Dinner....um....yum?

I've decided it's time to expand my crock pot dinner options.  I liked a page on fb that had a bunch of crock pot recipes and printed off a few that looked good.  Time to branch out and try something new!

The first was ham and potatoes and it used up my leftover ham.  Yea me!  It was okay.  I could eat it.  But it did not earn the status of getting a spot on a recipe card to go into my recipe box.

Then came Pineapple Chicken.  Oh my.....not so good either.  The 'sauce' was like gelatinous glue.  And it was the color of what I imagine horse glue looks like.  It smelled okay but it was not a tasty treat on the ol' taste buds.  It also did not get a coveted spot in the recipe box.

And tonight was Peanut Chicken.  As I was mixing the ingredients, I had a moment of doubt (or one might say clarity), but as I didn't have plan B I just threw it all in the crockpot and said a quick prayer.  Several hours later I checked it.  I stirred it.  I sniffed it.  I felt a strong strong feeling that perhaps I was asking too much of God with that particular prayer that was uttered hours before.  I put the lid back on and went back to 'mom' duties but in my mind, I had already committed the meal to failure.

Sure enough, it was crap.  It wasn't gagging, forcing yourself to eat it crap.  But none the less, crap.  Crockpot crap.  Ryan said it was tasty.  However I did notice that instead of putting the leftovers in a tupperware container, they were sitting awful close to the garbage disposal.  Ian asked for seconds but somewhere between the first helping and the first couple bites of the second helping Ian's taste buds caught up to his hunger and I think he realized he was eating...you know....crockpot crap.

Here's how awesome of a mom I am.  Remember those mom duties?  I added 'flu shots' to the list of things to do late this afternoon.  I had all the kids so it made sense and needed to be done.  And it also took me to CVS.  CVS currently has a special:  buy on Eddy's ice cream, get one free.  For those of you who don't know, awesome moms give their kids homemade milkshakes after they get flu shots....but only after dinner.  Normally - we only have dessert after dinner as a reward or when company is present.  I solved my crappy dinner problem!  Eat crockpot carp, and then enjoy a nice big homemade milkshake.  My kids think the milkshakes were for flu shots.  Nope....that's to make sure Mommy didn't starve to death tonight.  And quite frankly, I needed that reward to force down that dinner.

Oh....and I'm on my way to unlike that fb crockpot page.  Three strikes and you're out.  I really do have a limit to how much crockpot crap I can serve my babies.  Plus that ice cream sale won't last forever.