DIY pizza lunchables

My kids love pizza, and even more when they get to take them to school for lunch. I'm not crazy about all the "stuff" they put into food anymore, so I try to find ways to make them myself, oh and by the way most the time it's cheaper. So this is how I make pizza lunchables mom style

I start with a simple thin crust pizza recipe

3/4 cups warm water (you should be able to put your fingers in it without a problem)
1 teaspoon active-dry yeast
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon salt


1. Mix your yeast into your bowl of water and set it to the side.

2. Preheat oven as high as it will go. Mine is 550

3. Mix your flour and salt together in a bowl, then add your yeast water mix. Mix together then need until you have most the flour mixed in.

5.You don't have to let it raise. I use a rolling pin to roll it out as thin as I can get it, maybe 1/8 a inch or so.

6. Cut into a size that will fit in a sandwich bag. I use a cookie sheet or a pizza pan to cook them on. I place a thin layer or flour before and place in over.

7. Rub some oil on top and use a fork to make some holes, then place in oven

8. Keep an eye on them because they will be done quick. In my oven it's 5-7 minutes.

When lunch times comes around, send the little ones with some cheese, pizza sauce, and pepperoni if you want.

I made a double batch and it'll make about 10 meals for my kids. I keep some out for fresh and flash froze (place on a cookie sheet in a single layer, without touching) and put in the freezer for an hour or so. Once it's froze some you can place in a large bag for freezing. Flash freezing makes it where you can pull one out at a time, not just have a big frozen lump.

Fully loaded crazy good nachos

Last night dinner time comes around as always, and I never failing question I have what's for dinner? I got some pre cooked chicken out of the freezer, now what to do with it?
Nachos? Yummy! So what I did was I cook my chicken up with some taco seasoning, cook some rice, and got a can of beans out. What's my chicken was cooking my rice was done, I put some tortilla chips on a cookie sheet, added some cheese to help everything stick, now the fun part adding all the toppings. I just put everything on top the chicken in the rice and a beans, and added some more cheese to top. I threw it in the oven at 350 4 maybe 5 minutes, just until  tell cheese melts is really what you're going after.

I should've taken a picture before we had dinner but this is what was left over. The whole point is to have fun with it you can add whatever you want. I can eat a buffalo chicken nachos and that's really yummy.
I hope you enjoy and have fun cooking.

Mommy needs coffee

Good news I can walk on my broken foot again, the down side the house needs cleaning. My husband has done a great job doing both of our jobs, and keeping the home running. Now that I'm up and moving it's time to give a good cleaning. My crafting has had to take a back seat :-(
This morning I woke up to get to work. Time to get a cup of coffee and get started. What do you mean I don't have coffee creamer?

I like this one, it's just caramel, but sometimes hard to find (they like to add vanilla ). Well I was out, so I made some up.

All I needed.
A jar
Measuring cup
14Oz sweetened condensed milk (one can)
1 3/4 cups milk (I used whole milk)
2 tablespoons of caramel ice cream topping
Put the sweetened condensed milk, milk and caramel in jar. Put the lid on the jar. Not hard so far right? Ok here's the hard part, are you ready? Time to shake, shake, and shake. Done

Now time for my cup of coffee, and then get to work.
This website  http://fun2bfrugal.com/homemade-flavored-coffee-creamer has a lot of different flavors to pick from.
I love this creamer and now I'm ready to get to work.

Mom can I have milk...

My little one's use to love milk, but with them starting school it seems like they are always trying to fight a cold. As soon as I hear a cold coming on I hate that question, because I would take them off milk. The kids were great about it, but I know they missed it. Well I got the idea to try soy milk. You should have seem my face when they LOVED IT!!!! My son can be kinda picky. So I wanted to share with you how we make soy milk... Don't tell anyone but it is so easy.
First Soak a cup of dry soy beans in water over night. Drain water off
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Take one cup on beans and 3 to 3 1/2 of water and blend, and blend. You want to see all the beans cut up to small pieces.

Stain off the liquid from the parts of beans.

OK this may have been a bad time to take a picture. It won't all look like this all the time, it will run out like water. I found this really cool bag somewhere but cheese cloth would work too. You want to ring it out to really get everything good out of it.
Repeat and repeat until you are out of beans. It takes me three times.

You'll see that there is a froth that floats on top. I take a spoon and remove it. Well most of it anyways.

Now put it in a pot and start heating it up. You need to be able to dissolve sugar, and mix in some vanilla. Do you have to add that no, but my family likes it. I add about 1/2 cup of sugar, and a good splash of vanilla, but make it how you want it.
Oh a helpful hint if you go to an Asian market you can get the soy beans so much cheaper.
So mom can we have milk, is no longer a question I fear. Problem solved.