. It was amazing! I can not tell you the measurements, because I just did  a dash of this or that, I go by how it looks. Really the salsa was maybe 1/2 a cup.


That is it for now. Thank you for hanging in through all this!


TO COME:
Hair flowers made out of hair
Organized Office/Craft room
Craft area for the girls in the above room
Organizing scrapbook paper
Organizing my recipes for my menu board-the try and the i love already.. :)
Recipes
Edible Crayons for Girls back 2 school treat

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Just a little lunch time note

I found this online, and once I can find it again. I will make sure to give credit where credit is due.
I printed up the apple with the writing on it, got a pipe cleaner, apple jacks & punched a whole in the apple.
It is cute and sweet!

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

I made my own Grocery & Pantry Lists

As we all know, I love Tip Junkie! I get weekly emails and I love it all, they always have free printable and such. The one thing I keep finding,  but have not found something that fits me is the Grocery List and the Pantry List. I never take inventory of what I have, so I end up buying more and that is a waste of money to me. So I decided to make up my own Lists.. As much as I like to write what we need, there is time I would rather circle it and move on. So, I thought of a cool idea with our normal staples in our house.  What I did, is just take a regular word document and used images from Google and put this together. There are things I can add & delete as time goes on, that is the nice thing about it. You can print these at the bottom of my blog, there are links attached.

I did 2 versions of the pantry inventory: 1 is the way I see it a lot, where you check off each box for every one can of item you have. Which is great, but didn't really work for me. It was taking up to much space. I also used pictures like my grocery list. Everyone LOVES pictures! So the second one that is horizontal, is the one you can fill in the number of cans/bottles in the circle. That seemed more logical to me. Let me explain something, if you notice on the soups it has 4 circles- well that is for the different soups I have int he pantry. The picture is cream of chicken, but I didn't want to have 6 different soup pictures, so I added circles and I can fill those in with the numbers of cans. Same with Pop Tarts, Hamburger helper, Jell-O and spices..
The spices, may have to change up- I have many spices to choose from!




Print Grocery List (Print Here)
Print Pantry Inventory List 1  (Print Here)
Print Pantry Inventory List 2 (Print Here)

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