So, I am gradually adapting to life with a tiny one in the house. She's a rock star - sleeps through the night as of 2 months, eats like a champ, and is so tall she's in 6 month clothes at age 3 months. If it weren't for the hours of 7-10 pm, aka the screaming time, things would be relatively unchanged around here.
One of the things I knew I had to figure out in order to restore some sort of normalcy to our day to day lives was a better process for handling dinners. We are on a strict budget at the moment, thanks to our moving expenses, a hospital bill, a flood in the living room, and a minor fire in the kitchen. Oh, and 2 separate car problems. So I knew I had to start buying meats in bulk.
The other requirement was that I needed to streamline the dinner process - my husband and I are both way too tired to slap together a decent dinner most nights. And no more fast food! It's a rule now. So I guess the third requirement is that it had to be healthier.
My solution so far has been the crock pot. I headed to Target to pick up a new 6 quart crock pot. The model I chose is this one, found on Amazon for $30. I think I paid $25 at Target.
Then I had to find the recipes - more on that later.
In the meantime, my freezer is starting to look like this:
It needs some serious organizing, and you actually can't see a lot of my freezer meals in this shot, but we're working on it. You can see a lot of my strawberry salsa, which will come in handy when we have visitors next week! The strawberry salsa recipe linked above is really tasty, and great for this time of year when strawberries are everywhere! I decided to make the salsa when I found the strawberries for $1.50/lb. True story.
