Chili

Ingredients

• 3 Cans of Red Kidney Beans
• Pound of lean ground beef or ground chicken
• Chili powder
• 1 can of diced tomatoes
• 1 cup of water/tomato juice
• 1 Onion
• Shredded Cheese for garnish and crackers

Directions

Cook your ground beef/chicken with the onion chunked up.  I season my meat with Sea Salt/Pink Himalayan salt, pepper, and garlic.  Then combine the kidney beans, meat, tomatoes and water/tomato juice all in a big pot.  Simmer on low for 20-30 minutes.

Garnish with cheese and crackers.  My kids love pb sandwiches or cheese sandwiches with their chili and sometimes a hot dog!  You could also combine everything in your slow cooker and cook on low all day and have it ready to go when you get home!!!!  

Stir Fry

Ingredients

• 4-5 Steaks cubed up ( I usually try to leave the steak kinda frozen when I cube it up it makes it easier to cut up)
• 2-3 peppers chunked up ( I like to use a mix of colors)
• 1 onion chunked up
• Mushrooms 2-3 cans or a container of fresh mushrooms
• Worcestershire sauce
• Country Bobs
• Minced Garlic
• Sea Salt and pepper
• Olive Oil

Directions

Drizzle olive oil in your pan and heat it up on medium.  Place steak in the pan and drizzle with worcestershire sauce and Country bobs.  Put a teaspoon full of minced garlic in with the meat and season with sea salt and pepper.  Place cooked steak in a bowl and drizzle the pan again with olive oil add your veggies into the pan and saute them for a good 10 minutes (till desired tenderness is reached). Then add the meat in with veggies and simmer for 5 minutes on low heat.

I usually make rice or baked potatoes to go along with it!!  My family loves this dish and I love it because I can cut the meat and veggies up the night before place in put into zip lock bags!!  Easy clean up, prepped ahead, and family approved!!!

Enjoy!!!!

Weekly Meal Plan

Monday- Stir Fry with rice

Tuesday- Chili

Wednesday-Left Overs

Thursday-Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken 

Friday-Flank Steak with potatoes and green beans

Baking Mat

Baking Mat will change you baking life forever!! I have never used one before but my little cousin was selling stuff for school and I bought one. Best 8.00 i have ever spent!  I made cookies for my daughters high school teachers this week and never wiped it off in between batches or anything the cookies were perfect!!!  Love love. I will be buying a couple more!

 

Healthier Egg & Cheese Biscuit

So today I really wanted an egg and cheese biscuit from McDonalds BUT I can not tell you when the last time I have ate one from there was!  I try to stay away from that!  I had a busy week and this morning was just as busy!  Woke up with my back killing me, i got the kids all ready for school and everyone was on time might I add then I came home and got ready to take my mother in law to physical therapy. Took her and came back home for just a bit made my shakeology and grabbed my office work notebook and went back ready to pick her up!  Well I was still thinking about that dang biscuit!  Took her home went to the chiropractor and then finally home after noon sometime well i was hungry so i made this egg biscuit. I put two eggs in my blender with some avocado, slice of zucchini and a little bit of milk. Blended it put it in my pan. Made my biscuits (frozen ones) cut the biscuit in half added half the egg and some shredded cheese and placed the lid on!!  So good!  Well i told my kids about it and they wanted to try it!!  Needless to say kid tested and approved!!

Ingredients

Eggs

Little milk

Salt and pepper

Avocado (just a slice)

Zucchini (just a slice or two)

Shredded cheese

Biscuit

Blend eggs, avocado, milk, zucchini together

Cook the egg mixture and place on biscuit that is cut in half add the cheese and you have a yummy breakfast 

Enjoy!!

Pot Roast

The best ever pot roast!!  Melt in your mouth!!!  Husband and kid approved!! This is one of Pioneer Woman's recipes!!!  I just love her!!

Perfect Pot Roast

Courtesy of Ree Drummond

I cooked mine for 4 hours and it was 4.59 pounds. Her instructions say 4 hours and 15 minutes for 3-5 pounds.

Ingredients

Salt & freshly ground black pepper

Garlic Powder (i used this but it is not on her recipes)

Lipton onion soup mix ( another item i added but she doesnt use)

2 or 3 tablespoons of olive oil

2 whole onions peeled and halved

6 to 8 whole carrots, unpeeled, cut into 2 inch pieces ( i sliced mine with my mandolin)

1 cup red wine ( i didn't use)

3 cups of beef broth

2 or 3 sprigs of fresh rosemary ( i didn't use)

2 or 3 sprigs of thyme ( i didn't use)

Directions

Preheat the oven to 275 degrees

Salt, pepper, & garlic roast

Heat olive oil in a large pot or dutch oven over medium high heat.  

Add the onions and brown them then put in a bowl for later

Add the carrots and do the same this usually takes a minute or so. Add carrots to bowl with onions.

Add more olive oil if needed.  Add the roast and sear the meat on all sides. Add beef broth, lipton onion soup mix, onions, & carrots. 

Place lid on the pan and place in the oven!

Roast should fall apart when it is done

4 hours later and you will have a delish meal!!  I made the mashed potatoes in a bag because i can not make those to save my life.  Everyone complains that there is lumps so i just use what is easy

The roast was made homemade so that counts right :)!!!!!

Buy a Produce basket

If you have a local produce coop basket I would definitely sogn up!!  Some places have home delivery places that don't charge much but we don't have that here. We have community helpings coop basket and we pick our basket up at our local library!!!  Check the website out and see if there is a delivery close to you!!  You won't be disappointed!  Most comes from schnucks or dierbergs farms if they can it will be from local farms as well! This is what was in our regular box and junior box

https://communityhelpings4u.com/