One dinner THREE different meals

I never knew how hard Mommy's worked until I had a child of my own...I think most of us Mama's feel that way. So Mom if you're reading this...THANK YOU for all you do and have done for me! Anyway, I think my son is the pickiest eater on the PLANET! I can count everything he will eat on two hands...for real! It can be so frustrating but I have to remember things will change he will someday be eating a whole large pizza to himself and wanting more food. With that in mind, every night I try to get him to eat what we eat but it usually doesn't fly so I make him something else. Now, in addition to that I am eating much healthier but my husband isn't so some nights I prepare a different meal for him after so many nights of him "HAVING" to eat healthier with me. This doesn't mean I'm going to blow my weight loss and eat something "unhealthy" so I am making THREE different meals on nights like this. Let me tell you it SUCKS balls big time. But I do it for my family because I'm a mom and we just LOVE to please our families....right??? :)

So here is how it goes in my house...this may help you a little bit when you are planning meals out (different post I will do a different time).  When I did this it was Saturday the night before on Friday we had chicken, rice and veggies. I made extra chicken so I would have some to eat for dinner the next night, which was super easy. Next I bought these really convenient whole grain brown rice microwaveable cups. That would be one of my sides for my dinner the next night. My hubby wanted some comfort food so we "made up" a recipe together (see recipe below.) I had to make his dinner all the way through, I didn't short cut anything. My hubby's recipes had mashed potatoes in it which SOMETIMES my son will eat so I thought that could be his side. I then made him a turkey hot dog because basically that is one of the only meats he likes. So his dinner is done.

Here are all three of our dinners. It only took about 45 minutes from start to finish (including baking time) to get these all together. Please don't judge on my son and hubby not eating veggies they do a lot!

Now, onto my hubby's dinner. We made this up off of a recipe we make called "beef cups." Last night Ian said why don't you make beef cups but make them like little shepherds pies? I thought good idea babe...but not very healthy. Here is how I put them together:

You will need:

• refrigerated biscuits
• lean ground beef
• frozen peas
• BBQ sauce (I used sweet baby rays)
• mashed potatoes
• shredded cheese

1. Take a roll of refrigerated biscuits and press them into a muffin tin. 

2. Brown lean ground beef, once cooked add frozen peas and some BBQ sauce about 3/4 cup. 

3. Put beef/peas mixture into biscuit cups. Then place in oven on 350 for about 10-12 minutes. While baking make up some instant mashed potatoes (or make real ones but start them earlier). After they have baked 10-12 minutes pull out of oven and put mashed potatoes on top and shredded cheese. Place back in oven and bake another 3-6 minutes. 

4. So here is the final product. You want the biscuits fully cooked and golden brown around the edges. 

These looked so good to me! I did try a bite of my husbands to make sure they were good! Classic comfort food changed up a little! Plus, he has left overs for lunch for a day or two!

Lastly, here is a picture of my son eating pudding since he didn't like his dinner and decided to eat Mommy's brown rice for his meal! Too cute and TOO spoiled!

DIY Chalkboard Paint Jar Labels

So I have been on an organizing kick lately! This past Friday I decided to clean out our pantry...it seriously needed it! Nothing was in it's place, my husband couldn't find anything in it! I would ask him to get a pack of noodles out for me and it would take him 10 minutes to find them! I'm not kidding...Anyway, I decided to put my flour and rice and other food items into jars instead of the very "un cute" packaging. I was going to print labels but then I decided to try making chalkboard paint labels since I had some of that paint from another project I'm working on. ;)

First of all you need to get this amazing chalkboard paint spray...it is so freakin' nifty:

You can spray this onto pretty much any surface to turn it into a chalkboard!

Then you need to find what kind of jars your going to use and make sure they are food safe and BPA free (if plastic). I am using two glass jars and one plastic jar for now. After doing this project though I prefer the glass jars.

Now you want to tape off the area on the jar that you do not want covered in chalk board paint:

After you have taped shake the can of paint according to the directions and spray on the jar. Spray it lightly vertically then do another light coat horizontally. Let it dry and do another coat like this.

After the paint has dried COMPLETELY (I didn't wait and my lines are not clean around the edges) peel of the tape and VOILA you have super cute chalkboard labels!

Thanks for reading! I am trying to think of more ideas to use this chalkboard paint! My hubby is praying that I don't spray the walls... ;)

Wow, I'm back! Life Updates!

Woah...it has been QUITE a while since I have posted. Well I warned you all I would probably go MIA for a while. But now I am finally graduated from college...woo hoo! No more studying for me! Instead I spend my evenings baking/cooking pinterest recipes, working on planning my friends baby shower, and getting my house organized (I still really need to work on that last one!)

I thought I would just throw out some updates on my life, nothing too big just the usual. Anyway, my baby toddler will be 18 months in a week! I can't believe how fast he is growing...I know all Mama's say that though.He is talking a lot, and he picks up on words really quick which means I have had to really work on my four letter word problem. No more S bombs and F bombs from me which is super hard. He is running around everywhere and understands pretty much everything anyone says. He is my little mess maker helper. I love him to pieces! 

Here is my cutie pie playing at the mall!

As for my hubby and I things have been great! Now that little H is older I now trust babysitters with him. We have an awesome one so we get to go out boating together and go on dates which is great! Of course, hanging out with my two boys together is still the best. Ian is still working his butt off at his job. He is an engineer and is a super hard worker. Even though he works his ass butt off all day he comes home and helps with Hunter and the two of them are so cute! I watch them "wrestle" and it just cracks me up!

We recently got back from a vacation (just the two of us) to Colorado and it was great!

Well I have got to run I have some cake pops to attend too! :) Look for more posts soon!