The Fall It's Friday night. We are watching TV and I feel like having ice cream. Just because it taste so yumo. It's also 10 pm, but my son offers to go see if the minute mart has my favorite Ben and Jerrys. He came back 10 minutes later with 2 pints of Phish Food. …
Christmas Cutout Cookies 80/20 Style
Sunday was a lazy Sunday for me. Now when I say lazy, I mean I didn't get dressed (again) or go any where. Yes, that means I skipped out on church. Jeffrey wasn't home and I just didn't feel like going without him. So I stayed home in my jam jams and baked Christmas cookies. …
Sugar Free Hot Cocoa Recipe
Are you looking for a delish sugar free hot cocoa recipe? Ya, me too! lol Pinterest is my favorite search engine for things like this. The other night it was chilly and I was looking for something warm, sweet and quick. I am still trying to be better on the sugar free side of life, …
The Easiest 3 Ingredient Crock Pot Chicken Soup
Have you ever just wanted to come home from your day and just have dinner waiting for you? It's cold. It's wet. You just wanna be warm and fed. That's of course where crock pots come in handy. If you don't have one, get one. You will be thankful you did. Mine was given to …
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Raised Bed Gardening
Raised Bed Gardening Building a raised bed garden is super easy and really not that expensive when you look at the over all cost less the money you save of your favorite vegetables. The garden we have here is made with 2 x 8 inch boards, and some plastic fencing to keep the …
Homemade Chocolate Syrup
It's Friday night. Micah got a great grade on a Chemistry test. Jeffrey says we need to celebrate. That usually means Pizza, Popcorn and Ice Cream with a movie. Now remember my 80/20 rule on this one. The pizza is from Gepetto's. So not homemade. It was good though. Not whole foods or clean, …
How To Peel Hard Boiled Eggs Effectively
This is one of those age old questions. How to peel hard boiled eggs effectively? It seems no matter how hard I try, I always end up taking most of the white of the egg with the shell and throwing it away. Leaving me with a hard boiled mess. Ugh! There are several …
Clean Living 80/20 Style
In the Perrin household we “try” to eat whole foods and live a clean life style at least 80% of the time. We do not always succeed. Please remember, this is a life style change. It isn't easy or cheap to make these changes and never happens over night. At least not for …
Pinterest Pin Reviews “Pins I’ve Tried and My Opinion” – Part 2 Food
Okay, Pinterest Pin Reviews, "Pins I've Tried and My Opinion" Part 2- Food. I'm not sure if it's come out yet, but I am rather opinionated. I try really hard not to be too harsh or judgmental. God's word says we will be judged just as harshly as we have judged others. So with that …
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Coconut Oil, How I Use It
There are tons of brands of coconut oil on the market. There are also a million uses for them. You can find them all over Pinterest. Just type in "coconut oil" in the search box and bam, there they are. Pinterest is were I started with coconut oil. I saw different posts about how to …
