Appetite Control and Energy

12/22/2025

You work 8 hours to live 4.
You work 6 days to enjoy 1.
You work 8 hours to eat in 15 minutes.
You work 8 hours to sleep 5.
You work all year just to take a week or two vacation.
You work all your life to retire in old age, and contemplate only your last breaths.
Eventually you realize that life is nothing but a parody of yourself practicing for your own oblivion.
We have become so accustomed to material and social slavery that we no longer see the chains.
Life is a short journey, live it! Collect memories, not material things!

12/21/2025

Cracker Barrel Roast Beef

3 Pounds Chuck Roast
2 teaspoons Salt
2 teaspoon Pepper
1 teaspoon Dried Oregano
1/2 teaspoon Garlic Powder
1 Tablespoons Olive Oil
1 Small Yellow Onion diced
1 can French Onion Soup
1 Cup Beef Broth
2 Tablespoons Cornstarch

Pat the roast dry and season it with the salt, pepper, garlic powder and dried oregano.
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Once hot, add the chuck roast and sear the chuck roast for 2-3 minutes per side until browned. Remove the roast from the skillet and place it in a slow cooker.
Add the diced onions and sauté until the onions are soft (5-7 minutes). Then transfer these ingredients to the slow cooker with the roast.
Pour the French onion soup and beef broth on top.
Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours until the roast is fork tender.
Remove the roast from the crock pot and shred it with 2 forks.
Mix the cornstarch with 2 tablespoons of cold water and stir this mixture into the juices in the crock pot.
Cover and cook on high until the juices begin to thicken.
Add the shredded beef back to the crock pot and stir it into the sauce to coat it with the sauce in the crock pot.

12/21/2025

Do you carry a bag daily or just stuff the things you need in your pockets? Inquiring minds want to know. It's me. I'm inquiring. 😉

12/21/2025

If you could gift a year's supply of just ONE of these to yourself which one would it be?

12/20/2025

Cracker Barrel Homemade Chicken & Dumplings

2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch salt
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup milk
2 quarts chicken broth
3 cups cooked chicken

In a bowl combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut the butter into the dry ingredients with a fork or pastry blender. Stir in the milk, mixing with a fork until the dough forms a ball.
Heavily flour a work surface. You’ll need a rolling pin and something to cut the dumplings with. I like to use a pizza cutter. I also like to use a small spatula to lift the dumplings off the cutting surface.
Roll the dough out thin with a heavily floured rolling pin. Dip your cutter in flour and cut the dumplings in squares about 2x2-inches each. It’s okay for them not to be exact. Just eye ball it. Some will be bigger, some smaller, and some might be shaped funny.
Use the floured spatula to put them on a heavily floured plate. Just keep flouring between the layers of dumplings.
To cook them, bring the broth to a boil. Drop the dumplings in one at a time, stirring while you add them. The extra flour on them will help thicken the broth.
Cook them for about 15 to 20 minutes or until they don't taste doughy.
Add the cooked chicken to the pot and serve.

12/20/2025

Little Debbie Christmas Tree Dip is delicious!

1 container of cool whip
1 block of cream cheese
5 little tree cakes
1/3 cup of milk
1 tablespoon of vanilla.

Blend it all up.
Sprinkle with red / green sugars.
Serve with vanilla wafers or graham crackers. Would also be good with little teddy grahams.

12/20/2025

Cracker Barrel Broccoli Cheddar Chicken

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 can of Campbell's Cheddar Cheese Soup
1 cup milk
1 1/2 cups Ritz Crackers (one sleeve)
4 tablespoons of melted butter (you can use more)
8 ounces frozen broccoli
4 ounces shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 teaspoon salt

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Make can of Cheddar cheese soup mix according to package directions (one can of soup mix to one can of milk). Place chicken breasts in a baking dish. Season with seasoned salt. Pour 3/4 of the prepared soup over the chicken breasts. Add broccoli to chicken that has been covered with the cheddar soup. Melt butter and combine with Ritz crackers, sprinkle buttered crackers over the broccoli. Add remaining soup mix, and bake for approximately 45 minutes or until the chicken is done. (Check chicken by cutting the thickest part and look to see that the chicken is uniform in color). When chicken has been removed from oven sprinkle with shredded cheddar cheese.

12/19/2025

12/19/2025

Cranberry Pecan Cheese Ball

¼ c. mayo
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1.5 c. sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1.5 c. dried cranberries
1 c. pecan
4 tbsp. chives
Garlic powder, to taste

In a large bowl, combine softened cream cheese, sharp cheddar cheese, Mayo, 1 cup of dried cranberries, 2 tbsp. of chives, and garlic powder. Mix until uniformly combined.
Place the mixture onto plastic wrap, cover it, and roll it into a ball.
Refrigerate for a minimum of one hour. If you are in a rush, you can also put the cheese ball in the freezer.
Place pecans, 1/2 c. of dried cranberries, and 2 tbsp. of chives onto parchment paper. Remove the cheese ball from the refrigerator/freezer and roll the cheese ball in the pecans, cranberries, and chives as a topping. Press the leftover topping into the cheese ball with your hands.
Serve with crackers and enjoy!

12/19/2025

CARAMEL CRISPIX MIX W/ M&M'S
makes 24 servings

3⁄4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine
1 1⁄2 cups light brown sugar
1⁄4 cup white syrup
2 tablespoons white syrup
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
17 ounces Crispix cereal
16 ounces miniature pretzel twists
16 ounces dry roasted peanuts
14 ounces M&M's

IN A MICROWAVE BOWL ADD: 3/4 cup butter, 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar, 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp white syrup, and 1/2 tsp salt.
Microwave for 2 minutes, stir.
Repeat - microwave 2 minutes, stir.
Add 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla. Stir until light caramel look.
IN A PAPER BAG ADD: box of Crispix, jar of peanuts and bag of pretzels (hint: I make this dry mix while I'm microwaving the caramel mix above).
Pour caramel mix over dry mix, shake bag.
Microwave 90 seconds, shake bag.
Repeat - microwave 90 seconds, shake bag.
Spread over wax paper to cool (hint: the more you spread, the less clumps you will have).
When cool, add bag of M&M's.
Store in a tightly covered/sealed container.

12/18/2025

Ketchup doesn’t exist! What are you using to dip your fries in?

12/18/2025

A necklace that has my Daddy's thumbprint on it.