This Crazy Army Wife

It's Tuesday... my menu planning grocery shopping day.  I sleep off my weekend on Monday so Tuesday is when I plan and normally shop while the teen is at bowling team (although today she's at home....). Here is this weeks meal plan with links to the recipes and my grocery list. That being said.... check the recipes for missing ingredients because I didn't include things I already had in my pantry like flour, spices, etc.... Tuesday - Spaghetti with meat sauce (no link, my own recipe).  I'm also going to double it and make a baked spaghetti to drop off at my neighbor's who just had a baby. Wednesday - Geschnetzletes and spaetzle. We love and miss German food. I don't claim to be the best German cook in the world, but after living overseas so long we really enjoy it so I try to make it occasionally. This is the recipe I am using, she has a great homemade spaetzle recipe as well, but I'm going to buy mine this week. http://www.daringgourmet.com/2013/03/26/...

How many days a week do you eat out? Are you exhausted when you get home from work or are done playing with the kids all day? I have a few questions for you.... How many people in your house are 13 or older? Are they helping with the cooking? if not, why not? In my house, there are 3 people over the age of 13. Myself, my husband and my teenager Tess. I personally enjoy cooking, so I cook almost every night. My husband cooks on Sundays, because I work weekend night shift and by Sunday I am exhausted and not in the mood to cook. Tess cooks usually once a week, or every other week depending on her school activity and homework schedule (her schedule is more cluttered than mine right now between AP courses, Band and Bowling....). I cook the other nights of the week, except for Friday night.... which is Pizza night! Do you have a Pizza night? If not I HIGHLY recommend implementing one. Whether you purchase frozen pizzas, pick up, or have delivery Pizza night is a simple night to give t...

I know I don't post that often, life as we all know keeps me insanely busy.... Today though, today I feel the need to share something. Not because it's earth shattering but because maybe someone needs to hear it. People often call me supermom or superwoman. I juggle quite a bit in my life and on the surface I appear to have it all together. Unfortunately, i think some of my friends even think that if they are struggling with what they have on their plates they aren't measuring up because I have more going on and I can do it..... Let me clarify for you my friends.  YOU AREN"T ALONE! There isn't a parent out there who doesn't get overwhelmed at times. There isn't a working parent who doesn't feel like the house could be cleaner, there isn't a parent in the world who doesn't think that they are screwing up their kids sometimes, we all think that we should be doing something better.... Remember you tell your kids, if this is your best it's goo...

There's a reason we are trying to transition away from gluten, because we all love breads and pastas so much :) That being said I know that if we are going to make this transition I MUST find a bread recipe that will work for us.  I did some searching to find paleo bread recipes and decided to start out by trying this one.... http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2013/03/finally-gluten-free-bread-that-doesnt-suck.html I didn't follow her recipe exactly, I didn't have brown rice flour for the flour blend, only white rice flour but I decided to go ahead anyway.  I also didn't have egg replacer powder, I added a Tablespoon of potato starch instead at that step.  I also used 2% milk instead of powdered milk and just subtracted from the water. Here is my version: Which still needs to be tweaked based on my results Rice Flour Blend Makes 4 cups 1⅓ cups rice flour 1⅓ cups tapioca flour 1⅓ cups cornstarch 1 tablespoon potato flour  Mix this up together, I pu...