Fill the Crockpot to the Top Day

What happens when you have a lot of veggies that need to be used up?
Sunday dinner!

Reminiscent of Fill The Stockpot to the Top Day that we used to celebrate by making a huge batch of taco soup for National Corn Chip Day in January, we celebrated National Idaho Day on May 17.
You can't see them in the pictures but the Idaho red potatoes are on the bottom covered in veggies such as onions, celery, carrots, and broccoli along with chicken tenders and topped with a can of cream of chicken soup mixed with a can of water and packet of onion soup mix poured over the top.
There, now you can make your own Sunday dinner in the crockpot with those potatoes and veggies that need to be used up. And if you fill it like we did, you'll have leftovers for days.

Eat Your Jello Day 2015

July 12 is Eat Your Jello Day.
I hadn't been watching the calendar (I've been busy) so I didn't realize it was Eat Your Jello Day today until after church when I was trying to decide what to fix to go along with our crockpot dinner.  I didn't even know if we had any jello.  But I looked at the top of the pantry and saw that we did indeed have a couple packages of jello.  Hooray!
So I mixed one up and stuck it in the fridge and told the kids they had to wait four hours.  They did. 
Then it was time to "Eat your jello."  This is how it was eaten:

World Vegetarian Day 2014

October 1st is World Vegetarian Day.  I assured the children that eating vegetarian doesn't mean eating vegetarians.  It just means the food has no meat in it.

I think Nichole's look says it all.

Although Jr.'s is pretty good, too.

I knew it was going to be a busy day today so I planned ahead.  I found a beans and rice recipe to put in the slow cooker so we didn't have to eat meat on World Vegetarian Day.  I wanted to use some of those beans and canned tomatoes from the pantry and I wanted to leave some of that chicken in the freezer.

Jeremy and I enjoyed it.  They boys ate some, too.  And Nichole tried some.  You would think she'd be more enthusiastic about helping celebrate the holiday.
Oh well.  At least Jr. looks enthusiastic in that first picture.