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Year: 2011

May 15, 2011
Heather L
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Prep Ahead Meal Plan: Chicken

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Project 365 – #134 Have you ever uttered a phrase similar to this: “I bought all of this great food, but we ended up eating out all week due to life”.  I think it’s fairly safe to say that most people have had this happen to them at least once.  You go grocery shopping and pick up all of this fabulous food.  You’ve got wonderful plans for all of the beautiful, healthy meals for the week.  Then life happens and you end up eating take out or junk food.  Your meal plan goes out the window because there isn’t enough…

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May 14, 2011
Heather L
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The Epic Cream Sauce Failure

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Project 365 – #133 Okay, so that’s a slight exaggeration, but it was a time consuming failure.  Let me step back in time for a moment… This evening, I decided that I’d make some Mexican chicken with a lovely cream sauce served with peas.  I put the cast iron skillet on the burner to get it nice and hot as I wanted a nice sear on the chicken.  As I waited for the pan to heat up, I started dicing onions and green peppers.  The boneless, skinless chicken breasts sizzled as I placed them into the hot skillet.  I turned…

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May 13, 2011
Heather L
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Review: Institute for Excellence in Writing

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It’s not always easy to find curriculum that works for both the parent/teacher and the student.  In fact, it can feel downright impossible at times.  But every now and then, you find a curriculum that really works well for everyone involved, and that curriculum seems to change the whole dynamic of your homeschool – at least for that subject area.  Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) was that curriculum for us. Munchkin is quite the creative story teller, but something happened when she tried to put it all on paper.  The mechanics of writing just seemed to slip through her…

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May 13, 2011
Heather L
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Tacos Supreme

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Project 365 – #132 Yes, I’ve been writing a good bit about food lately, but I’ve been rather tired and food is a constant in our life.  **wink**  On days when I have headaches, like today, I like to go with simple meals.  One of our easy go-to meals is nachos.  Since we had lots of veggies on hand, I decided to load up the nachos with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and green peppers.  They were very tasty, and both Munchkin and D enjoyed their meals.  I was happy because I was able to provide a good meal with minimal work…

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May 12, 2011
Heather L
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Popcorn and a Movie

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Project 365 – #131 We love to have family movie night.  Nothing seems to shout movie night like a bowl or two of popcorn.  We like to get the natural popcorn and add our own butter and salt.  Sometimes, we’ll add a little parmesan cheese to the mix.  Every now and then, I’ll make up a mock caramel corn.  Yum! We decided that tonight would be family movie night.  While D and Munchkin finished playing some Scooby Doo on the Wii, I got the popcorn ready.  Once the light, fluffy, buttery popcorn was ready, we popped in The Game Plan…

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