The Perfect ANYTIME Snack Blend

I enjoy making this yummy snack during Autumn. Makes a pretty table/counter display of Fall colors.

The perfect treat blend for my little grands for easy snacking at grandma’s. 

A little bit of salty and chocolate heaven!! 

Cheese Crackers 

Salted Peanuts

Cashews 

Pretzels

And a bit of sweet, makes a yummy blend:

Reese's Candy Bits

Caramel Corn

Honey-Nut Cheerios

Cocoa Puffs

M&M's -- I like lots of M&M's

Mix and add to clear jars or canisters for a pretty display! We all love this snack. 

Best Easiest Chicken Cheese Enchilada Soup

I created this easy chicken cheese enchilada soup a few years back. It has become a family favorite. 

2 cans Progresso Chicken Cheese Enchilada soup 

1 can rotel 

dice cooked chicken 

I like to add all the ingredients into a crockpot and simmer for a couple hours. Top with cheese and sour cream. Great to serve with grilled cheese sandwiches. 

 

Ravioli Lasagna

This easy lasagna is made with layers of fresh ravioli from HEB in place of traditional lasagna noodles. You’re going to love this cheesy ravioli lasagna bake. 

         

    

 

  

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Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 small onion diced
• 24 ounces marinara
• 3 cloves garlic minced
• 2 cups ricotta cheese
• 1 large egg
• ¼ cup Parmesan cheese
• ¼ cup chopped parsley
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon onion powder
• 25 ounces frozen cheese ravioli
• 2 cups shredded mozzarella
• minced parsley for garnish

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 13x9 baking dish with non-stick spray.
• Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add the ground beef and onion. Brown the beef, crumbling it as it cooks. Drain the grease from the pan.
• Add the marinara sauce and garlic and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often, over low heat.
• While sauce is simmering, mix ricotta, egg, Parmesan, parsley, garlic powder, and onion powder in a small bowl.
• Spoon 1/3 of the meat mixture into the prepared baking dish and spread across the bottom.
• Top with a single layer of ravioli, ½ of the ricotta mixture, and  1/3 of the sauce. Repeat the layers, ending in marinara sauce.
• Sprinkle the top with the shredded mozzarella. Cover tightly with foil and bake for 40 minutes. Remove cover and bake for 10 minutes more.
• Remove from the oven and sprinkle with minced parsley.
• Let set for 10 minutes before cutting and serving.

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At Olde Thymes Farm -- it's all about the fun! Miss Lulu never seems to be bothered by the baby goats. She continues on with her nap. 

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BEST Lunch Lady Peanut Butter Bars with Icing

This is the best PB Bars!! Your family will love it.

Preheat oven to 350

9x13 pan greased 1 cup melted butter

while warm add 1 1/2 cup Peanut butter

mix until melted

1 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 1/2 tsp Salt 1 T. Vanilla 4 eggs 2 cup All purpose flour

Add PB and butter mixture

Bake 30 minutes

Cool completely then frost

Icing 1 cup confectioners sugar 1/4 cup Peanut butter 2 to 3 TB Milk 1 tsp Vanilla

Easy Homemade Hand Sanitizer

Ingredients:

1 cup of 99% isopropyl alcohol
1 tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide
1 teaspoon of 98% glycerin
¼ cup, 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon of sterile distilled or boiled cold water

1. Pour the alcohol into a medium-sized container with a pouring spout.

2. Add the hydrogen peroxide.

3. Add the glycerin and stir. 

4. Measure and pour in the water.

5. Sanitize your spray bottles and pour in your hand sanitizer. 

6. Label your bottles.

Estimated ingredient cost: $10 (makes 4 cups)
Difficulty: easy

Spaghettini Spinach, Garlic with Lemon

1 lb spaghettini, angel hair or spaghetti pasta
6 tablespoons olive oil
8 garlic cloves, crushed or minced
zest of one lemon
juice of one lemon
10 oz bag of baby spinach
salt and pepper to taste

In a skillet heat, 6 tablespoons olive oil over medium low heat. Add garlic and cook for 10 to 12 minutes to gently cook the garlic. Add lemon zest and lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper.

