Christine, for the plant-based mixes you don’t enjoy as much as other mixes, try using melted real butter in place of the oil. It makes a huge positive difference.
Last week, Albertsons had a sale on their Signature Select spiral hams for $.97 per pound. When it was combined with my rewards for $7.00 off the price of meat, I was able to score a 12 pound ham for $3.97!
It’s cool to see how much your channel has taken off since we worked together at EZ. Now I’m married and outta school and I get some good life hacks out of your tips. Hope y’all are doing well!
The way you shop inspires me. I am a discounted meat huntress. My daughter scolded me the other day for buying more discounted meat. She said we're going to need a third freezer. 🤣
I’ve made chicken and rice for over 40 years. I add an envelope of Lipton’s onion soup mix or 1/4 cup in bulk. If I don’t have the onion soup mix , I don’t fix the meal. We found this gives it a great flavor. When my daughter in Portland visits me, she gets the soup mix at Winco out of the bulk bins and puts it in her suitcase. Give it a try the next time you make this. You can do the same thing with pork chops. They come out nice and tender. Debi in Vicksburg, MS. 🥰🥰
Loved this. You made all the breads. Today I told my husband we are having rice and blah for days on end. The blah is whatever I can come up with to go with the rice. Today it’s frozen orange chicken. Tomorrow chicken enchiladas next day sausage and beans etc
If you haven’t read/listened to the Artemis Fowl series, they are also fabulous for when in the car with kids, including teens. Awesome narrator , good stories, absolutely hysterical
When I was a kid and my mom used to make blueberry box muffins she drained the berries but reserved the liquid and added it to the water. We did have purple muffins but they had tons of blueberry flavor.
I really enjoy your channel! We are empty nesters now but we always make January a shelf cooking month and spend a minimal amount at the grocery. We always have a fully stocked freezer and pantry so it is great to use stuff up!!
This girl from Maine (land of the wild blueberry) was SHOCKED at the idea of “never making blueberry muffins except from a mix”! Guess it all depends on where you live, right? Each year when they’re in season, I buy quantities of local blueberries (the little ones) and freeze them in ziploc bags to put in muffins, oatmeal, and pancakes through the long Maine winter. Bottom line, whatever produce you can get locally, buy it in season, enjoy, and freeze/preserve the rest!
Another trick for the pizza dough is to bake for a bit before adding all the toppings…learned that from an old pampered chef recipe pineapple chicken pizza recipe
For canned pizza crust...bake it for like 5-7 minutes before you add your toppings...just enought that it's not supper doughy. Your sauces/beans will spread nicely. Then just finish baking it like normal.
The key to homemade muffins is extra oil and extra sugar. Such a healthy tip. 🤦🏼♀️ I am just getting into audiobooks and they are very useful for books I am only kinda interested in. I love GOOD eggnog. Southern Comfort is very good. Lucerne is not.
I love eggnog. I found pumpkin spice eggnog at my local target and me and bf drank it so fast. Recently found it again and bought 2 cartons (one for each of us, so he doesn't drink it all in one night!) plus an oatmilk one.
I used to love eggnog, but haven’t had it in many years. Our family loves protein balls. I make them with oatmeal, pure maple syrup, peanut butter, coconut oil, shredded coconut, and a little brown sugar.
You can save the blue berry juice and use it in place of some of the water, or milk. I prefer milk instead of water. But adding the blue berry juice makes all blue berry muffins better.
Christine…I have been watching you for about a year🙂. My husband and I struggle with a reasonable grocery bill and with inflation… hubs is stressing out. Based on your suggestions for a pantry stock pile and some meal planning, we are headed to less of a squeeze on our budget. We don’t have supermarkets with amazing deals but some staples from Walmart is allowing us to make intentional choices rather than picking up food on the fly. Thank you!
