A Guy, A Girl, 2 Babies and a Budget: August 2017

Monday, August 28, 2017

Ranch Burger Grill Packets

I didn't have a lot of time to get dinner going and needed a new idea. I had some ground beef and had heard about burger packets before so I thought I would try. Why not? If all else fails we have multiple restaurants close. (Not that we want to eat out.) These turned out nicely and I even had an extra to send for my Father-In-Law to eat since he was not able to make it for dinner.

On a separate note, if you subscribe to follow my blog in the upper right you will get notifications when a new recipe is posted. Additionally, please share the facebook post so I can help build my followers and at some point, these will not only be the recipes that I am making for dinner but also recipes I can experiment in smaller batches before feeding them to my test subjects. :-)

Let's be honest, I am not a food stylist but it tasted really good.

Nutritional Information (calculated on myfitnesspal.com): 6 servings, 227 calories, 16g carbs, 6g fat, 34g protein

Ingredients:

2 lbs Lean Ground Beef
2 Buttermilk Ranch Packet
2 Yukon Gold Potatoes, Sliced to 1/8-1/4" Thick

Butternut Squash Fries

We started a garden at our house this year. Only problem being we forgot to label what each plant was when we planted the seedlings. It became a big surprise to us what came up. I thought we had yellow squash growing but it turns out we were growing Butternut Squash really well. The plant has taken up so much of the yard that it has doubled the space our garden is taking up which was already a 15'x15' space. With that happy accident, I decided to try and use the first of what appears will be a plentiful harvest of Butternut Squash. So be prepared for more Butternut Squash Recipes to be coming in the future especially since not much else produced this year.

Nutritional Information (calculated on myfitnesspal.com): 6 servings, 149 calories, 17g carbs, 10g fat, 2g protein

Ingredients:

1 Large Butternut Squash
1/4 c Canola Oil
2 t Cumin

Banana Chocolate Pancakes

Giuliana had her first day of Kindergarten this week! The first full day I made these for her and she loved them!!

Nutritional Information (calculated on myfitnesspal.com): 4 servings, 252 calories, 35g carbs, 11g fat, 4g protein

Ingredients:

1/2 Banana, Mashed
3/4 c Water
1 T Maple Syrup

Guess who is back...WE ARE!!

At long last, I am back with new recipes. It has been almost 3 years since I have posted and a lot has happened since then.

We moved
Our son, Nello, was born
Our daughter, Giuliana, is starting kindergarten
We celebrated our 7th Wedding Anniversary
I have returned to school to obtain my teaching certificate

I will be going away from posting points values of recipes as I do not have access to a system that can calculate those. If someone does have access to one that can calculate I will be glad to add it. My goal is to create more of my own recipes to share rather than the just sharing other peoples recipes which have been the majority of my posts up to this point. My first recipe will be posted tomorrow. Until then, enjoy a few pictures of my family from the past three years.