Monday, September 30, 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013
10 meals in 1 hour!!!
I'm not the best cook. I feel like I just do not have enough time these days. I plan the weekly dinner meals during the weekend. If I do not do it then... then we are grabbing whatever to eat during the week. I hate that. It happens way too often.
I need instructions and pictures. And someone to buy all the ingredients. And be there to really just cook for me.
So when I was invited to attend a Wild Tree dinner workshop, I jumped at the chance... and brought along my great friend Sarah and her in-utero twins. It was so much fun!
Basically, you are able to make 10 meals (20 if you want to divide in 1/2) in one hour! I signed up for a "Not Your Mama's Crock Pot" workshop. Yummy!!
That is my ideal situation! I received a grocery list a head of time... lots and lots of meat and chicken. Wowzers. I called the local butcher to place an order and I had NEVER bought that much protein in one day! Sidenote: I felt crazy adult ordering food from a butcher. Hahaha. I don't know why, but it did! I also had to buy some veggies and some canned goods. And that's it!!!
To prep, Doug chopped and chopped veggies and I labeled bags and put in some ingredients. Packed it in a cooler and off I went.
First... when I arrived at the workshop... I thought I was on a pinterest page. The house was flippin' AMAZING! Huge old house with a carriage house (where the hostesses parents live) and then an awesome barn that serves as the family hang out. OMG. AMAZING! I mean, there was a slide that kids could use that went from the upstairs in the barn to the main level! Crazy. To heck with the food... the house alone was something to see!
Anyway... the workshop was great. We all received a whole bunch of yumming spices and then we took each back and added what we needed to complete each recipe. Easy! Everything will be frozen and then cooked in a crock pot! Done!
Drove home and popped all the meals in my freezer. I can't wait to start cooking! Hehe.
I need instructions and pictures. And someone to buy all the ingredients. And be there to really just cook for me.
So when I was invited to attend a Wild Tree dinner workshop, I jumped at the chance... and brought along my great friend Sarah and her in-utero twins. It was so much fun!
Basically, you are able to make 10 meals (20 if you want to divide in 1/2) in one hour! I signed up for a "Not Your Mama's Crock Pot" workshop. Yummy!!
That is my ideal situation! I received a grocery list a head of time... lots and lots of meat and chicken. Wowzers. I called the local butcher to place an order and I had NEVER bought that much protein in one day! Sidenote: I felt crazy adult ordering food from a butcher. Hahaha. I don't know why, but it did! I also had to buy some veggies and some canned goods. And that's it!!!
To prep, Doug chopped and chopped veggies and I labeled bags and put in some ingredients. Packed it in a cooler and off I went.
First... when I arrived at the workshop... I thought I was on a pinterest page. The house was flippin' AMAZING! Huge old house with a carriage house (where the hostesses parents live) and then an awesome barn that serves as the family hang out. OMG. AMAZING! I mean, there was a slide that kids could use that went from the upstairs in the barn to the main level! Crazy. To heck with the food... the house alone was something to see!
Anyway... the workshop was great. We all received a whole bunch of yumming spices and then we took each back and added what we needed to complete each recipe. Easy! Everything will be frozen and then cooked in a crock pot! Done!
Drove home and popped all the meals in my freezer. I can't wait to start cooking! Hehe.
Prepping!
Cute baby wanting the bags in the cooler.
All my bags are ready!
Sarah and her twin bump.
Instructions.
Putting the ingredients together.
This will be a yummy meal!
Yummmm. Well, it will be!
Monday, September 2, 2013
That old familiar feeling times 2
I have two old feelings that have come back recently. Both suck big donkey balls. Yep, they do.
1. Endo pain. That old family pelvic ache/horrific pain is back. The Gremlin is what I call it. Same spot. Same pain. Ugh. I've already made a call to my doctor. We are working on it. Sucks that it is back. Dang you endo!
I've also been bleeding for three weeks. Not real 'period' bleeding... just bleeding here and there, continuously for three weeks. Enough to use a panty liner... not enough for it to really act like a 'real' period.
WTH body.
Oh, and I have a tilted uterus now. I found that out at my last doctor appointment -- a follow up and a check up when I started to feel the Gremlin again. Ugh.
Seriously body.
2. It seems as if Labor Day was also Pregnancy Announcement day on FB. There were several in my news feed today. I thought that after I had a a baby, announcements wouldn't give me that 'punched in the stomach/ugh' feeling anymore. Wrong.
It still hurts/sucks. Maybe in a different way, but it still does. I was having a great ole day today and then bam... a mom from the tiny little day care posts on FB that she is pregnant. Her son is about 7 months. I felt that old feeling. Hated to admit it, but it was there. I even thought "You better say congrats... act happy!" Totally something I would have thought in my IF days.
It put me in a funk for a few hours. I mean... there are so many of my friends still waiting for a baby and boommmm... she is totally shocked at her wonderful fertility. Yup. Suckage. Yay for her and all.
We haven't been avoiding for months and nothing has happened. I'm ok with this -- we do have our hands full and all -- but it makes me worry again. Same feelings, even if they aren't totally justified, the second time around. I can't help how I feel... so there it is.
Well... Happy Labor Day. Ironically... while today might have been pregnancy day on FB... I didn't hear of anyone actually being in labor day. Hmmmm.
1. Endo pain. That old family pelvic ache/horrific pain is back. The Gremlin is what I call it. Same spot. Same pain. Ugh. I've already made a call to my doctor. We are working on it. Sucks that it is back. Dang you endo!
I've also been bleeding for three weeks. Not real 'period' bleeding... just bleeding here and there, continuously for three weeks. Enough to use a panty liner... not enough for it to really act like a 'real' period.
WTH body.
Oh, and I have a tilted uterus now. I found that out at my last doctor appointment -- a follow up and a check up when I started to feel the Gremlin again. Ugh.
Seriously body.
2. It seems as if Labor Day was also Pregnancy Announcement day on FB. There were several in my news feed today. I thought that after I had a a baby, announcements wouldn't give me that 'punched in the stomach/ugh' feeling anymore. Wrong.
It still hurts/sucks. Maybe in a different way, but it still does. I was having a great ole day today and then bam... a mom from the tiny little day care posts on FB that she is pregnant. Her son is about 7 months. I felt that old feeling. Hated to admit it, but it was there. I even thought "You better say congrats... act happy!" Totally something I would have thought in my IF days.
It put me in a funk for a few hours. I mean... there are so many of my friends still waiting for a baby and boommmm... she is totally shocked at her wonderful fertility. Yup. Suckage. Yay for her and all.
We haven't been avoiding for months and nothing has happened. I'm ok with this -- we do have our hands full and all -- but it makes me worry again. Same feelings, even if they aren't totally justified, the second time around. I can't help how I feel... so there it is.
Well... Happy Labor Day. Ironically... while today might have been pregnancy day on FB... I didn't hear of anyone actually being in labor day. Hmmmm.
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