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What will you serve your cali pico de gallo with?

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My new thawing box from Wal-Mart cost .96. I loved the new blue color and the great purpose it serves in my refrigerator as a thawing box and my freezer as a flash freezing box, I grabbed three.  I also use this box for shoe box sandwich bread dough. Obviously others love them too, because they were the last three. I hope you can find this same great color at your local Wal-Mart

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Delicious Asian noodles doesn’t get easier than this. Simply cook linguine according to your package directions. Whisk up the rest of the ingredients and pour on top of your noodles. Toss and enjoy anyway you like. We had ours with stir-fry veges. It was clean out the produce drawer night. I had cabbage, yellow pepper, carrots, green onion and purple onion. I sautee my veges over medium heat in a little olive oil and a touch of sesame with freshly ground black pepper to taste.

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Who needs meat? If you insist, Asian sesame honey chicken is the bomb or try the same freezer marinade with steak.

Now go ahead and add this Asian noodle recipe to your menu.

Ingredients:

• 1 pound of linguine cooked, drained
• 6 tablespoons soy or reduced sodium soy sauce
• 6 tablespoons sesame oil
• 6 tablespoons honey
• 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
• pinch of red pepper flakes, optional, but we like it

Directions:

Cook noodles according to package directions. Whisk the remaining ingredients and toss with noodles. Enjoy hot.

How will you serve your simple sesame noodles?

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We had a fun weekend camping, with a little rain, but a lot of love. Check out our facebook camping photos for menu ideas.I hope your Mother’s Day was blessed. I’m trying a few new recipes and {one every day} and hope to have lots to share. Enjoy your week with lots of sun and Sonshine.

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Our menu this week:

• Crock Pot Sticky Chicken, freezer mashed potatoes, homemade shoebox sandwich bread, asparagus
• chicken and cheese quesadilla pie, spinach salad with balsamic dressing
• Crock pot tomato basil soup, quicker baked potatoes with cheese
• Spinach and artichoke melts on shoe box sandwich bread
• BLT club wrap on homemade spinach tortillas, tortilla chips, carrot sticks
• Meatball subs with crock pot marinara, salad with homemade ranch dressing
• Grilled Pizza, salad with ranch

What are you freezer cooking this week?

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This proverb reminds me why I strive to be a Godly mother. It’s my prayer my children will arise and call me blessed one day. I hope to impress Godly virtures, share my life and testimony with my four blessings and become the mother God intends me to be. In honor of Mother’s Day, I’m praying the same prayer for each of you, precious moms.

You are dearly loved by God and He cares about you! We are so blessed to be moms. I hope and pray your weekend is fabulous and you feel dearly loved by your family.

Nest of Posies has a free printable for your laundry room, bath or other room to decorate and remind you of your purpose. God bless your day.

How will you celebrate?

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If we were to sit down with coffee and my whole foods pumpkin muffin, I’d share our baby steps that we’ve taken to get where we are today. I started eleven years ago and make progress every year. In fact, I try to make progress every month by trying new recipes each week and keeping ones that work for me. In other words, it’s time efficient, I can make it in bulk and it tastes great. If it passes my family test, I share it with you!

Each year I take baby steps that help us eat clean, local and/or organic if possible. These are just a few of the baby steps we’ve taken over the past year to six months. I’ve identified the more expensive steps with $$ and the less expensive with $ so you’ll know how to dive into whole foods with your family budget and time.

Each family is different and that is why I’m consulting families before I set obtainable goals for them whenever I’m coaching. See my list of services here. It’s helpful to know where you are in this journey and where you’d like to be. In our family, we’ve adjusted to different homemade staples and less convenience items. However, I stock our freezer with many homemade “convenience” items you’d find in the stores so my family doesn’t feel deprived. Items like granola bars, granola cereal, chocolate chip cookies and more {all in the recipe index}

That’s not to say, I don’t buy commercial ice cream or never buy candy. We allow our children to have things in moderation. It’s easy to fall off the wagon, but easier to pick ourselves up and get back on. When we travel, I take along our freezer food, but we enjoy at least one meal out with kid’s meals. It’s a treat for them.

I have many ideas on eating whole foods in a previous series titled the Better Health Series.

Here’s our baby steps we’ve taken this past year:

• $$$ Buying Local Grassfed beef in bulk
• $$ Switching to Harvest Farms Chicken sold at Ingles
• $ Shredding own cheese vs. buying pre-shredded {small investment of a shredder or use food processor}
• $ making my own homemade broth  with chicken breasts and stock with the whole chicken
• $ buying local vegetables as much as possible
• $ making my own homemade vanilla
• $$ grinding my own flour using white wheat berries
• $ making almost all my own homemade grain products {sandiwch bread, tortillas, flatbread, calzones, pizza crust, and crazy bread, etc.} I sometimes buy hamburger and hot dog  buns
• $ buying some local cheese
• $ making our own crock pot homemade yogurt {I need to get back on the track}

What baby steps have you taken toward whole foods eating?