Useful Websites

Boy!  I have not posted anything about two months!  I try to update at least once a week from now on. 

I would like to post a few useful websites:

Calorie Count
I modify baking recipes A LOT to reduce the amount of sugar and fat.  I use this web site to find out how much calories I was able to reduce. 

The tool I use is called "Recipe Analyzer."

Once a Month Mom
I found this website recently.  I have quite a few freezer friendly recipes already, yet this site offers more than recipes!  I haven't fully utilize this website yet.  I'm hoping to add more freezable recipes to my recipe collections.

Meal Planning: 40 Recipes for Shredded Chicken
We buy chicken already frozen.  This is something I would like to try. 

King Arthur Flour
For baking recipes, this web site is my go to site.  I found most of the treats recipes are way to sweet for my taste.  I cut sugar by 1/2 at least. 

Preparing ahead...

This week is going to be busy! 

As soon as I come from grocery shopping, I wash and prepare packable fruits and veggies such as grapes and celery. 

I recently purchased these BPA free plastic lunch boxes (set of four on the right) from Amazon.  There are three compartments.  I filled the smaller compartments with cut fruits and veggies.  I can pull the frozen sandwich in the morning to put in the main compartment, or fill with something else.  I hope this will save me several minutes in the morning this week.  



Freezing Nutbutter and Honey Sandwich

We don't buy bread from store for a few reasons: 1) cheaper to make than buy, 2) no yucky stuff in the bread, and 3) who doesn't like to eat the freshly baked bread?

I'll post my bread making process at another time. 

I bake two loaves of sandwich bread at once and freeze one loaf.  I read the other day that you can freeze peanut butter sandwich!  We like peanut butter and honey sandwich.  Some web posts say that honey gets crystallized when frozen.  Hmmm...  When not sure, test it out!

Here are my loaves of bread.  I mixed all purpose flour and white whole wheat flour this time. 

I decided to use my almond butter this time. 







Assembly line.

Mmm...

Ready to go into the freezer.

I was not sure how the texture of honey would turn out when thawed.  Therefore, I only made three sandwiches. 

Sandwich was at least frozen eight hours before taking it out from the freezer.  I took the frozen sandwich to work today for part of my lunch.  I could not tell it was frozen!  Honey was a tiny bit grainy, yet it did not bother me.  This will save tons of time for prepping lunch in the morning.