19 weeks! :)

Toodles!!  :)

'Live for a Life without Regrets'

Menu board = No more kitchen fail!!

That's right folks!  I got a bit organised!!  I wasn't going to post about this because iv been feeling like such a muppet for not producing amazing meals for my family each night....or any kind of meal really...except the kind you order through the window of you car....Cheeseburgers are a food group right??!!

Then i saw this post here over at Mama and the Dudes, and i realised that i'm not alone!!

Whilst satisfying my uncontrolled addiction to Pinterest a couple of weeks back, i stumbled across some "Menu Boards".  It's like a flippen light went on!  I know, the concept of planning your meals is not a new one (Iv tried it before) but somehow Pinterest made it...i dont know, Pretty, and Crafty and Interesting!!  And so i created my Menu Board! 

Cork board + fabric + coloured card + laminator = Awesome!!

Yes, its basic, and the recipes on it aren't flash, but they're home cooked, they don't take long, and most of the meals have vege's!!  (It's a 2 week menu 'cause we do fortnightly shopping, starting on a Thursday).  On the back of the menu cards are all the ingredients needed for each meal, so when we pick the meals to stick to the board we can see what ingredients we need to get in groceries!  It's fantastic i tell ya!!!  And more important....It Works!!!! We saved on groceries by cutting out the mid-week dash to the grocery store (cause you know..'There's nothing to eat...') and we saved money by not buying take out!  And i feel flash and dedicated cause i cooked damn near every night!!

The Ingredients for shopping!

Don't get me wrong, cooking the meal still takes a bit of effort, but at the moment we're just picking meals that are fast and basic, leaving things like roasts to when i have a day off work.  We use the crock pot too (love that thing!!)  And for some meals we make enough to last a couple of nights (I made a 'Leftover' menu card) which means a simple reheat! (Yay!!)

Kinda like the 'wildcard' of the menu board....except, you know what your getting!

So yup! I'm hoping that once im in more of a routine i can start adding some slightly more interesting meals to the menu board, but that'l happen in good time, and im content at the moment with just cooking something other than Macca's for my family!!

Thanks Pinterest!!

Toodles!!  :)

'Live for a Life without Regret'

18 weeks!

Toodles!!  :)

'Live for a Life without Regret'

A Garden Again!!

So i'm not sure if iv even mentioned that we moved house about a month ago??  We found a bigger house in a nice wee area that's a bit closer to work for both of us, so we're pretty happy with it!  One problem we encountered though, was how the heck to move my planters from the old place!!  (I still have no idea how we're going to do it!)  And so i'v been a month without a garden of any sort!

Yesterday all that changed with my wonderful sister arrived armed with half barrels and a trailer full of dirt!!  Me and Hubby went on a wee garden spree and bought a couple of planter bags and some plants and compost and this weekend a garden was made!! (How poetic!)

We've finally fulfilled our dream of planting a fruit tree, and now have a mandarin tree and two feijoa trees in large planters!!  (In a few years time this will be awesome!!)

We have two smaller planters with strawberry plants in them, cause lets face it, you can never have too many strawberry plants!

Why yes, i am gardening in my pj's....don't you??

In my first planter bag is my broccoli, and in the second bag is my lettuce plants!! I decided to start the lettuce and broccoli  as plants instead of seeds just because of the cold (In spite of my beautiful sunny day photos it has actually been freezing cold!!) and i don't really have time to be transplanting vege's, and Lachy was just the hugest help flattening them into their places :)

I had two big planter barrels left over for planting Carrot seeds!!  I'v never attempted carrots before so im very excited to plant them!!  Iv even set up some string so that i know where they're growing and don't accidentally weed them out!!  Feeling pretty crafty!!

So now i have gardens!!  Yay!!  And as soon as i figure out how to move my planter boxes il do that too, until then i hope the landlords there enjoy spinach and silverbeet!!  

And just for cuteness sake, here is my boy and his lemons....

Toodles!!  :)

'Live for a Life without Regret'

17 Weeks :)

Toodles!!  :)

'Live for a Life without Regret'