We have a corgi that will literally worship whoever is in the kitchen. If he see’s me or my fiancé even heading that direction, “Ave Maria” starts playing in his little doggy brain and he comes clickety clacking into the kitchen. On the bright side, the kitchen floor does get cleaned regularly.
My daughter is allergic to sugar and I find keto recipes are about the only thing she can eat, however, it is very very expensive. This means no prepackaged anything. Even the packages that say they have no sugar will have things like corn syrup in it. Even seasoning spices have sugar in it (especially the club house taco mix). So thank you for the budget friendly keto ideas.
lol I love your style. I appreciate the channels that neatly pre-portion every spice.. but I just eyeball and throw shtuff all together when I'm cooking, so it's fun to see someone who cooks like me! new subscriber. :)
As a kid my mom would give us “peanut butter spoons” for snacks or for dessert, but I remember taking full jars and just going to town. I’ve always loved peanut butter. To this day I love a spoonful of peanut butter as a snack. I try to be a bit more creative and dunk apple or banana in it but really all I want is the jar and a spoon haha.
I've become super addicted of late, and I try different combos with peanut butter every day, and you kknow what one I recently tried and am surprised it's just sooo goooood? Peanut butter and Nutella on the same sandwich lol yummoooooo, they combine SO WELL
Try a spoon of peanut butter with some Nutella. I thought pb by itself was the bomb but oh my goodness the Nutella takes it to a whole different level. Haha.
Munkastrap4 Ooh I love Nutella too! I used to make Nutella and peanut butter sandwiches as a teenager but my heart belongs to banana and peanut butter sandwiches now! Haha
One of the easiest ways to cut the big squashes, Gourds and melons is to clean out your sink. Place the produce in the sink and proceed to cut. You have better control of the food and the process overall.
@@FrugalFitMom We were gifted an instantpot earlier this year, because I cook so much. But so far the only thing I have made with it has been a delicious heart soup and some beans. I LOVE that the spaghetti squash came out so well in this video. I will add that to my options. Love your videos.
I recently got a pampered chef pressure cooker, and I have spaghetti squash on the menu coming up.... I never even thought to try it in the pressure cooker!
Love the insta pot spaghetti squash idea!!! I use spaghetti squash so many ways ....sauteed with butter & pancake syrup. .open boat with black beans, shredded cheese & salsa .....with feta & shredded chicken.....yum yum...could go on forever. I so enjoy your energy & videos.
Love your humor! Yes! Our almost 3 year old puts his hands in the peanut butter and Nutella jars. He also goes into the refrigerator and sucks on the syrup and ranch bottles!
You talk like me, haha. 🤣😅 I reverse words and the other day hubby asked if I was having a stroke. Nope, my brain just works double the speed of my mouth so words get discombobulated. 😁😏
My husband gave me the best tip of cutting onions straight down and up. Now I don't cry when I cut onions. 😁 Also, I absolutely love all the movie quotes!
Hi Christine I’m catching up on ur hundreds of videos. If the onion is strong light a candle , no more tears. Thanks again for your amazing channel. LV. NewJersey 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Christine can I say that I absolutely love you!!! I have been watching you for months and I just wish I had you as a friend! You are literally my spirit animal!
I'm always thrilled for you when you nail sponsored vids!!! Especially meal delivery kits, cuz helllooo, family of six and you rarely go out to eat, which I totally respect cuz neither do we for lots of reasons -- including pre-Covid.
I cut raw spaghetti squashes with a big cleaver and use a rolling pin as a mallet. Pro tip - if your wife is a baker, don't use her good rolling pin or you will be buying her a new one 😁
You my dear are a great way to start my day. The humor is on point. I love your videos from the topic to the presentation. Definitely trying the chicken with the cream cheese. Be blessed keep the videos coming.
Try a heavy serrated edge, like a bread knife, and slowly saw it. It's easier. Or a knife and technique you use for watermelon. You could also microwave it briefly to make it softer. Chilled onions are easier on the eyes, although the fridge isn't ideal for longterm storage.
If you give your squash a stab with a knife and stick it into your microwave for about 12 minutes let is cool, it is easy to slice and remove the seeds, at this point its ready to eat, if you like it a little brown put it into the oven for a little bit.
