Tag: frugal living

Canning Homemade Chicken Bone Broth

Hey there! Hope you are having a great day!

I canned some homemade chicken bone broth the other day, and wanted to share my very simple recipe!

I made a video of how I do this as well, so be sure to check that out here!

Ingredients:

Organic chicken bones (I cook a whole chicken and we eat it for dinner, then I save the bones to use to make the broth)

Purified water

salt and pepper

carrots, onion, celery

apple cider vinegar

Directions:

Add all of the ingredients to a crock pot and fill to the top with the purified water, and let cook on low for 12+  hours

After it is done cooking, you can strain everything out, and reboil the broth while getting your canner ready.

Once the broth is boiling, you can fill empty quart jars, get those lids on, and put them in your canner.

Then process the quarts for 25 minutes at 10 pounds of pressure!

Easy peasy!

What is your favorite thing to can?

Let me know in the comments!

Amanda

The BEST Strawberry “Cheesecake” Fat Bomb Recipe!!

So, you haven’t lived until you’ve tried a strawberry “cheesecake” fat bomb!

JUST SAYING! 🙂

It is so simple to make, and it tastes SO GOOD! Especially when you are on a keto diet, you need that sweet tasting treat to keep you going.

And just knowing that you aren’t going to ruin your keto diet by eating something so delicious is what makes it so great to begin with!

Here is my version of a strawberry “cheesecake” fat bomb:

8 0z cream cheese, room temp

1 stick of organic butter, room temp

2 tsp vanilla (I use my homemade one)

stevia (I just sprinkle it in there)

frozen strawberries, mashed up (about 1/4 c)

Directions:

Use mixer to smooth together cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and stevia.

Add strawberries and fold in with spatula

Fill mini muffin liners with mix and put in freezer for an hour, then store in air tight container in freezer!

You can check out my video I made on how to make it here!

I am in love with these mini cheesecakes and hope you will try them too!

Let me know if you have in the comments below!

Have a great day!

Amanda

 

Freezer Meals That Save You Time & Money!!

Hey there! I hope you are having a great day!

Today I wanted to talk about why freezer meal prep is the best money and time saver!

Just recently, I discovered freezer meals. Basically, you put all the ingredients for a meal into a ziploc bag, and freeze it until you want to cook it in the crock pot. Then you just simply take out whatever meal you have prepped the night before, and it’ll be ready and thawed the next day to throw into the crock pot.

And that’s it!

Your dinner is cooking and you put practically no time into it at all because you did all the “work” previously by putting all the ingredients together ahead of time!

The first time I tried it, I spent about $140 and got about 21 crock pot dinners out of it.

                            BEFORE

                           AFTER

 

That’s really not that bad considering there’s only 30-31 days in a month. There was always left overs, so it stretched throughout the whole month for me! I was hooked after that!

This is why it saves you SO MUCH money. Just think about all the days you turn around and it’s almost 5 pm and you haven’t even thought about what you are going to make for dinner.

You may either decide to order food, or go to the store last minute and end up spending $40 on one meal!

By making a list of all the meals, and all the ingredients you need, and heading out to the store in one trip —- you save all the time, energy, stress, and money you would be spending if you didn’t prep ahead!

I got the idea completely from this smart lady!

If you are tired of cooking every day and want to save a ton of money, I highly suggest giving freezer meal prep a try! It’ll make your life so much less stressed and chaotic when it comes to feeding your family!!!!

Let me know in the comments if you’ve tried and, and share some of your favorite recipes!

Take care,

Amanda