That is a title I have been attempting to ROCK lately!!! Good grief does it take practice to achieve that title! It seems so simple when you look everything up on the internet. There are TONS of blogs available to help you along the way. D.I.Y. at it's finest!
Two weeks ago, I decided to make some breakfast burrito's for my husband and kids. It was poor judgement on my part to make such an attempt on a day when my sons speech therapist was supposed to be at my house. Bless her heart! She only commented on how delightful all of the food smelled one time! I learned from my mistake and decided to make some more on Sunday, ya know, the day for rest! It would have been SO SUPER simple, if my kids could handle the same amount of heat in their food as my husband. Since that isn't the case, I have to make two separate batches. At the end of the day, I had about two dozen burrito's for the family to enjoy!
Since we moved, I've been trying really hard to be disciplined enough to follow a family meal plan. A couple of suggestions that I have found is to always be PREPARED!!! Plan ahead! Those are two concepts that I truly struggle with, but I am making a helluva attempt!
I bought a 20 lb bag of potato's from Marvins grocery store in Chouteau. For $9.99 a bag, how could I pass it up?!?! In order to make the most out of my purchase, I needed to do something with the 10 lbs that I still had hanging around.
Twice baked potato's it is!!! So super simple! Right? Uh...well...just watch and see.
I started off with 25 potato's. I wrapped 18 of them in foil and peeled the remaining 7 to use for making the skinnytaste garlic mashed potato's for tomorrow night. I remembered from my last attempt at twice baked potato's that if you don't coat them with something the skin will just rip right off. So glad I remembered it AFTER I had already wrapped them all in foil. Yay me! I got to unwrap each one and spray them with Pam, then re-wrap them. UGH!!!
I bought a new ceramic bladed vegetable peeler. It is DA BOMB!!! I got the other taters peeled to boil and mash up. By this time it was 5 pm and my little one was exhausted! I was forced to pause the taters and concentrate on getting my kiddo to sleep. I also had a pot of water with a bullion cube boiling away on the stove. By the time I got the baby asleep enough to lay him down the water had completely evaporated in the pan. The bullion was caked on. UGH! I squirted some dish soap in the pot, added some more water, and stuck that bad boy back on the burner. Cleaned it in a jiffy!
So while I am in the middle of all of this...I find out...the plumbing is backed up!!! Yay! The plumber gave me the break I wanted by saying use as little water as possible. That means NO DISHES...which means...NO EATING AT HOME!! Woo Hoo!
Whew! Two dozen breakfast burrito's, an entire meals worth of mashed taters, and 36 twice baked potato's...
WOW!!! That's a LOT of work!!! I am thankful to have the opportunity to plan and prepare for my family. I am excited about the time when it will come much easier!!!
