Category: Kids

S’More Cookies

This recipe is super easy, but gives a look of great effort!

Ingredients:

  • 1 box chocolate cake mix
  • 1/3 Cup vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 regular size hershey bars (24 sections)
  • 6 large marshmallows (quartered into 24 pieces)
  • 2-3 graham crackers (broken into 1/2 inch pieces)

Instructions:

Mix cake mix, oil and eggs in medium/large bowl, til combined. Mixture will be thick. Spray 24 cup mini-muffin pan with non-stick spray. Portion out equally into mini-muffin pan. Top each with marshmallow in center.

Bake 350 defrees F for 8 minutes, or until cookies are fully baked and tops of marshmallow perfectly toasted.

While still hot press chocolate piece and graham cracker into marshmallow, as in photo. Let cool. (To remove from pan, I found that a little twist released each one – unless marshmallow oozed onto the pan.) So yummy!!

via the doitandhow kitchen!

Emergency Survival Document Binder

This is just part of a lengthy, informative, instructional plan for any family… Please click HERE for complete article!

Important Documents

It is unlikely that any documents you choose to include in your kit will keep you alive.  However, having them all organized and together can make your life so much easier now and in the event of an emergency.  Making insurance claims, searching for missing loved ones (heaven forbid), staying in touch with family and friends, traveling around the country and accessing your financial accounts will all be much easier if you have some essential documents at your fingertips.  In addition, having a binder like what I’m about to suggest to you can also make your day to day life easier and more efficient.

I’m simply going to walk you page by page through my “emergency documents binder.”  I keep this near our kit, but not in it as I access and use it often.  It goes wherever I go so that I can have access to these important documents anytime, anywhere.

Family Evacuation Plan:

The front cover:

Nathan (my husband) and I each have our own prioritized list of what our responsibilities will be when / if we need to evacuate.  If we are given 10-30 minutes notice, we start in at the top or the first list and try to get through as much as we can.  The stuff at the bottom of the list isn’t as essential as the stuff at the top.  If given just a few minutes to evacuate (and doing so on foot), we use the second lists instead.  You can read more about our family evacuation plan here. (although I need to edit it a bit online…the printed one is more accurate!)

Continued HERE….. read on…

Banana Oatmeal Smoothie

Ingredients:

■2 whole Chiquita Bananas (best with brown flecks on peel)

■2 cups Ice

■1/3 cup Yogurt – preferably Greek yogurt flavored with honey

■1/2 cup Cooked oatmeal

■1/3 cup Almonds

Instructions: Pour all ingredients in blender pouring ice in last. Blend on high for 30 seconds or until smoothie thickens.