3 Simple Mom Tips You'll Want To Use Right Now-"Easy Time Saving Mom Tips"- Pt.1

When it come to saving time tips and things that will save time in the home, I'm all over it.

This is Part 1 of Simple Mom Tips You'll Want To Use Right Now- Easy Time Saving Mom Tips


I want to preface this post with a little intro to myself and my family.  My name is Kenia and I am a wife and mother. My hubby and I have 6 children, and if saving time is not on our list of things to do, we have failed!! 😏


Seriously though, saving time and tips to making life simpler is something I am always on the search for or coming up with a way to make life easier.

I like to keep my posts short, if you're not familiar with me, just because I know as a mother time is of the essence.  I want you to get what you came for in a short and sweet and to the point sort of way. (with a little humor on the side)


So here we go...


Tip #1- 3 Simple Mom Tips You'll Want To Use Right Now-"Easy Time Saving Mom Tips"- Pt.1

#1 Always have a blanket near your dryer.

 Let me explain.. I think you'll like this.

If you're like me, then even though laundry is a must in the busy mom life, you may not like to do it and feels like its a pain.

Without fail, no matter how many laundry baskets I have, I usually don't have one when I need it of course.  Here's where your blanket comes in  handy.

Grab your blanket and unfold it and start putting your dry clean clothes in the blanket.  Grab your ends together of your blanket and haul it into the bedroom or couch or wherever you fold your clothes. :D

Super easy.... and you don't have to break your back trying to pick up the basket, that is no doubt overfull haha!


Tip #2- 3 Simple Mom Tips You'll Want To Use Right Now-"Easy Time Saving Mom Tips"- Pt.1


#2 Always keep a big mixing bowl on your counter when you're cooking. ALWAYS!

Here's the simple reason.

Raise your hand, if you go to the trash can a million times to throw something away so that you can have room to continue cutting or trimming something. YESSS!! That's me, unless I remember to get my bowl.

You start cutting veggies, fruit, or meat and you are running to the trash can(that is if you don't have one of those fancy trash disposers on your island) ya.. I don't either.. ;)

Keep that bowl on your counter and when you're done fixing that favorite recipe, you'll only have to go to the trash can once!

This saves so much time!



Tip #3- 3 Simple Mom Tips You'll Want To Use Right Now-"Easy Time Saving Mom Tips"- Pt.1

This tip is so fun! I think it is anyways... My hope is that you'll love it too.

 One quick rabbit trail though before I let you go....

 Are there more time saving mom tips?  Absolutely yes!! My goal is to continue adding to this for you moms out there, but I don't want to give it to you all at once right now.... 

As a mom, I can get overwhelmed with so much information online and my hope is that with little bite size tips in short posts, you can get something done right now! and not wait for more infromation and go into information overload.  What happens when you get overloaded?  Right! Nothing gets done. This is why this is part 1.

With these 3 simple Mom tips, I believe you can implement them right away and get something done.

Back to our last tip for today

#3 - Keep a small measuring cup or bowl of water in the sink with one to two drops of lemon oil in it.

So what's my reason for this? you may be asking...

 If you are a wash by hand type of mom(less children) or a dishwasher type of mom(a ton... like me lol)  the utensils sometimes can be a pain, especially if you can't get to them right away or you're waiting for the dishwasher to fill up to justify a run.

 Simply drop the utensil throughout the day into that bowl and half the work will be done, by the time you get to washing.

 The lemon oil will help dissolve the food, make your utensils shiny, and your kitchen will smell great, plus help lift your mood. WIN WIN!!

 I'm looking forward to sharing Part 2 real soon!
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Simple Toddler Recipe
Toddler Approved Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
Perfect Freezable Mexican Beef Casserole Recipe
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Kenia is a stay at home mother of 6, happily married and loves helping other stay at home mother to enjoy the cooking life while having kids in the home.  Doable even though it's challenging. She enjoys cooking trying new recipes, making new recipes and keeping up with her kiddos. 

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WANT TO KNOW HOW NUTRITIONAL YEAST CAN BENEFIT YOU?-NUTRITIONAL YEAST BENEFITS

Nutritional yeast benefits
Nutritional Yeast Benefits. How Can Nutritional Yeast Benefit You?



So, you want to know how nutritional yeast can benefit you?

First of all, as a mother of 6 children, I am always looking for ingredients to add to our every day meals to make it more nutritious without altering the taste too much.

