Easy Roll Ups

Photo Credit: Taste Of Home

Tasty, attractive, versatile and budget friendly! I love roll ups. Whenever my church has a potluck or if I'm having a lot of people over I always make roll ups. They are so presentable and easy to make. This is what I do! Use any tortilla wrap you like, spread with any flavor cream cheese and then fill with deli meats, cheeses, veggies etc. Roll tightly. Cover in plastic wrap and put in the fridge for two hours. Cut them in 1.5-2 inch sections and put them on your platter. You can put a toothpick through each one to make it look more decorative or secure it if you roll isn't holding tight enough. Here are some flavor combinations I have used but feel free to use your own and be creative!

Turkey Pesto
Spread cream cheese and pesto on plain wrap. Fill with baked turkey and romaine lettuce.

Southwestern
Mix 1/4 cup of your favorite salsa into a 8oz tub of soft cream cheese. You can add more if you need more flavor. Spread salsa cream cheese mixture on a sun dried tomato wrap. Sprinkle with Mexican cheese blend, chicken and cilantro.

Ham & Cheddar
Spread plain cream cheese on garlic and herb wrap. Layer baked ham and cheddar.

Roastbeef and Swiss
Spread cream cheese and horseradish on a plain wrap. Layer medium rare roast beef and swiss.

Very Veggie
Spread Spinach wrap with vegetable cream cheese. Fill with ice burg lettuce. thinly sliced carrots, red peppers and cucumbers.

Yum :-)

Stacey

Movie Night

We do movie nights in our house at least once a month. It's such an easy activity and the children really look forward to it. What I did was buy a three fold poster board and created our "Box Office". Each child comes to the box office to get their ticket, food and drinks. We always offer water, juice, candy and popcorn.

 

Daddy is the the ticket taker. He takes each childs ticket before they can enter the "theater" (our living room) and issues the rules before he starts the film. His rules are usually silly and make the kids laugh but if he say them, the girls will remind him he needs too.

 

 

 

 

We have done themes on movie nights too. Some of our favorites have been "drive-in" movie nights when we created cars out of cardboard boxes. We have also done a "The Lorax" themed movie night, "Spooky Buddies" and "Barbie: Princess Charm School". We use Redbox or Netflix. Lately Redbox has been emailing cents off codes so it has been costing us .50 to .75 per movie. Affordable and meaningful family entertainment.

 

Stacey 

Bridal Shower

 

My baby sister got married last year. My two sisters and I threw her an amazing Bridal Shower. It was set outside on a beautiful sunny day in the country. We are a very simple and budget minded family. We put together a salad lunch buffett. This included a myriad of dressings, grilled chicken, fresh cooked bacon bit, lettuce, hard boiled eggs, veggies, croutons, cheese etc. We also had rolls and fruit salad to accompany.

 

We should to decorate in yellow and white. As we grew up as children we all had "colors" that would signify what object or belonging was ours. Angela's had always been yellow. 

 

 

We used a combination of white flowers, lemon and dollar store finds to decorate. We also created tissue paper pom- poms to hang from the tent we had. We all coordinated our gift wrapping in yellow and white so that even the gift station looked like it was part of the decorations. 

 

My mother put together these delicious cupcakes with homemade buttercream frosting. We served lemonade out of an old fashioned decanter into fancy classes with a lemon twist. It was a very simple but elegant occasion.

 



We played a variety of games including bride & groom trivia, bridal gift bingo and Guess Who. Guess Who was my favorite. We had printed several names of strong females in politics, movies, literature etc. Each woman who attended the party had a name attached to their back. The object of the game was to guesss who you were. This could be done using only yes or no questions. All winners to the games go to pick a hand sanitizer from Bath and Body Works. Each prize was only $1.00. They were practical and pretty!

 

It was a lovely afternoon.

 

Stacey

Menu Planning Monday

Monday: Chicken Tacos, Spanish Rice, Corn
Tuesday: Slow Cooker Pork Chops, Mashed Potato, Corn
Wednesday: Quesadillas, Red Beans & Rice
Thursday: Shepard's Pie, Crescent Rolls and Fruit
Friday: Meatball Subs
Saturday: Dinner Out
Sunday: Spaghetti & Meatballs, Salad and Cottage Cheese

Chicken Taco recipe to follow soon!