Mars Bar Slice YUMMO!!!

Mars bar Slice....mmmm...one of my all time favourite things to eat! If you have a sweet tooth, then I can guarantee you that this will not disappoint! If I wasn't into frugal living, I would tell you to get in your car and go buy the ingredients immediately, but seeing as I want you to conserve your petrol, write the ingredients on your shopping list immediately, so you don't forget next time your at the shops. Also please note it may not be the best recipe if you are trying to loose weight..oops sorry....but I will say that it is worth every calorie!

Without further ado, here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

75g Butter

1 Tbs Golden Syrup

3 cups Rice Bubbles

3 Mars Bars chopped 

1 block of chocolate, melted

Instructions:

Combine butter, chopped mars bars and golden syrup in a container and place in microwave for 2 minutes(or until melted).

Stir in rice bubbles, until all combined.

Pour mixture into a 16x26cm dish or tin and flatten out till evenly spread over the dish.

Pour melted chocolate on top, being sure to cover the entire slice.

Place in fridge for

Cut, serve and Enjoy!

Kylie xx

My favourite Spaghetti Bolognaise

Hello Friends,

Last night for dinner we had Spaghetti Bolognaise. I am not one for cooking something a certain way just because it's the way it was cooked traditionally. Basically I am all about how it tastes. Therefore my spaghetti bolognaise is a little different to everyone else's but I make it that way cause it's how I like it.

Recipe is as follows:

500g beef mince (hamburger)

1 onion

3 Tbs of tomato paste (or to taste)

3 Tbs of BBQ sauce (or to taste)

1 tin diced tomato's

1 Tbs minced garlic

1-2 cups of diced frozen mixed vegetables

Spaghetti to serve on top of

Grated cheese to sprinkle on top.

In a pan, brown the onion, garlic and mince.

Once cooked, add the vegetables and simmer till cooked.

Then add tomato paste, BBQ sauce and diced tomato's.

Serve on a bed of cooked spaghetti, or try something different like I did last night, and serve it on a bed of salad. I have never served it on salad before but it was amazing and I didn't walk around feeling bloated for the rest of the night.

Kylie xx

Apple Cinnamon Jaffles

One of mine and Hubby's favourite and quick desserts is Apple Jaffles with Ice cream.

After seeing a chef on tv make sweet jaffles, I was intrigued and thought I would create one. Here's what creation I came up with.

Ingredients:

1 Pastry sheet, cut into quarters

Tinned Apples 

Cinnamon Sugar 

Ice Cream

Instructions:

Cut the sheet of pastry into quarters.

Place 2 quarters on the jaffle maker (It cost me $7 at Kmart!)

Spoon apple onto each slice of pastry.

Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Cover with the last 2 slices of pastry and cook.

Serve with Ice cream, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar

and Enjoy!

And that's it folks. A yummy, quick, easy and cheap dessert!

Kylie xx

Cinnamon Honey butter

Are you ready for this sinfully delicious recipe?? Apologies to anyone trying to loose weight! This is just deliciously naughty. And it doesn't help that it's so quick to whip up.

So what it is?? It is Cinnamon honey butter!!! For all my American readers, this recipe is probably not new to you, but we don't have anything like it in Australia! I love cinnamon toast, so this is just like a pre-made spread but with honey as well.

Here's the recipe:

1 stick of butter 

1/2 cup castor sugar

1/2 cup honey

1 tsp cinnamon.
(Recipe courtesy of "http://thefoodcharlatan.com/2014/11/24/cinnamon-honey-butter-recipe/"
I halved the recipe)

Throw it all in a mixer and mix till soft. 

Store in a container in the fridge and spread on hot toast, fresh bread or whatever else you can think of.

And most of all, enjoy every bit of it!!!

Lunch Wraps

One of my favourite lunches ever! I have recently re-discovered Lebanese wraps and am loving them. This is one of my favourite ways to have them for lunch. 

Spread Cottage Cheese over the wrap. Then spread BBQ sauce over the wrap (yes I love BBQ sauce, but this isn't needed to make this delicious).

 3 Slices of ham, 3 Slices of tomato and lettuce down the middle of the wrap.

 Add 2 slices of Cheese. Use whatever cheese you love. Unlike most people, I actually love what I call "plastic cheese". I love the way it melts!

 Wrap up and put it a sandwich press and toast for a few minutes.

 The Lebanese wrap comes out perfectly crispy with melted cheese throughout.....yummo! Perfect Combination.

What are some of your favourite homemade wrap recipes? I would love to hear your recipes.

Kylie xx

Anzac Day Activities

Tomorrow is Anzac Day. A day where we stop to remember the sacrifice of those who fought to make our country what it is today. In light of this, I thought I would do a little post with some activities that you might like to do with your kiddies.

Just click on the link below each picture to access the activities.

First, this is a great little post that you can read to the kids, explaining the reason that we have some of the traditions that we do on Anzac Day and the importance of them.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/289848925994460217/

Well it wouldn't be Anzac Day without Anzac Cookies. 

Recipe courtesy of:  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/289848925994460212/

This printout is an activity book that is 11 pages long. If you don't want to print it all, just make sure to select the correct pages to print.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Anzac-Day-resource-pack-from-RIC-Publications-1757760

http://fificolston.blogspot.nl/2012/04/chinese-poppies-i-dont-think-so.html

http://laughingkidslearn.com/2014/04/anzac-day-poppy-craft-made-from-paper-plates.html/

http://www.ichild.co.uk/activities/view/753/We-Remember-Poppy-Field-Colouring-in-picture

A little poem on poppy's

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/348114246173209444/

Let's celebrate and be grateful, for the wonderfully brave men and women, who have gone before us and sacrificed their all in fighting for our Country. Happy Anzac Day!

Melted Crayon Canvas

So I've said before how much I love Pinterest. And given that I love saving money and DIYing, I therefore love trying projects out. I always feel like Pinterest makes every project look really easy, but lets face it sometimes they are just not as easy as the seem. Like my latest project. Have you ever seen the melted crayon canvas project. You know the one where you melt crayons onto a canvas with a hairdryer?? How could this possibly go wrong right?? Wrong!! I must say that the outcome I do love and it was fun but super messy and definitely not enjoyable to clean up afterwards. As your melting the crayons, they splatter onto everything. Here's what my hands looked like at the end...

 And my blinds.....

It was also all over our table, one of our dining chairs and all over my shirt.

 But I love the way it looks!

And here it is hanging in my study...a bit of colour in that room finally!

So my advice would be, If you are going to try this yourself, put on some old clothes, drag an extension cord outside and do it on the grass. Your hands will still get dirty but they are the easiest thing to clean afterwards. It's fun to make and dirt cheap! The cost of the project was less than $5...that's my type of bargain!