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Around our household, Wednesday is Kitchen Day.  On kitchen day, we usually spend the day baking and preparing foods for the week.  I try and choose at least 2 snacks to make for the week for us to enjoy.  This was one that was on my list to try and so we did.  It is now part of our rotation in our Master snacks list.

This past year, I have been trying to build my large family food idea lists.  I want foods that are easy to make and that my family enjoys.  We have tried numerous granola bar recipes over the years and many have failed.  This is one given to me by a dear friend and it is delicious.

  • 2-20 oz pkg mini marshmallows
  • 1 1/2 c butter
  • 1/2 c oil
  • 1/2 c honey
  • 1/2 c peanut butter
  • 10 c oatmeal
  • 9 c Rice Krispies
  • 2 pkg graham crackers, crushed
  • 1 pkg chocolate chips

 

Melt the first 5 ingredients until just melted over med low heat006

In a large mixing bowl, mix the oatmeal, Rice Krispies, graham crackers , and chocolate chips.008Pour the melted mixture over top of the dry mixture009Stir until combined010Press into a greased, jelly style roll pan011

Let cool and then cut into bars.  Keep extra bars covered in a container.  You will get 2 large jelly style pans from this recipe.026Recipe for the “smaller” families

  • 20 oz mini marshmallows
  • 3/4 c butter
  • 1/4 c oil
  • 1/4 c honey
  • 1/4 c peanut butter
  • 5 c oatmeal
  • 4 1/2 c Rice Krispies
  • 1 pkg graham crackers crushed
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

 

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1. I want my daughters to grow up to be skilled homemakers.  I want them to learn things that took me years to learn as a new wife.  Don’t you always want better for you children?

2. We must be frugal with all of the money that the Lord has given us to use.  How can I rightly justify spending hundreds of dollars on school books when I know that I can recreate that same hundreds of dollar curriculum with a little bit of time and work.

When it comes time to figuring out what curriculum I want to use for my children, sometimes it can be tough.  Depending upon my season in life, there are times when I have had absolutely zero time to research and just bought whatever looked like a good complete curriculum.  That year cost us much in money for schooling, but it was all I could do at the time.

Then there was the year that my husband was laid off and there wasn’t even a talk about “using any money for schooling” I did not want to burden my husband with the added pressure of schooling curriculum expense.  That was the year I realized how much “free” teaching there was online.  I took days and weeks of researching and planned out whole curriculum’s for each of my children.  That by far was their favorite year of schooling.

 

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