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 Vegetables

So many things to celebrate.  So little motivation to blog.  So many excuses: I'm tired.  I have to blog about this before I can blog about that.  I'm so far behind, how will I catch up?  There are so many other things to do.  It's past midnight already; it's not even the same day.  The computer's being used.  I just don't want to right now.
Oh well.
June 17 is Eat Your Vegetables Day.  We had a salad bar for dinner.  So many vegetables.  It was lovely.  It's definitely salad weather.  Yeah.

And the kids helped make dinner- peeling eggs, grating cheese, setting the table.  Great job, kids.  It was so much help.

So there.  I blogged.  The End.

Eat Your Vegetables, Kids

So yesterday was Fresh Veggies Day and today, June 17, was Eat Your Vegetables Day.
I may have picky eaters (and picky about different things), but they all like salad.  Well maybe not the youngest.  But he'll eat salad toppings.  He had cheese and onions and croutons and dressing and several other things.

Dinner success tonight.

Captain Orange Veggies Fudge

June 16.
Captain Picard Day.  We didn't watch any Star Trek, but Jeremy and I joked about telling the kids to "make it so" when they wanted to help with things.

National Fudge Day.  The kids did help me make fudge.  The recipe came from the June/July 2015 issue of FamilyFun Magazine.  Creamsicle Fudge.  Yum.  Oh, and I just realized something.  The recipe says to refrigerate the fudge for the final time before eating it.  I put it in the freezer.  Maybe that's why the pieces came out of the pan like this.

Oh well.  I just put the rest of it in the fridge and maybe it will be easier to get out in the morning.  Still tastes great, though.  Also, the recipe says to take it all out of the pan before cutting it into pieces and I only wanted to take a few pieces out for pictures.  That's fine, though.

No Orange Clothes Day.  None of us wore orange clothes.  Although 3 of us wore red shirts, which is more of a nod to the classic Star Trek series than Next Generation.

Fresh Veggies Day.  I made sure we had fresh carrot sticks and celery sticks to go with dinner.

Eat Your Jello Day 2014

After a nice afternoon racing veggie cars,

it's nice to be able to celebrate Eat Your Jello Day, July 12, by... eating Jell-o.

And it's nice to remember to start the jello early enough that it's ready by dinner.

Thursday

A little less crankiness on Thursday.  Still some.  One of the best moments, though:

Jr. Jr.:  Can I have some more cauliflower?

That is definitely something I want to hear from my picky eaters.  None of the kids complained about their vegetables at dinner.

The kids had a nice moment of reading together as I was making dinner, too.

Jr. Jr. and I were still both tired that day so we didn't get as much done as I would have liked.  This time I dozed on the couch while he watched a movie.  Oh well.