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Aldi Meal Planner

Aldi Meal Planner #2 Grocery List

3:44:00 PM
Grocery List: Remember to check your cupboards before you go.  You may have many of the items listed below.  If you go to Aldi remember your quarter. Meats 2 bags of Kirkwood frozen Chicken breasts or thighs 1 bag of Bremer meatballs 1 lb Kirkwood ground turkey 3 lb whole fryer chicken (Optional) Appleton Farms fully cooked bacon Grains 2 cans of Bake...

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Aldi Meal Planner

Aldi Meal Planner #2

3:43:00 PM
I shared with you a while back an Aldi Meal Planner.  This has been a huge success in my little world of blogging, so I am now featuring an Aldi Meal Planner #2.  I am really excited for this one, because it features the highest pinned and clicked on recipes on my blog.  I usually plan for ten meals when I go to...

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Monkey Balls (bread)

9:23:00 PM
Ingredients: 4 cans of Bake House buttermilk biscuits 1 stick of Imperial butter melted 1/2 cup of Bakers Corner sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup Bakers Corner Brown sugar Bunt pan Cooking spray (not pictured) Steps: 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 2. Mix sugar and cinnamon in a bowl set aside. 3. Cut biscuits into fourths, place cut biscuits in sugar/cinnamon...

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Easy Chicken and Rice Bake

10:47:00 AM
Ingredients: Cooking spray 1 box Fit and Active Brown Rice 1 can Fit and active cream of mushroom soup 1 can cream of celery soup 4 thawed Kirkwood Chicken breasts 1 1/2 cans of water Aluminum foil Salt and pepper Steps: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 2. Grease baking dish. 3. Mix all ingredients together in dish. (Don't forget the can of...

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How to Save on Groceries

2:41:00 PM
With my Aldi meal planners out on the web, I have had some questions on how much I really save?! Well, we never really tracked our finances before Porter was born, because we were well...Stupid.  Sorry but I wish I could go back and really be in control of my finances but we weren't and that is a different blog for a different...

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christmas

Christmas Ornament

1:45:00 PM
My mom always does ornaments on thanksgiving to start off the Christmas season.  Last year (2012) my mom gave Drew this ornament that was a Christmas penguin cop who made noise any time there was motion by the tree.  We thought this was the most annoying ornament and resented her for buying it, but this year with Porter being 16 months it has...

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baby

16 Months

9:41:00 AM
Thanksgiving has passed and we are getting ready for our second Christmas as a family of three. At thanksgiving people thought possibly Porter had a tape worm.  They could not believe he could eat so much!   Porter is really starting to get a personality. He has a few common phrases or words he says a lot. "Oh My Gosh!" Is my favorite...

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data wall

Monthly Data Wall

8:41:00 PM
We have been taking monthly test/checks to see how the students are improving on the weakest standards in 7th grade Math, based on our Acuity predictive data. We are planting the dots by score monthly. October was our first test. All students who stayed the same or went down had blue dots. All students who made growth are in yellow. Not as good...

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