Monday, December 9, 2013
Saturday, December 7, 2013
2014 in 2014
Well I did suceed in 2013 albiet not the best with tracking to the end so I am going to embark on this journey yet again with purging 2014 items in 2014. In doing so I have set a few rules and also modifications.
What will be different this year is the fact that I will be visiting home, and making choice about what is really worth it to bring back with me to Germany. I will be purging a lot, things that perhaps 6 years ago I was not ready to cut my ties with and I hope to come back with a lot less luggage lingering backhome.
So this year will be not only my home in Germany but also my monter purge in the US. Now in the event I get all kinds of crazy sucess stateside and hit my goal smack on the start (how cool would that be). I will continue tracking through the end of the year just to see how much I actually get rid of.
What I will not count is normal trash, recycling, papers. I wont be counting things that are waiting to go out that are already destened for that fate, but rather things I am conciously choosing to get rid of and live without.
So the journey starts Jan1.
What will be different this year is the fact that I will be visiting home, and making choice about what is really worth it to bring back with me to Germany. I will be purging a lot, things that perhaps 6 years ago I was not ready to cut my ties with and I hope to come back with a lot less luggage lingering backhome.
So this year will be not only my home in Germany but also my monter purge in the US. Now in the event I get all kinds of crazy sucess stateside and hit my goal smack on the start (how cool would that be). I will continue tracking through the end of the year just to see how much I actually get rid of.
What I will not count is normal trash, recycling, papers. I wont be counting things that are waiting to go out that are already destened for that fate, but rather things I am conciously choosing to get rid of and live without.
So the journey starts Jan1.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
3 in 1 Taco salad
3 in 1 Taco salad
Ok, Ok, still working on the whole pictures with recipies thing. Maybe someday it will click.
I love streching one nights cooking into multiple meals and that is one Thing I do with Taco Salad.
Shopping List:
500 gramm minced meat
1 pack taco seasoning
1 onion
1 can kidney beans
1 can corn
1 head lettuce
1 small Container sour cream
1 jar salsa
1 Cup Brown Rice
1 Bag Tortilla Chips
1 Bag Shredded cheese
Day 1 Taco salad Dinner:
Brown the meat, add in sliced onion and taco seasoning cook well. Add corn and beans till warm. Melt in some cheese.
Cut up salad. Mix sour cream and salsa to preffered spiciness. Crush up half bag Tortilla Chips.
I Keep my lettuce seperate to Keep left overs fresh.
I layer warm mix, then lettuce then Chips and on top Dressing. Fed our Family (2 adults and toddler)
Day 2 Mexican Rice Lunch:
Cook 1 Cup Brown Rice
Add in yesterdays meat mix till heated.
Serve with remaining salad and Dressing.
Day 3 Nachos Lunch:
Heat up remaining Rice mix. Layer on remaining Tortilla Chips. Sprinke on cheese and remaining salsa.
Uses up most all ingredients so no waste. Leaving 3/4 bag Brown Rice for another meal and the rest of the bag of onions.
:)
Shopping List:
500 gramm minced meat
1 pack taco seasoning
1 onion
1 can kidney beans
1 can corn
1 head lettuce
1 small Container sour cream
1 jar salsa
1 Cup Brown Rice
1 Bag Tortilla Chips
1 Bag Shredded cheese
Day 1 Taco salad Dinner:
Brown the meat, add in sliced onion and taco seasoning cook well. Add corn and beans till warm. Melt in some cheese.
Cut up salad. Mix sour cream and salsa to preffered spiciness. Crush up half bag Tortilla Chips.
I Keep my lettuce seperate to Keep left overs fresh.
I layer warm mix, then lettuce then Chips and on top Dressing. Fed our Family (2 adults and toddler)
Day 2 Mexican Rice Lunch:
Cook 1 Cup Brown Rice
Add in yesterdays meat mix till heated.
Serve with remaining salad and Dressing.
Day 3 Nachos Lunch:
Heat up remaining Rice mix. Layer on remaining Tortilla Chips. Sprinke on cheese and remaining salsa.
Uses up most all ingredients so no waste. Leaving 3/4 bag Brown Rice for another meal and the rest of the bag of onions.
