WW Veggie Soup (0+ points)

Ingredients

• 6 cups nonfat beef broth
• 3 cups green cabbage- diced
• 1 1/2 cup carrots- sliced
• 1 cup onion- diced
• 5 garlic cloves- minced
• 1 cup green beans
• 2 cups mushrooms-sliced
• 2 cups broccoli- chopped
• 1 bell pepper- diced
• 3 stalks celery- diced
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste

 

Add All ingredients in a large pot and simmer. Salt and Pepper to taste. You can vary this any way you would like with adding any 0 points veggies for your own take on this soup.

*its got a bit of heat but was totally yummy. All three of my boys ate this with me for lunch today. They devoured it. I also really enjoyed it. It's 0 points which I love. and make enough that I can have a meal with my family and take some for a few lunches at work. Very prep intensive. lots of chopping but for 0 points, its totally worth it!

$6 Beans and Cornbread.

1 Bag Dry Pinto Beans ($3)
1 salt pork ($2.89)
salt & Pepper

Empty dry beans into crock pot. Add water (keeping in mind the dry beans will soak up most of the water). cut up salt pork and throw in cp as well. Salt and pepper and turn on Crockpot. 4 hours on Low 6-8 on High.

I usually pair it with some Jiffy Corn Muffin mix for some cornbread. these usually run around 50cents a box and I use 2.

By far my easiest meal I make and also a family favorite! In the spring I usually always pair this with some fried potatoes and ramps.

1 hour Challenge

This hour challenge is for those problem areas. you know that hall closet or that cluttered desk. I regret to say I have to many "problem" area's in my house. Instead of tackling them all at once I have decided to take them on one at a time. To make things more interesting I've given myself a time limit. 1 hour. First all I had to do was pick an area. My first area was our "catch all" shelf. All of our mail after opening/ school papers/ work papers/ just need to put up so little hands don't get area. It had a bit of everything and was a huge eye sore in my kitching/dining area. I set the timer and got to work. to my surprise I finished up right around the 1 hour mark. I felt so much better and organized. I set to work on my next room. My laundry room. I did it. organized it all (well except for the pictures but that's a few hour long process- but they are all on one shelf in that room and I know where it all is now)

Its amazing what you can get done in an hour. so set your timer and get to work. what can you accomplish in an hour?

Cheap Mickey Mouse cookie cutter

So I thought I would take a minute to post a super "sweet" deal I found last night from SODIAL on amazon. This adorable Mickey Mouse cookie cutter is only 99 cents with FREE shipping!  My family loves Disney and ever since our trip to Orlando last May we are Disney crazy. I read in the reviews these are on the smaller side but I still think these will make a nice addition to our Christmas cookies and would even be great as a party favor if your having a Mickey/Minnie or Disney themed party.
Remember prices on amazon are subject to change regularly.

Get your cutter HERE

*I am in no way affiliated with SODIAL*

DIY $60 Firepit

My family loves camping. We don't get to go as often as we like with our busy schedule though. We decided to improvise.

I had bought My husband one of those little metal fire place pits from target a few black Fridays ago for around $20. He opened it and loved the idea of us all sitting around the fire making smores instead of all sitting around the TV on summer nights. However, it set in our closet for a few years- unused and untouched.

This summer I had enough. I decided I wanted to rev-up our fire pit a bit though. so instead of just building the normal bit itself I used the pan from the fire pit out of the kit I bought from target. I then went to walmart and bought a block like this - I got this from lowes website. it list the price as $1.97 but I seem to remember it being less than that at walmart.


we laid it out in the walmart parking lot how big we thought it would be. counted how many it took to be in the size circle we needed than counted how high we wanted it. you get the idea. easy math. I believe I had $40 in material (remember I got mine from walmart.. outside in the garden section) Brought it home and stacked and added our metal scoop from our $20 fire pit and ta-da instant DIY firepit. Easy and very worth it $60 fire-pit for our very own back yard. Kits like run around $200 on website to build similar fire-pits. We got a lot of use out of it last summer and hope to this summer as well.