mommato3boys

Thanks Annarchy, now I won't worry and will quit trying to adjust the page.

Is it just my laptop or does everyone's chat box chop off the right hand side? I even switched the background back to default and it is still chopped off.

I am glad everyone enjoyed the card. When I bought them last year on clearance I did not realize they were 3-D I just thought they were cute and they said Merry Christmas. 

I got Midnightmom's and Pauline's today. That makes all of mine.

All government offices always close when a there is a presidential funeral. Today was Papa Bush's funeral.

Got Snowmom's today - love it.

20 hours ago, Jeepers said:

Square items stack so much better. If cows pooped square people in the third world countries could stack poop fuel so much easier. Warring neighboring tribes...poop forts.

 

I think that would a whole new meaning to pooping bricks.

Ok so mine went to the post office and came back. The postal clerk did not do the postage correctly  but have no fear they are correct now and on their way 

Got my first one to day from Annarchy. Just so you know Annarchy that is my favorite, All of my Christmas decorations are just what you sent me. We don't do santa but.....(I don't want to spoil the surpise )

All finished sending Saintsfan to the post office tomorrow to mail them.

One thing to add is a tube of tomato paste. I had never seen it before until we were visiting youngest in south Texas and went to HEB. I started looking for it when I got back home and what do you know my store carries it. It is going to save me a bundle. You just don't know the number of recipes I have that call for 2 or 3 tablespoons of tomato paste. NO sense in opening a whole can. I am stocking tubes now.

Basically we have gotten lax since Trump has gotten in office. That we are growing complacent and it is going to bite us in the butt soon rather than later. That we should not only be prepping supplies but knowledge....lots of knowledge. 

She needs to get out of my head. She voiced my fears. I guess it is time to double down and suck it up and continue on prepping.

Ok Jeepers, glad to know it is not just me. 

Is it me or has places like Emergency Essentials and other online places stopped giving codes out for discounts. May be I am not getting them because I haven't ordered in a while. But I have noticed I am getting few and few "special sale" notices.

4 hours ago, Snowmom said:

Hope things are better and that your DH has a job by now.     

Yes Snowmom, things are better. After 25 months hubby finally was approved for disability. so we are slowly getting back on our feet.

Hummm, I have been wondering about these and an instant pot. If I had to choose I would probably go with the air fryer because I have 3 crockpots and they work just fine.

We have a friend that is cleaning out his garage and getting ready to have a big yard sale. He called me and said he had some cast iron and wanted to know if I wanted. Of course I went over there and walked away with a Dutch oven and lid. One without a lid, a griddle and a roaster. The best part was he gave me a Dutch Oven cookbook. It has some awesome recipes and all for the Dutch oven.

1 hour ago, Annarchy said:

Oh my goodness, I have been looking for this, thank you mommato3boys. 

I’ve got old fashioned pasta recipes , if you are interested...

Oh yes. Hubby loves pasta. Please do share.

Believe it or not I just searched sour dough starter on here and it let me to this thread.

Bumping this up so that I can find it again. I need to use some of these recipes. Since we are down on income it is back to poverty cooking. No more fancy store bread. Actually we don't eat enough to warrant spending the money on a loaf of bread. It usually ruins before we finish it.

No garden here this year, going to try herbs in pots we will see what happens. We are dog sitting for the youngest son, who is coming out of the truck to be a border patrol agent. He is now driving local until his application process is complete for border patrol and the company does not allow dogs on local runs, so mom and dad to the rescue. I will just have to drool over y'all's gardens. LOL

I am trying to find a balance for our diet. Let me stop right here and say diet is not to loose weight (which I need to do and am doing slowly) but a way of life. Both of hubby and I have to face the fact that some health issues run in our families, like heart, diabetes and dementia. We have pretty much phased out processed foods. No frozen dinners, no hamburger helper boxes and no sodas. Pretty much everything is cooked from scratch. But even then just reading "health" advice and "diet" suggestions has my head spinning. I ran across a little book I bought many, many years ago. The copyright is 2002. It is called Manna from Heaven, by Charmaine Rivers. It has me looking at our food choices differently. Our choices were not bad as a matter of fact they are really Biblically based and I wasn't even trying.

I am just trying to find more ways to was to incorporate "good" food into our diet. Like dates, figs, nuts, and other healthy choices. In this little book is a recipe for Date Nut Bread. It is not sweet and hubby really liked it. The only change is I used raisins instead of cranberries because that is what I had.

8oz chopped dates

1oz dried cranberries ( I used raisins)

1/2c brown sugar, packed

1/4c soften butter

3/4 cup boiling water

1 egg, well beaten

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1 3/4c flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2c chopped almonds or walnuts ( I used walnuts)

Bring water to a boil, turn off heat and add dates, cranberries, brown sugar and butter. Stir until butter is melted and sugar is integrated.  Let cool then beat in egg. Sift together baking soda, salt and flour. Add to mixture, stirring not beating. Fold in nuts. Put mixture in a light greased pan and bake for one hour. Cool on rack for 10 minutes, then remove from pan. Serve when completely cool.

Ok if you notice there is no oven setting so I used 350 degrees and cooked it for 45 minutes. We are at 3,000 plus elevation. I used a 8x8 pan. It came out thin but we were good with it like that. No hubby did not let it cool before asking for some. I cut it down the middle then cut it into inch and half strips. It was good warm.

There are other recipes in this book that I am going to try but I have to wait until I go grocery shopping. I need figs and I am afraid they will have to be dried since it is too early in the season for them.

I shared all this because I have been studying the foods of the Bible and I plan on adapting our diet to a more biblical based food pyramid. Well as much as I can living in beef country. I will share my resources if anyone is interested. 2018 is the year that we take back our health and break the chains that big cooperate food venders have on us.

Thanks Mt_Rider. Praying they are all well and on the fast track to recovery.

Have I missed a post? I was wondering how Wormie and Mrs. Wormie were doing, has anyone heard?

Pauline I got yours today and I Snowmom's Saturday. Love them both.

I got Snapshot's yesterday. Love it!

Maybe next year I will ask Santa for one. This year I am getting a new water heater