Mini Pumpkin Rolls

So I made my Pumpkin Roll Recipe

but decided to bake the batter in mini muffin pans instead

and top w/the Cream Cheese filling and powder sugar

YUMMY!!!

50th Birthday....

Cake I did for a friend's mom..

Red Velvet with Cream Cheese

and a

White Almond with Buttercream



Italian Stuffed Shells

This is my go to recipe for any special occasion

I found this recipe from one of the ladies that I just love...

Mrs. Paula Deen
I adapted my recipe from hers..
{This recipe will feed my family of 4}

Italian Stuffed Shells

1/2 box of shells
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 onion chopped
salt, pepper and garlic powder to taste
1/2 box of frozen spinach
8oz cream cheese,softened
1 jar spagetti sauce
4oz. shredded mozz cheese

Cook pasta
Cook meat w/onion
add salt, pepper and garlic powder
Thaw out spinach and squeeze out excess water
Add cream cheese to the spinach
Mix meat mixture with cream cheese mixture
Stuff the shells with the mixture
Spray a 9x13 pan with cooking spray
place shells in the pan cover w/spagetti sauce
and top with mozz cheese
Bake @350 for an hour
Enjoy....

Grocery Shopping10/31-11/6

 So I'm just really trying to add what I need to My Stockile 

So my Shopping Trip this week was a CRAZY one

there where such amazing stock up prices all over town...

Target $3.22

Walmart $25.91

Walgreens $3.08



Big Lots $7.72

Shop n Save $53.24

Giant Eagle $64.64

Rite Aid $FREE

Walgreen's $FREE


TOTAL OOP $157.81

Don't Stock it if you Ain't gonna use it!

Portion Control

Do you want to make your Stockpile last longer???

And also help with your kids portion control??

Well you  know those "Snack Size" individual snacks bags??

Divide them in half....

Wow Tammy you are REALLY cheap....

Yes and No have you seen how many calories are in just one bag??

So it hit me I have 2 boys just split them up....

So instead of them eating

Pretzels have 110 calories now only 55 calories

Cookies have 280 calories now only 140 calories

Crackers have 190 now only 95



Tipsy Tuesday

Packing Lunches for My Family

Like I've been saying

I make my boys and my husbands lunches 5 days a week,

I don't agree with what is offered in the kids school lunches for $2.10-$2.65

I think there should be option of a salad bar....

And I don't want My Hubby going to a drive thru @ $6.00 a meal

That would be $50-$60 a week WOW!!!!

That's half my Grocery Budget

some weeks I only wanna spend that much Total.....

No thanks.....

So every Sunday night I will start the process 

*I will make my husbands salads for the week

*I will dish out the boys yougarts

*I will make jello

*I will make pudding and portion it out

*I will replenish and organize the snack bin
{depending on what's in My Stockpile}

*Cut up and/or clean and portion out any fresh fruit ad veggies for the week

*Make Homemade Ranch dressing {we prefer it over the bottled}

for Boys Salads and for veggies

This will take me about an hour but it's done for the week

and in the morning I ONLY have to

*make their sandwich

or

*wrap

or

*heat up the hot food that will go into their thermos

I pack up their lunchboxes and the

boys will pick out their dessert option

Done!!!!!

{Hubby does his own Lunchbox...}

I'm not waking up @ 4am!!!!!

That is one of the reasons to my crazyness,I just like knowing that it's done

Besides saving a ton of money every week from Couponing 

you also get to try different items that you would of never thought about because either

 -they were organic

-cost to much

-just never given any thought about what you were buying....

That looks good... throw it in the buggy

Then you get to the checkout and the cashier tells you your total..

How much I barely got anything....

been there done that...

But now I pay the grocery bill and it's fun to try different things 

and to see how far I can stretch my lil bit of money every week....

What's nice about Stockpiling is that in the last couple of months

 one week a month I have only went to Walgreen's

No Grocery Stores that is so neat

{I'm such a dork!!!!}