EASY CHICKEN DISHES, STORING RECYCLED BAGS, EASTER, CEREAL STORAGE, AND MORE!

  Been working on looking up and printing homeschool worksheets and fun activities.  I put up a shelf that has sections in it for pencils and papers to hang under their attendance sheets.  Hopefully this will help me to be better organized and give the kids a place to find what they need without hunting forever for it.
  Spent part of the day looking for Easter coloring pages so the kids can color them and hang them around for Easter.  They seem happier to make the decorations themselves.   I found some really cute ones!  I think I will help them color them tomorrow and hang them up.  My sister is coming to visit over Easter and since she decorated like crazy for Christmas when we were in MI it is now my turn to Easterfy  my house!  lol
  Made fried potatoes with cheese melted over it, baked chicken, and corn for dinner with some left over homemade whole grain bread.  It got some oohs and ahhs so I was happy.  Not sure what we will have tomorrow.  Thinking I should make double of whatever I make so I can freeze one meal for when my sister is here because we have so many plans that I need to be prepared with food cooked ahead.  I already took 15 pounds of chicken legs and boiled them down, deboned it, froze the broth and put the chicken in a big stockpot and poured 4 bottles of my .55 cents a bottle bbq sauce over it.  I rinsed the bottles out with a small amount of water and dumped that in too.  Simmered this for an hour and done!  Delicious!   I froze two big bowls, one small one and we ate one bowl.  Total cost was  11 dollars for 3 and a half meals with leftovers at each meal for a lunch too.  So easy and a big bowl of broth for soup!
  Another easy meal is what I made a couple days ago.  You take a couple pounds of chicken legs, thighs, breasts, whatever you have and put them in a baking pan.  You then take a couple cups of long cooking rice and dump over the chicken, cut up an onion and dump over the chicken and rice.  Open a can of cream of mushroom and a can of cream of celery soup and put both in a bowl and fill each can with milk and pour that in with the soup, stir ( if you like your rice mushy like me you can add more liquid and it will soak it up)  pour over the rice, onions, and chicken.  Salt and Pepper and a few dots of butter over the top, cover with foil, bake for a couple hours.  Keep checking after an hour and a half.  I don't time things I go by the smell so you will want to keep an eye on it and  write down what it takes you.  This is easy and cheap, my family loves it!

  I forgot to take an after picture but believe me the rice cooks up all moist and delicious!

My cereal cupboard was getting to be quite unorganized with half bags of cereal everywhere so I took a bunch of the applesauce, mayo, and peanut butter containers that I been washing and dumped then into them.  I kept all the cereal bags because you can cut them open and use them like waxed paper under no-bakes or to wrap burger in to tape up and freeze etc.    I took all of them and folded them and put them all in a clean chicken nugget bag to store.

I taped up my gallon size ziploc bag box so it wouldn't tear when I folded up my washed cheese, splenda, chicken nugget, etc. bags and placed them in the box for later use.

When we get the homemade decorations done and hung I will take pictures for all to see.  Good night!