Bring a large pot of well salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook according to package directions. Drain pasta well and transfer to a large bowl. Immediately add spinach and garlic lemon oil and toss everything together. Mound the pasta on a large platter and serve.

Serves 4-6

Serve with rotisserie chicken.

Homemade Lavender Laundry Soap

Olde Thymes Farm Lavender Laundry Detergent

Ingredients:
4 - 4 oz. bars of grated Castile Soap
1 - 78 oz. box of Borax
8 - 16 oz. boxes of baking soda
3 - TB Lavender Essential Oil

Directions:
Grate the soap using a cheese grater or food processor.
Once the soap is grated - place in a large plastic pail with the remaining ingredients and mix it all together. You now have your own homemade powder laundry detergent. Each load only takes 2 tablespoons of detergent.

Makes 288 loads of laundry.

Powerful Dawn Dish Soap Hacks

DAWN DISH SOAP is clearly one of the most effective and powerful dish-cleaning soap ever!! What’s even better? It is extremely gentle on the skin and does not cause any irritation and/or dryness. Plus, it has a great smell. But these alone are not the reasons which make Dawn the bestselling dish-washing soap in the market. 

Homemade Ice Pack

Fill a zip-lock bag about half full with Dawn and add a little water (not too much). Now, get rid of any extra air and freeze it. By adding dish soap to it won’t freeze completely. This will make your Ice pack flexible and joint-friendly.

Window Cleaner

One of the many uses of this popular Dawn Dish Soap is that it can be used as a window cleaner. This hack can be utilized by dropping 4 drops of dawn dish soap into one gallon of water. Fill a clean spray bottle with the solution. Spray and wipe the windows with the solution just as you would do with any other window cleaner.

Multi-Purpose Cleaner

Dawn dish soap can be used to clean almost anything in your house. Your bathroom tiles can be shiny and pretty just by using dawn dish soap on them. By dropping about two drops of dawn dish soap into sixteen ounces of water you will be able to clean your kitchen counters, baseboards, tubs, and toilet seats.

Bath Bubbles

Children always love to blow bubbles all over the place. On one particular day, the kids might get bored with nothing to do. To keep them occupied, go for your dawn dish soap and mix together 1 tablespoon glycerin, 1/2 cup dawn dish soap, and 1 gallon of water. Using warm water will give better bubbles than cold water. So as not to break down the bubbles skim the foam of the top of the solution. Now the kids will have great fun by just dipping their wands and blow away.

Greasy Hair

Kids will always and will ever get their hair in a terrible mess with all sorts of dirty greasy stuff. Your dawn dish soap is on the job again. This dish soap is so mild that it can be used on hair without damaging it. Yet it is strong enough to remove all those grease and grime from your kid’s hair.

Hair Product Build-up

Once every month (twice if you use hair products quite heavily) instead of using your usual shampoo use Dawn. This will help you in getting rid of all that chemical build up in your hair which is caused by a variety of hair styling products.

Bathing Dogs

This is a hack that most people don’t know about, but I’m going to let you into it. To keep away fleas off your precious pet, you may drop just one teaspoon of dawn dish soap in your pet’s bath. This will help to avoid fleas from invading your precious pet’s body.

Insect Repellent

Is it really possible for dish soap to be used as an insect repellent.? Dawn dish soap can be used for so many things. It would really sound impossible, but yes it can be used to kill and repel those bothersome ants in the kitchen. 

All you need to do is mix about two teaspoons of dawn, with diluted hydrogen peroxide into a spray bottle. After spraying those bothersome ants, leave it on for about 15 minutes, and then wipe, with a damp cloth.