On cutting onions: I sometimes prep a kilo or two of onions, so I really have tested tricks to avoid crying. The best one is ventilation - open up windows and set a fan blowing across the cutting board. When you have already started crying, what I do is I wash my hands, wash my face and blow my nose. That seems to lead to a faster recovery. On a long cutting session, I end up using both. I hope it helps.
Technically I don’t think that is considered butterflying since you cut all the way through. I think when you butterfly it, you have to leave a hinge...like a book. You are just cutting them in half.
Keep your onions in the fridge until you're ready to cut them and also don't cut off the root end! That is what makes you cry. Just do one clean slice through the middle(cutting through both ends of the onion) and keep the root end intact while you chop from the other side. I promise you'll see a huge difference.
You may have already done a kitchen organization video I don't know of, but can you show where you store your kitchen appliances? (Bosch mixer, 2 instant pots, blender, etc.)
Oh my word...... those peanut butter bars are already in my fridge and the chicken parmesan has replaced an item on this week's menu 🙂🙂 thank you for some great ideas
Not to take away from Christine.... but I found a great Keto Big Mac salad that is yummy. That low carb life.com. Total yum. I didn’t have the sugar free ketchup. The sauce is bomb! This is the second keto Big Mac recipe I’ve tried and I don’t need to try any others. Amazing!
I came across one of your videos on my recommendations page. I watched it and I became HOOKED!!!! I have been binge watching all your vids for the past 2 days. 😅 I am in love! You inspired me to try and use up what I have in my freezer/pantry and not going and buying more of the same stuff I already have!! Also, I think it’s funny that you are from TX and moved to ID; I am from ID and now live in the “fabulous” oil fields of West Texas 😂
My mom only ever bought measuring cup sets that included 2/3 and 3/4 and I remember being appalled when I moved out and had to search everywhere to find my own set.
I grew tomatoes and peppers from seeds I saved from store bought produce (regular, not organic produce) and they turned out great. Save the seeds from your tomatoes, dry them out on a paper towel and then put the paper towel in an envelope (the seeds will be stuck to it) and you will have seeds for next year.
I love spaghetti squash I eat it with chicken and pesto, tomato sauce and hamburger, and I put it in the blender with a few dates and coconut and coconut milk and a few drops of stevia and heat it like a mush for breakfast it’s warm and good!
I noticed it was called Togarashi shrimp. So the seasoning was probably Togarashi, which is a spice blend of Japanese chili peppers, ginger, and seaweed. You can buy it on Amazon. I cant usually find specialty ingredients at my local store.
Tip to EASILY cut a spaghetti squash..... use a paring knife and do tiny cuts all the way around in the line for the big knife. Sooooo much easier. Not really sure why its so much easier. But it is.
Haha I love it... my words have been all jumbled this week too lol and yes the low carb desserts are pricey.... I try to keep the desserts to about once a month... like during “that special time “ of the month 🤪😂
Last year i did end up with a volunteer tomato growing out of one of the holes in my compost bin. It floweres but no fruit. Also, i just binges the entire series so your valley tournament 1984 tee shirt made my day
OMG I was fearing for your fingers! 😱 The cooking show America’s Test Kitchen recommended using a RUBBER mallet to “hammer” the knife through hard to cut squashes, thereby saving the cook a trip to the ER lol ❤️
If the stem of the squash had been broken off, it likely would have fit. Sometimes I put squash in a garbage bag and drop it on the garage floor! Works great with blue Hubbard squash!
Another video for me! We recently took a lot of financial hits and it's been super hard to get back to liking saving instead of feeling restricted. You are helping me so so much. My husband and I have both done significant weight-loss on locarb and intermittent fasting. He's actually gone down from 500 to 200lbs we both were diagnosed w diabetes at 29 and were just starting our family. We decided not to restrict our money while changing our lifestyle now I'm working down to a set budget amount starting Aug 1 ! Shopping in my pantry has been a great tip for me. Omg I have so much I didn't even realize I wasn't using!