Disclaimer: This post might contain affiliate links.  This is at no extra cost to you and only helps fund my family and our food obsession :D

Nutritional yeast is that ingredient that I love and I use it almost every day in our eggs.
Here's a quick video I did.  On my FUN FOOD FACTS FOR FAMILIES FACEBOOK PAGE




I like to let you know right off the bat,that I like to keep things short and to the point. Occasionally, I'll write a long post, but most of the time it's short :)Enjoy!

Here we go!

Nutritional Yeast Benefits



Nutritional yeast is different than regular yeast and one of the great things about it is that it is actually a superfood!  Yes!! When I see superfood in anything, I'm all over it.  Nutritional yeast is deactivated yeast.


  • One thing to note is that it is often high in vitamin B-12( look for this when purchasing your nutritional yeast)
  • It is low in fat 
  • High in protein
  • It's sugar free
  • Gluten free 
  • It's a superfood
If you're a mom on the lookout for something to add to your diet Nutritional Yeast is it.


New here? Take a look at our popular blog posts and pages.
Vanilla Date Smoothie
Simple Toddler Recipe
Toddler Approved Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
Perfect Freezable Mexican Beef Casserole Recipe
Vegan Recipes

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Here are some ideas on where you can add nutritional yeast to. If you want a head start go ahead and grab the same one that I use, it is very inexpensive too  GRAB NUTRITIONAL YEAST HERE

Nutritional Yeast Benefits broken down

#1- Vitamin B-12
  As a mother any vitamins are good for your body.  You need your B vitamins like nobody's business right? :D 
  • Vitamin B-12 is essential for the brain
  • Helps with anemia. 
  • Keeps the body's blood and nerve cells very healthy.
#2- High in Protein

As a mother of 6 children and the benefits of protein in the body, you really need protein more than anything.  It gives you strength through the day. It is the building block to your muscles and helps your blood sugar to not crash.  In any meal that I make for my family, I always identify my protein and make sure that that is higher than any sugar in the meal.

#3- Low in fat

Although some fat is good for you, Nutritional Yeast is low in fat and if you are watching your fat content in your body, this is the perfect addition to your meal.

#4- Low in Sugar

Sugar is something that as a mom I take extreme note of.  My husband and I think that sugar is a mind altering drug!! IT IS!!! It is also very addicting.  When you add nutritional yeast  to your meals, (which you can even add it in cookies for your children and they won't even know) you can be assured that your sugar intake will be at a low.

#5- Gluten Free

If you are gluten intolerant or are trying to stay gluten free for your children, nutritional yeast is perfect for your gluten free lifestyle.



Lastly, I wanted to curate some recipes for you so that you could try out some recipes with nutritonal yeast in it! I've already shared with you my scrambled eggs  with nutritional yeast video, but here are a few more from some other bloggers.

I've also added them to my NUTRIONAL YEAST BOARD

Paleo Breakfast Casserole with Nutritional Yeast
Photo by Francesco Paggiaro from Pexels

Vegan Noodles With Nutritional Yeast
Vegan Roasted Cauliflower With nutritonal yeast
Garlic Parmesan Wings with nutritional yeast

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Easy Toddler Approved Home Made Mac 'n Cheese Recipe

Toddler Approved Home Made Mac’n Cheese


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Ingredients needed.
3 cups of elbow macaroni cook per package instructions.
Pinch of himalayan sea salt in water while boiling
10 oz of aldi version of Velveeta block cheese ( Velveeta cheese if you prefer)
2 oz of butter ½ stick of butter
1 cup of Almond milk

Hey there! I hope I caught your attention! 

Toddler Approved added to anything, will make me drop laundry and sit down and listen watch or read anything.


This toddler approved home made mac’n cheese is just that!

As a mother of a couple of toddlers/pre-k anything that has toddler approved on it, is a WIN! Let's face it though, I have 4 other children and if all of them love this.... I've won the best mom medal of the year. 💕😂


You know what I mean…. If your toddler doesn’t like it, you might as well have a big fat LOSER sign on your forehead. My kids love mac’n cheese, but I don’t like to buy it from the store.

I'm going to keep this post short like most of mine , because let's face it, either you or I have or will have one or two children hanging on us, asking for us or asking for something to eat.

What you'll need for this Toddler approved homemade mac'n cheese 'll need from the store.

By the way, Aldi is our favorite store and the prices usually, can't be beat.

(If you haven't seen my Aldi board yet, check it out and one of my most viewed posts about my Aldi board….you're gonna love it!)

