My mom has 2 apple trees in her backyard. Many years, these apples end up rotting on the ground. Not this year though. We picked those apples off the ground and picked even more on the trees and made 36 jars of apple pie filling as well as 14 jars of apple butter. I found an easy recipe for apple pie filling at All Recipes. Canning apple pie filling is simple it is just time consuming. Now, when people give us canned food, I know how much effort they have put into the canning. It has made me … [Read more...]
Blackberry Pie Filling
Followed this blackberry pie filling recipe and canned some amazing fruit! I love canning! Have you done any canning this year? … [Read more...]
Points Plus Vegetarian Recipe
Tuesdays are the day I weigh in at my local Weight Watcher's meeting. I was worried this week since the last week and half I was on a Canoe Journey. Though I wasn't pigging out, I definitely was not counting my points while camping. Thankfully, at weigh in on Tuesday morning I had lost 3.4 pounds in two weeks. I was very happy indeed. So now I have lost a total of 11.6 lbs since June 12 when I began this weight loss journey. (Enough pounds lost this week to get my clapper - a plastic hand … [Read more...]
Christian Easter Fun
It is important in our family to keep the message of a Risen Savior - Jesus Christ - in our Easter holiday. While, we do have a lot of fun with friends and family having an Easter party with baskets and egg hunts and new clothes we love to find new ways to incorporate Jesus in our day of festivities. I found some great ideas that I wanted to share with you all. Ways to keep Jesus a part of Easter. Christian Easter Fun Ideas You can also find some Easter printables for your kids to … [Read more...]
Peach Recipes
We have peaches! Yes, the peaches here in Cecil County are AMAZING! You know the kind right? Fresh, ripe, juicy. The kind of peach that squirts juice in the eye of the person sitting next to you and drips down your chin. The hubster came home with $12 in peaches from a local produce stand. Let me tell you, that is a lot of peaches. So while wasting enjoying my time on Pinterest late at night (who needs sleep, right?) I found some great peach … [Read more...]
10 Super Foods
In a recent issue of one of my favorite magazines I read about 30 healthiest foods to eat. I wanted to share a list of 10 Super Foods that we eat regularly and love. I have even included some toddler tested recipes that we use. I hope you are eating these foods too! 10 Super Foods 1. Whole Grain Pasta: fiber is important to any healthy diet and the whole grain versions of pasta contain 3x as much fiber. (Don’t make the same mistake I did and think that multigrain is the same thing, it is … [Read more...]
Sick Time
My family is sick. It affected me for a couple days, though not too badly. Today, my husband is really feeling it, and my daughter is slowly getting over it. At home, my father, mother and sister were all sick this past week. I am sure we picked it up from them before we left for Northern California. Not fun to travel and settle in a new house when we are feeling yucky. I was a nurse today. I shopped for groceries as quickly as I could today. We are stocked up. When we are traveling and only in … [Read more...]