Wash it, pierce the skin and put it on a roasting dish in the oven with a little oil rubbed over it for about an hour or so or until soft, I do this with butternut squash and it’s lovely
Daikon radish makes an AHHHH.AZZING potato like substitute! Have made potato salad and zuppa toscana and creamy cheesy "hashbrown" casserole with it! Allllll kid approved
Love your videos, found your channel this week. Peanut butter is the best snack, I've caught all of my kids with fingers in the pb jar, now it's the grandkids. Lol
The only thing I don’t like about these meal kits is the environmental impact it has/leaves. There is just too much package that isn’t recyclable, and even if it was, it would probably never make it there. Also, just the gas and emissions it leaves while transporting.
This video put me in a fantastic mood !!!! Fyi .. I won one of your meal box contests but couldn't use it cause alas I am in canada and it was a US box only xo just in case u wanted to gift it to someone else. Xo love ya lady xo
If you lay a dishtowel down (folded a couple times) under your spaghetti squash, it doesn't roll around as much as you cut. You can worry about cutting a finger off a little bit less 😉😂
Well hello Christine I was making my grocery list to include low carb dinners and you pop up yay thank you!!!! And Aldi has spaghetti squash for .69/lb this week!
We have a corgi that will literally worship whoever is in the kitchen. If he see’s me or my fiancé even heading that direction, “Ave Maria” starts playing in his little doggy brain and he comes clickety clacking into the kitchen. On the bright side, the kitchen floor does get cleaned regularly.
Samantha Neal I had a corgi growing up...I know EXACTLY what you are speaking of lol. Corgis are just THE BEST dogs lol🐶
Nope, You are definitely not alone. I love to see a pan full of colorful veggies. Makes me sooooo happy and hungry!
My daughter is allergic to sugar and I find keto recipes are about the only thing she can eat, however, it is very very expensive. This means no prepackaged anything. Even the packages that say they have no sugar will have things like corn syrup in it. Even seasoning spices have sugar in it (especially the club house taco mix). So thank you for the budget friendly keto ideas.
Its only expensive if you make it that way! Meat and veggies without all the junk in the middle of the store is sooooo much less to have to buy!
"I mean I'm not going to measure out my things 2 times like a savage"
Uses 1/4 cup 2 times to get half a cup 😂😂😂
I love your videos!
I will use the 1/4 cup multiple times before having to dirty up extra dishes!!
Savage is a slur against first nations people, I wish people would stop using it.
lol I love your style. I appreciate the channels that neatly pre-portion every spice.. but I just eyeball and throw shtuff all together when I'm cooking, so it's fun to see someone who cooks like me! new subscriber. :)
As a kid my mom would give us “peanut butter spoons” for snacks or for dessert, but I remember taking full jars and just going to town. I’ve always loved peanut butter. To this day I love a spoonful of peanut butter as a snack. I try to be a bit more creative and dunk apple or banana in it but really all I want is the jar and a spoon haha.
I've become super addicted of late, and I try different combos with peanut butter every day, and you kknow what one I recently tried and am surprised it's just sooo goooood?
Peanut butter and Nutella on the same sandwich lol yummoooooo, they combine SO WELL
A spoon of peanut butter is the perfect snack. But a spoon of peanut butter covered in mini M&M’s is the perfect desert!
Try a spoon of peanut butter with some Nutella. I thought pb by itself was the bomb but oh my goodness the Nutella takes it to a whole different level. Haha.
Munkastrap4 Ooh I love Nutella too! I used to make Nutella and peanut butter sandwiches as a teenager but my heart belongs to banana and peanut butter sandwiches now! Haha
Cheri Ellis mmmm I don’t have mini m&ms but I do have raisinets. You have inspired me!
Christine have you tried PEANUT BUTTER BREAD??
2C ap flour
1/4C sugar
4tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1-1/3C milk
1/2C peanut butter
Mix dry ingredients
Mix in milk
Mix in peanut butter
Grease loaf pan
Bake 1 hr @ 325
One of the easiest ways to cut the big squashes, Gourds and melons is to clean out your sink. Place the produce in the sink and proceed to cut. You have better control of the food and the process overall.
Cutting the end off that spaghetti squash had me laughing out loud! 🤣
spaghetti squash in the instapot is life changing
I hope to change the world with this message ;)
@@FrugalFitMom We were gifted an instantpot earlier this year, because I cook so much. But so far the only thing I have made with it has been a delicious heart soup and some beans. I LOVE that the spaghetti squash came out so well in this video. I will add that to my options. Love your videos.