New here?
 These recipes are for you. I think you'll love them and these are great toddler smoothies as well.

https://momandbabyblog.blogspot.com/p/vanilla-date-breakfast-vegan-smoothie.html
https://momandbabyblog.blogspot.com/p/peanut-butter-granola-wrap-eating-on-go.html
https://momandbabyblog.blogspot.com/p/vegan-smoothie-strawberry-smoothie.html

Alright…

Ingredients needed.

3 cups of elbow macaroni cook per package instructions.

Pinch of himalayan sea salt in water while boiling

10 oz of aldi cheese

2 oz of butter ½ stick of butter

1 cup of Almond milk

Directions:
Heat stove and add milk, cheese, and butter together in pot. Heat till everything is melted. Make sure it doesn’t burn.

Once everything is melted, add the noodles and mix. Here's what it should look like.





I added 1 teaspoon of Himalayan salt at the end along with some black pepper.  If you like extra saltiness you can always add more; however, it turned out perfectly.

We added hot dogs to it and was delicious. Perfect toddler approved meal, and complete family meal if you ask me :D

Home made mac’n cheese is great because you have control of what is in your food!!
Hope you enjoy this!

If you want to change some things here are my suggestions:

 ** If you like extra cheesiness you can add about 4 oz more of the cheese and ½ cup more of almond milk.
We're lactose intolerant so the less cheese for us the better. Which is why I substitute almond milk for regular milk.

*** Want to make your Mac’n Cheese a super food? Add nutritional yeast to it!! This is the exact NUTRITIONAL YEAST we buy

I add it to pretty much everything. It adds a rich taste to it plus its a Super food and does so much good for your body.




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Toddler Approved Home Made Mac’n Cheese

This Macaroni and Cheese recipe is delicious, simple to make. Adding any meat to this and it can go farther. Your toddler will love this, as well as you mom.

ingredients:

3 cups of elbow macaroni cook per package instructions.

Pinch of himalayan sea salt in water while boiling

10 oz of aldi cheese ( Aldi version of Velveeta)

2 oz of butter ½ stick of butter

1 cup of Almond milk

instructions:

Heat stove and add milk, cheese, and butter together in pot. Heat till everything is melted. Make sure it doesn’t burn.

Once everything is melted, add the noodles and mix.

NOTES:

I added 1 teaspoon of Himalayan salt at the end along with some black pepper.  If you like extra saltiness you can always add more; however, it turned out perfectly.
** If you like extra cheesiness you can add about 4 oz more of the cheese and ½ cup more of almond milk.
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Mom recipes for Aldi sales | Simple recipes for moms to make

Hey there! Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at what's for sale at Aldi this week.  You may or may not know who I am and that's ok!! My name is Kenia and I'm a mother of 6 and wife to my hubby since 2001.  I love sharing things that I find and helping moms especially.

 This weeks mini podcast is here >>   http://mommyandbabyblog.libsyn.com/ << and you can subscribe to that so you'll know exactly when next week's podcast is up.  This weeks is super short but the recipes I found and information I have about the specific sale items in the produce section is so good!! Can't wait to try them all.
Here's all the recipes in one place  https://www.pinterest.com/kmcdonald1979/the-aldi-mom-the-aldi-sales-board/
I even have some recipes for kids.

I'm so excited you're here!


This weeks Aldi special is pretty short , but comes with some great recipe ideas
with the items that are on sale and some health benefits for these items.

If you don't already get the paper or stop by  your Aldi store and grab their
insert then I have a short list for you today.
The great thing about this list is that I found some really delicious recipes to go along with it.


Here's what's up for sale.
Click here to get my audio version of it.
http://mommyandbabyblog.libsyn.com/



ALDI ITEMS FOR SALE LIST
Here is the written list.

Roma tomatoes for $0.49 per pound
California strawberries for a 1.69 per pound package Check out this recipe for strawberries
Pineapple for $1.39 each.
Go check out my board for the delicious recipes I found.( I'm excited to try these out.)
** By the way, pineapples are a wonderful natural anti-inflammatory food
and high in vitamin C.
So if you're fighting sickness go grab some extra pineapple.
I pinned it to my Aldi board too.
If you're expecting, and getting close to delivering your little one,
I believe it is a good labor starter too.( never tried it, but i have friends that have tried it,
you know how babies are…. They come when they want to 😭😜.


