grape-sicles

I don't know about you but nothing says summer like a popsicle to me. Kids seem to want them all the time. I came across this fabulous [and healthy!] alternative to the popsicle. Kids could snack on these during the day after playing outside and you'll feel good about giving it to them! 

ENTER THE GRAPE-SICLE!

All you need is grapes, bamboo skewers, and a freezer. My only tip is to chop the sharp end of the skewer off if giving them to little ones. Find my inspiration and the oh so very difficult [enter sarcasm] step-by-step process here. Seriously though, I've had two since yesterday. What a genius idea because really--who doesn't love frozen grapes!?

-Little Wife Power House

my take on in-n-out

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okay, so I had been waiting quite some time to go to in-n-out. I had heard GREAT things about them but there was no way a burger could be good enough for me to wait 2 hours. Yes, some people waited 2 hours! In the rain! We tried to go about a month after but the drive thru line was still 45 minutes. You know I did about a 6-point turn out of that drive thru line. [did anyone else read the last line in Gus' voice from Psych? am I the only one?!]

finally, a month and a half passed [or so] and we decided to brave it on a Tuesday night around 9:00PM. Perfect time to go apparently. No line, got a table fast. I've been twice now and here is my take on the joint. I learned a few things and the 2nd trip was much better. some may not apply once business calms down a bit :)

always go in. even if you get it to go. 

if tables are full, just get it to go. the customers are ruthless! [stealing table after table from a party with 3 kids]

get the neopolitan milkshake. i guess it's one of their "secret menu items" and it's delicious!

get everything animal style. burgers. fries. whatever you can put it on. but especially the fries. 

a burger for $2.50 that can compete with a $6 burger easily.

It made for a perfect date night. $9.00 dinner and X-Men: First Class for free [had passes from when we saw Eclipse back in June 2010 and the sound went out for a few minutes. that's how often we get to go to the movies now-a-days.] 

Thanks for the wonderful date night, hubster!
and thanks to Jimbo for watching H!

Guess what I get to start my weekend with? A trip to the dentist to see if I have to get a root canal. Uuuuurgggg. 

-Little Wife Power House

too much meat

Does anyone else have a problem with buying meat, sticking it in the freezer, and forgetting about it? Today I went to the grocery store, came back with some great finds [buy one get one free on pork chops and then some marked down chicken/steaks]. I come back to put it in the freezer and realize I really need to go through and catalog what I have in there and START USING IT! What's the point of freezing it if it never gets used? 


This is what I had in there...

• 1/2 lb ground turkey
• almost 3 lbs of chicken breasts
• 1 whole chicken
• 1 flank steak
• 1 lb stew meat
• 2 sirloin rib eyes
• 3 lbs ground beef
• 6 mini sliders
• and of course TONS of pork chops!
• 3 seasoned chicken breasts

I officially have a problem. 

My goal is to use all of this meat in the next month. We will have some delicious meals with a low grocery bill. I'm starting tonight with some Parmesan Ranch Chicken! 


If you have any good recipes that use any of those meats, please send them my way! 


-Little Wife Power House

The Pie

Any Utahns [?] or regular vacationers ever been to The Pie? My brother, John, recommended this pizza joint.

Thank you, John. This pizza was sooo good. We almost bought a pizza twice this size! Thank goodness the cashier talked us out of the $40 pizza. We even had a little bit left over!

The Pie has some awesome graffiti done by its patrons! The walls are completely covered. 

Here we are at the entrance. It's an underground pizzeria which made it a little hard to find but not too bad. Reminded us of The Tomato [RIP] in Denton. 

If you're in SLC, you should definitely go to The Pie! It's great pizza, a fun atmosphere, very nice employees and reasonably priced!

-Little Wife Power House

prune baby

I originally learned about these through Cooking With My Kid. She used these while travelling. Holden really likes to do things for himself [at least try...] so I thought he would love these. I was right! Allan helped him with the first one we tried and he loved it. I wanted Holden to work on figuring it out for himself...how to hold it, how to get the food out, how hard to press the pouch to get the right amount. Might take him a while to figure out but eventually he'll get there. He got a little crazy so Allan stepped in and helped him at the end :) He probably got 3/4 of the pouch in his mouth so I would call that a success! [pictures are from our second try with the pouches]

Required: bath. 

BEFORE

AFTER

[a little booty shot. just a little! too cute.]

If you're interested in the brand, lemme know. I would put it in the post but it's downstairs and I'm lazy :) There are a few different brands though in the baby food aisle at Target. They're organic, too! Next week we'll be trying the mango pouches. I bet he'll love them just as much.

-Little Wife Power House

PS Holden is sitting up on his own now! With and without propping himself up. Proud Momma.