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Ok, I fell for the sensationalist news media trick. BIG IMPORTANT HEADLINE!!! LOOK! LOOK!

So anyways...

Bonnie is at a work conference overnight tonight.  So last night I made a crock pot.  THAT's right- I even planned AHEAD!

This morning was a bit chaotic.  Getting B out to her conference, the Girl Child had to take a shower, the Boy Child was fine, but having an ADD morning.  No big.

I got the already prepared crock pot out of the fridge where I had properly thawed the meat overnight in the fridge :)

I turned the crock pot on low.

SO- is low, enough to cook a crock pot, in 10 hours?  I think so.

What you will notice, is that I never plugged the crock pot in.

It sat all day on the counter.  What does this mean?  It all goes in the trash.

Sad News!

Since the fridge is recently cleaned out, I didn't really have many options.  I mean, I had a plan in place for goodness sake!

And, I had to get a haircut.

The boy was at his friend's house playing (since he finished his homework rapidly and accurately) and the girl was working on her homework, which was plentiful.

I called the Girl Child when I got to the grocery store and asked if she noticed anything we needed for the kids' lunches, etc.  Everything was fine on that front, but when I told her I was going to get rice noodles, veggies, and chicken to make a stir-fry, she immediately said "No DAD!  I was looking at recipes on line yesterday, and I have a PERFECT Dinner!  Let me look up the recipe... no wait, I wrote it down already, so... Oh!  Here it is.  Ready?"

She proceeded to tell me the recipe for the Rotisserie chicken salad and side of homemade hummus.

I mean really.  Really?

The salad was delicious.  We followed the recipe, using their suggestion to substitute peanut butter for tahini in the hummus.  I... um... do not suggest you try this.  Unless you have a kid who insists on eating peanut butter, and you're trying to trick them into eating hummus.  Because it's quite peanut-buttery.

Still- we had a great dinner, very nutritious, and no preservatives.  All fresh, all yummy.

The email:

I need 

1 can garbanzo beans
peanut butter
lemons
parsley
red wine vinegar
cucumber
tomato
kalamata olives
romaine lettuce
baby spinach

viola! that's it! the recipe is pretty much just make a really easy hummus, and make a quick salad, shred the  chicken and bada bing bada boom! ya got yourself a  nice dinner made by chef Maggie!

There ya go Christine ;)