:)
Monday, December 2, 2013
Hello, Hello, is there anybody out there......out there.... out there
Well howdy ho,
How the hell are ya? It has sure been a while hasn't it. Well I decided to give it ago again with blogging. As the littles grow (now 1 and 3) with the later starting kiga soon, I have a bit more time these days.
So I am back, and hopefully better then ever, I suppose only time will tell.
I have given up on trying to find my niche in the blogging world, or hoping to be the next big thing. But don't be sad that's a good thing. It means I am blogging for fun, and that is exactly what I want these days.
So I look forward to giving you all a glimpse into the daily life of an American living in Germany.
How the hell are ya? It has sure been a while hasn't it. Well I decided to give it ago again with blogging. As the littles grow (now 1 and 3) with the later starting kiga soon, I have a bit more time these days.
So I am back, and hopefully better then ever, I suppose only time will tell.
I have given up on trying to find my niche in the blogging world, or hoping to be the next big thing. But don't be sad that's a good thing. It means I am blogging for fun, and that is exactly what I want these days.
So I look forward to giving you all a glimpse into the daily life of an American living in Germany.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Sundays in my city - 34 weeks
I know its been like 101 years since I have done one but here we are with a sundays in my city post, woot.
Our Sunday has been pretty quit working on our final preperations for baby number two, who will be making HIS arrival in as soon as 3 weeks. Man time flies.
So I have been working on the house and one area I have putting a lot of work into is the boys rooms. its not 100% the way I want it but a long way from where we started. You will immediatly notice only one crib, thats because baby will be in our room, and yes as you can imagine 2 beds in that room will be a challange but we will face that hurdle as it comes. As of now teenie thinks the crib is the antichrist anyway and sleeps with us, so lets consider this more a non sleeping room lol.
So lets begin our tour.
This is the entry way, see that cool thing on the wall thats a water doodle, that has never been used because I cannot find where my child stuck those damn pens. He prefers to take real pens to the wall or couch. I had hoped the baby gate would be a good idea so I could coral him when I needed to do laundry or so, he views it as a prison not so much.
This is the view as you come into the room. As you see the curtainless windows are one thing I have not yet finished. On the left is what is supposed to be Teenies bed, he really only plays in there. The diaper stacker on the end is waiting for a hook on the wall. This is the far wall where most all the toys live.
This is the back wall tall cupboard is clothing, little blue pail is for any time we use disposables or have ucky wipes. Again need some curtains.
This is the fourth wall where our diapers, books, and some bigger toys like playmobile, blocks, and duplos live. I would like to do something with the wall above the expedit.
and the crib wall. Eventually a little coat rack will hang where that chair is and again I would love to add a wall sticker up on the wall or something
Here are some detailed pics of our organization of 2 under 2.
This is where our toys live, aside from those items in the expedit and a small bin in the living room, we do not have a play room. Teenie is perfectly content with a small collection of toys he loves. Were quantity to become an issue we would rotate toys.
This is the expedit. It houses things like spit rags and receiving blankets in the green bin, you see a fe cubes of books (we will need a bookshelf eventually), a few with toys and blocks, and a few with baby supplies sleep sacks and diapering supplies like wipes and liners
On top of the expedit is where our diapers live, both boys are (or will be cloth diapered).
On the left in the ikea bins are 2 wth small and bigger prefolds, one is missing with extra inserts and trainers, and on top that little tray holds boosters, disposable liners, fleece liners ect.
Blue basket is wipes and green bin our pocket diapers which are our primary diapers.
next bin is newborn diapers and fitteds for night time. The right bin has inserts waiting to go in diapers and supplies like swim diapers, wetbags.
Blue drawers house changing supplies like snappies, wipe cubes, creams ect. On the right bottom bin is covers and top is lonelysocks waiting for their partners
The hanging white chain houses stuffed animals. Thise things procreate faster then bunnies in spring we limit how many are allowed. New in old out.Only keeping favorites. I have this chain and a small bin by the crib plus a few allowed in bed. The blue hanging organizor holds baby tights, baby leggings, hats, mittens, and things of that nature
How was your Sunday?
P.S. If anyone can tell me how to rotate pics here I would greatly approciate it.