I just bought a instant pot. Looking forward to doing this!!!
I recently got a pampered chef pressure cooker, and I have spaghetti squash on the menu coming up.... I never even thought to try it in the pressure cooker!
@@FrugalFitMom too bad lizzie bordens not alive she could help you out with that...that squash is a BEAST....
The onion trick - shove them in the freezer for about 15 - 20 minutes after peeling them while you prep your other veg. It will change your life.
this Video thumbnail should have been published on Halloween 🎃
Love the insta pot spaghetti squash idea!!! I use spaghetti squash so many ways ....sauteed with butter & pancake syrup. .open boat with black beans, shredded cheese & salsa .....with feta & shredded chicken.....yum yum...could go on forever. I so enjoy your energy & videos.
Love your humor! Yes! Our almost 3 year old puts his hands in the peanut butter and Nutella jars. He also goes into the refrigerator and sucks on the syrup and ranch bottles!
A cleaver that you hit with a mallet helps on hard squash.
2 ounces butter is 1/2 a cube or 4 tablespoons.
You talk like me, haha. 🤣😅
I reverse words and the other day hubby asked if I was having a stroke.
Nope, my brain just works double the speed of my mouth so words get discombobulated. 😁😏
mamalisachele lol , sounds like my hubby!
My husband gave me the best tip of cutting onions straight down and up. Now I don't cry when I cut onions. 😁 Also, I absolutely love all the movie quotes!
I am so glad to hear that my kid wasn't the only one caught eating peanut butter straight from the jar.
Hi Christine I’m catching up on ur hundreds of videos. If the onion is strong light a candle , no more tears. Thanks again for your amazing channel. LV. NewJersey 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Christine can I say that I absolutely love you!!! I have been watching you for months and I just wish I had you as a friend! You are literally my spirit animal!
"ANCESTORS GUIDE ME"
I am deceased! 🤣🤣🤣
Spaghetti Squash Air Fryer 4 minutes each side of circle slices!!! With seasoning of course
I'm always thrilled for you when you nail sponsored vids!!! Especially meal delivery kits, cuz helllooo, family of six and you rarely go out to eat, which I totally respect cuz neither do we for lots of reasons -- including pre-Covid.
I cut raw spaghetti squashes with a big cleaver and use a rolling pin as a mallet. Pro tip - if your wife is a baker, don't use her good rolling pin or you will be buying her a new one 😁
You my dear are a great way to start my day. The humor is on point. I love your videos from the topic to the presentation. Definitely trying the chicken with the cream cheese. Be blessed keep the videos coming.
Try a heavy serrated edge, like a bread knife, and slowly saw it. It's easier. Or a knife and technique you use for watermelon.
You could also microwave it briefly to make it softer.
Chilled onions are easier on the eyes, although the fridge isn't ideal for longterm storage.
100% honest I wear goggles when I cut onions and I do mine in the food processor which also helps.
You can take your sugar/sweetener and food processor and make powdered sugar instead of buying it separate.
If you give your squash a stab with a knife and stick it into your microwave for about 12 minutes let is cool, it is easy to slice and remove the seeds, at this point its ready to eat, if you like it a little brown put it into the oven for a little bit.
tip for cutting spaghetti squash! make a dotted line with the knife first and then go for the chop(: makes life way easier
Great tip!
You just changed my world with the Spaghetti Squash!!🤯🤯🤯
If you arnt low carb the broccoli and chicken is great with potatos. Also freezes well.
The seeds are great roasted like pumpkin seeds.
I use Mrs Dash Chipotle seasoning on mine.
On cutting onions: I sometimes prep a kilo or two of onions, so I really have tested tricks to avoid crying. The best one is ventilation - open up windows and set a fan blowing across the cutting board. When you have already started crying, what I do is I wash my hands, wash my face and blow my nose. That seems to lead to a faster recovery. On a long cutting session, I end up using both. I hope it helps.
Technically I don’t think that is considered butterflying since you cut all the way through. I think when you butterfly it, you have to leave a hinge...like a book. You are just cutting them in half.
