So I decided to start a blog...

So I decided to start a blog:

Why? Who the hell knows? I juggle many many many things in my life and I feel like I should always have some type of project to do. What better than a blog?? Everyone on Pinterest has one? And I am like the Pinterest Queen. Planning recipes, dream houses, vacations, craft projects, home decor.....only problem is I have no money to do all these things!! LOL

However, my New Year's Resolution was to be more organized in 2015. And Pinterest has helped me do this. And I have learned that meal prep, meal planning, and freezer meals have saved my life! HELL YES! Between working 40 hours a week, and Nursing School, and raising a 6 year old, and a 16 year old, and a husband....I need a lot of saving!

So I found some really great articles on Pinterest about Freezer Meals and I came across this....12-easy-freezer-meals-2-hours. It was a life saver! I was able to put together 9 different crockpot meals in about an hour. However, I had to make some alterations because the Hubby hates chicken. :(

I put the ingredients in the Gallon Sized Freezer bags and I wrote on the bags how long to cook on high and low and wrote what the recipe was in the bag- totally helped! And I have come to the conclusion, that you can pretty much freeze any type of crockpot meal.

So from the dinner category I moved to Breakfast! My daughter, Olivia brings her breakfast to eat at school in the morning. (Because her crazy mother has to be at work at 7 am!)  So I have to pack her a breakfast every morning. Long story short- the mom in me started to feel bad when she was eating Pop Tarts loaded with sugar every morning. So I decided to switch it up. I made her pancakes! I made an entire box of pancakes (following the directions on the box) let them cool completely (so they don't stick together when they are freezing) and stacked them in a gallon sized freezer bag.

1. The kid loves pancakes.
2. Super cheap- box of pancake mix cost me about $1.78 and made tons of pancakes.
3. It literally takes me two minutes in the morning to grab some pancakes out of the freezer bag, pop it in container for transport to school and microwave it . 

I found this great pin on pinterest about basically doing the same with french toast and making your own French Toast Sticks. Awesome idea! 

So while we are talking about breakfast, the hubby brings breakfast every morning on the way to work. Sometimes I am a good productive wife, and I make a bunch of different things for him to grab-n-go. Other times, the lady at the Starbucks drive thru takes care of him. Well, I got my shit together and made him some Mexican Breakfast Bowls. 

I originally got the idea from a pin for Breakfast Bowls. However, the hubby loves the spice! So I made the country potatoes and added some more yumminess!

I put the potatoes in the bottom of the bowl, added some chorizo that I cooked up, jarred salsa, shredded mexican cheese, and scrambled eggs....HOLLA! You got a breakfast bowl!! I used an entire carton of eggs, which isn't bad because I made 6 bowls aka 2 per bowl. I used a thing of chorizo, which isn't bad because when you break it up and cook it- there's not that much. 

I'm sure you could freeze these but he ate them up so quick, they stayed in the fridge.
It was a nice change for him from the Starbucks Drive Thru, and the Breakfast Burritos that I normally make and freeze for him. I will post those later :)
I think that is good for the blogging now.