Carpet Stain Remover

This hack about using Dawn Dish Soap to remove carpet stains might sound a little weird. But Dawn dish soap can solve some of the weirdest problems in your home. 

To get the stains off your carpet, mix the blue color dawn dish soap with some hydrogen peroxide and pour it into a spray bottle. Spray the mixture unto the stains and leave for a while. You will be shocked at the result, for all the stains are nowhere to be found.

Jewelry Cleaner

Believe it or not, Dawn dish soap may be used to clean your jewelry and make them looking brand new again. It is very gentle on jewelry and won’t damage them.
Mix 1 quart of hot water with a squirt of Mr. Clean and a squirt of Dawn dish soap. Dip an old toothbrush in the mixture and gently scrub your jewelry until it is looking brand new again.

De-Grease Tools

Automotive tools tend to get really dirty and greasy. You may use this same dawn dish soap to give your tools a good cleaning. In a bucket with warm water, pour a small amount of dawn into. Place your tools in the bucket and leave for about 30 minutes. You may then rinse and dry them well to prevent them from rusting again.

Sponge Cleaner

There are many ways you may clean your makeup sponges. Using dawn dish soap with a small amount of coconut oil can be very effective and also very unique. 

In a small bowl, mix some liquified coconut oil with a small amount of dawn dish soap, place the bowl in the freezer, and leave to freeze. Once frozen, take your sponges and swirl them on top of the frozen soap. This will help to remove all the makeup from the sponges.

Weed Killer

Dawn Dish Soap may also be used as a weed killer. Isn’t that very interesting.? In case you have some very stubborn weeds giving you problems in your garden, you don’t need to worry. Using dawn dish soap will quickly solve the problem.

Mix together 1/2 cup salt, 2 quarts white vinegar, and 1 teaspoon dawn dish soap. Spray the mixture directly onto the unneeded plant. Be very careful not to make the mixture go on plants that you don’t want to get rid of.

Unclog Toilets

Whenever the situation arises that your toilet gets clogged, you won’t have to get an expensive de-clogger. Pour a cup of dawn dish soap into the toilet bowl and let it sit there for about 15 minutes.

Hold a bucket of hot water a few feet above the toilet seat and pour it into the toilet bowl. This tip should surely do the trick.

Eye Glasses Cleaner

If you happen to wear glasses, by now you should know that they can be one of the hardest things to keep clean. So to keep your glasses from getting too foggy that you can’t see properly our of it, just use some dawn dish soap.

With a clean cloth rub a small amount of dawn dish soap onto the glasses, and wipe it clean with a microfiber cloth. Never use rough fabrics or paper towels to clean your glasses. These items might scratch your glasses, thus making the situation worse.

Grill Cleaner

Cleaning your grill to get off all those grease and grime is not a pretty job. Here is an easy way, which won’t cost you a lot of money to buy chemicals to clean your grill. In a big garbage bag, put about a gallon of water and 1 cup of dawn dish soap into it. 

Place your cooled greasy grill racks into it and sealed tight. Leave overnight, and the next morning, use a wire brush to scrub your grill down. Give the grill racks a thorough rinse, and they will be so clean again.

Shower Cleaner

To make it easier for everyone in your family to clean the shower after use, its best to make an after shower cleaner. In a large spray bottle pour 1 cup white vinegar and 1 cup dawn dish soap. Then slowly fill the spray bottle with water. Pour the water slowly so as not to make a lot of bubbles. 

Make sure that the dawn is all mixed out and not sitting at the bottom. After each member takes a shower they can just spray the mixture on the wet shower walls. No need to rinse for the vinegar will cut the mineral deposits and the dawn will clean the soap scums.

Concrete De-Icer

Everyone who lives in snowy countries always believes that to de-ice their driveway they have to use ice. There is a safer way of de-icing, and also your driveway will keep from refreezing. 

