My intentions were high for the weekend; I had planned on being in the kitchen most of the day on Saturday to work on Fill Your Freezer February (new? Read the intro here).
Unfortunately we had a death in the family and I was not in the mood to dance around the kitchen cooking.
I did manage two things to add to the freezer while doing my normal cooking:
Another day, another soup for Fill Your freezer February series!
I was inspired by the Toscano Soup we enjoy, but used up other vegetables we had in the fridge – carrots and a daikon radish (which has a potato type texture when cooked).
We had a soup and sandwich lunch and put the rest to the freezer!
I’ll be back on Monday to share what I was able to tuck away in the freezer over the weekend. What is your favorite freezer friendly soup?
Today I made Pulled Pork to fill my freezer!
It takes a few minutes to prep, but then it cooks slow and low in the oven and ends up being perfect tender and multiple ways to use it!
Of course I doubled it! One for dinner and one to freezer. Doing things this way while trying to fill your freezer is a big time saver and sanity saver since there isn’t “extra” work – in the sense of having to set aside specific ingredients or extra time throughout our busy days.
I’m glad to announce today was definitely better than yesterday! I was able to “catch up” on my own Fill Your Freezer February Challenge! The french toast bake (some call it a casserole) was delicious and I was able to get one pan into the freezer. I used this recipe.
I started out with good intentions yesterday. It slowly went downhill- bad attitudes during homeschool, baby blow out, broken phone- it ended with me taking a bath, crying and going to bed. What does this have to do with freezer cooking you ask? Having a Monday-iest Monday would have been the perfect example on WHY having a well stocked freezer full of meals would have been helpful on a like yesterday!
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What can you expect from me this year? I wanted to write out my intentions and ask for some feedback as I plan into 2021 with intention. As always, my goal is guide into becoming better, learning new things, and taking care of ourselves. I’m here for support, share for encouragement, and to spark your own creativity!
(more…)The baby nesting phase hit last Fall, followed by the birth baby number five, Connor, before Christmas, COVID started in March and by that time I was more than ready to get back into a better routine and declutter our home. All of those reason tornado’d into buckling down and get started simplifying and really focus on declutter.
“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.”
We are diving into another year of homeschooling and although we fully chose to homeschool six years ago, I realize that many are making that hard choice this 2020 school year due to COVID-19. Mom’s have reached out to me a little overwhelmed at this last minute decision and wondering not only how to get started, but no idea what homeschooling looks like. I’m sharing these 10 Tips of Encouragement to give you confidence and excitement as you start your homeschool year! Please feel free to add to this conversation with questions or other encouragement in the comment section or you can always email me findingfaithsfuture (@) gmail (dot) com or follow along on Instagram.
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Sometimes starting a new family activity has growing pains, and it is no different when you are fishing with kids! We have 5 children all still under the age of 10, so as you can imagine it sometimes get a little hectic when trying to enjoy fishing ourselves, teaching, and all around enjoying fishing as a family.
Today I wanted to share some tips on how we enjoy fishing with our kids. Over the last couple of years we have gotten in a routine and have set up a few systems to make things run a little smoother.
(more…)I wanted to share my spring garden! We made a last minute decision to do a garden this year and at first, it felt a little overwhelming. That is until, I sat down with a coffee and my garden notebook as I reviewed my notes and past Indiana garden plans. It actually made me a bit giddy to dig back in and research companion planting and think about what vegetables we wished we grew more of and also the pest issues we have had in the past.
