Kroger Skillet Meals

As most of my friends know I am all about deals and saving money. I also love to cook, well most of the time. This time of year I can start feeling overwhelmed and finding the time to cook can be hard. thanks to BzzAgent and Kroger I was able to get a meal for 5 on the table in 10 minutes! Yes you read that right, 10 minutes!!

They let me try out a Kroger skillet meal, Kroger frozen garlic bread and a Kroger salad kit. I picked the Penne with Grilled Chicken Skillet meal. I was shocked at how fast it was ready and how great it tasted! I am NOT a fan of frozen meals, but I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Makes me want to try out all the Kroger Skillet Meals! My husband even said we should keep the freezer stocked with them for nights we just don't have the time or just don't feel like cooking.

The Galic bread was good. I was surprised at how well it was for a store brand. Kroger brands just keep surprising me. I LOVE garlic and LOVE LOVE LOVE garlic bread so I am pretty picky when it comes to it. I have to say from now on it is the Kroger brand garlic bread I will be buying.

I have honestly never bought a salad kit before. I have bought bagged salads just not the full kit. I picked up the Cesar Salad one and it was great! The lettuce was fresh and crispy, the dresses tasted great and the croutons were crunchy, just like I like them. It much easier having all the items together like that and just tossing them all in a bowl. The Salad kits will be added to my grocery shopping trip from now on.

Here is a picture of our yummy meal tonight!

Thanks again to BzzAgent and Kroger for giving me the chance to try these items for free and for showing me an easy but tasteful way to feed my family when I need something quick and easy!

Fair Trade Coffee

I LOVE coffee, and I mean I REALLY LOVE coffee! I usually drink 3 or more cups a day of it. You don't want to come near me if I haven't had my coffee yet, lol. Even my husband knows this, he now wakes me up in the morning with a cup of coffee in his hand for me. Yes I know I have the best husband ever :)

I have never really thought about where my coffee comes from. I usually just enjoy the taste and that little bit of energy I get from it. All that changed with the BzzAgent Fair Trade campaign. Thank to it and Kelly Clarkson I now know all about the Fair Trade Coffee and will only be buying it. Go to this link, Choosefairtrade.com, to learn all about it. If you are like me you will be surprised about what you learn.

Thanks BzzAgent for teaching me about this and for the free fair trade certified kcups from Green Mountain Coffee.

Postive

I have been trying to stay positive but some days it is just hard. I try to remind myself that we have a roof over our heads, food on our table, and are alive and healthy. I am thankful for these things but some days I want more. I want friends. I want a life. I want to be more than a high school drop out stay at home mom. I just don't know where to start.

Most days I am lucky to just get out of my pajama's. Heck if I am honest on rare occasions I am just lucky to get out of bed. I was talking with Dwayne yesterday morning and realized I have no idea what I want to be when I "grow" up.

When I was younger I wanted to be a teacher, but those dreams have long gone. I thought about being a nurse but it just doesn't feel right. Then I thought about being a Doula since the reason I wanted to go into nursing was to work in labor and delivery. But Doula's are more about natural child birth and breast feeding. Which I have nothing against but I also have nothing against an epidural or formula feeding. I have thought about jobs that work with grieving parents but not sure what those would be. I know I want to go into a field to that works with and helps people, just haven't figured out what field that is yet.

I just feel lost. When Dwayne was in the Army my job was taking care of the kids, the house and supporting him in his career. And even though I am still doing the same thing now, in a sense, it just feels so different. I think a lot of it has to do with not having friends. In the Army lifestyle it was easier to find other wives to be friends with. Ones who were also SAHM's. I just miss my friends so much. This move has been the hardest of them all. I think this time it being our choice has made it harder. Before the Army told us when and where we were moving, we didn't have much of a say in it. This time we chose to leave our friends behind.

There have been a few times since our move that I question if we did the right thing. I remind myself of why we did it, but when I am sitting home day after day with no other social interaction besides my kids and husband it gets easy to start questioning myself. There were two main reasons we moved out here and I am having a hard time figuring out how to go about doing those things.

This change from Army life to civilian life has been hard. Hard on us financially, emotionally and even hard on our marriage at times. It has been scary and uncertain, and I am not good with uncertainty. I am a control freak so I admit it is hard to just put this all in God's hands and trust him. I am trying. I pray that I can get comfortable doing that and learn to trust that he brought us here for a reason and not stress over things so much. My heart knows this is true, it is my mind I have to convince.