In a bucket, pour a gallon of water, 4 tablespoons of rubbing alcohol and 4 tablespoons of dawn dish soap. Mix thoroughly and pour the mixture over the frozen concrete driveway. This method is much better for your concrete than using the salt.

Outdoor Furniture Cleaner

By keeping your outdoor furniture outside at all times, they will eventually start looking dirty, especially if they are made from plastic. All you have to do to get them clean again is to wash them down with the help of dawn dish soap.

Mix a few squeezes of dawn dish soap into some water and give them a good wash. After washing rinse your furniture with clean warm water and leave to air dry.

Window Cleaner

Having a bottle of dawn dish soap in your home at all times will surely make your life much easier. You can make your own window cleaner by just using it. 1 tsp of vinegar, 2 tsp of dawn dish soap and 1 quart of warm water. Mix these ingredients together.

Soak a clean cloth in the mixture and wipe your windows with it. After wiping, immediately dry the windows with a dry microfiber cloth. By using the vinegar and the dawn your windows will be left streak-free.

Homemade Cajun Seasoning Mix

Making your own Seasoning Mixes are easy to make and you get to control the SALT intake!! 

They make great gifts for Christmas. Package them in pretty little jars with a ribbon, a list of ingredients and lots of love.  

INGREDIENTS
1 tbsp onion powder
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 tbsp dried oregano
1 tbsp dried basil
1/2 tbsp dried thyme
1/2 tbsp black pepper
3 tbsp sweet paprika
1/4-1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp celery salt
1 tbsp salt

DIRECTIONS

Mix together well.

Pour into a small jar and attach with a ribbon a gift card.
Use Cajun Seasoning Mix with Chicken, Pork, Seafood, Steak and Veggies.

Loaded Cauliflower Broccoli Casserole

Loaded Cauliflower Broccoli Casserole

This keto friendly cauliflower broccoli casserole is the perfect side dish to have on the dinner table. Loaded with bacon, cheddar cheese, and sour cream you won't even miss the potatoes in this dish! ## CLICK TO SEE FULL RECIPES ##| Keto | Ketogenic Diet | Keto Recipes | Keto Dinner Recipes | Keto Snacks | Keto Breakfast | Keto Diet Meal Plan | Keto Diet For Beginner | Keto Recipes Easy | Keto Recipes Dinner | Keto Recipes For Beginner | Keto Recipes Ketogenic | Keto Recipes Breakfast | #thefreshrecipes

Yield: 1 Servings

Ingredients:
8 slices of bacon, fried crispy
½ large head cauliflower, cut into florets
½ large head broccoli, cut into florets
½ cup sour cream
½ cup mayonnaise

Instructions:

First step is Preheat oven to 370 degrees.

And then, Fry the bacon in a large skillet until crispy and crumble. Set aside.

Thanks Evi for this Recipe:  http://www.evseats.com/cauliflower-broccoli-casserole/

ORGANIZED MORNING!! Bulk Meal Breakfast Pancakes, Oatmeal & Storage

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This recipe is not only easy but absolutely delicious!! 

PINEAPPLE SUNSHINE CAKE

Ingredients
Cake:

1. 1 box yellow cake mix
2. 4 eggs
3. 1/2 cup oil (I used vegetable oil)
4. 1 (8 oz) can crushed pineapple with juice

Frosting:

1. 1 (8 oz) container whipped topping, thawed
2. 1 small box instant vanilla pudding
3. 1 (8 oz) can crushed pineapple with juice

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13 pan with cooking spray.
2. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, eggs, oil, and 1 can of crushed pineapple with the juice. Mix well.
3. Pour into prepared baking pan and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
4. In a medium sized bowl, fold together whipped topping, box of vanilla pudding, and 1 can crushed pineapple with the juice. Spread over the top of cooled cake. Enjoy!

credit for this recipe:
 http://freerecipefoods.blogspot.com/2019/05/pineapple-sunshine-cake.html