My husband and I are almost ready to buy a house! yay! We are finally about there, but with a few things left on the list we are squeezing our pennies. It is a great feeling when you are almost reaching a goal you have set a long time ago, but when pinching pennies you have to find a way to have fun! We have been trying to eat in for all our meals lately and breakfast is no exception.My daughter would have scrambled eggs for every meal if I would let her. So sick of eggs and cereal, I have been making waffles and pancakes. She is two and thinks that since it says cakes at the end of the word they are cakes. So she tells me she wants "cakes" for breakfast. I was thinking, "yum cake for breakfast". So I started tweaking my recipe for my plain Jane pancakes to... why do you need IHOP breakfast cakes!
PLAIN JANE CAKES
1 cup flour
1 tbs sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 egg
blend together, spray cooking skillet or waffle maker with oil, and cook on med heat to desired golden color.
BANANA CAKES
add
mashed ripe banana
and cinnamon to batter
top with Carmel sauce (i just use a little from my banana split stash)
syrup
and whip topping
BANANA SPLIT CAKES
add
mashed banana to the batter
top with
desired banana split topping
such as
strawberry sauce, jam or fresh
pineapples
whip topping
Carmel
chocolate
nuts
bananas
whip topping
CHOCOLATE CAKES
add
couple tablespoons coco powder (to desired taste)
chocolate chips to batter
top with
chocolate syrup and mini chocolate chips and raspberries yum!
RED VELVET CAKES
add
red food coloring
1 tsp vanilla flavoring to batter
top with cream cheese frosting
nuts optional
CARROT CAKES
add
1 cup thinly shredded carrots
cinnamon to batter
top with
cream cheese frosting
Earlier my sister wrote a post on exercise and it is great you should read that! I just wanted to add an idea I came across recently. We have had netflix for a while now, I love it, but I do so even more now! We usually use it to watch a movie here or there or run sesame street as back ground noise for my daughter. The other day I decided to start exercising again. One of those things I slack at around Christmas and gain 10 pounds. The jeans are getting tight and I can't bare to move up a size, unlike my sister I don't have motivation to exercise. Looking at my exercise DVD collection covered with dust, I realized both of them didn't sound enticing. I sat on the couch and thought, "maybe I will give this one more shot and search on netflix". I was kinda hoping there wouldn't be one, so I could watch a movie on my instaque. Low and behold, I found several workout videos. Mostly, I was more surprised at my reaction.It seemed fun to do a new workout. With a huge selection from yoga to boot camp military style... I had a chance to find something I would enjoy. I randomly selected a dance workout and though I have sweat harder, it was really fun! My daughter danced beside me and toward the end they did a short ab workout that gave me a burn. It was kinda addicting so I tried another workout, tougher, but I enjoyed it! While I watched the Biggest Loser last night I didn't feel guilty like I normally do! So if you have an excuse like I used, that you don't have money for a gym, or that you don't have work out videos... netflix has them. It costs us less then ten dollars a month to have all the movies and now gym we need! YAY!
