Fun on the Prairies

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Cleanout Pantry-Pumpkin Black Bean Brownies

Happy New Year everyone! It has been a long time for me to sit down and start blogging again. There has been so many changes not only in our lives but in our community as well everything from stores not taking paper coupons and going digital to stores going out of business like the local dairy that in itself was a lost for us. I am going to kick this off with a pantry cleanout which you can join us as well.

One of the things that has changed in our home is us going to the local food bank though several times that fact has backed fired on us in a sort of good way. Since we are a family of 3, many of our friends of older age or a family of less then 2, will give us their extra. For example we get 2 bags of beans, so we know that at least 4 more bags will show up at our house. Yes, we do give items away though my fear is that it will still end up back at my house.

Also if you click on the title above the recipe, you will be able to print off this recipe.

On that note I have decided to do a Cleanout Pantry Series, starting with

Pumpkin Black Bean Brownies (click here to print)

Brownie Base

2 cans of drained and rinsed black beans

1 cup of maple syrup

1/2 cup coconut oil, melted

4 tsp vanilla

4 T cocoa powder

1 c oats

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 c chocolate chips

Pumpkin Base

4oz cream cheese, softened

1/2c pumpkin puree

1 egg

2 T maple syrup

1 1/2tsp pumpkin pie spice

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350F

Grease 9x13 glass baking dish with butter and set aside.

In Blender, combine all brownie items except the chocolate chips. blend until the batter is smooth. Pour into the baking dish, sprinkle on chocolate chips.

Wash out blender then add in Pumpkin mix and blend. Dollop the pumpkin onto the brownie base. You can then take a butter knife and drag it through creating a swirl if you like.

Bake for 40min or until the edge of the brownie start to pull away from the edge of the pan.

Brownie will be gooey and fudgy, cool for 10min then shove in fridge this will make a firm brownie.

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Our Favorite Christmas Music-great for kids

Christmas and traditions has always been a big factor in my family. One of those traditions is music and every year these Albums are always on the list.

First up is Psalty's Christmas Calamity.....this is a big blue song book named Psalty, who is invited to a church for a Christmas Pageant and trying to get ready for this, when things go terribly wrong.

You can listen to this on Spotify for free or purchase it on Amazon for $8.99

Next up is we made a flashdrive with a variety of fun and new Christmas Music to have when we are on the road short or long. You can also download these to your phone.

Saturday, October 9, 2021

How to shop Walmart and get money back using Ibotta.

The first step is click on over to Ibotta and install the Ibotta browser icon to the browser you use (I use google browser a lot for this).

Once install log into your Ibotta account by clicking on the icon in the browser or Ibotta website.

Once you are logged in you will see a screen similar to the one below.

Click on Walmart button

On the left of your screen you will see categories, In order to receive cash back you must have your offers clipped before you shop.

Below is the steps on how you can do that...on the left of your screen is categories, you can click here or you can scroll through the offers they will give you.

Once you have found your offer you are going to click on the plus sign in the circle below the picture

Once it is clicked it will show a checkmark with a dark background then do this for the rest of you offers.

Once your offers are clicked it is time to shop, there is two ways to do this one is through browsers just make sure you icon is red (to be logged in, if you are on the Ibotta site this icon will be gray)

or you can go through the Ibotta site and click shop Walmart