It's About Time!

I know it has been way long since I have done this. I am a terrible slacker. But I do have a pretty good excuse. When you are throwing up everyday, your blog is probably the last thing on your mind too. So if you haven't figured it our, I am pregnant again. Oh the joy of morning sickness (AKA "all day" sickness). Hopefully I am to the point where it is slowing down and I can get back to life. So since not to many food items sound very good to me right now, I thought I would post of recipe of one that actually does. It's the easiest peach cobbler you will ever make. And boy I wish I had all the ingredients right now.

2 cans peach pie filling
1 box yellow cake mix
1/2 c. melted butter
2 tbsp. cinnamon/sugar

Spread pie filling evenly in bottom of 13x9 inch pan. Sprinkle with dry cake mix completely covering fruit. Pour melted butter over entire cobbler. Sprinkle top cinnamon and sugar. Bake at 375 degrees for 30-40 minutes. (Sometimes I don't even melt the butter and cut it up in slices and place on the top.) And of course top it off with some good old vanilla ice cream or Cool Whip. Whatever floats your boat.

The best part is that you don't even need a dutch oven to make it! I have a dutch oven but I hate cleaning it out. I'm sure I don't do it right anyways, and it's probably ruined by now. I hope you like it. I am going to try to start doing this again a couple of times a week. I don't know if I can do it daily any more. Not to mention, you run out of ideas really fast!

Preparation Idea

Sorry I have slacked again. I think I have started a lot of posts that way lately. Hopefully as soon as I get feeling better I can be more diligent. For now, bear with me :)

Dax and I have have been watching a TV series called Jericho lately. It is about people surviving a nuclear attack on the US. There is a lot more to it than that, but that is the basic idea. Anyways, not that I preparing for a nuclear attack or anything, but I started thinking about being prepared for whatever. As I opened a can of spaghetti sauce I realized that most people now days have electric can openers. (My mind wanders to random places alot) I don't know about you but most of my food storage comes in cans. So what happens when the power goes out and you have no way to open anything? I know we could figure something out, but how nice it is to know that I have a can opener that will still work with no power. So my advice for today is go and buy a hand operated can opener. They probably even sell them at the dollar store. It will definitely come in handy someday when the power goes out and you want a can of beans or something.

Make Some Extra Money

I am so sorry I haven't posted for a while. I haven't been feeling too well and this has been the last thing on my mind. Anyways, I found out a simple way to earn a little cash. It's not a ton of money but hey, it's money.

I registered with mysurvey.com. All you do is take online surveys about things that pertain to your family. Once you earn enough points you can either get a prize or a check in the mail. So far, I have taken the check every time. It's nice to get $20 in the mail. But, it is totally legit. It does take some time to earn up enough points, but it's so easy. I am on the computer a lot so I just check to see if there are any new surveys for me and they usually don't take too long. The longer they are the more oints you get.

Also, another cool thing about it is sometimes you will be selected to try new products. I was sent some new gerber yogurt for Ryan to try and Dax got to test some new deoderant. I like it because it gives me something to do when I am bored. Needless to say, I haven't done any recently. So check it out. I have actually earned about $100 so far. Just go to mysurvey.com to register and gert started. Good Luck! And I am not going to guarantee I will post every day anymore. As soon as I get feeling better maybe I will be more diligent.

I'm Back!

I don't know if anyone even noticed I was gone. Well the weather in California was not very warm, but I heard it was pretty warm here the whole time we were gone. So, this is one of my favorite summer recipes for hot days. If you are on a diet stop reading now. It's not a health food recipe for sure. I guess you could make it healthy by buying the fat free cool whip, but why? :)

1 Container of Cool Whip
1 Container of yogurt (any flavor you like)
1 graham cracker crust
fresh fruit (if desired)

All you need to do is make sure your cool whip is soft enough to stir, and stir in your yogurt. If you want fresh fruit in it, stir it in too. Once everything is mixed throw it into the crust and freeze until firm. I like to take it out of the freezer several minutes before cutting it. I love the taste of cool whip and the yogurt adds just enough flavor.

My favorite is raspberry yogurt with fresh (or frozen) raspberries. But I really like all of the types I have tried. I also like to add a hint of food coloring because there isn't much color to it. So for raspberry add some red, peach add some orange...and so on. I probably wouldn't add blue to my peach one, but if it makes you happy, do it. I recommend not using the yoplait yogurt because it has smaller containers. If I am just eating yogurt plain that is the only kind I buy, but for this recipe I usually get the kind that's like 3/$1.00. Cheap yogurt works great! The total cost for making this is probably under $5. And if anyone wants to make one and use frozen strawberries let me know and will totally give you some because I have lots of them.