What to do when the weather prevents you from getting to the grocery store like you had planned? Alter your menu for the week!
I’ve talked before about cutting back on our family’s food budget, so I’m looking forward to the challenge. My husband works hard to provide for our family. I want to be able to make nice meals for when we have company, showing the extravagant hospitality of our loving Father (not to put forth rich food, but not wanting just to slap something together either), and I want to make healthy but not expensive meals for our family.
Monday: Last night was the storm of sleet. So, we are unable to get out to the grocery store today. So, going with what we have here at the house. Chicken Salad salads and Heath Bar Blondies by ELR.
Tuesday: We are going to Longhorn’s with a gift card from friends. Can’t wait for a date night!
Wednesday: This delicious parmesan white bean stew from How Sweet It Is.
Thursday: Turkey Bacon, Pancakes for brinner.
Friday: I’m taking dinner to my friend and her family and the main part will be this Italian Chicken and Rice casserole – slightly tweaked. We’ll see how the finished product turns out.
Saturday: we will for sure have some leftovers that we will be eating
Sunday: again, leftovers or sandwiches or brinner or brunch.
Muffins are a danger on our home. They are so easy to pick up, slather a butter of some sort on, eat for a snack, or three snacks.
I whipped these up in no time flat. In fact, it was a crazy weekend. I was attending a women’s conference in town that weekend, and wanted to leave some thing for the men in our home to eat on while I was away. Isn’t that nice? Really, I wanted to eat them too.
So, what better thing to do than to whisk up some banana muffins. And to make them healthier and easier to eat these are actually small bites of healthy goodness.
I tweaked the recipe from Heather, my neighbor and blogger of delicious recipes. My husband and older boy loved these and they are perfect for young kids because of their healthy benefits.
Coconut Oil Banana Nut Mini Muffins
Recipe Type: Muffins
Cuisine: Breakfast
Author: kd316
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Serves: 24 mini muffins
Easy, healthy banana muffins
Ingredients
3 bananas, mashed (I use the brown ones that I’ve frozen – thaw them, and mash them)
1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
1/4 cup raw honey
1 egg
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 T baking powder
scant 1/8 tsp kosher salt
Instructions
Mix together the dry ingredients.
Mix together the wet ingredients.
Combine together.
Fill mini muffin pan (sprayed with cooking spray) 3/4 full.
Mother’s Day is quickly approaching. And what Mom wouldn’t want an evening to get a pampering package and have a photo shoot done? To get clothes on that aren’t spit up on, dusty from cleaning the base boards, or have grass stains from cheering for their favorite baseball players? Or maybe grease stains for cooking aren’t really her thing?
What better gift than a photo package? In the month of April and May, I have 4 slots for your favorite mother to get pampered.
She’ll receive:
An hour photo shoot on location of her choice (in Little Rock)
3 printed photos of her choice
CD with 20 edited photos
A gift bag featuring some local Arkansas goodies that will help her feel pampered and special.
Flowers.
Cost?
$60 for everything listed above.
Are you in? Do you want to get this for your wife/mother of your children? Do you want to ask for this from your husband?
As a mommy of two young ones myself, I look forward to making you feel special as a Mommy with beautiful photos and some extra-special goodies.
I got to know Kathie when we took a short road trip down to Fort Worth, Texas for a photography workshop given by Casey and Kristin. It was a fun short trip a year ago this weekend. Meaning…it was missions weekend last year and this year is the missions weekend at our church. How timely!
Last weekend we got to head out to Two Rivers park here in Little Rock, just minutes from our home, on a gorgeous evening about dusk time, and take some photos of her with her love. Thanks Richard and Kathie for letting me share your lives with my readers! It was a joy taking your photos!
God has been so kind and gracious to me, teaching me more about Himself even in the books of Leviticus and Numbers. Here are several things that I learned in this week’s readings:
1. The Lord demands offerings. He demanded, commanded, offerings from his people. Even though we as post-Cross Christians don’t live under the demands of the Law, we still serve a God who desires us to make offerings. This may be our very lives. Our church is having a missions conference coming up. Serving in foreign countries may be exactly what God is wanting you to do – but it may be sacrificing and offering your gifts and talents to those less fortunate in an opportune way to share the gospel.
2. The Lord desires acceptable worship. He has told us already what he desires of us: Micah 6.8 How are we living that truth out as acceptable worship in spirit and in truth under the freedom of the gospel?
3. God frees us! We are no longer in Egypt. We no longer make bricks with no straw. We are free to love Him and serve Him and follow Him because He first loved us! Isn’t that glorious news!
4. The Lord sanctifies us! I’ll be talking about this more when I do a write up on Ephesians 5 – but let this be a gracious thing in your life – not one that you despise! He is a good and gracious God in his sanctification of his children.
5. The Lord desires rest for his people. In Hebrews it says that’s what Jesus us. In the gospels it says that Jesus wants us to come to him and rest. Don’t you see how Jesus fulfills all of the Old Testament – everything that was prophesied of him or that we can’t do for ourselves – the answer is Jesus!
6. The Lord speaks to us in our wilderness. Do you ever feel like you are wandering? Call out to him! He hears us. He speaks to us in the dry and dusty places where there doesn’t seem to be any water!
7. The Lord requires a Mediator. See #5. Christ is that wonderful forever mediator for us!
8. The Lord does what He says He will do. He is faithful. If he says he will do something, even though we don’t know the when or how – we can rest assured in his character that he will do it!
In your reading of the Word this week, what has God been teaching you about himself?
