Today was a snowy day. This morning I woke up nicely to a world full of snow. The tree just outside of my window had all the branches outlined with the snow from the previous day and night. It turned the world into black and white and it was beautiful. I love real winter and we had gotten 5 inches of snow. The dogs were eager to go out and play in it. When I let them back in, they had snow on their noses from burrowing into it. I fed the beasties and made the bed, and had gotten dressed. I felt good! I had intended to crochet today but got busy watching Apprentice UK on YouTube. I got a call from hubby that he had decided to take half a day off and was coming home. He asked if he needed to pick anything up on his way in and I asked him to please pick me up some real lemonade. See, I take 2 family sized tea bags and put them in a glass gallon jar I have with a metal screw on lid, then fill it with cold water. We put it in the fridge for 12 to 24 hours before we pull the bags out. I fill up my glass with tea and add about an inch of lemonade to it. Mom calls it an Arnold Palmer, which is technically half tea and half lemonade. That's too strong for me. I like just a little bit of lemonade with my tea. My tea is kind of weak also, I don't like strong. I did have a glass of Pepsi today but by the time I finished it, I was ready to be done.
Hubby came home and finished shoveling the walk. The neighbor had used his snow blower and cleaned our public sidewalk and our driveway. All hubby had to do was shovel our private walkway. Unfortunately when walking backwards to lay down the ice melt, his foot hit our steps and he fell on his back. Poor baby! He was quite sore when he came in. I made him take his pain pills and have a lie down.
I got my Living on a Dine cookbook called Dining on a Dime in the mail the other day and started reading it. 1200 recipes and tips for money saving budgets. I am trying to get back to cooking dinner and cut out the eating out, learn to live on a budget and still like what we eat, make it healthy. Now my problem is I have forgotten how to make a lot of things and unlike most cookbooks, this is daily, everyday fare. I can take these recipes and use them as they are or embellish them a little and make them my own. There is a lot of good things in there and some of it we will take a pass. The Living on a Dime newsletter I get every week gives me tips on how to cut down my heating bill (close off the guest room since no one is staying in there, turn the heat down and put on a sweater) and dirty dishes can actually cost you money (if the kitchen is dirty you are more likely to go pick up fast food or eat out).
We ate lunch in, roast beef sandwiches. I added bread and butter pickles to mine and I only ate half of it. Tomorrow I will have lunch already made! When the mailman came, the insurance check we were expecting was in it, so I sent hubby to the bank to deposit it. We had borrowed $300 to shop for food so we had to pay that back. Now we just need to pay a bill or two then we can go to the attorney's and sign the paperwork for the bankruptcy. The question is whether we can get 2 new tires for the Saturn with what we have left.
The rest of the day went by quickly. I made dinner, defrosted some of my chicken pot pies with biscuits, cooked in the oven til the biscuit was nice and brown. We ordered biscuits from Schwan's and we tried out the cheese and garlic ones. The biscuits are individually frozen so you just take out what you need and bake. Not sure if this is cheaper than buying a whole can of biscuits to use two of them for pot pie and then having left over biscuits that will be eaten in the days to come. But we will see. The Dining on a Dime cookbook does have a biscuit recipe and I think I will try to make them and freeze them to see if I can do it cheaper than Schwan's.
You know, it felt good today to be up, dressed, have the bed made and cook dinner. I am looking forward to my therapy tomorrow, coming home and baking a ham and crocheting. I feel like by doing this stuff, I have a purpose, and that feels good. I have managed to push my fruit and veggie intake up to 5 servings today and I got close to 8 glasses of liquid today. Yeah!
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