Thai pizza is my husband’s favorite. We put 5 spice powder on the chicken when we cook it. We also add some carmelized onions and sautéed mushrooms. When it comes out of the oven, squeeze fresh lime and add cilantro and fresh bean sprouts. Fancy!!!
I love audible!! I’ve been a member since 2012! I’m always listening to a book plus reading another one in my Kindle. I enjoy reading very much!! Love your videos! 😊
I only do eggnog with spiced brandy, 🤷🏼♀️😉. No spend January for me! I have no room left in the chest freezer. I’ve been canning and dehydrating all the extras, lol.
Please try the Tightwad Gazette muffin formula! Once you know the formula you can make any flavor without a specific recipe. Much more frugal than buying mixes. Been using the formula for at least 30 years.
Always glad when you post a new video. Love your pantry, freezer cleanout ones, the closet resets, your family adventures. We got spoiled when you were giving us a video a day! Love your Podcasts too.
Wow I'm hanging on to and/or stretching my pantry items rather than doing a clean out at the moment the way costs are increasing. Plus we are heading into cyclone season in nthn Australia so we may need our small stockpile.
I've been doing a freezer clean out to a degree. Mostly because I want to stay out of Costco until after the new year. I just don't want to deal with the crowds. But it is helping me get through my freezer stash. Until I found a bunch of 44¢ bread at my Kroger. Lol
ok, had to pause the video to say how much i love those spice blends from The Gourmet Collection! I find mine at Home Goods or Marshalls for about $4 each. My favorite blends are their green Thai curry, garlic break, roasted vegetable, and kickin chicken finger lickin. Nom nom nom!
Measuring PB and honey are easy if you have the sliding 2cup measurer. Got mine at Pampered Chef, but I bet bb and beyond has them. I swear you NEED one.
If you like historical fiction, and haven't heard them, the Outlander series, A Discovery of Witches trilogy and of course any of Anne Rice's books are really good and the narrators are awesome 🙃
I got a little behind in my RUclips videos the last few months. Just heard you have a podcast! So excited. I just downloaded them all on audible to listen to
I woul put fruit or jelly in the middle of those muffins or just go all out and put cream cheese frosting on it why not like you said it's cake smother that plant-based you know what with animal fat it'll taste great butter would improve it too warm them up and put butter on them before you eat them
Happy Wednesday Christine. What a haul. It all looks delicious. I believe my favorite item is that eggnog pound cake - the perfect Holiday treat. Thanks for sharing😊.
Using the Flash Food app (at my local Meijer's) I purchase 80/20 ground chuck for 1.75/# and boneless, skinless chicken breast .99/# this week. I only buy clearance or on sale meat then stock up.
Team “moist”. 😂 excellent video Christine! I will be doing a 2023 Freezer challenge if you’d like to join in after the holidays in January-February. I have 4 freezers filled to max time for a freezer challenge!
We used audio books to get my son to want to read when he was younger. He wasn’t very interested in reading books so we did Percy Jackson on audio for the first book together while traveling and then he was hooked and read all the books after that. He was 7 or 8 when we did this.
I will start the freezer and pantry clean out in January, well technically starting now because I won’t be heading back to the store except for fresh foods and things my husband needs for his truck. Totally separate note: and please no laughing at or ridicule-Christine, I don’t know how y’all do it. How do you stand the cold? I grew up in Florida (yes warm almost always) and have lived since in SC and now in GA. We don’t have truly cold winters-a day here and there. This week, for us, will be miserable. I’m miserable today with it being 20’s at night and 40’s during the day. Friday will be a high in the morning of low 40’s dropping to 20’s in the afternoon and 16 at night with winds 20-30 mph with gust over 35. Saturday basically the same. How do you keep from feeling like you are freezing all of the time? I mean seriously! I told my mother Friday and Saturday we will be in the 3rd ring of polar h*ll and since I have an appt Friday I gotta keep from freezing!
Love eggnog. Spiked even better! ha ha Any of the muffin mixes especially the pumpkin use melted butter in place of oil. Add pecans it will be over the top.