Keep your onions in the fridge until you're ready to cut them and also don't cut off the root end! That is what makes you cry. Just do one clean slice through the middle(cutting through both ends of the onion) and keep the root end intact while you chop from the other side. I promise you'll see a huge difference.
I can’t stop laughing at “Ancestors! Guide me!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You need one of those yellow pampered chef squishy measuring cup things for like pb/molasses, anything thick and/or sticky, they're awesome!
Lol. I love love watching your videos! You crack me up and inspire me at the same time! Thank you for sharing!
You may have already done a kitchen organization video I don't know of, but can you show where you store your kitchen appliances? (Bosch mixer, 2 instant pots, blender, etc.)
My 3 kids would sit on the couch, each with a spoon, my daughter in the middle holding the peanut butter jar. Delicious!!
Oh my word...... those peanut butter bars are already in my fridge and the chicken parmesan has replaced an item on this week's menu 🙂🙂 thank you for some great ideas
Christine: I do not recommend this. please do not do this at home.
Me: *clicks like
😂
I’ve spent the past few days looking for low carb family meals so this is perfect!!
Not to take away from Christine.... but I found a great Keto Big Mac salad that is yummy. That low carb life.com. Total yum. I didn’t have the sugar free ketchup. The sauce is bomb! This is the second keto Big Mac recipe I’ve tried and I don’t need to try any others. Amazing!
LMAO "Fork it with a fork" best line ever!!
Sgaghetti squash. Poke it a bunch of times with the knife, then throw in the microwave for 3 minutes and you can cut it way easier.
Diacon Radish is a staple in Asian Eating. I love pickled Diacon salad.
I came across one of your videos on my recommendations page. I watched it and I became HOOKED!!!! I have been binge watching all your vids for the past 2 days. 😅 I am in love! You inspired me to try and use up what I have in my freezer/pantry and not going and buying more of the same stuff I already have!!
Also, I think it’s funny that you are from TX and moved to ID; I am from ID and now live in the “fabulous” oil fields of West Texas 😂
My mom only ever bought measuring cup sets that included 2/3 and 3/4 and I remember being appalled when I moved out and had to search everywhere to find my own set.
I grew tomatoes and peppers from seeds I saved from store bought produce (regular, not organic produce) and they turned out great. Save the seeds from your tomatoes, dry them out on a paper towel and then put the paper towel in an envelope (the seeds will be stuck to it) and you will have seeds for next year.
Slice onions next to a gas stove with the burner on...it helps keep you from tearing up.
I love spaghetti squash I eat it with chicken and pesto, tomato sauce and hamburger, and I put it in the blender with a few dates and coconut and coconut milk and a few drops of stevia and heat it like a mush for breakfast it’s warm and good!
Thanks for the low-carb recipes! I would love to see more.
I noticed it was called Togarashi shrimp. So the seasoning was probably Togarashi, which is a spice blend of Japanese chili peppers, ginger, and seaweed. You can buy it on Amazon. I cant usually find specialty ingredients at my local store.
Thanks for the info, it was SO yummy!
The Karate Kid was one of my favorite movies!
I ❤ YOUR videos. I watch them all the time.
FYI if you want longer “noodles” cut it in half the short way.
A butter knife is also my favorite stirring utensil 😊
Spaghetti squash hack when you can't cut it. Poke some holes into the skin and microwave it to soften it up. Times may vary
Tip to EASILY cut a spaghetti squash..... use a paring knife and do tiny cuts all the way around in the line for the big knife. Sooooo much easier. Not really sure why its so much easier. But it is.
Haha I love it... my words have been all jumbled this week too lol and yes the low carb desserts are pricey.... I try to keep the desserts to about once a month... like during “that special time “ of the month 🤪😂
Last year i did end up with a volunteer tomato growing out of one of the holes in my compost bin. It floweres but no fruit. Also, i just binges the entire series so your valley tournament 1984 tee shirt made my day
Also don’t know if someone mentioned. But you can toast up the seeds in oil and salt and eat them. Very tasty.
You are so funny 😂 no wonder you are succeeding at your channel- you give great content with humor
I have thrown tomatoes into my compost and laid out the fresh soil and had tons of tomatoes growing. Maybe too many...
