Monday Mish Mash

This weekend was an ultra busy one for us. Dave's uncle passed away last week and the funeral services were on Saturday. Because everybody is scattered over 3 provinces it was basically an all day affair of saying goodbye to Uncle F. and then saying hello to a new member of our family. We saw all the relatives we haven't seen in a couple years which is always really nice. The two years in between a visit doesn't seem that long. No awkwardness with this family. They just draw you right in no matter how shy you might be and accept you. It's wonderful. But boy, it is tiring.

So Sunday we were naughty and didn't go to church. We just couldn't seem to get it together on time. Kay was running in the Breast Cancer Run for the Cure, and nobody had any committements in church that morning, so for once it was easy to take the day off. For a family of five who is involved in various ways in church it is a miracle if we actually have a Sunday where no one is doing anything. Although I'm sure we missed a great service. It always works that way when we do miss. Something great went on that I wished I would have been there.

Last week we got to test a couple packages of these:

Put out by General Mills, these are not granola bars but a Nut Bar. Each bar contains only 6 natural ingrediants of roasted nuts and sunflower seeds held together in a bar with a slightly sweet coating. At the moment there are two choices of bar: Peanut Crunch and Almond Crunch. They have 2 grams of fiber, 7 grams of protein and no cholesterol.

Taste-wise these nut bars were very good. I personally like nuts with that salty sweet flavor going on. They were very crispy. And two of my kids and I liked that but my hubby and older girl thought they were brittle and would have preferred them to have a chewy kind of sweet thing holding it together rather than the crisp coating. But they also liked the flavor. All in all it's a product the whole family liked and son already requested them for the lunch bag.

And now the usual disclaimer. As always, I am not paid in any way for testing products. I only recieve for free the package of the product to try. And as always, I will be totally honest.

Menu Plan Monday is going to be late this week as I'm so darn organized that I have about 2 things left in the freezer, one of them being a turkey. So obviously I need to majorly grocery shop. I just cannot get into the mode somehow of planning my menu before I grocery shop. I like to shop the sales so that will determine what I have on my menu. And because I only shop twice a month, it just seems very daunting to menu plan before I know what is in my freezer. I don't know, maybe I'm just bucking change. But that part of it just seems overwhelming to me to change at this point. Ach, maybe I'll just get a bunch of the nut bars and go with that! ;v)