Stuffed Chicken

4 Chicken Breasts
1 Package cream cheese, slice into thin strips
a few hot peppers, sliced into small pieces
1 stick butter, melted
1 C shredded Parmesan cheese
1 C bread crumbs
Tony's seasoning
toothpicks

Pound out chicken breast and fill each with a couple cream cheese and pepper slices. Wrap up and pin with toothpicks. Dip each breast in butter and roll in mixture of Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, and seasoning. Place in baking dish. Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.

We love this with mashed sweet potatoes!

Menu Plan Monday 3/23

Last week was my husband's Spring Break from school so my menu did not go as planned. His family was here and we were all over the place. This week we will try again!

Breakfasts: cold cereal w/ milk, Cream of Wheat, pancakes or waffles, bananas

Lunches: breakfast for lunch (eggs, bagels), burritos, homemade mac and cheese (I crave this all the time with this pregnancy!) leftovers, cottage cheese, apple sauce

Dinners:

Monday: whatever! Andy has BB games and I teach a couple classes!

Tuesday: leftovers (I teach swimming all evening)

Wednesday: Church night, burritos from the freezer or leftovers

Thursday: stuffed chicken (I didn't get to this last week. I will post the recipe for it later. My dad's specialty!)

Friday: Girl's Night for me, Andy and Eli are on their own

Saturday: Homemade pizza

Sunday: leftovers

Homemade Tortillas

This past week I made my own tortillas, which was somewhat successful. I used 1/2 whole wheat flour, 1/2 white flour. They were delicious and healthy for my family! The downside: I could NOT get them to roll thin enough. Every time they were pressed thin they would shrink back up, becoming smaller and thicker. The recipe I used called for 2 C flour and 1 tsp baking powder. I think there may have been too much BP. Next time I will cut the amount in half.

If anyone has suggestions on how to make tortillas, I would love to hear them! I will keep you updated on my tortilla making adventures!

Spring Break

This week was Spring Break for my husband, Andy. It was not a break! We were busy all week and I feel like I got less done than usual! Andy's family was here this week so we played tourist with them. They went camping, fishing, shows, dinner, shopping, and more. I did love sleeping in each morning and having a nice family breakfast. An added benefit- on Monday Andy suprised me with pancakes!

This week has been great, but I am ready to go back to my normal slower-paced life!

Target Deals

I went to Target today to pickup my prenatal vitamins and thought I would use a few coupons. I got the Ziploc containers, 2 tubes of A&D ointment, and Johnson Buddies soap for $2.3x. I was pretty excited!

I had 2 $3.00/1 coupons for the diaper rash ointment, and a $.75/1 for the Buddies and a $1/1 for the Ziploc. The end price paid was $.34 each for A&D, $.25 for Buddies, $1.25 for Ziploc. I saved $8!

Menu Plan Monday 3/16

This week is Andy's Spring Break from school, so he will be around. I need to plan more meals than I have, but am going to the store tomorrow and will plan the rest then! Andy's family is also in town, so we will eat w/ them some.

Breakfasts: cold cereal, Cream of Wheat, scrambled eggs, pancakes, bananas, strawberries, toast w/ peanut butter

Lunches: bean, rice, cheese burritos, leftovers, tacos, applesauce

Dinners

Monday: mexican casserole

Tuesday: out to eat

Wednesday: leftovers or burritos

Thursday: homemade pizza

Friday: mac and cheese

Saturday: stuffed chicken

Sunday: beef skillet

The Before Baby To Do List

(This is Eli when he was just a week old! Isn't he precious? I thought he would be good on the baby list!)

1. Make and Freeze meals and snacks so we can eat after the baby is born. I will post this list later.

2. Paint baby room. I cannot do this until we know if we are having a boy or girl, next month hopefully!

3. Go through guest room, that is to become baby room, and clean out JUNK! Get rid of junk.

4. Figure out a place to put the piles of maternity clothes I have, which I am very thankful to my cousin and sister for their contributions!

5. Go through all of the baby clothes, toys, and accessories that are in storage, so I can see what I have and if anything is needed.

6. Rearrange furniture between Eli's room and the baby's. We need to move the crib and switch dressers and transition Eli to a big bed this summer.

7. Basically go through each room in the house and clean it out. I should have a garage sale, but I don't think I can do that. Instead we will be making numerous thrift store trips or posting on FreeCycle or Craigslist.

8. Deep cleaning of things like base boards, ceiling fans, walls, etc.

I will amend this as needed, which I think will be often as I realize more that needs to be done!