These baked meal bars are great on the go as a quick meals on the go, or if you just don't like a big breakfast. These are quick and easy to whip together as well!
Ingredients:
2 cups oats
1/2 cup chopped almonds
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup dried blueberries
1/2 dry nonfat milk
1/2 cup honey
3 TBS brown sugar
3 TBS peanut butter
1/2 tsp salt
Line an 8x8 baking dish with parchment paper leaving enough on either side of the dish so that you can use it to lift the bars out of the dish after they have cooled.
Mix oats, almonds, cranberries, blueberries and milk in a bowl.
Combine honey, brown sugar, peanut butter and salt in a small sauce pan and heat till the peanut butter has melted.
Combine dry and wet ingredients and coat thoroughly. I just got in there with my hands to completely coat.
Press mixture into your baking dish evenly and bake at 300 degrees for 35 min on the middle rack.
Let bars COMPLETELY cool before pulling out and slicing into bars.
Take a very sharp knife and slice into the size bars you prefer!
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Chicken Noodle Soup Meal Jar
Recipe time!!! Here is a delicious meal in a jar recipe that will be shelf stable for 5 years when packaged as directed!!
I do not sponsor for any certain brand so you may use your brand of choice. I use a mixture of thrive, augason farms, and homemade.
For this recipe I didn't use any homemade items, but here you go! My chicken noodle soup in a jar!!
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups egg noodles
1 cup freeze dried chicken ( for mine I used the vegetarian chicken alternative )
1/4 cup dehydrated chopped onion
2/3 cups freeze dried carrots
1/3 cup freeze dried celery
1-2 tbs chicken bouillon
a pinch of pepper
Layer all your ingredients in your jar, top with an O2 absorber and adjust ring and lid onto your mason jar.
For extra protection I also use my jar sealer attachment for my food saver.
This takes very little time so I usually do about 10 at a time!
Enjoy!!
I do not sponsor for any certain brand so you may use your brand of choice. I use a mixture of thrive, augason farms, and homemade.
For this recipe I didn't use any homemade items, but here you go! My chicken noodle soup in a jar!!
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups egg noodles
1 cup freeze dried chicken ( for mine I used the vegetarian chicken alternative )
1/4 cup dehydrated chopped onion
2/3 cups freeze dried carrots
1/3 cup freeze dried celery
1-2 tbs chicken bouillon
a pinch of pepper
Layer all your ingredients in your jar, top with an O2 absorber and adjust ring and lid onto your mason jar.
For extra protection I also use my jar sealer attachment for my food saver.
This takes very little time so I usually do about 10 at a time!
Enjoy!!
Avacado and Honey Facemask
This is just a quick simple homemade moisturizer mask!
Ingredients:
1/2 ripe avocado
1/4 cup honey
Mash your avocado into a creamy paste
Add honey and mix thoroughly.
Apply mixture evenly over your face
Leave on for 10 minutes
Rinse face with warm water, wipe with warm washcloth to ensure you have removed all of the mask from your face!
Done! Enjoy friends.
Ingredients:
1/2 ripe avocado
1/4 cup honey
Mash your avocado into a creamy paste
Add honey and mix thoroughly.
Apply mixture evenly over your face
Leave on for 10 minutes
Rinse face with warm water, wipe with warm washcloth to ensure you have removed all of the mask from your face!
Done! Enjoy friends.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Revitalize Your Hair With Coconut Oil
Us women sure are rough on our hair.. we perm it, dye it, crimp it, curl it, and straighten! We also put gel, hairspray, and so many other products it's not even funny, no wonder our hair is dry and dead!!
Here is an overnight treatment that will leave your hair revitalized, soft by giving it back the natural oils that our daily use shampoos strip it of!
What you need:
Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
Shower Cap
Wrap a towel around your shoulders to protect your clothing from oil stains. Since you are doing this before bed make sure to already have your jammies on prior to treating your hair
Take your coconut oil and completely saturate your hair with the oil. (best if hair is dry before applying)
Take and run a comb through it to ensure you get every strand.
