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Crockpot Turkey Smash #lowcarb #keto #sugarfree

August 31, 2015 by Chrystal 26 Comments

Now that kiddo is here full-time, my food prep time is a bit more limited some days. With Mr. YUM working 12hr hospital shifts and not getting home until after 7:30pm, it’s up to me to make sure dinner is hot and ready to go.

I’ve always loved slow cooking. I do most of it on the stove since I am here all day. But, lately, I find myself using my Crockpot more. I can toss some ingredient in the pot in the morning when I am getting coffee and breakfast ready for us and then just let it go the rest of the day. By the time kiddo gets off the bus, we have a little snack to tide us over until her dad gets home.

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Pizza Sketti

August 26, 2015 by Chrystal 22 Comments

Pizza sketti. Cause, you know, that’s totally a word. #kidspeak

So, you made the pizza pockets from Monday and now you are left with an open jar of sauce. Or, you have some leftover spaghetti. Maybe, you just want something new and fun to try! Things have changed a bit here on the YUM eating household. Kiddo is living here full-time since Mr. YUM now has full custody, so that means we’ve had to adjust our grocery budget a bit. While not a huge issue, we are having to go back to our roots a bit with making sure we don’t waste and find things that everyone will love. I’m certainly up for the challenge! [Read more…]

Super Simple Pizza Pockets #budgetfriendly #frugalliving

August 24, 2015 by Chrystal 32 Comments

One of the reasons I decided to stay in Michigan after my initial move here to clear my head, was the cooler temperatures. Oklahoma summers last much more than the Michigan 3- month time period. I think my first summer here it hardly made it past 80. In Oklahoma I am used to triple digits with heat indexes making it well into the 120s. Yuck! It is an interesting sight sometimes, to live in a place where the government issues heat advisories and has the Red Cross set up on street corners to provide bottles of water to those who are out in the heat.

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Summer Time Means Grill Time

July 23, 2015 by Chrystal 5 Comments

I can’t believe we’ve made it through half the summer. I noticed my sister-in-law posted Monday about how her kids started back to school already in AZ. Kiddo doesn’t go back until September, after the holiday. So we’ve still got a few weeks left. I’m thankful for that because that means more time for grilling. I am big on the outdoors and I love grilling, swimming and just sitting around enjoying the fresh air. Sadly, even though we are rural, we live on a very busy road so a lot of our peaceful outside time ends up in screaming matches between the traffic to the tourist town next door, the semi trucks, and the motorcycles. [Read more…]