Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts

Monday, September 30, 2013

Freezing food

One of the easiest ways I have found to freeze various foods is by using muffin tins.  I got the idea from using ice cube trays to freeze homemade baby food for my daughter.  I had made soup and being me I made a huge batch.  I wanted to freeze it to save it for later but I wanted to do it so I had single portions.  I thought about trying a muffin tin.  It was perfect.  I froze the soup in the tins, popped them out and stored them in freezer bags.  Then when I want some I just take a couple out and thaw them.  Since then I have used the idea for other things.  We got a huge thing of salsa and nacho cheese.  There was no way we were going to eat them before they went bad.  I wanted to freeze them as well and that's when I tried lining the tins with plastic wrap.  So much easier!

This is how they looked before frozen:

 

Once they were frozen it was easy to just pop them out with the plastic wrap.  I keep it just the same as soup, in freezer bags.

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Clean cleaning

I love finding new tips and tricks on Pinterest. I never knew how effective vinegar, baking soda and hydrogen peroxide were at cleaning compared to all the expensive ones you can buy in the store.  I have been searching for a good all purpose cleaning solution that I like.  I have tried several, some were good, some made me gag, though most did the trick, I wasn't sold on any.  Today I finally found one I like.  Vinegar, dish soap, oxiclean. Simple and effective.

Hop over to Noahs Ark Homeschool Academy  for the solution plus a whole bunch of others.

I made the disinfectant spray too and really like it.