Freezer Cooking

I signed up for Freezer cooking classes through a local city my friend works for. It’s 6 classes held every 2 weeks. We purchase the meat and then go in and prepare 6 meals, they have all of the other supplies there for you.

I decided to make 4 of the meals this last week, so I doubled up on 2 of them to equal my 6 meals. 2 of the meals just weren’t things we would eat.

But I thought I would share them with you guys as I make them. This week I made Chipotle-Chocolate Chile, Grilled Honey Lime Chicken, Creamy Chuck Roast with Mushrooms, and Cheese Ravioli. The other 2 meals were Sesame Salmon and Breakfast Sausage and Apples.

So far we have had the Roast and Chicken, both were pretty good.

The roast was the easiest to prepare for freezing. This was one of the dishes I did 2 of, so we have another one ready to go anytime.

Last night I cooked the chicken on my foreman grill, I’m sure it would have been even better on the outside grill. I mean it was good, but I love the taste of anything cooked on the gas grill.

The chicken was the other one I did 2 of so I actually doubled the recipe and then split it among 3 bags with 3 chicken breasts in each. They all had plenty of sauce with them so I could have probably got a 4th bag out of it. When I make this again I will double it as well and make 4 bags with 3 breasts each.

I also didn’t do the 2t of chopped jalapeno and just threw 1 slice of it in to each bag. Just because the baby might have some of it and I wouldn’t want it to spicy.

Here are these 2 recipes if you would like to try them. I made them as a document so you can just print them if you’d like. Like I said they were good, and easy to make.

Creamy Chuck Roast with Mushrooms

Grilled Honey Lime Chicken

Our First Stomach Bug

We are in the midst of our first sickness.

It’s horrible.

Little man woke up Tuesday morning at 1am puking and has been ever since. Just when I think he’s coming out of it he decides to vomit again. Add in the diarrhea and it’s been a pretty gross couple of days.

I’ve been trying to get him to drink pedialyte or water, and he will take a few sips. But he’s not really interested in it.

This was the first day, when water still seemed good.

Day 2 “Pedialyte is not my friend mom”

But I just keep forcing some on him so he won’t get dehydrated. Since he’s vomiting and having diarrhea he runs that risk. So anything I can give him to stop that is a plus.

We’ve gone through about 8 outfits, 5 bed changes, 4 baths and 30 diapers in 3 days. I really hope he comes out of this soon. I have to go back to work on Saturday and I’m not sure daddy can handle it, lol.

Every family has a Super Hero.

I’ve seriously been a slacker at blogging lately. I guess I’m just running a bit low in the creativity department.

I have a lot of posts I plan on writing, I just haven’t gotten around to it. I’m either working, playing with little man, or being lazy and doing nothing.

I’m sure I’ll get back in to the blogging grove soon. Until then, Super John is here to entertain you.

Cause you know, we are those parents.

Christmas Recap

My house looks like a toy store threw up in it, I mean seriously it’s a bit ridiculous the amount of gifts my son received this year. I knew he was going to be a bit spoiled as it was his first Christmas...but I had no idea how much.

I’m sure it has nothing to do with just how cute he isOn Christmas Eve we spent the evening with my dad’s side of the family. It was fun watching the 3 little ones opening presents.

Then we came home and opened our Christmas Eve Jammies and got ready for bed. My mom and my sister and her boyfriend came and stayed the night so they could be here in the morning.

On Christmas morning we woke early (well as you can see our early was a little before 10am, lol) to see Santa had arrived

and brought a ton of stuff with him

The Aftermath of present opening

And all of Little mans toys lined up. Yeah he isn’t spoiled or anything.

After breakfast we went to my grandmas where he received a few more presents and then headed to my FIL’s house for dinner and more presents.

Best.Christmas.Ever

Merry Christmas!

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I ♥ Babylegs!

If you haven’t noticed I put John in babylegs all the time. When I first got them DH accused me of trying to make him a little ballerina. But almost every time DH has to get him dressed he ends up in them, I guess I’ve won that battle.

But Babylegs is having an awesome Cyber Monday sale…A 3 pair pack for $12! (Newborn size is only $10) That is a great deal, so you should run over and get some so your baby can look as cute as mine. If you like them on FB then you can gain access to the sale early, or my links might go to them now.