Frugal In Florida

Quick, when you think of 101 ... what do you think of?? Dalmatians. That would have been ole France. He was the worlds BEST dog ... anyways...that's not what the post is about :) 101 Airborne. Yeah. That's what it's about. Well, sort of. See, when we were doing the Wii, Princess was sitting there patiently (not so) waiting as she wanted to play tennis ... I was putting all my Wii Active stuff away NEATLY in the cabinet ... and I was playing with the stupid rubber red thingy. I had it around the bottom of my feet and was doing curls and said, "Oh, this sucks. It's so wimpy!" And she said "Uh huh. Do it 101 times and tell me what you think then." That's when she told me about the drill Sergeant that came in midway through boot camp for her ... he was from the 101 Airborne division and EVERYTHING they do was 101 reps. Sure enough, 101 reps of ANYTHING is tedious! That wimpy red strappy thing? It could have been 50 lb dumbbells by the...

Oh boy ... we are in the homestretch to the end of the year. If you are not normally a list maker, now would be the time to change THAT attitude :) If you've been following along, I've been linking up to Ammie over at Domestically Obsessed and posting my Monday morning list of things to do for the upcoming week. And much to my horror, I realize that I occasionally spell AMMIE's name wrong (I'm so sorry!). Anyways ... busy week, month coming up here. 18th and 20th birthdays of the two animals (OMG!). Hubby flies out Saturday morning and returns the following Friday Tuesday. Garage Sale on Saturday. Kids birthday gathering on Saturday night. Which means I have girlfriends over on Saturday night (uh uh, no way am I supporting all these animals by myself ... I need other adult reinforcments!). So with that in mind...here we go: 1. Anything that looks REMOTELY out of place, slap a price tag on it for garage sale [evil laugh] PURGE baby! 2. Once and for all, clear ou...

Thanksgiving is over ... and we are now into the homestretch for the end of the year. Does that make me happy? Sort of. Kind of. Yeah, maybe. It gives me the chance to wipe the slate clean of all those new year resolutions I made LAST year that fell on the wayside. Seriously, I'd just as soon give them all up! So, I've got 2 days left of the SRS program ... and I think, I'm going to continue working on the freezer and pantry clean out. In other words, eating from the freezers and pantry as much as possible.  Looking for ideas? Hop on over to Organizing Junkie and check out the 300+ menus that are posted around the web! Trust me, it's not as bad as it sounds. Three freezers? Two of them have been inventoried and documented . And you never know, by the time this post shows up on Monday, #3 may have been ambushed too! Of course, I've added about 16 lbs of chicken breast and 3 lbs of shrimp to the freezers since then AND I'm sure, a little more turkey will b...

We are so over turkey, well, at least I am! So something different was made for dinner (and I stuffed one turkey breast that was dissected into the freezer!) Chicken Piccata ... this has to be the favorite thing I make for Princess. She's been asking for it for what seems forever and she sat at the counter and waited patiently, hopefully picking up the way to make it along the way.... we serve this with buttered egg noodles and crescent rolls. 2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast, trimmed and sliced in half (horizontally) 1/2 cup flour, seasoned with salt and pepper (and whatever other seasoning you might wish!) Olive oil and butter for pan frying 1 cup white wine 1 cup chicken broth (a little more than one cup) 1/2 cup lemon juice (honestly, I use the stuff in a bottle, shoot me) 1/4 cup capers, rinsed and drained fresh or dried parsley for garnishing TIP: I add the 3 liquids to a large mixing cup/bowl for ease. Dip chicken in flour and coat both sides. Have oil a...

I post about Hot Browns on my Menu Plan Mondays pretty frequently. And I always get side tracked by something else or just don’t feel like the hassle of doing it. Tonight, the day after Thanksgiving, no kids in the house, and hubby pretty much out on his back with back problems, I made it, using 2 big hunks of turkey breast that we had fried yesterday. Oh lordy, why have I waited so long? Yeah, I know, I’ve said (any may have even put it in writing a time or two!) that a Hot Brown is just a glorified hot open face turkey sandwich. But after making it tonight and eating it, I must say, it deserves to be called so much more! This is definitely staying in my to go to recipe list … the sauce, even though it took a little time, was pretty much done in the time it took for the bacon to cook so not so bad if you are good at multitasking (and toasting the bread and remembering that oops, the turkey should be sitting out to take the chill out) … go ahead, have at it and let me know what you t...

I realize that I am out of the following items: Ketchup. I have a small bottle, half empty if even half left. NONE in the pantry. Realize that Hubby must have used the LAST big bottle during his bbq episode ... Onions. You know, the all around produce staple? I think I have ONE left in the fridge. I do have some in the freezers (thanks to the inventory list!!) Brownie mix. Yeah, I know, its a box but still. Sour cream. Oh Oh. This never happens. I couldn't make the cheesecake because I didn't have any more sour cream. Used the last of it in the three corn casserole. Cat litter. Ok. You know what? I'm ready to boycott that whole area. Damn it anyways. It's not MY cat that uses the stinkin litterbox. He hangs outside all day long and then comes in, hooks a left down the hallway and another left into the laundry room to do his business then comes marching right back to the sliding glass door to go outside again. WTH?? Dish soap. Uh huh. I'm pretty darn low ...

We make a lot of food for Thanksgiving. Seriously. 2 10.5 lb turkeys 3 5 lb turkey breasts 10 lbs of mashed taters 2 tins of stuffing 1 dozen eggs, deviled tin of three corn casserole and then the rest of the snacky things. ALL of this was transported to our friends who live up the road about 8 blocks. Unloaded. Reheated. Reloaded at the end of the night. Ok, not ALL of it, but a lot :) Well, all 5 turkeys came home with us because they also fried 4 ... we love our turkeys! So. I forgot to take the eggs. In all the hassle excitement of loading the truck, someone forgot to open the fridge and grab the eggs last. Oh well. Could have come back home and picked them up but we had so much food already. Kathy had a ham, stuffing, 1 roasted turkey and one fried turkey, sweet taters, cranberry sauce (and this jar of stuff from IKEA!), cheese ball and crackers, green bean casserole and ohhhh so much more. So we have A LOT of food to eat. And I figured I may as ...