LOVE your videos Christine! Love your personality and "oh well" with recipes too when adding ingredients. As for plant based items- I tried em too and didn't like any of them. I like the idea of using real butter vs oil in them as someone suggested. Once I've bought and tried something and it's not yummy- that's a complete 'scratch' for me 😂 I give you credit for using up the muffin mix.
If you spray your mesuring cup with oil (or just pur in and out) and then put PB or honey in it, it will slide out easily. one of my favourite lifehacks
I always replace the water called for with the same amount of milk and the oil with melted butter. Would not be plant based then but that's not why you bought those anyway. :)
Christine, for the plant-based mixes you don’t enjoy as much as other mixes, try using melted real butter in place of the oil. It makes a huge positive difference.
Thanks for the tip!
I bet using milk in place of water improves it as well.
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And a dash of vanilla and a teaspoon of cinnamon always rectifies much!
Yes coz they do taste disgusting - thanks so much
Last week, Albertsons had a sale on their Signature Select spiral hams for $.97 per pound. When it was combined with my rewards for $7.00 off the price of meat, I was able to score a 12 pound ham for $3.97!
It’s cool to see how much your channel has taken off since we worked together at EZ. Now I’m married and outta school and I get some good life hacks out of your tips. Hope y’all are doing well!
YAY Zac! You were my favorite working buddy! P.S. your dog is adorbs!
The way you shop inspires me. I am a discounted meat huntress. My daughter scolded me the other day for buying more discounted meat. She said we're going to need a third freezer. 🤣
Love it!!
This is my mom exactly. They have two fridges and a massive freezer. But now I'm finding myself starting to do it too 😅
Same for me. Lol, don't pay full price for meat.
Lots of people talking about drying or canning meats. If the freezer gets too full. Is that even a thing?
Omg my husband tells me that every time I go shopping. But he will never starve.
I’ve made chicken and rice for over 40 years. I add an envelope of Lipton’s onion soup mix or 1/4 cup in bulk. If I don’t have the onion soup mix , I don’t fix the meal. We found this gives it a great flavor. When my daughter in Portland visits me, she gets the soup mix at Winco out of the bulk bins and puts it in her suitcase. Give it a try the next time you make this. You can do the same thing with pork chops. They come out nice and tender. Debi in Vicksburg, MS. 🥰🥰
Loved this. You made all the breads. Today I told my husband we are having rice and blah for days on end. The blah is whatever I can come up with to go with the rice. Today it’s frozen orange chicken. Tomorrow chicken enchiladas next day sausage and beans etc
If you haven’t read/listened to the Artemis Fowl series, they are also fabulous for when in the car with kids, including teens. Awesome narrator , good stories, absolutely hysterical
Hack for the muffin mixes - use butter instead of oil and milk instead of water, it'll bump up the flavor and make it taste better :)
When I was a kid and my mom used to make blueberry box muffins she drained the berries but reserved the liquid and added it to the water. We did have purple muffins but they had tons of blueberry flavor.
I do that also!!
@@kimberlylholt I never knew they weren’t supposed to be purple until a friend in college rinsed the berries. 😋😋
I have been adding fresh blueberries and lemon flavor to my blueberry muffin mixes which takes them up a few notches.
These clean out challenges are my favourites go yours..even better when you take us to your pantry fridge and freezers!😮
I’m looking forward to doing a huge pantry clean out after the holidays. Start the new year off with a fresh clean kitchen ❤
I get so excited when I see a new pantry cooking video! This is how I cook most of the time.
I really enjoy your channel! We are empty nesters now but we always make January a shelf cooking month and spend a minimal amount at the grocery. We always have a fully stocked freezer and pantry so it is great to use stuff up!!
I like that you give your honest opinion about different products, especially food items.
I am a little grumpy today due to lack of sleep but baking always makes me feel better. I am going to make the egg nog pound cake!
