72-Hour and Emergency Car Kits

I made my 72-hour and emergency car kits today.  Yeah!  This is a picture of my car kit.  Jumper cables, hand sanitizer, and a flashlight are already in my car.  In this picture, you see the following items:

backpack
list of items in pack, along with date the items were last replenished/replaced
bottled water
heating packs (to keep you [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – April 28

Here is my menu for the week of April 28:
Definitely:

Cumin-rubbed pork roast
Four-Cheese Lasagna Hamburger Helper

Maybe:

Chicken noodle soup
Chicken fajitas
Spaghetti

Can you tell that I’m drawing a blank on menu choices this week?  I borrowed 3 cookbooks from the library, but I haven’t looked through them much yet.  I do have plans to bake some banana muffins and [...]

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Scrapbooking Mania

This weekend, I embarked on a journey that I don’t normally take:  scrapbooking.  Last year, I made a portfolio with a few scrapbooked pages.  This year, I decided to get a bit fancier.  
I printed out 100 photos (color printer on regular printer paper) at 6 photos per page.  After cutting out each picture, I [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – April 21

 
Last week, I tried to cook throughout the week, instead of cooking everything at once on Sunday, because our food had not been so fresh by the time we got around to eating it all at the end of the week.  It was so stressful to cook after work!  Cooking was the last thing I [...]

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Organizing Coupons

I’ve tried several methods of organizing my coupons.  A store-bought coupon-specific organizer didn’t work, because I couldn’t view the coupons.  Plus the organizer’s categories didn’t match my personal categories.  It made it difficult to filter out coupons when you wanted to see what you had at the store (shuffle, shuffle, shuffle every time to get [...]

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The Hungry Triathlete

Yesterday, I was so hungry!  It seemed that I was eating every 2-3 hours!  Here’s a rundown of what I had to eat:

Breakfast:  english muffin with peanut butter and skim milk
Snacks (spread out):  yogurt, banana, snack bar
Lunch:  turkey sandwich and an apple
Dinner:  leftover steak, sourdough bread, broccoli, orange peppers, and onions
Snacks (spread out):  peanut butter [...]

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Stretching Your Food Money

Deseret News has a great article called 101 Ways to Stretch Your Food Dollars.  Click HERE to read the article.

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Cumin-Rubbed Pork Loin and Lemon Rice

Here are two recipes that were requested in comments from the April 14 Menu Plan Monday Post.
Cumin-Rubbed Pork Roast
Adapted from Chris Carmichael’s Fitness Cookbook.  (Chris Carmichael was Lance Armstrong’s coach and trainer.)
Mix:

2 tbsp ground cumin
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 minced garlic cloves (1 tsp from jar)
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp salt (I use reduced-sodium salt)
1 tsp [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – April 14

Last week, I cooked the entire week’s dinners on Sunday.  We ate leftovers for lunch today and we still have pasta left!
I went ahead and made a menu and purchased groceries, although I haven’t prepared any new dishes yet.  In fact, I haven’t even cleaned my pots from last week!  My husband has been awesome, [...]

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Triathlon Training – April 13

Today, I rode my bike for 30 minutes around my neighborhood.  I rode right past my church at about 8:30 A.M., finished my ride and arrived home, showered, ate breakfast, and drove my car right back to church by 9:45 A.M.!
As I rode up and down small hills in my neighborhood today, I contemplated a [...]

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Sewing Saturday – April 12

I finally got back into sewing again this weekend.  I’ve been putting it off, probably because I’ve been tired.  I guess that I can blame my laziness on allergies.
Anyways, I completed the second blue shirt.  If you remember the first blue shirt (see Sewing Saturday – February 23 and Sewing Saturday – March 22), it [...]

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Exercise Galore – Wednesday, April 9

Today, I walked/hiked 3 miles at a local state park.  Luckily, the rain held off, so there was humid, cloudy weather, which wasn’t too hot for hiking.  After work, I went jogging 20 minutes before going up to church for dinner and handbells.  Believe it or not, after I got home, I ended up going [...]

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