Weetbix Slice

I love browsing recipes on pinterest! If your anything like me, you have a thousand pins and not enough man hours in your lifetime to do all the things that you pin! Anyway, I have seen this recipe floating around pinterest for a while now and finally decided to make it. Let me tell you, It did not disappoint! The ingredients are mostly things that you would have in your pantry and I got a whopping 28 slices out of 1 batch, so it's a really low cost slice to make. But most importantly....It is delicious! I can't believe I waited this long to try it! below is the recipe I used, but there are many other variations floating around pinterest, if your interested. 

WEETBIX SLICE

 (recipe adapted slightly from http://laughingkidslearn.com/2014/08/weetbix-slice-kids-can-make.html/)

Ingredients:

1. 3 WeetBix crushed
2. 1 1/2 cups plain flour
3. 1 cup desiccated coconut
4. 125g butter or margarine
5. 3/4 cups brown sugar
6. 1 1/4 cup milk chocolate melts (for icing)

Instructions:

1. Grease and line a tray with baking paper
2. Combine all dry ingredients with butter or margarine
3. Press mixture into a tray with a spoon and bake at 180C (356F) for 25 minutes
4. When slice is cool smooth over melted chocolate and refrigerate until set 
5. 
   

 When I spread mine out in the tray, I felt like it needed some more butter to hold it together, but resisted the temptation to put more in and it turned out perfect!

This recipe is super easy to make and the perfect one to get the little kids in on helping you make it

Enjoy,

Kylie xx

DIY Father's day gifts

With Father's Day just around the corner, I thought I would share some fun and inexpensive DIY gifts that we can give our Dad's, Grandfather's or other loved ones, to celebrate them! 

At my daughter's school we are running a Father's Day stall and I am making some of these

I made this tag, as we wanted one that could be inclusive of Dad's, Grandfather's, Carer's or other loved one. On pinterest, there are a ton of different free printables for Father's Day goodies, like the ones below. (Website with free printables are attached under each picture)

http://www.classyclutter.net/2014/06/father/

http://eighteen25.com/2013/06/dads-secret-stash/

http://www.idigpinterest.com/2013/06/super-dad-simple-fathers-day-gift.html

Some other great gifts.....

This photo frame is super cute 

(https://www.pinterest.com/pin/66920744439366281/)

This site (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/255579347581926335/) has a lot of great Fathers Day ideas, including this jar....Fill it with all your Dad's Favourite things.

If your Dad is a beer drinker and your handy with the tools, then you might want to head over to  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/445082375648941266/  for instructions on how to make this bottle top opener.

For the littlies, there are lots of great little crafts that you can help them make for Dad to treasure, like this hand tree from  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/539939442798621217/

 or this personalised artwork  

 (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/539376492849617314) 

Or for wife's wanting to give their hubby's a Father's day gift, this is a really cute idea 

printable's available at http://www.thedatingdivas.com/holidays/valentines-day/a-wallet-surprise/

And last but not least, this site (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/366128644679544290/)  has a large range of awesome DIY Father's Day gifts

Enjoy spoiling your Dad's this Father's day

Kylie xx

Chicken slow cooker meals

This week at the meat market they had chicken breast for $4.99 a kilo (2.2 pounds)! Boy was this frugal mumma excited!! I bought 5 kilo’s, but at that price I’m thinking I should have bought more.  Normally I just break it up into 500g bags and freeze it, but I thought I would try some pre-bagged slow cooker meals. I’m sharing 2 recipes with you today, found at  https://kleinsis.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/its-nearly-time-lets-pepare/ , but have adapted them a little to suit us a little more. Please visit the site for the original recipes and double the batch for larger quantities.

Teriyaki Chicken:

( https://kleinsis.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/its-nearly-time-lets-pepare/)

3 Carrots

½ red onion

½  Can chopped pineapple

1 Tbls minced Garlic

1 Potato, diced

500g Chicken breast

½  Cup Teriyaki Sauce

Put all ingredients into a ziplock bag and freeze.

Completely thaw and cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours.

BBQ Chicken:

(https://kleinsis.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/its-nearly-time-lets-pepare/)

1/3 large Green capsicums

1/3  large Red capsicum

1/2 Onion

2 Potatoes

2 tsp minced garlic

500g  Chicken breasts

¼ cup Tomato sauce

1 Tbsp. Worcester sauce

½  Tbsp. Sugar

1 Tbsp. Mustard

¼ tsp. salt

1 Tbsp BBQ sauce

Put all ingredients into a ziplock bag and freeze.