Love the enthusiasm!
I was waiting for this video. Thanks girl
Hard skinned squash - put in hot oven for 10 minutes, then turn it off. Let it cool and then you can cut into it easily.
I make a similar dish but I add green chilis to the cream cheese mixture....YUM!
OMG I was fearing for your fingers! 😱 The cooking show America’s Test Kitchen recommended using a RUBBER mallet to “hammer” the knife through hard to cut squashes, thereby saving the cook a trip to the ER lol ❤️
If you buy the great value brand natural brand it has no sugar
First time I’m not about 4 years late to one of your videos 😂 Glad your channel is growing and getting the attention that it deserves!
If the stem of the squash had been broken off, it likely would have fit.
Sometimes I put squash in a garbage bag and drop it on the garage floor! Works great with blue Hubbard squash!
I share all the chicken trimmings with the pups. I cut off all the fat and tendons. I usually boil it for them, but they will eat it raw too
My grandmother told me years ago to hold a wooden stick match between my lips and IT WORKS!
Dude! You movie quotes are fire 🔥
Another video for me! We recently took a lot of financial hits and it's been super hard to get back to liking saving instead of feeling restricted. You are helping me so so much. My husband and I have both done significant weight-loss on locarb
and intermittent fasting. He's actually gone down from 500 to 200lbs we both were diagnosed w diabetes at 29 and were just starting our family. We decided not to restrict our money while changing our lifestyle now I'm working down to a set budget amount starting Aug 1 !
Shopping in my pantry has been a great tip for me. Omg I have so much I didn't even realize I wasn't using!
"I feel like I'm gonna chop off a finger"
I feel like you're gonna chop off a finger too 🤣
Wash it, pierce the skin and put it on a roasting dish in the oven with a little oil rubbed over it for about an hour or so or until soft, I do this with butternut squash and it’s lovely
1 stick of butter is 1/4 pound (4 oz) so the peanut butter recipe needed half a stick.
You need onion goggles! Life changing!
Daikon radish makes an AHHHH.AZZING potato like substitute! Have made potato salad and zuppa toscana and creamy cheesy "hashbrown" casserole with it! Allllll kid approved
Thanks for the tips!
You're my new fav youtuber!!! You're so funny!
Yay! Thank you!
I always use my cutco knife slices through like butter. Well not exactly butter but it does the trick!!!!
Your energy in this video is amazing! I love your videos! Thanks for sharing!!!
Love your videos, found your channel this week. Peanut butter is the best snack, I've caught all of my kids with fingers in the pb jar, now it's the grandkids. Lol
I cut my spaghetti squash right down the middle, scoop out the seeds, and cook it for 20 minutes with the 1 cup water in the instant pot.
I love meal kits that have new to you ingredients!!!
Spray measuring cup before you add peanut butter or honey. Slides right out. Presto change o
The only thing I don’t like about these meal kits is the environmental impact it has/leaves. There is just too much package that isn’t recyclable, and even if it was, it would probably never make it there. Also, just the gas and emissions it leaves while transporting.
This video put me in a fantastic mood !!!!
Fyi .. I won one of your meal box contests but couldn't use it cause alas I am in canada and it was a US box only xo just in case u wanted to gift it to someone else. Xo love ya lady xo
My whole family eats a spoon full of peanut butter as a snack! It's a good sugar and carb boost before a bike ride 🤣 with a glass of milk
Will definitely be sharing this with my sister we do a low carb diet and love your videos!!! Hey from WV 😁
Try lighting a candle when you are chopping onions!
I have a designated saws all blade that I use for cutting squash and other big foods.
I love daikon radishes!!
If you lay a dishtowel down (folded a couple times) under your spaghetti squash, it doesn't roll around as much as you cut. You can worry about cutting a finger off a little bit less 😉😂
If you have safety glasses that are pressed against your face, us those to cut up onions so it will not affect your eyes.
At least you didn't have to deal with a flying wasp.
😂
Hay wasp just wanted front row seat to the show
Well hello Christine I was making my grocery list to include low carb dinners and you pop up yay thank you!!!! And Aldi has spaghetti squash for .69/lb this week!