Ok, I started this blog for many of you out there!!

So, I love to cook!! And I have an obsene amount of cook books, recipe cards, recipes copied and stuffed in a folder and many other ways that I will not repeat on here! HAHAHA So, everytime I cook something good, I tell everyone they should try it and then they want the recipe so I end up sending out all these recipes...a few weeks ago I sent an email of a recipe out to 35 people!!! So, a friend suggested I start this blog. So, here it is!! I am not this great cook that comes up with these tastes and ideas and puts them all together...I follow a recipe!! That's all I do, so if there is something you don't like...don't blame me!!! HAHAHA. I like to try many different things and I think that is why I am addicted to collecting recipes. Ok, there I said it...I am addicted!!! I have 3 boys, one of them being extremely picky at what he puts in his mouth! I have even offered to pay him to try something and money doesn't even entice him!! So, I am always trying new things hoping that someday he will find his favorite meal. Other than that, I will try most anything.
Having 3 boys, we are a very busy family! We have at least one sport going on throughout the year with a few breaks here and there between sports. So, at times I have to be pretty creative on what I cook and sometimes we have to do dinner in waves which usually requires my crockpots handy help on those nights!!! (FYI, since Jeff and I have been married, I have gone through 5 crockpots...see I use them alot!!!) I just don't ever want to be one of those moms that has a dinner schedule of: Chicken on Monday, Beef on Tuesday, Pasta on Wednesday, Fish on Thursday and Fridays are leftovers. I CAN'T DO IT!!! I have to be different and try different things. Ok, now don't think that I never throw something frozen in the micro and warm it up if I have to hurry and get a child to a practice or something but for the most part, I cook something as much as I can. We have also been watching what food we eat very carefully. We have cut back on so much salt that if we go out to eat and eat something with too much salt, we almost can't finish it. (This goes for my kids too) Last fall my dad had a heart attack and it really opened up my eyes to what we all put into our bodies. I even have my kids looking for the nutritional facts on food and they absolutely won't eat something if it has too much of something that is not good for us. It has been a great learning experience for all of us. So, one thing I do try to do with receipes, is if it calls for salt, I first try to see if I can substitute it with one of my Mrs. Dash's salt free seasonings but not every time can you do that so I just put about half of what it calls for in the recipe just so you don't loose some of the flavor of the meal. Ok, so there you go...a little summary of why I started this blog. I hope I can be good at adding stuff on here, and baseball season starts this week so just a heads up: Meals might be pretty crazy this 1st week since I am also running the snack bar for the whole league!! But, I will make sure to add stuff when I can!
Happy Cooking!!