My daughter took this photo.. didn't even say "Say Cheese" don't I look so happy?
Take and twist your hair up and put on your shower cap, you can also use a hair towel to ensure you don't get any on your pillow and blankets.
Leave this on overnight and it the morning shampoo it out.. you won't regret this, it will leave your hair so smooth and silky!!!!
Totally got photobombed by the 7 year old haha
Use this treatment every other week or as needed!
Here is an overnight treatment that will leave your hair revitalized, soft by giving it back the natural oils that our daily use shampoos strip it of!
What you need:
Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
Shower Cap
Wrap a towel around your shoulders to protect your clothing from oil stains. Since you are doing this before bed make sure to already have your jammies on prior to treating your hair
Take your coconut oil and completely saturate your hair with the oil. (best if hair is dry before applying)
Take and run a comb through it to ensure you get every strand.
Take and twist your hair up and put on your shower cap, you can also use a hair towel to ensure you don't get any on your pillow and blankets.
Leave this on overnight and it the morning shampoo it out.. you won't regret this, it will leave your hair so smooth and silky!!!!
Totally got photobombed by the 7 year old haha
Use this treatment every other week or as needed!
Homemade Fabric Softener
Here is a simple cheap recipe that really is worth it. The prices of fabric softener are seriously outrageous. These takes very little time to whip together, and is extremely cheap.
There are tons of hair conditioner scents out there so you can choose your favorite, and if you want a little added scent add in some essential oils to strengthen the scent!!
Ingredients:
6 cups hot water
2 cups hair conditioner
3 cups vinegar
Combine hot water and hair conditioner to dissolve the hair conditioner. Use a wire whisk if needed.
Add in the vinegar and combine and put into the container of your choice using a funnel!
You can use an old milk jug, oj jug or here I have mine in an old coffee creamer container. (which was cleaned out completely before hand.)
Use 1/2 cup per load, don't worry the vinegar scent will not come through on your clothes.
This will settle over time so make sure before adding it give it a shake.
Enjoy folks!
There are tons of hair conditioner scents out there so you can choose your favorite, and if you want a little added scent add in some essential oils to strengthen the scent!!
Ingredients:
6 cups hot water
2 cups hair conditioner
3 cups vinegar
Combine hot water and hair conditioner to dissolve the hair conditioner. Use a wire whisk if needed.
Add in the vinegar and combine and put into the container of your choice using a funnel!
You can use an old milk jug, oj jug or here I have mine in an old coffee creamer container. (which was cleaned out completely before hand.)
Use 1/2 cup per load, don't worry the vinegar scent will not come through on your clothes.
This will settle over time so make sure before adding it give it a shake.
Enjoy folks!
Friday, February 22, 2013
Keep them critters out!!!
Over on my facebook page I've had many requests asking how to keep fur critters domestic and wild and also creepy crawlies out of the garden. I've been doing my research and have compiled a few ideas on how to keep them buggers out of your garden without using any chemicals!
Slugs:
Coffee- take old brewed coffee and put it in a spray bottle spray on your soil surrounding the garden and the slugs will stay out.
Beer Can Trap- Take an old beer can and cut in half, bury it in the soil up to the rim and put some beer, sugar water, soda pop and the slugs will be attracted to it and fall in and drown. You can also use tuna cans for this. Remember to discard the can and contents and replace regularly!
Salt- My grandmother will swear by Hawaiian salt keeping them suckers out!! Line the garden bed with it and fear no slugs!! Note: DO NOT PUT IN YOUR GARDEN. If you have raised beds place around the outside of the bed to keep slugs out... salt can be fatal to your garden, you may not have slugs, but you also may not have a crop to harvest either.
Cats:
Chicken wire- used in many ways.. you can make a cage around your garden or if you want lay out our soil then add a layer of chicken wire to the top of your bed to keep cats from using your garden bed as a litter box.
Coffee Grounds- Keeping coffee grounds in with your soil also can deter cats.
