The holiday season is just about here, and many people will be attending all types of festivities between now and the new year. Some get really dressed up with bow ties, but we’re more casual. There will be a couple of activities we plan to get dressed up for such as a special Christmas concert, but for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, we dress casually and comfortably. Does your family dress up for special dinners?
Can you believe it? I do not have a Rotisserie Chicken on the menu for this week. I think I’m starting to get a little “burned out” on them, but I have to admit that I love how easy it is to put a meal together with one! I am going with something that can be used as leftovers, though, because I’m too tired after work to cook every night. Here’s our menu plus a couple of other recipes I want to share.
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Here are a couple of recipes I want to share in case you’re already planning your Thanksgiving dinner:
Monday: Leftovers from the weekend
Tuesday: Christi’s Chicken Taco Soup with some added veggies (sliced carrots and frozen corn) I don’t have two cans of black beans, so I plan to use one can of black beans and one can of red kidney beans. Also, I plan to use canned chicken breast.
Wednesday: Leftover Chicken Taco Soup (Don’t you just love leftovers after a long day!)
Thursday: Leftover Soup (Such an easy meal again tonight)
Friday: Salmon Patties, green beans, frozen corn (Cooked, of course! I specify frozen because we like frozen corn better than canned corn.)
Have you ever wondered what’s in your drinking water? Ours is fairly good according to current standards, but we’re not satisfied with that. We have a faucet mount water filter that filters out chlorine and a bunch of other “stuff.” It definitely makes our water taste better. We think a water filter is a healthy addition to any kitchen and is worth the cost of replacing filters from time to time!
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Tiffany at Fashion in the Forest is a Southern girl who is always on the lookout for great deals and freebies. She shares this info with her readers along with reviews and giveaways. Tiffany also likes sharing about things that inspire her, and she has just started an Etsy shop called “Summer So Far” which will feature handmade items and antiques.
At Whirlwind of Surprises, this 25 year old medical student loves sharing about reviews, contests, and giveaways on her blog. She also loves reading, shopping, blogging online, tweeting, playing sports, and being with her boyfriend, friends, and family. She especially enjoys playing with her baby nephews whenever she can find time!
Although born on the east coast, Emily at Family and Life in Las Vegas followed her heart west. She thinks her husband, who deploys often, is an amazing man. They have a little boy (toddler), aka “Squishy/Squish/MelonMan,” and Emily loves these two “men” in her life and says they are the best parts of her day. She also enjoys blogging and does reviews and giveaways.
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This has been a very busy week! Seems like it’s been busy for nearly everyone I know, and we’re all anticipating the holidays. I made a couple of quick trips to the store during the week to get what we needed such as basic groceries, not anything like epiduo or anything else that was not something we needed soon. Time was a factor, so quick and easy errands were all I had time for.
I am so ready for the Thanksgiving Holidays! We get the whole week off for Thanksgiving and I can’t wait! There’s so much to get caught up on, plus I want to go work at the Food Pantry that Tuesday to help give out Thanksgiving dinners to needy families.
This week is going to be another week of easy menus. I enjoy cooking, but after a day at work and then tutoring and blogging after work, I don’t have the energy most days to cook anything very extensive!
Here’s our tentative menu for the week:
Monday: Rotisserie Chicken, baked potato, and salad (a super easy meal for a Monday)
Tuesday: Use left-over chicken for the recipe below. This is a revised recipe:
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Zucchini, Spinach & Chicken Pasta
INGREDIENTS:
PROCEDURE:
Cook pasta according to directions. Saute onion in olive oil in sauce pan for a couple of minutes. Add frozen spinach to onions and then place zucchini on top. Cook until barely tender. Mix pasta, onion, spinach, chicken, pasta sauce, salt & pepper in casserole dish. Top with cheese. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
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Wednesday: Left-overs from Tuesday
Thursday: Chef Salad
Friday: Homemade Pizza
I was excited when a large box arrived on my doorstep, and when I opened it…this is what I found! I knew that Family Dollar was sending me something, but I had no idea it would be this big!
Inside this beautifully wrapped package were all sorts of goodies. There were things for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas!
In my gift basket for “Halloween Happiness,” there were Spooky Lollipop Rings and Halloween Suckers plus a Halloween pumpkin. (Family Dollar has good prices on their candy for trick or treaters! Note the Lollipop Rings are just $2.) For Thanksgiving, there were several things: an apron (a bib apron with two large pockets AND with DuPont Teflon fabric protector to protect from stains), two holiday dessert recipes from the Family Dollar Holiday Recipe and Coupon Booklet, and a fall leaves bowl.
By the way, you might want to get the Family Dollar Holiday Recipe and Coupon Booklet to help with your entertaining needs and your budget.