This girl from Maine (land of the wild blueberry) was SHOCKED at the idea of “never making blueberry muffins except from a mix”! Guess it all depends on where you live, right? Each year when they’re in season, I buy quantities of local blueberries (the little ones) and freeze them in ziploc bags to put in muffins, oatmeal, and pancakes through the long Maine winter. Bottom line, whatever produce you can get locally, buy it in season, enjoy, and freeze/preserve the rest!
Yay! I’m so excited you did another pantry/ freezer clean out video! I love these videos! 🎊🎉🎊🎉🤍
Another trick for the pizza dough is to bake for a bit before adding all the toppings…learned that from an old pampered chef recipe pineapple chicken pizza recipe
I buy most all my spices from them kinda stores. Love them.
I am dying for a book recommendation video, or like a best books of 2022 video!
For canned pizza crust...bake it for like 5-7 minutes before you add your toppings...just enought that it's not supper doughy. Your sauces/beans will spread nicely. Then just finish baking it like normal.
The key to homemade muffins is extra oil and extra sugar. Such a healthy tip. 🤦🏼♀️
I am just getting into audiobooks and they are very useful for books I am only kinda interested in.
I love GOOD eggnog. Southern Comfort is very good. Lucerne is not.
"I missed the counter". Relatable. 😂
I would say Audible is a godsend for long car trips. Harry Potter, yes Percy Jackson, and The Anne of Green Gables series have been our favorites
I like to listen to The Hunger Games series as well. For older books, anything Jane Austen and Little Women.
I love watching your channel. It really takes me back. LOL
I love eggnog. I found pumpkin spice eggnog at my local target and me and bf drank it so fast. Recently found it again and bought 2 cartons (one for each of us, so he doesn't drink it all in one night!) plus an oatmilk one.
I love your videos, and like them even more since you’re an NFG fan! They are one of my favorites
I used to love eggnog, but haven’t had it in many years. Our family loves protein balls. I make them with oatmeal, pure maple syrup, peanut butter, coconut oil, shredded coconut, and a little brown sugar.
LOVE eggnog, so sweet and creamy. I love it in my coffee this time of year, yum.
You can save the blue berry juice and use it in place of some of the water, or milk. I prefer milk instead of water. But adding the blue berry juice makes all blue berry muffins better.
Love eggnog!!! Spiked with brandy is the best ❤
The muffins look delicious. Milk instead of water, butter instead of oil. ❤️❤️❤️
Christine…I have been watching you for about a year🙂. My husband and I struggle with a reasonable grocery bill and with inflation… hubs is stressing out. Based on your suggestions for a pantry stock pile and some meal planning, we are headed to less of a squeeze on our budget. We don’t have supermarkets with amazing deals but some staples from Walmart is allowing us to make intentional choices rather than picking up food on the fly. Thank you!
I second the Percy Jackson audio--we LOVED it. We had to drive around town before stopping at our destination…my daughter wanted to hear it all.
I'm doing low spend,pantry clean out January,I'm super excited for it.
Thai pizza is my husband’s favorite. We put 5 spice powder on the chicken when we cook it. We also add some carmelized onions and sautéed mushrooms.
When it comes out of the oven, squeeze fresh lime and add cilantro and fresh bean sprouts.
Fancy!!!
I love audible!! I’ve been a member since 2012! I’m always listening to a book plus reading another one in my Kindle. I enjoy reading very much!! Love your videos! 😊
I only do eggnog with spiced brandy, 🤷🏼♀️😉. No spend January for me! I have no room left in the chest freezer. I’ve been canning and dehydrating all the extras, lol.
An egg nog loaf sounds good. My family loves egg nog a lot. I've been loving egg nog tea with a sweet creamer. It's been my winter love story lol
I live with picky big meat eaters. I make Zuppa with chicken & kielbasa. It is one of a few recipies that all 6 of us like.
