Friday, August 9, 2013

Breakfast - The Most Important Meal of the Day

This post brought to you by Walmart. All opinions are 100% mine.

Making breakfast in the morning is completely different when you have kids.  Before I had kids, a cup of tea and maybe last nights pizza was a sufficient breakfast for me.  Now that I have kids, I want to feed them something they will eat, that is also healthy and relatively fast to put together.

I like using quick solutions and adding healty fruits and vegetables into the mix to make a great summer breakfast.  Walmart sells Hungry Jack© Waffle and pancake mixes, which I love using.  I add bananas, blueberries and/or strawberries into the mix make quick breakfast.  They also sell syrup, but I usually skip the syrup as the fruit adds natural sweetness to the pancakes.

Walmart also sells Martha White© Muffin Mix that you can hide carrots and zuchinni in.  Make a batch and freeze them for a quick breakfast option.  My daughter is in summer camp right now, so she really needs a good breakfast to hold her down for the day.  Having something fast and "semi homemade" is always the best option for our busy mornings.  It's much better than eating out or that left over pizza in the fridge!

Walmart has all the delicious summer breakfast options you could ask for! All at amazing Walmart prices. Walmart has Folgers© Coffee, Hungry Jack© Mix (waffles/pancakes) and syrup, Smuckers© brand Jams, Jellies and Preserves and Martha White© Muffin Mix.

The great thing about the these breakfast options from Walmart is that they are all quick to make and easy to enjoy and are all reasonably priced. 

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Store Bought Fortune Cookies with Your Own Message


I love custom things.  I don't love paying the extra money for customization.  Here is a simple tutorial on how to take store bought fortune cookies, remove the fortune and add in your own.

First print out custom fortunes using any text editor.  I used the font Calibri in size 8.

Wet a paper towel and ring slightly.  You want the paper towel to be damp but not dripping wet.
Wrap towel around fortune cookie and microwave for 20 seconds.
Unwrap fortune cookie from towel carefully, towel may be hot.
The fortune cookie should now be pliable enough to open.
Quickly removed existing fortune cookie message and replace with your custom printed one.
Reshape fortune cookie (should be fairly simple, as the cookie already has its form) and hold for 10 seconds to keep form.
You want to do the last two steps quick, the fortune cookie cools very quickly.

Custom message fortune cookie.

Wrap damp towel over fortune cookie and microwave for 20 seconds.

Open fortune cookie, insert message, hold closed for 10 seconds.

Message in fortune cookie before closed.

Stay tuned, the next post will be on how to customize these fortune cookies by dipping them in chocolate and adding a gumpaste flower.

How to Turn Your Handwriting Into a Font for Free

I mentioned it before, that I hate my handwriting.  Hate is a strong word, I like my handwriting, but what I dislike most about it is that it is inconsistent.  When I write a long paragraph it looks as though five different people wrote it.  What I love about making my handwriting into font is that it makes my handwriting look better.  I made a photobook for my daughter and wanted to use my handwriting as the font.  After searching I found this awesome website that converts your handwriting to font for free!  Who doesn't love free?  And it couldn't be easier.  You simply download the template, fill it in, scan the template and upload back to the website.  Within seconds you have your own handwriting font, easy peasy.

This is the website that I used: http://www.myscriptfont.com/

I was not paid for this post, I just really wanted to share this cool site with my readers.  There are other sites out there that can make your handwriting into font but most of them you have to pay for.  This site may not have all the bells and whistles, but its free.


You can add little doodles in the symbols fields also.

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