Ever notice how some days seem to move slowly but most seem to whip by you as fast as a roll-a-coaster can drop you down hill? This was my weekend. First off, I suffer with AADD most of the time and only feel acomplished when I can schedule my life. When the schedule becomes voided, I can get a bit lost. This mostly comes into play with my budgeting as I've learned to stay in budget by scheduling my dinner plans for each month. This way I only purchase what is needed to make each dinner. I also know exactly how much I need weekly for the family tradition of Sunday morning breakfast, which always uses eggs & bacon.

This Sunday, I was able to go to the store(s) to purchase my additional news papers for coupons and make a trip to CVS to use up my soon to expire $2.00 off purchase coupons and my 20% off total with my card. I was able to purchase two 2 liter bottles of pepsi for the kids, some snack bags and two small organizational trays for only $1.87! Meanwhile scouting sales, reductions and more for my up-n-coming shopping day (Friday). When I got home, I made my speciality of breakfast cups!

First I cooked our favoites= Thick sliced maple bacon and Bob Evans Maple sausage. After the maple sausage was done I made the sausage gravy, using a favoite product:

Yes, I've made homemade sausage gravy. I've even made other packaged gravy mixes and I find that this one has the best mix flavoring to maple sausage. The bonus is it only costs $1.00!!! Anyways, I made the sausage gravy and added bits of maple sausage back into the gravy. I then made standard scrambled eggs and grated mild cheddar cheese on the side.
I then grabbed my .25 packages of Pillsbury crescent rolls and pulled them out. Instead of seperating all the triangles, I meshed two triangles together to make one rectangel and used my pizza cutter to cut into squares. I laid each square into my muffin pan (which I did spray). I then layered the sausage gravy, bits of bacon & sausage, then egg and topped with cheese. I put these into the oven at 375 for 11 min. until browned. *remember, you only have to make sure the crescent rolls brown and cheese melts.

After the "sharks" circled and devowered my breakfast muffins, I continued my thrifty ways by taken the slightly cooled bacon grease and poured it into my treated plastic ice cube tray (have to treat as the bacon grease will adhear itself to the plastic and make it really difficult to remove).

I have found that I do better freezing my bacon grease than placing it into a canning jar in my fridge. It lasts longer, I only use what I need instead of saving too much and I save my canning jars for other
uses... lol

Now, if only I can just get myself to start my new March menu plan/schedule. I'm already off the grid after my freezer invetory revealed I had less than what I thought, making my February menu void. Now what? I have a lot of venison and ground beef to use! Breathe Breathe Breathe