Mangoes: .49 Mangoes are so good!! I used to eat them all the time when I was younger.
We lived overseas in Panama and we had a mango tree in front of our base housing.
Here is some good info on mangoes..
  • Prevents Cancer
  • Lowers Cholesterol
  • Clears the Skin
  • Improves Eye Health
  • Alkalizes the Whole Body
  • May Help with Diabetes
  • Mangoes are a great source of vitamin E.
  • Improves Digestion
  • Helps Fight Heat Stroke:Juicing the fruit from green mango and mixing with water and a
sweetener helps to cool down the body and prevent harm from overheating
  • Boosts the Immune System
  • The generous amounts of vitamin C and vitamin A in mangoes, 
plus 25 different kinds of carotenoids keep your immune system healthy and strong.

    Here is the detailed information for the short list above about mangoes..


    https://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-health-benefits-of-mangos.html#
    Don't forget to check out the Aldi board for the delicious mango recipes.
    Sweet corn is on sale for 1.69 per 4 pack.

    Here are the rest of the items on sale this week at Aldi

     

    Fresh Whole Boneless Pork Butt Roast 1.49 While quantities last
    Fresh Black Angus Beef Skirt Steak 6.99 per lb.
    Fresh Rex Mex Beef Bowl Kit 12.99 41 oz While Quantitieslast
    Fresh Family Pack Thin Sliced Boneless Pork Chops 2.99 per lb Available while quantities last
    Simply Nature Organic Large Brown Eggs 3.49 per dozen

    Here's my latest video "how to make your eggs super healthy" and your little one will love it!


    Go check out my recipes that I found
    and pin the recipes on my board.They look so good!
    These items and the rest of items you can find out
    more about what's
    available in your area at www.aldi.us
    Hope you enjoyed this weeks update.
    Till next week!

    Need some recipe ideas with this list... Here are some that I found. I've tried at least one of
    them and it is delicious. (Strawberry Cream Cheese Cookies)
    Recipes From Aldi Sale Items
    Recipe #1
    LOW-CARB AND HIGH PROTEIN AVOCADO EGG SALAD WITH COTTAGE CHEESE
    Ingredients:
    6 boiled eggs
    1 cup cottage cheese, rinsed with cold water and drained
    1 cup sliced celery (inner small pieces of celery preferred)
    1/2 cup sliced green onions, white and green parts (more or less to taste)
    2 avocados, peeled and diced
    1 T fresh-squeezed lemon juice, for tossing with avocado (I used my fresh-frozen lemon juice)
    salt to taste, for salting avocado (I used Vege-Sal)
    fresh-ground black pepper and salt to taste for seasoning finished salad

    Dressing Ingredients:
    1/2 cup mayo
    1 T Dijon mustard (or use any mustard you prefer)
    1 T fresh-squeezed lemon juice (I used my fresh-frozen lemon juice)
    1/2 tsp. dried dill weed
    1/2 tsp. celery seed
    The rest of this tasty recipe from kalynskitchen.com is one of my most pinned/tried this month.
    I think you’ll love it!
    Recipes From Aldi Sale Items
    Recipe #2

    Ingredients & Tools Needed
    Milk of Your Choice
    Strawberries
    Bananas
    Blender
    Thanks to buildyourbite.com you’ll have a wonderful smoothie perfect for breakfast.
    Recipes From Aldi Sale Items
    Recipe #3
    Ingredients Needed:
    4 ounces cream cheese, softened (room temperature)
    4 ounces butter (1 stick), softened (room temperature)
    1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
    1/4 cup granulated sugar
    1 large egg
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    1 and 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
    1/2 teaspoon baking powder
    1 cup strawberries, sliced in very small pieces
    I personally tried this recipe , and they were the BOMB!!!
    Soooo good! I changed a few things and used Method #1 to bake the cookies.
    Go to Juliasalbum.com to get the directions and enjoy! I know you will.


    Here’s what mine looked like
    https://juliasalbum.com/strawberry-cream-cheese-cookies/

    Recipes From Aldi Sale Items
    Recipe #3


    Ingredients Needed
    1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats (gluten free if needed)
    3/4 cup white whole wheat flour (or substitute all-purpose flour or 1:1 baking flour to make gluten free)
    1/3 cup light brown sugar
    1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
    1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
    6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted (or substitute melted coconut oil to make vegan/dairy free)
    2 cups small-diced strawberries (about 10 ounces), divided
    1 teaspoon cornstarch
    1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice (from about 1/2 small lemon)
    1 tablespoon granulated sugar, divided
    Go visit wellplated.com for the directions on how to make these Healthy Strawberry Oatmeal Bars.

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