Rain, rain, go away.
10:30 to 11:am
Made up a jar of sugar-free strawberry jam.
Got some pork ribs with hickory brown sugar BBQ sauce
in the crock. Will be having pulled BBQ pork
sandwiches on homemade buns for a later supper tonight.
Also made some homemade coleslaw for a side.
Got the rest of the packages of pork ribs
packaged up for the freezer.
Put a leftover lunch for Tony in the freezer.
It is the weekend so leftovers have
to go in the freezer til Monday to keep fresh
til he goes back to work.
Here is an example of what he takes to work
with him for lunch every day.
This is mashed potatoes topped with
chicken and gravy, sides: stuffing,
corn on the cob and a roll.
Try buying this at a fast food joint
for around $1.00.
This is the reason for leftover lunches to save money!
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3:00pm
Busy day so far.
Just got back from scrappin the air conditioners
at Tony's work.
The kids jumped right in with helping
and seemed to know exactly what needed done.
We then headed over to Kroger to
get a prescription for Tony.
While there I found a bunch of loaves
of bread for .39 cents. I think I got
about 10 loaves. I gave 6 of them to mom.
Also found $5 rolls of Bob Evans maple
sausage marked down to $1.49!
Ohhh those are my favorite.
I snatched up 6 rolls.
We also had to buy gifts for a birthday
party the kids are attending this afternoon.
They will be gone for 3 hours. Wooo Hooo
break time for mom and dad!
Me and Tony might head out to find
some potting soil and more seeds and/or plants.
I am wanting some flower seeds, especially
some marigolds that I will be able to plant around
the garden area.
Well it's almost time to take the kids to
the party. Had to throw down some quick
grub for lunch and pop each kid in the shower.
Gotta run to quickly wrap these gifts.
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4pm - 5pm
Not much time for mom and dad to hang out and
do things. We went to Marcs and bought
2 banana pepper plants ($1.00 each)
and 4 bags black mulch ($2.50 each).
Left there and headed to Wally World to
look for some seeds.
Their seed selection sucked. We didn't
get any but did get a bag of topsoil
for about $1.80.
Shortly after Walmart the page decided to
go off so off to Tony's work we went.
He had about 3 calls to take care of.
That was 5-6:30pm.
Had to race back to pick the boys up from
their party by 7pm. Seems like we no sooner got
home and Tony got paged out again.
Jonathan went along with him this time.
Me and Christopher stayed home.
I took the ribs out of the crock
and shredded the meat up and added
a little more sauce.
Then I took the homemade hamburger buns
and spread a lil butter on them then
added sea salt and garlic from the grinder
and grilled them in a skillet. YUMMMMMMY!!
I'd have to rank this up there with
City Barbecue!
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Almost 8pm and the day is winding down somewhat.
Just finished supper and have some waiting for
the other boys when they return home.
Now time to get breakfast started for tomorrow.
I'm going to make stuffed French toast in a
casserole dish and let it sit overnight in the
fridge. Then I can just pop it in the oven
when we get up.
Here is how I threw it altogether:
Place 4 pieces of Texas toast
in the bottom of a casserole dish.
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
mixed with 3 Tablespoons Splenda.
Spread cream cheese mixture
among the 4 pieces of bread.
Spoon jam over top the cream cheese.
I used the sugar-free homemade strawberry jam I made.
Place 4 more pieces of Texas toast on top.
In a small mixing whisk together the following:
(I just reused the mixing bowl that had
the cream cheese mixture in it. That's
why you see tid bits of cream cheese on top.)
3 eggs,
1 cup milk,
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/4 cup maple syrup (I used sugar-free)
1 Tablespoon Splenda
2-3 teaspoon cinnamon
Pour this mixture over top everything.
Cover with aluminum foil and place
in fridge overnight.
The next morning, preheat the oven to 350, and bake, covered, for 55 minutes.
Remove tinfoil, and bake uncovered for 5-7 more minutes
(optional) Sprinkle with Powdered Sugar