So I have been working on the house and one area I have putting a lot of work into is the boys rooms. its not 100% the way I want it but a long way from where we started. You will immediatly notice only one crib, thats because baby will be in our room, and yes as you can imagine 2 beds in that room will be a challange but we will face that hurdle as it comes. As of now teenie thinks the crib is the antichrist anyway and sleeps with us, so lets consider this more a non sleeping room lol.
So lets begin our tour.
This is the entry way, see that cool thing on the wall thats a water doodle, that has never been used because I cannot find where my child stuck those damn pens. He prefers to take real pens to the wall or couch. I had hoped the baby gate would be a good idea so I could coral him when I needed to do laundry or so, he views it as a prison not so much.
This is the view as you come into the room. As you see the curtainless windows are one thing I have not yet finished. On the left is what is supposed to be Teenies bed, he really only plays in there. The diaper stacker on the end is waiting for a hook on the wall. This is the far wall where most all the toys live.
This is the back wall tall cupboard is clothing, little blue pail is for any time we use disposables or have ucky wipes. Again need some curtains.
This is the fourth wall where our diapers, books, and some bigger toys like playmobile, blocks, and duplos live. I would like to do something with the wall above the expedit.
and the crib wall. Eventually a little coat rack will hang where that chair is and again I would love to add a wall sticker up on the wall or something
Here are some detailed pics of our organization of 2 under 2.
This is where our toys live, aside from those items in the expedit and a small bin in the living room, we do not have a play room. Teenie is perfectly content with a small collection of toys he loves. Were quantity to become an issue we would rotate toys.
On top of the expedit is where our diapers live, both boys are (or will be cloth diapered).
On the left in the ikea bins are 2 wth small and bigger prefolds, one is missing with extra inserts and trainers, and on top that little tray holds boosters, disposable liners, fleece liners ect.
Blue basket is wipes and green bin our pocket diapers which are our primary diapers.
next bin is newborn diapers and fitteds for night time. The right bin has inserts waiting to go in diapers and supplies like swim diapers, wetbags.
Blue drawers house changing supplies like snappies, wipe cubes, creams ect. On the right bottom bin is covers and top is lonelysocks waiting for their partners
The hanging white chain houses stuffed animals. Thise things procreate faster then bunnies in spring we limit how many are allowed. New in old out.Only keeping favorites. I have this chain and a small bin by the crib plus a few allowed in bed. The blue hanging organizor holds baby tights, baby leggings, hats, mittens, and things of that nature
And both boys share one cupboard. Right is toddler, left is newbie.
And for good measure here is me today. No I do not want to talk about the sweats and white socks :P
How was your Sunday?
P.S. If anyone can tell me how to rotate pics here I would greatly approciate it.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Cheap toddler friendly pasta lunch
You know its funny, when I went home after my first visit to Germany, I used to eat abend brot to remind myself of my time in Germany. However, 4 years after moving here and seeing how prevalent bread is in the German diet I might gouge my eyes out if forced to eat much more bread in my life. Now do not get me wrong, I am making an effort to come up with some creative variation, aim for more of an American style sandwich. I have been stalking the interwebs looking for dup recipes for Paradise bakery, nomnomnom, but we need som variety. If Germans may have no qualms eating bread so often, but I sure cannot. But at the same time I do not want to invest the time nor money to cook a second hot meal eat day, lazy American that I am. SO I look for frugal idea, and idseas that my picky little mr enjoys, today was a sucess.
Aldi sells some finished pasta products, one version is in boxes and another comes in pouches. For this recipe I used the pouch version the Pasta Pomodoro Mozzarella. It comes with the noodles and seasoning mixed in in a powder form. Just add water and cook 10 minutes. They also have a variety of other flavors. The package says it serves 2.
Once I boil my water and add my pasta mix, I add an additional half can of diced tomatoes, and 1 cup of frozen veggies mix DO NOT USE BUTTERGEMÜSE NEINNEINNEIN thats bad get the plain stuff in bags lol.
The pasta mix costs .65
Half can of tomatoes .22
1 cup veggies aprox. .10
Full meal for under a buck
This could easily be made into a dinner by doubling it and adding a green salad and baugette. You still have a dinner for under 2.50 including sides.
Monday, May 28, 2012
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