Thaw completely, and Cook in your slow cooker on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours

Learn from me and buy some large ziplock bags. I only had sandwhich ziplock bags & they are almost bursting at the seems. So excited that I have finally made some of these!!

That’s it for now friends.

Enjoy your day,

Kylie xx

Cinnamon Sugar Apple Slices

Wow, It has been a month since I posted anything on the Blog! And what a crazy busy month it has been. With the crazy business over for the minute, I have time to get back into everything:) 

Today I'm sharing one of my favourite, super easy snacks.

 A few months back my friend told me that she makes cinnamon apple crisps for snacks. You slice up your apple, lay it on a tray, sprinkle with cinnamon or cinnamon sugar and bake for 2 hours. After cooking it for 2 hours, I discovered that I didn't actually like the taste. However, after sneaking some cinnamon sugar apple slices before they were cooked, I discovered one of my new favourite snacks.  So all you need to do is slice up your favourite apple, lay it on a plate, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and enjoy!

Baked Beans with Toasted Herb Lebanese Bread.

Hello!

 I have been meaning to share some of the recipes that I am using on my journey of getting rid of this baby weight. But in all honesty, I haven’t been very good at it lately. In fact I’ve put on 2.5 kilo’s (5.5 pounds) in the last few weeks...eek!! I am still breastfeeding (ALOT) and I am just hungry all the time. With the school holidays almost over, I have a refreshed desire to finally get this weight off. I would love to be one of those people that desires to eat healthy, but I am not! In fact, I could happily swap eating lunch for a block of chocolate. It’s not that I don’t like healthy food, but I don’t Love it. Now I have no desire to have abs or be super slim. What I do want is to fit into my clothes. At the moment, I have 1 pair of jeans (with major muffin top) & about 3 tops that fit me....and I am absolutely refusing to buy new clothes.

With my renewed desire to be “good”, I avoided the chocolate and made something that I do love and that I knew would keep me full for a while. I had baked beans with toasted Lebanese bread. This is super yummy and you avoid having toast that goes soggy.

All you need is tin of baked beans, heated; a piece of Lebanese bread, sprinkled with Italian herbs & a dash of chicken salt; and an oven. 

                       

Toast the bread in the oven & break into pieces. Serve with a bowl of baked beans and enjoy!

And hey, If I keep it up then there will be lots more easy, yummy, frugal recipes up on the blog!

Kylie xx

Free Printable Wall Art

I’m in the process of putting together a gallery wall in our lounge room. I really want to have a mix of photo’s and wall art. In my search for some wall art, I found so many fantastic free printables on Pinterest. Too many that I want to hang in my house. I thought I would share some of the awesome sites where you can get these. And best of all, the wonderful creators have made them free for us to use!!! 

 http://www.itsalwaysautumn.com/2014/05/14/20-gorgeous-free-printables-favorite-inspirational-quotes.html

On this site you can make your own chalkboard sign!!

http://www.yellowblissroad.com/tips-for-how-to-make-your-own/

http://viewfromthefridge.com/free-nursery-printables-sohosonnet-guest-post/#_a5y_p=1760133

 

                                  http://www.classyclutter.net/2014/05/diy-modern-gallery-wall/

http://burlapandblue.com/2013/02/05/50-fabulous-printables-for-home/

Print them out, put them in a nice frame and you have a beautiful & fun piece of art. Enjoy creating!

Kylie xx

Chicken & Vegetable Soup

It's time to finally kick the last 10 kilos (that I have been trying to loose since having our bubba) in the butt! Over the next few weeks I will be posting some yummy low calorie, low cost recipes that I'll be making to try and keep me on track.

Today's recipe is one that I have been making for years and is perfect for a rainy miserable day like today!

It is Chicken & vegetable soup. The great thing about this recipe is that you can put whatever veggies you want in it and it's thick, so you don't need to have bread or rolls with it.

Ingredients

1 chicken breast

3 potato's

1 sweet potato

1/4 pumpkin

2 carrots

1 onion

1/2 litre liquid chicken stock

1 bag of soup mix lentils

Instructions

1. In a large pot, pour the bag of soup mix lentils and cover with water.

2. Simmer until lentils are soft.

3. Place chicken stock, vegetables & chicken in pot and allow to simmer for 1.5 hours (or until chicken is         cooked & vegetables are soft)

4. Remove the chicken and shred into a bowl.

5. Mash vegetables whilst still in pot.

6. Return chicken to the pot & stir.

7. Add salt, pepper or herbs to taste.

My pot of soup made 15 serves and freezes perfectly. So cheap, hearty, healthy and yummy!

Kylie xx