Menu Plan 18th Week

Click Here for my favorite recipe from last week. A delicious, juicy, cheap, easy, crockpot rotisserie chicken.

This week I planned my menu and went to the store yesterday for all of the ingredients. Hopefully that will make it easier to actually go through with the menu.

I'm always trying to find new recipes that are meatless and easy, I've found one more this week that I'm going to try called Lentil Tacos. I saw this in the menu of a great blog called The Saved Quarter, the name got me interested so I looked up a recipe to try out.

This week most of the meals are meatless, I think this will make for a easy, money saving week.

Monday: Lentil Tacos
Tuesday: No-Bake Mac and Cheese
Wednesday: Ham Fried Rice and Scallion Pancakes
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Soup
Saturday: Date Night
Sunday: Cheese Enchiladas

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Shade Warehouse Sale

If you love Shade clothing this is a great time to buy! The selection is often more limited but I'm always able to find some great basics for cheap!

Slow Cooker Rotisserie Chicken

Bad picture, I may have accidentally put the chicken in the crockpot upside down. Maybe you wont read this if I make it small.....?

I am always on the lookout for good crockpot meals. I love my crockpot, I love throwing everything together in the morning and knowing dinner is done. I found this recipe on a recipe swap forum and I knew I had to try it.

For my small family I only used 2 potatoes and a hand full of carrots which was definitely enough, I only had french cut green beans so that's what I used but next time I will use the other ones. I thought the chicken would dry since you don't add any liquid but it was falling off the bone. You can also use the leftover chicken anyway you want the next day.

Slow Cooker Rotisserie Chicken

1 whole chicken


3-4 medium Potatoes

1/2 bag baby carrots


1 can green beans, drained

1/2 bag of carrots

Salt/Pepper, spices and herbs to your taste

Put all veggies in bottom of the crockpot, season veggies, place the chicken (washed and patted dry) on top. Season with salt, pepper, any herb you like, and set crockpot on high for 1 hour, then turn to low for 9 hours.

I'm linking this recipe to Crockpot Wednesday.

Jane Austen Ruined My Life

I finished my second Readers Choice Book a few days ago titled Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo. Here is the synopsis from Good Reads.

English professor Emma Grant has always done everything just the way her minister father told her she should -- a respectable marriage, a teaching job at a good college, and plans for the requisite two children. Life was prodigiously good, as her favorite author Jane Austen might say, until the day Emma finds her husband in bed with another woman. Suddenly, all her romantic notions a la Austen are exposed for the foolish dreams they are.

Denied tenure in the wake of the scandal and left penniless by the ensuing divorce, Emma packs up what few worldly possessions she has left and heads to England on a quest to find the missing letters of Jane Austen. Locating the elusive letters, however, isn't as straightforward as Emma hoped. The owner of the letters proves coy about her prize possessions, sending Emma on a series of Austen-related tasks that bring her closer and closer to the truth, but the sudden reappearance of Emma's first love makes everything more complicated.

In the end, Emma learns that doing the right thing has very little to do with other people's expectations and everything to do with her own beliefs. Laced with fictional excerpts from the missing letters, Jane Austen Ruined My Life is the story of a woman betrayed who uncovers the deeper meaning of loyalty.

Here is my review:

The title and cover of this book really drew me in, I thought it would be something fun and light to read. In the end I thought it was pretty good. Not great but I didn't hate it. I'm not much of a Jane Austen fan, I never read any of her books (although most of them are on my list for this year) but I have seen the movies. This book is about a professors that knows everything about her life so it was kind of interesting to get a little of that personal information.

This book also has a small amount of mystery as the main character runs around England finding clues to piece together more information about Jane Austen. It also has a little romance on the side, which I always enjoy.

What this book really did was make me crave to go to England, it has always been a dream of mine and the details in this book made me wish to go even more.

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Free Cereal Coupon

I have a really hard time eating breakfast. I don't like eating a big meal right when I wake up; my body just doesn't like that. My husband is the complete opposite, he would have a huge breakfast every morning with pancakes, bacon, eggs, hash browns.... the whole thing.

Since I don't really like breakfast, I've always just eaten some toast and fruit or something small but my hubby has suffered. I felt bad buying him the real sugary cereal, but he doesn't really like the healthy stuff. So I was very excited when I heard that General Mills would be reducing sugar and making their cereals healthier.

This week General Mills announced a commitment to further reduce sugar in cereals advertised to kids under 12 to single digit grams of sugar per serving. The company has already been reducing sugar in cereals while increasing key nutrients, such as calcium and vitamin D, and providing whole grain.

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One thing I like to do is give Addie a bowl of dry sugar cereal when she wants a treat. She loves the taste and she feels like she is getting a candy or a cookie. I love that it still has some fiber, vitamins and other nutrients.

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The Marriage Bureau for Rich People

I'm really excited to do more book reviews this year. Last year I didn't feel like I had enough time to write reviews for the books I read because I would just hurry onto the next book.

I found this book at my library where they are doing Readers Choice right now. I love Readers Choice because every time you read one of the books involved you get a stamp, when you have enough stamps you get a free book!

Most of my reviews will be short and sweet. I don't know much about reviewing books, all I can tell you is if I liked it or not. So here goes...


The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama

Here is what Good Reads has to say about this book:

What does an Indian man with a wealth of common sense do when his retirement becomes too monotonous for him to stand? Open a marriage bureau of course!

With a steady stream of clients to keep him busy, Mr. Ali sees his new business flourish as the indomitable Mrs. Ali and his careful assistant, Aruna, look on with vigilant eyes. There’s the man who wants a tall son-in-law because his daughter is short; the divorced woman who ends up back with her ex-husband; a salesman who can’t seem to sell himself; and a wealthy, young doctor for whom no match is ever perfect. But although his clients go away happy, little does Mr. Ali know that his esteemed Aruna hides a tragedy in her past—a misfortune that the bureau, as luck would have it, serendipitously undoes.

Alexander McCall Smith meets Jane Austen in this delightfully charming Indian novel about finding love.

I agree with the Alexander McCall Smith comparison, if you've read any of his books you will notice a similarity in their style. I'm not sure I agree with the Jane Austen comparison but it does have a little romance in it which I love.

This book was fun, clean and interesting. I have never read a book based in India so I really enjoyed reading about the culture there. I did think a few parts of the book got a little boring but not so much that I stopped reading.

Menu Plan 17th Week

I'm back to meal planning. I've been really slow getting back into my day to day routine after the holidays. Once again our dinners have suffered with no meal plan. We've eaten out a lot more and had lots of grilled cheese sandwiches and cereal for dinner.

I would like to start figuring out my meal plan on Saturday after I see what is on sale and then go to the store so I can get everything I need for that week. I didn't do that this week, I'll try for next week.

Monday: Tortellini, bread sticks and peas

Tuesday: Cranberry Chicken (new recipe, will post if good)

Wednesday:Soup (What kind should I make?)

Thursday: Leftovers

Friday:Thai Peanut Noodles

Saturday: Black Bean Burgers

Sunday: Not sure yet, I'll figure it out.

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