Please try the Tightwad Gazette muffin formula! Once you know the formula you can make any flavor without a specific recipe. Much more frugal than buying mixes. Been using the formula for at least 30 years.
I made Coquito a Puerto Rican Eggnog with no eggs but has plenty of white rum.
Sounds good 👌🏻
@Joanna Azar look it up. Coconut milk, coconut cream, evaporated milk, condensed milk. I used coconut sugar.
We buy eggnog every year 🙋♀️ have you ever tried eggnog pudding pie? It's muy delicioso
Found some serious discounted meats on clearance after Christmas yesterday! The BEST time to shop! Tfs! Blessings!
Always glad when you post a new video. Love your pantry, freezer cleanout ones, the closet resets, your family adventures. We got spoiled when you were giving us a video a day! Love your Podcasts too.
Next time you make blueberry muffins add a little bit of orange juice it’s fantastic!!
I love these. Encourages me to clean out my freezer
Try adding blueberry extract to your homemade blueberry muffin mixes! You can get it online and it makes a huge difference in the taste!
Wow I'm hanging on to and/or stretching my pantry items rather than doing a clean out at the moment the way costs are increasing. Plus we are heading into cyclone season in nthn Australia so we may need our small stockpile.
To crisp up the base on a pan with no holes I place the sheet over the gas hob on low and let it heat the underneath to brown it off.
Love eggnog! Southern Comfort spiced vanilla is my favorite actually.
8:00 Great vid as always! As a rule if thumb, I DOUBLE the amount of vanilla any recipe calls for. Also, I'm team eggnog.
Could you please do a video of a meal plan for a month with just what you have in your house (freezers, pantry etc.)?
I've been doing a freezer clean out to a degree. Mostly because I want to stay out of Costco until after the new year. I just don't want to deal with the crowds. But it is helping me get through my freezer stash. Until I found a bunch of 44¢ bread at my Kroger. Lol
Thank god I’m not the only one on the box muffin mix. They’re so good from the box!
ok, had to pause the video to say how much i love those spice blends from The Gourmet Collection! I find mine at Home Goods or Marshalls for about $4 each. My favorite blends are their green Thai curry, garlic break, roasted vegetable, and kickin chicken finger lickin. Nom nom nom!
The Krustez cinnamon swirl crumb cake is my mom's "secret recipe" coffee cake. 😁Seriously. It is the BEST!
Maybe a little vanilla , orange or lemon zest in the plant based muffins? Just a thought
Measuring PB and honey are easy if you have the sliding 2cup measurer. Got mine at Pampered Chef, but I bet bb and beyond has them. I swear you NEED one.
Your Grandpas chicken and rice recipes is one of my all time favorites! I don’t know if I’m just hungry or everything sounded super delicious?
Cheers!
I LOVE eggnog. I just made a no bake eggnog pie yesterday and it was DELICIOUS!
Christine and family have a great week have fun thanks from Oklahoma
If you like historical fiction, and haven't heard them, the Outlander series, A Discovery of Witches trilogy and of course any of Anne Rice's books are really good and the narrators are awesome 🙃
I have read them all! ;)
Eggnog pound cake!!! Oh my! Need to make that for my hubby.
A crumb topping would make those muffins taste better...equal parts flour, sugar and butter.
I got a little behind in my RUclips videos the last few months. Just heard you have a podcast! So excited. I just downloaded them all on audible to listen to
I woul put fruit or jelly in the middle of those muffins or just go all out and put cream cheese frosting on it why not like you said it's cake smother that plant-based you know what with animal fat it'll taste great butter would improve it too warm them up and put butter on them before you eat them
The fact that you love listening to NFG is amazing. I can give you some recommendations you'd dig 🤘🤘🤘
Happy Wednesday Christine. What a haul. It all looks delicious. I believe my favorite item is that eggnog pound cake - the perfect Holiday treat. Thanks for sharing😊.