The “Christmas Corner” included a Family Dollar Christmas Toy Book which has 24 pages of value packed Christmas toys, affordable for every family. Our daughter (Christi from Frugal Novice) was visiting when I opened my Family Dollar “Fall Entertaining Toolkit” basket of goodies. When she saw the toys they sent me, which are in the Family Dollar Toy Book, she was impressed and said that she would definitely be going to Family Dollar to purchase some toys for gifts.
They have $5 toys for kids of every age, and they feature popular name brands like Hot Wheels, Disney, and Bakugan. In fact, they sent me a Bakugan toy. I have to admit that I had no idea what that was, but our daughter was very familiar with Bakugan toys. When I gave it to our grandson (Christi & Brian’s three year old), he was fascinated with it. In the picture, you can see our grandson, dressed in his red pajamas, playing very intently with his new toy. He liked it so much that he slept with it that night, and even went to sleep with it clutched in his little hand. It was definitely a hit!
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Family Dollar has everything from kids’ favorites like full-function Radio Control Kid Cruisers to $5 board games to Kidget clothing for newborns-toddlers to hot-priced electronics. They have play huts for $10 such as the Disney’s Tinker Bell and Disney’s Princess. They have something for everyone! What is really impressive is their great selection of $5 toys and gifts. Also available are wrapping paper and seasonal home decor accents at great prices. No wonder they’re one of the fastest-growing discount chains in the United States and also a Fortune 500 company.
If you visit Family Dollar.com, you can enter the Family Dollar Holiday Dream Dash Contest for a chance to win a 90 seconds holiday shopping spree in one of their stores. You can enter now through November 19, 2020. Be sure to go back and vote the week of November 22nd.
Note: Family Dollar offers a 10% discount on bulk toy purchases of $100 or more, perfect for the charitable gift-giver!
Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog too! Just click “Get the code here…” at the bottom of the list. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way for everyone to get even more traffic to their blog.
Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Christi at Frugal Novice, Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.
To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.
When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. We would love for you to also grab our Friendly Friday button and post it on your blog and/or in a post – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!
Spotlight on Friendly Friday Followers! We love your participation and want to show it! In addition to gaining followers, each week we’ll select three blogs at random and will feature links and a write-up for those blogs in the content of next week’s Friendly Friday post. There are so many seriously wonderful blogs out there, and this will be a great way to highlight some of those each week. Say hello to the lucky chosen 3 for this week (and feel free to stop by and give them a little extra love):
Julie and Adele are two sisters who find and share bargains with their readers at Coupon Cents Sisters. Julie is in Connecticut and Adele is in Georgia, but the distance doesn’t stop them from teaming up to work together on their great blog. You’ll find tons of freebies, deals, and coupons – plus a great reference list of when to find sales on various types of items and Couponing 101 tips!
Molly at A Day in Mollywood is married to her best friend and has two adorable little boys, Landon and Brigham. She writes about her thoughts on everything from dealing with depression to parenthood. Her blog is also filled with photos of the aforementioned adorable little boys – and what’s a better day-brightener than that?
“Pink Power Ranger Mom” at Linus & LuLu is a wife, mom, and teacher who loves to cook, create pottery and crafts, and garden. She writes with a sense of humor and shares everything from family stories to recipes to photos of decor. All the photos she posts make you feel like you’ve got a little window into her fun family life!
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It’s already that time of year when people are starting to plan how they’re going to decorate for Christmas. Some go all out with elaborate outdoor Christmas decorations, themes, and even a synchronized light show to Christmas music. Some go for a subtle look and have a few lights in strategic places in their yard. The same thing applies for indoor decorations as well. Some people have every part of their home decorated, while others have mainly a Christmas tree and a few decorative touches here and there. Whatever the decorations consist of, it’s being with family and friends to celebrate Christmas that counts the most!
Many people are health conscious nowadays. They take vitamins and supplements, try to eat healthier, try to get more exercise, and try to make healthier lifestyle choices. Some might even do a colon cleanse such as the dr. schulze program. More and more people are eating organic foods and opting for a more natural diet by eating less processed food and less fast food. Some even grow their own food, thereby making sure it is the most natural and pesticide-free food they can eat. If you’re wanting to live a healthier lifestyle, then start out with one or two healthy changes in your life and gradually add in more. That way, these changes will become a habit instead of a short term change.
When you have little ones, it’s sometimes hard to get the sleep you need. Our daughter, son-in-law, and two little grandsons came to visit this past weekend. Our daughter, Christi, and s-i-l had four hours sleep the night before from staying up late working on a freelance job. Their three year old doesn’t know to sleep late on Saturday mornings and so he was up early the next morning. Christi and her husband were definitely behind on sleep! They didn’t take sleep aids but just tried to squeeze in naps here and there. They did get a better night’s sleep Saturday night, so that helped!