Cayenne Pepper - Sprinkle some of that spice on the outer rim of your garden bed.. I have been told this can work, and it can fail.. some cats are just that stubborn. If you are willing to try it let me know how this one works out!!
Give it it's own space- If you have the room and time.. and if the cat is yours, give the cat it's own outdoor litter box, a small sandbox or even a dollar store litter box filled with litter or sand the cat may be up to using that more then your bountiful garden!.. If the cat isn't yours and you don't know who the cat belongs too I recommend getting a trap from your humane society and getting that cat a home. I know in my area there are more stay cats then owned cats and it is sad how many die on the streets, if each one of us can get a cat off the street to stop it from reproducing more feral kitties won't that help? Just a thought!
Birds:
Bird netting- I know bird netting can be hard to work with but using some pvc you can make a removable cage that is easy to work with!
Here is a link to some plans
Rocks - take a bunch of those garden rocks and paint them to look like lady bugs and strawberries, place them in your garden prior to your fruit coming in and by the time your fruit comes in the birds will be tired of trying!!
Wild Animals. (Deer, Moles, Voles, possums..etc):
Dogs- Having your furry pet around should keep them guys out of your yard, I have followers who swear by it!
Motion Sensors- Motion sensored lights, and/sprinklers. (this can work for them kitties too)
Traps- For possums/raccoon's trap em and remember to re locate at least a few miles away from your home so they don't come back.. I usually make a trip to the woods to get a little mud on my tires to relocate away from the city!
There are other inhumane ways of dealing with moles and voles which my dad has used because moles are such buggers and all our other methods of deterring them had failed.
Hair- yes you read that right.. human hair... deer don't like the smell of us human kind apparently we stink! Sprinkle some around your garden to keep them away!
Bacon- Line the outside of your garden with bacon grease.. them long eared friends don't like the smell, keep them out of your salad garden.
Cayenne- as well as your cats, this will deter coons away from your garden as well.
If you have a request for a certain critter you want to keep out of your garden please ask. I hope that this helps some of you who are looking for remedies to keep them critters away!!!
27 days till spring!!! Who else is itching to get some dirt under their nails? Have a great day y'all!!
Slugs:
Coffee- take old brewed coffee and put it in a spray bottle spray on your soil surrounding the garden and the slugs will stay out.
Beer Can Trap- Take an old beer can and cut in half, bury it in the soil up to the rim and put some beer, sugar water, soda pop and the slugs will be attracted to it and fall in and drown. You can also use tuna cans for this. Remember to discard the can and contents and replace regularly!
Salt- My grandmother will swear by Hawaiian salt keeping them suckers out!! Line the garden bed with it and fear no slugs!! Note: DO NOT PUT IN YOUR GARDEN. If you have raised beds place around the outside of the bed to keep slugs out... salt can be fatal to your garden, you may not have slugs, but you also may not have a crop to harvest either.
Cats:
Chicken wire- used in many ways.. you can make a cage around your garden or if you want lay out our soil then add a layer of chicken wire to the top of your bed to keep cats from using your garden bed as a litter box.
Coffee Grounds- Keeping coffee grounds in with your soil also can deter cats.
Cayenne Pepper - Sprinkle some of that spice on the outer rim of your garden bed.. I have been told this can work, and it can fail.. some cats are just that stubborn. If you are willing to try it let me know how this one works out!!
Give it it's own space- If you have the room and time.. and if the cat is yours, give the cat it's own outdoor litter box, a small sandbox or even a dollar store litter box filled with litter or sand the cat may be up to using that more then your bountiful garden!.. If the cat isn't yours and you don't know who the cat belongs too I recommend getting a trap from your humane society and getting that cat a home. I know in my area there are more stay cats then owned cats and it is sad how many die on the streets, if each one of us can get a cat off the street to stop it from reproducing more feral kitties won't that help? Just a thought!
Birds:
Bird netting- I know bird netting can be hard to work with but using some pvc you can make a removable cage that is easy to work with!
