I remember as a kid my Great Grandparents canning their own pickles. I am sure they canned other things but I remember the pickles...maybe it's because I LOVE pickles. Because of this I have always wanted to try my hand at canning.
About a year ago I came across this website that fresh produce for super cheap. I always wanted to try it out but was a little sceptical.
The website is http://www.bountifulbaskets.org/. For $15 you get a conventional basket that is fruits and vegetables. When they say basket, they mean basket. It is the white round laundry basket, one full of fruit and one full of vegetables. They also have bread, cookies (at certain times of the year), pumpkins for Halloween, and then extra add on packs. The bread, cookies, pumpkins, and extra packs range from about $8.50 to around $15.00 or more.
The first time I tried it was in late August. They had a Mexican add on pack. The extra pack came with 3 avocados, cilantro, 2 onions, 6 jalapenos, 4 green chilies, tomotillo's, and a bunch of limes. All of that was $8.50. I couldn't go to the store and buy that for that price. We LOVED IT!!
So I started to watch the website for the extra packs. Then about 2 weeks ago they had a 25 LB box of tomato's for $13. HELLO can we say GREAT DEAL!! I was SOLD. They also had an Italian pack that came with fresh herbs. I bought a box and later told Brandon that we were going to try canning. He loves to make hot sauce and I like to make my own spaghetti sauce. So we spent one Saturday making hot sauce and spaghetti sauce then canning it all. I have never made spaghetti sauce with all fresh ingredients. Everything that Saturday was a first for me.
Last night we tried our spaghetti sauce and we LOVED IT!! I think this is something that I will continue to do.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Lot's of catching up to do!
OK...OK...I know I said I was going to keep up this blog thing.....but I haven't. So now I will catch everyone up on whats going on.
Lyla is now in 2nd Grade and doing great. She likes her teacher and likes the school that is going to. Her first report card was good. She only had one C and it was a high C! I am very proud of her!!! She is in a Dance Club after school on Wednesdays. They will have performances through out the year. When ever she has a performance I will TRY to post a video so that everyone can see.
Carter is doing good as well. He is growing like a weed! He will be 2 next month. My oh my where has the time gone. Right now he loves to play with cars. He will bring his bucket of cars to the living room and push them around for hours. He is making little car sounds when he does it. It is so CUTE!!!
Brandon is working as usual. Over the summer he went to Oklahoma for 3 weeks. While he was there the kids and I went for a long weekend. Schlumberger opened the new shop here in Denton. So now his drive to work is shorter. The new shop is BIG!!! They have already doubled the amount of guys that work there. By next year they are wanting to have at least 200-300 guys!! It is crazy.
As for me I have been busy with several different things. I meet one of the other Schlumberger wives and we have started the "Schlumberger Spouses Association"! We started in August and things got a little crazy with it. We are on a little break for the holidays and will start back up in January. We started it so that we can meet other wives and be a great support system for each other and our husbands with their demanding jobs. Most of the new guys that have been hired have to go through all the training that Brandon has already gone through. I am so glad that Brandon is pretty much done with his training. I hate when he has to leave....so I know how the wives feel.
Well..I guess that is everything in a nut shell. I have several more post that I will work on the next couple of days. Just some things that we have done and things I want to do. So check back in the next couple of days and let me know what you think.
Lyla is now in 2nd Grade and doing great. She likes her teacher and likes the school that is going to. Her first report card was good. She only had one C and it was a high C! I am very proud of her!!! She is in a Dance Club after school on Wednesdays. They will have performances through out the year. When ever she has a performance I will TRY to post a video so that everyone can see.
Carter is doing good as well. He is growing like a weed! He will be 2 next month. My oh my where has the time gone. Right now he loves to play with cars. He will bring his bucket of cars to the living room and push them around for hours. He is making little car sounds when he does it. It is so CUTE!!!
Brandon is working as usual. Over the summer he went to Oklahoma for 3 weeks. While he was there the kids and I went for a long weekend. Schlumberger opened the new shop here in Denton. So now his drive to work is shorter. The new shop is BIG!!! They have already doubled the amount of guys that work there. By next year they are wanting to have at least 200-300 guys!! It is crazy.
As for me I have been busy with several different things. I meet one of the other Schlumberger wives and we have started the "Schlumberger Spouses Association"! We started in August and things got a little crazy with it. We are on a little break for the holidays and will start back up in January. We started it so that we can meet other wives and be a great support system for each other and our husbands with their demanding jobs. Most of the new guys that have been hired have to go through all the training that Brandon has already gone through. I am so glad that Brandon is pretty much done with his training. I hate when he has to leave....so I know how the wives feel.
Well..I guess that is everything in a nut shell. I have several more post that I will work on the next couple of days. Just some things that we have done and things I want to do. So check back in the next couple of days and let me know what you think.
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