Homemade Chicken Pot Pie: Easier Than You Think

Chicken Pot Pie

All time favorite at my house.

Make Dog Treats At Home: Natural, Quick and Easy

Delicious Dog Treats Using Stuff On Hand 

The other night I was making a chicken pot pie from a chicken I had boiled earlier in the day.

I needed the broth to boil my potatoes and carrots in, it creates a richer flavor in the pie.

Well, you know how you get that chicken stuff that floats to the top of the broth.

Stuff that I skim off and toss. 

I thought to myself, "why are you throwing this away?, your dogs would love it"

as they were swarming around me.

It was like a light bulb went off. 

Make some dog treats with it!

I finished draining it and put that chicken stuff in a bowl.

Walked to the pantry and grabbed some good stuff for them.

I ended up grabbing oatmeal, Flaxseed meal and pumpkin seed meal.

Mix it all to a consistency that looked like it would bake well.

I happen to notice a half eaten apple that someone just left on the counter.

Wasn't that sweet of them.

So I grated it up and put it on top of the dough.

I used a round cake pan lined with parchment paper and 

pushed the mixture around the pan to a thin layer.

Baked it with the pot pie at 375 degrees.

When it looked and felt crisp, I took it out to cool.

After it cooled I was able to break into pieces.

The dogs loved it.

I love treating my doggies.

My hubby jokes that our dogs eat better than we do.

Really its because they don't complain about my cooking :)

These were so easy to make and were done at the same time of the pie.

Which was a bonus.  Dogs were happy and I loved having a treat for them.

I wanted to share this not really because of the recipe but because of the easiness of 

making use of what we have and not being wasteful.

My Dog Treats Ingredients were:

Chicken pieces (residue) and broth

Oatmeal

Flaxseed meal

Pumpkin seed meal

apple pieces.

Desk Remade: From EWW to New

A couple months ago my son asked me for a desk for his room.  Sounds easy enough.  Not really.  It needed to be a certain size, so that it didn't seem overbearing for his small room.  Shopping online got a little overwhelming none of them seemed to fit the bill without being over $300.  My son grew inpatient.  One Saturday I found a desk that was the right size, but it was pink and white.  Then I noticed the desk was wood and pressed cardboard.  The desk was $15, I debated and debated wondering can I make this into something.  The only reason I went for it was the price and it really was the right dimensions.  Here is before.......

and after....

Saving Money and the World One Baggie at a Time

We don't really have a lot of money.  We do ok and I'm not complaining, but sometimes my friends will say "I don't know how you do it".  I'm guessing they mean, "I don't know how you do so much without being rich!"  HaHa.

I wanted to share this post as a way to answer "How I do it".

Notice the baggies drip drying on the utensils?  Yep, I wash and reuse my baggies (except those that have had raw meat in them.. they go in the trash).  This is just one of many small ways that I save money.  Also, notice that they are Christmas Holiday designs?  This photo was taken in July.  I go the day after Christmas and fight the lines to stock up on discounted holiday items.  I rarely run out of holiday baggies.