Meal Plan: Week of Feb 11th

Since my oldest loves meat, so I think here, why not to make this week a little more fun? My oldest loves anything meat. He would always ask for seconds!

Feb 11th – Creamy Chicken Piccata 

Feb 12th – Mexican chicken, rice and beans (a crockpot recipe)

Feb 13th – meatballs sub casserole 

Feb 14th – Tilapia w/ Quick Olive topping

Feb 15th – Frozen pizza

Feb 16th & 17th – leftovers

What’s your meal plan for this week? Let’s hear them!

Wordless Wednesday: Kaden walks!

He has been walking since a little before he turned 9 month old last month. It amazes me to see how aggressive Kaden is! What a great milestone!

SunRype: a #SheSpeaks review

For years I have tried to get Zion,m y 3 year old to eat anything, other than grilled cheese (his favorite meal!). It’s so hard trying to get him to eat because he always watch me.  I know I need to work on getting him to wait for me in another room. But he’s the pickiest eater. He always analyzes food whether or not to eat them. Until this products came to my doorstep.

Knowing Zion, he would inspect like he always do. But I assured him that it’s a good product for him. Questionally, he would look at me and shook his head no. I told him to take a bite and he did. And then he spit it out and said it tastes funny. Then I eat SunRype 100% strawberry fruit strip. At the first taste, it tasted okay but 2nd and 3rd it was great. It tastes like a real strawberry.

It contains no artifical ingredients. It comes from real stuff, strawberry. It has 50 calories. There are two different fruit strips, which are strawberry and wildberry. There are grains that I haven’t tried yet but it’s good when you are craving for something sweet.

Taken from SunRype:

We’re dedicated to providing simple, nutritious products that make it easier for today’s busy families to incorporate healthy eating into their active lives. We follow the highest quality and safety standards during all phases of the manufacturing of our products. We want to help you make good choices that offer both great taste and wholesome goodness.

It’s just that, for busy families to change their eating habits. A while ago, I was thinking when the weather gets warm, both my sons, Dezmond and Zion are into activities this year, such as karate, soccer, etc. I would bring the products and have them try to eat them.

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post on behalf of SheSpeaks.com/SunRype. As always, opinions and thoughts are 100% my own.

Meal Plan: Week of Feb 4th

Into the second month of the year I want to try different recipes than my staples that we absolutely love.

Feb 4th – Spinach Lasagna

Feb 5th – Crab cakes

Feb 6th – Loaded Twice Baked Potatoes

Feb 7th – make your own rotisserie chicken w/ carrots and stuffing

Feb 8th –  homemade pizza

Feb 9th – leftovers

What’s your meal plan for this week? Let’s hear them!

Have I Met My Goals?

Have I met some of my goals this month? Read here

I have! I connected with most of the bloggers on social media platforms! I absolutely love this connection I make on a daily basis. And check out their blogs and such weekly. It gives me ideas on what to write about other than being stumped on.

Next month, I will try to transfer over to WordPress. I will try to have a brand new blog makeover. I found the image I absolutely love, colors and all!

One goal at a time!

Gardening: Herbs!

For the longest I wanted to grow my own herbs but I couldnt wrap my head on how/where to get started. I got 3 seeds from Bing through Klout Perks last year. It’s sitting in my cabinet, waiting to be thrived!

I collect baby glass jars and I have many uses for them. How fabulous would it be if I grow herbs in those jars indoor, to save up spaces. I have no idea where to put them, but I’m sure it’s out of the reach of my boys’ little hands! 🙂

I will let you know the progress of the herbs as soon as I get the potting soils!

Disclaimer: I got the free samples from Bing through Klout Perks. As always, opinions/thoughts are 100% my own.

Meal Plan: Week of Jan 28th

Into the last week of first month of the year I want to try different vegetables each week to see if we like it. I dont think I have ever eaten asparagus but this will be on this week meal plan.

Jan 28th – Italian Pot Roast 

Jan 29th – Pork Loins with asparagus and mashed potatoes.

Jan 30th  – Fried chicken, mac and cheese and greens – Dezmond’s favorite!

Jan 31st – Baked Ziti with Sausage 

Feb 1st – Frozen Pizza

Feb 2nd – Brinner

What’s your meal plan for this week? Let’s hear them!

Jan 25th CVS Trip

Those that knows me know that I ‘m a hardcore/strategic couponer. I stock up with alot of neccessities last year that I don’t really need to buy anything else for at least a year but few items I’d like to stock up on. But last week there was a glitch, a glitch that I’m lucked out. I scored 12 nivea creme tins at CVS for $1.49 after I rolled my previous extra care bucks as known as ECB and got back $30 in ECB. A huge moneymaker there. Read here.

I wanted to show you how I broke down using the huge ECB and coupons. This week, they had charmin toilet papers on sale for buying $30 worth in products and get a $10 CVS cash card. Plus I want to get money back from Ibotta –  ( a fun new app that: pays you cash for buying your favorite products in the store, has tons of great offers on products you buy all the time, and lets you transfer your earnings into PayPal or donate to any school in America or United Way) So you just basically pick which store you bought the items at and then upload a receipt using your phone and scan the barcode from the products you bought. Pretty easy isnt it!

The breakdown will provide after the pictures:

To use a huge $30 ECB, you are looking for items that produces ECB or cvs cash card. In this picture thats what I did. They all produced ECBS and cvs cash card.

3 Charmins – $9.99 = $29.98
1 Ladyspeedstick – $2.99
1 Speedstick – $2.99
1 Colgate toothpaste – $3
1 Colgate rinse – $3
2 Crest toothpastes – $5.98

Total OOP:  $47.93

Coupons I used:

$30 ECB
$6 ECB
(2) $1/1 speedstick coupons
$.50/1 colgate toothpaste
(2) $.50/1 crest toothpaste

Total OOP plus tax: $8.15 and used previous cvs cash card, so nothing out of my pocket! and got back $10 CVS cash card for charmin, $6 ecb for speedstick/colgate and $4 ecb for crest. Plus I got back $2 from Ibotta for doing colgate toothpaste and rinse.

Wordless Wednesday: Snow Mode On My Camera

One of my goals for this year is to push up my photography skills. I have different kind of modes on my Sony cyber-shot camera. There was snow that came at night on Jan 17th and I took a picture using Snow Mode instead of automatic like I always do. Im in awe at how it came out at night!!

Meal Plan: Week of Jan 21

I love meal planning. It’s so convenient to see what’s in your freezer and give you ideas what to cook them with.  Only go to grocery to buy ingredients that you need for that menu. Here is my week 3 of meal planning. I want to try something different. I hear so much about butternut squash and how much everybody raves about them so I thought, why not give it a try?!

Jan 21 – Butternut Squash and Kale Quesdillas

Jan 22 – Chicken and Spinach Enchiladas

Jan 23 – The Marlboro Man Sandwich – I love this menu!

Jan 24 – Roast whole chicken with potatoes

Jan 25 – frozen pizza

Jan 26 – leftovers

Jan 27 – leftovers

Yea I know the last two days of this week is leftovers. I rather to be lazy during the weekend. What’s on your menu for this week? Let’s hear them!