My baby turned 18 today. So, now I have another adult child. While he still lives in our house and is still in high school, it will be interesting to see what the next few months hold.
We have gotten a little derailed from our menu plan this month. Mostly because I haven't had time to get the things we needed to make the meals. But now we are back on track. I will be posting the next month's menu her in the next week or so, although it will have a slight disclaimer on it. We won't have tried all the new recipes at that point. I will be sure and let you know which recipes have been taste tested in our kitchen. My goal for this weekend is to make up the remaining dishes that can be put together in advance. I will edit the previous menu plan and let you know which casseroles I put into the freezer in advance to make my life easier. I try to do that as often as I can, although I have to say here lately, I just haven't had the time. I rarely do a full day in the kitchen to do this. I usually just put an extra casserole in the freezer at the same time I put one in the oven. (In other words, when I make something that does well in the freezer, I make two or three and put the extra one in the freezer) Some of the links I included in the original recipes were designed to put together and put in the freezer. I love those meals because I don't have to work at them. Keep an eye out here for more of those types of meals. I have investigated the once a month cooking sites and use some of their ideas, but some of them are like cooking food and eating leftovers, and those recipes I don't particularly care for. If I'm going to eat leftovers, then I mights just as well eat it when I cook it the first time and enjoy the flavor the first time. I prefer to put casseroles that either get better by melding the flavors or items that are just prepped, but not fully cooked into the freezer. I find that pastas and rice casseroles do very well here. I also enjoy making my own hot pockets, frozen pizzas, and breakfast foods (french toast sticks, pancakes, waffles etc.) for the freezer. They keep really well, and save us a fortune, not to mention, they are much better for us, without preservatives.
My newest undertaking is making my own cleaners. I have used various sites as well as friends for recipes for this. I have been making floor cleaner, that does considerably better than anything we can buy in the store. I have recently tried my hand at laundry detergent and fabric softener and am just getting ready to start using these new cleaners. I'm looking forward to the savings I have as well as the fact that we are putting less chemicals out into our environment. As I use these, I will critique them here and share the links to the recipes I used. I'm definitely getting the spring cleaning bug feeling, so I am hoping to put these cleaners to rigorous testing here in the next several weeks. I'll post my results.
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