Here is a link to some plans
Rocks - take a bunch of those garden rocks and paint them to look like lady bugs and strawberries, place them in your garden prior to your fruit coming in and by the time your fruit comes in the birds will be tired of trying!!
Wild Animals. (Deer, Moles, Voles, possums..etc):
Dogs- Having your furry pet around should keep them guys out of your yard, I have followers who swear by it!
Motion Sensors- Motion sensored lights, and/sprinklers. (this can work for them kitties too)
Traps- For possums/raccoon's trap em and remember to re locate at least a few miles away from your home so they don't come back.. I usually make a trip to the woods to get a little mud on my tires to relocate away from the city!
There are other inhumane ways of dealing with moles and voles which my dad has used because moles are such buggers and all our other methods of deterring them had failed.
Hair- yes you read that right.. human hair... deer don't like the smell of us human kind apparently we stink! Sprinkle some around your garden to keep them away!
Bacon- Line the outside of your garden with bacon grease.. them long eared friends don't like the smell, keep them out of your salad garden.
Cayenne- as well as your cats, this will deter coons away from your garden as well.
If you have a request for a certain critter you want to keep out of your garden please ask. I hope that this helps some of you who are looking for remedies to keep them critters away!!!
27 days till spring!!! Who else is itching to get some dirt under their nails? Have a great day y'all!!
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
No Sew Fleece Blanket
Living in the great northwest, most of the year we are covered in fuzzy pj pants, sweats, sweaters and fleece blankets! I don't buy fleece blankets, I make them. Today I am going to share how to make your own, NO SEWING needed!!!
What you need:
2 equal pieces of fleece material
Scissors
ruler
Choose the size you want your blanket to be, these ones here are for the kids when they lay on the couch so they are a bit smaller.
You will need two peices of fabric, the print of your choice as you can see this is my middle child's blanket so of course it is tinker bell! The other side is a purple solid color.
Lay them on top of each with the "wrong" sides facing each other or the softest sides facing down for the solid color on the bottom and the softest facing up for the printed piece. Getting them as flat as possible
I take a piece of cardboard cut 5x5 like so
Place it in the corner of your fabric and cut out your 5x5 piece of fabric. Do this to all 4 corners of your blanket.
To make the fringe cut your fabric 5 inches deep leaving 1 inch space inbetween, do this all around the blanket.
Take each fringe piece and double knot as tight as possible so it doesn't come undone!
Do this all the way around and.. I like to tie them once all the way around and then move to the couch to do the second knot so I'm not sitting on the floor for the entire project
Mr. Skyler didn't wanna get up so I could take a picture so I told him he was going on the internet.. so he covered his face .. haha silly boy!!
Tada! No sew blanket, I've never had an issue with the knots coming undone in the wash, or any other issues with these blankets. They are warm, fuzzy and fun!!!
Ms. Stacia showing off her brand new tinkerbell blanket!!
Here is another one of the John Deere one that I've recently made.. Adult sized.
Enjoy folks!!
What you need:
2 equal pieces of fleece material
Scissors
ruler
Choose the size you want your blanket to be, these ones here are for the kids when they lay on the couch so they are a bit smaller.
You will need two peices of fabric, the print of your choice as you can see this is my middle child's blanket so of course it is tinker bell! The other side is a purple solid color.
Lay them on top of each with the "wrong" sides facing each other or the softest sides facing down for the solid color on the bottom and the softest facing up for the printed piece. Getting them as flat as possible
I take a piece of cardboard cut 5x5 like so
Place it in the corner of your fabric and cut out your 5x5 piece of fabric. Do this to all 4 corners of your blanket.
To make the fringe cut your fabric 5 inches deep leaving 1 inch space inbetween, do this all around the blanket.
Take each fringe piece and double knot as tight as possible so it doesn't come undone!
Tada! No sew blanket, I've never had an issue with the knots coming undone in the wash, or any other issues with these blankets. They are warm, fuzzy and fun!!!
Here is another one of the John Deere one that I've recently made.. Adult sized.
Enjoy folks!!
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