Great video Christine - love that your recipes don't have a ton of expensive ingredients.
I’m sure you’ve read… but I thought of you! Wild is an amazing read then an amazing movie!!
I’ve read it! 😜
Taos said not cheap you go girl
Love you Christine! Love blueberry muffins and pasta. It's a NO on the egg nog. Happy holidays family!
Love the pizza too!
Pantry clean out seems like a good idea for Winter Break.
OMG Christine, just saw a dozen large great value Walmart eggs are over $4 here
I like a cup or two of eggnog on the actual holiday.
Using the Flash Food app (at my local Meijer's) I purchase 80/20 ground chuck for 1.75/# and boneless, skinless chicken breast .99/# this week.
I only buy clearance or on sale meat then stock up.
I haven’t made that chicken and rice dish in years. I would top mine with French onion soup mix before baking.
If you can get Lehi Roller Mills muffin mixes, they are seriously the best.
I agree, they are amazing
Team “moist”. 😂 excellent video Christine! I will be doing a 2023 Freezer challenge if you’d like to join in after the holidays in January-February. I have 4 freezers filled to max time for a freezer challenge!
I LOVE me some Eggnog!!!!!!
Add granola to the mix or a strudel topping for the muffins.
Yes my favorite, freezer/pantry clean outs!
Me too!!
We used audio books to get my son to want to read when he was younger. He wasn’t very interested in reading books so we did Percy Jackson on audio for the first book together while traveling and then he was hooked and read all the books after that. He was 7 or 8 when we did this.
We did Percy Jackson and Harry Potter on long trips. They love to read but audio books are a different experience and can be fun as well
I love eggnog! Unfortunately when we buy it my husband usually drinks most of it.
Love these videos
I will start the freezer and pantry clean out in January, well technically starting now because I won’t be heading back to the store except for fresh foods and things my husband needs for his truck.
Totally separate note: and please no laughing at or ridicule-Christine, I don’t know how y’all do it. How do you stand the cold? I grew up in Florida (yes warm almost always) and have lived since in SC and now in GA. We don’t have truly cold winters-a day here and there. This week, for us, will be miserable. I’m miserable today with it being 20’s at night and 40’s during the day. Friday will be a high in the morning of low 40’s dropping to 20’s in the afternoon and 16 at night with winds 20-30 mph with gust over 35. Saturday basically the same. How do you keep from feeling like you are freezing all of the time? I mean seriously! I told my mother Friday and Saturday we will be in the 3rd ring of polar h*ll and since I have an appt Friday I gotta keep from freezing!
Love eggnog. Spiked even better! ha ha Any of the muffin mixes especially the pumpkin use melted butter in place of oil. Add pecans it will be over the top.
We love the Jonathan Park and Adventum audio series.
That thai chicken pizza looks delicious!
That egg nog cake is on my holiday list! 😋
LOVE your videos Christine! Love your personality and "oh well" with recipes too when adding ingredients.
As for plant based items- I tried em too and didn't like any of them. I like the idea of using real butter vs oil in them as someone suggested. Once I've bought and tried something and it's not yummy- that's a complete 'scratch' for me 😂 I give you credit for using up the muffin mix.
If you spray your mesuring cup with oil (or just pur in and out) and then put PB or honey in it, it will slide out easily. one of my favourite lifehacks
I actually put a carnation breakfast protein powder in my muffin mix for my Son
It's a good day when we see the smiley face spoon
Instead of using water for your muffins, try using milk and a little bit of vanilla extract 😊
I always replace the water called for with the same amount of milk and the oil with melted butter. Would not be plant based then but that's not why you bought those anyway. :)
@@jackieo2403 those tips still works because us plant based people always have non dairy milk and butter :)
We love Audiable in our house. I highly recommend Sherlock Holmes read by Stephen Fry. And Dresden Files by James Marsten if you like fantasy
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If you precook the pizza dough first for just a few minutes it will top and cook better.