Easy Homemade Honey Wheat Bread 

 

The Ingredients

2 Cups Warm Water 

 2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour

1 Tablespoon Active Dry Yeast

1 Teaspoon Salt

1/2 Cup of Honey

1/3 Cup of Olive Oil

5 Cups All-Purpose Flour

 

Directions

 

Dissolve yeast in warm water, next add honey to yeast mixture and stir well. Then mix in whole wheat flour, salt, and olive oil. Now slowly add all-purpose flour (I add 1/4 cup at a time) until completely blended. Place dough onto lightly floured surface, and knead dough for at least 10 to 15 minutes. When your dough is is smooth and elastic place it into a well oiled bowl, turning the dough over until all sides are oiled from the bowl and cover bowl with a damp towel. Let dough rise in a warm place until it has doubled in bulk (about 45 minutes). 

 

 

 

After your dough has doubled in size punch down the dough, then split into 2 loaves and place into well greased 9x5 loaf pans. Allow dough to rise in pans until it is 1 to 1.5 inches above the pans. 

 

 

Now bake at 375 degrees F for 25-30 minutes.

 

 

Let cool and enjoy! 

 

 

Tetra Tint Chicks 1 Week Old

Well the Chicks are now 1 week old and I can't believe in one week how much they have grown and changed. They are getting much bigger and are losing their fuzz and growing their feathers in.

 Over the weekend my husband and I let them run around our backyard and they had a blast. Here are some fun pictures we took of them exploring.

Me with one of the Chicks.....

And then he had enough! lol

Homemade Dishwasher Detergent 

Ingredients

3 Cups of Borax

3 Cups of Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda

White Distilled Vinegar

Directions 

Place equal parts of Borax and Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda into a Container and mix well. When ready to use in the dishwasher put 2 Tablespoons of mix into your dishwasher and put the vinegar into the rinse aide section. 

Thats it... super easy and very cheap!!!

  

Homemade Laundry Detergent

Ingredients

3 Bars of Soap Fels-Naptha, Ivory, Zote (I used Ivory)

1 Box of Borax 4lbs 12oz

1 Box of Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda 3lbs 7oz

4 Boxes of Pure Baking Soda  4lbs

1 container of Oxi Clean 3lbs

*For Sent add 1 container of Purex Crystals

Step One

Grate your soap into a fine powder. This is why I chose Ivory because I didn't feel like grating 3 bars of soap into powder. So if you are like me and would like the easy way out put 1 bar of soap into the microwave for about one minute and you will get a big fluffy white cloud (bonus the kids love this!). Repeat this step with all 3 bars of soap. 

Next put your fluffy white clouds (Ivory Soap) into your food processor and let it do the work....it only takes a few minutes before you have a nice fine powder.

Step Two

Place all your ingredients together in a large bin and mix together for a few minutes.

Now you are Finished! You only need to use 1 - 2 Tablespoons of your Laundry Detergent per load of Laundry!

**** UPDATE****
This lasted my family 13 months before I had to make more, I have a family of 6 and do between 5-6 loads of laundry per week!

Tetra Tint Chicks

This past weekend the hubby, kids and I all went down to our local Tractor Supply and picked up 6 baby chicks! I have always wanted to have free range back yard chickens for Fresh Farm Eggs and now we are going to have it!

The chickens we picked up are called Tetra Tint and according to what I have read and was told by the ladies in Tractor Supply they are a very hardy and great egg producing chicken, laying about one egg a day....that's right we will have 1/2 dozen farm fresh eggs daily!


We have 6 hens but the accuracy for sexing is about 90% so we may end up with a rooster or two. I will update the progress of their growth and information about this Chicken since it is a new breed of chicken created just for Tractor Supply.