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Let's face it, when things don't go our way, we can become so overwhelmed by our circumstance. The situation can feel completely hopeless!
I’ve been there lots of times. But you know what? Even though is seems so bad sometimes, the incredible thing is that this is the place where God can make the biggest difference in our life. The struggle you’re facing may actually be purposed by God for a reason.
You see, it’s in the times of being uncomfortable, the times you have no control over a situation or the choices being made by the people around you, that God has a chance to develop you. It’s at those times that He has our attention and can mold us into the figure of perfection that He has designed us to be.
If we get out of the way and let Him work, amazing things will always happen. Patience is a verb. Just remember that God is in control..REALLY!.. And remember that everything is set in motion and that all He requires of us is our faith and love.
Patience is not something I have.., patience is something I choose to have..
So be encouraged, how comforting it is to know, that the creator of the universe genuinely cares about everything that concerns us. Cool hugh?
Busy People’s Cookbooks make great cookbook fundraisers. Check out http://www.cookingforbusypeople.com for more info.
Enjoy eating these Banana Cream Crepes and then walk off the little bit of calories (only 88 calories in 2 crepes) in less than a 1 mile walk! Yes, I know it is difficult to believe, but this low calorie meal is one of my many cheap healthy recipes, made in 25 minutes or less!
Cooking for diabetics is super simple with a fast and easy recipe like this, which is only one of thousands in my 8 Busy People's Cookbooks. Diabetic exchanges are listed along with fats, calories and fibers for Weight Watchers to figure their points.
For more free family dinner recipes, and low calorie breakfasts, brunches or lunch recipes:
- Join our Cooking for Busy People Facebook Fan page.
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Keys to walking off excess body fat weight:
- Eat low calorie foods in appropriate serving sizes
- Walk off more calories than you eat
Trust me, I was born watching my weight! UGH!
My two favorite things to do are dance and walk.
I am probably one of hte only few people I know who wore tennis shoes at her daughter's wedding, just so I could focus on having fun dancing and not worry about my feet hurting! I wanted to enjoy the evening! :)
Busy People's cookbooks are among the top cookbooks when it comes to serving fast and easy low fat recipes in a little time! Every recipe only has 7 or fewer ingredients! Plus, everything is low fat!
I love that my sweetheart and I can have a wonderfully fun or romantic evening without spending a penny more than a cheap healthy meal at home made quickly and easily within minutes! Then we can dance the night away to candle light. It's just plain, old fashion romantic goodness! Even though I write Busy People's Cookbooks, I also like that the fast healthy meals have a grocery list for the entire menu! It's the answer for easy home cooking when the last thing we feel like doing is cooking! Easy meal planning is all done for us in the Super Simple Menus Cookbook, with a timeline and grocery list. Same with the Fast and Frugal Cookbook. Try out complete menus of recipes for FREE yourself, by clicking here for complete menus.
In the meantime, why not plan on enjoying a romantic evening alone with your sweetheart, and slow dance your way to fitness, at the same time! Trust me, your heart beat will increase and you'll burn more calories just feeling the love! :)
Enjoy!
Drive down your street and count ten houses. Seven of them represent a family living paycheck to paycheck in America. – Dave RamseyIn my opinion, living paycheck to paycheck is like gambling with our financial well being. It's not worth gambling with our peace of mind. We can buy a lot of things, but we can't buy peace of mind.
Having less spending $$$$ for extras (shopping, eating out, going out) does not necessarily mean you have to have less peace of mind or enjoy life less.
I drive a 13 year old car (which I love) and scaled down from a 6 bedroom house in the country to a house 1/3 the size in the city so that I do not have a car or house payment. It's small and comfy, all I need. I haven't eaten out since New Years Eve, I discontinued my cable TV and haven't even spent a penny on a coffee at a gas station in over 2 months. At the same time I am SO grateful for the peace that comes with knowing I am living within my means! That is a gift we give our self!
I still enjoy eating nice meals, but they are at home with low cost ingredients instead of at a restaurant. I easily make delicious dinners and cheap healthy recipes, but my dinner guests aren't thinking about the cost of the ingredients. (If they are, then they have a problem!) The most important thing is being together and enjoying healthy, delicious and nutritious food. I simply cook great tasting and delicious looking frugal meals with inexpensive ingredients.
We can save a LOT of money eating ingredients that not expensive! It can look like a million bucks, but I want it fast, easy and inexpensive! :)
Easy meal planning of fast and easy recipes is super simple with Busy People's Fast and Frugal Cookbook and Busy People's Super Simple 30-Minute Menus Cookbook because there is only one set of time-line instructions to follow in order to make the entire menu of recipes in 30-minutes or less, PLUS a grocery list is provided! Each features cookbook meals loaded with low cost family dinner recipes (over 250 each) that are low fat, too!
Is it time for a change? Is it time to cook even more frugal? If so, have no fear, I am here to help!
Try these many free recipes from Busy People's Cookbooks on my Cooking for Busy People website to see if my fast, easy and low fat home style recipes are just what you've been looking for!
Join our Cooking for Busy People Facebook fan page, too! We share lots of fast and frugal ideas to help each other out! Together we are stronger united.
God bless you~
These easy cookbooks of frugal meals using low fat recipes really are ideal cooking for beginners!
These are among the best cookbooks for those who love to save money and serve delicious dinners at the same time! Cooking for Busy People Facebook and our Cooking For Busy People Website are loaded with lots of cheap,
healthy recipes for easy home cooking! Just what many couples (regardless of age) need in today's tight economy! I know my sweetheart and I are definitely tightening our spending BIG TIME RIGHT NOW!
My daughter, Ashley, is a new bride; and her new groom, Joe,
love making family dinner recipes together with the
easy meal planning.
The grocery lists in the brand new
Busy People's Fast & Frugal Cookbook is one of the best cookbooks when it comes to cooking for beginners!
Click here for lots of free recipes!
Share us with your friends and family and you too could win one of the best cookbooks for FREE!
Happy 1 year Anniversary Joe and Ashley Shaffer! ~Love, Your Momma Dawn:)
Are you PUZZLED at how to raise money for a fundraiser or medical expenses?
Question from Ann Marie: I heard that you allow people who need help with medical expenses to use your cookbooks to help them with their medical hardships.I pray that your cookbooks could be Gods means of help for them. Thank you, Ann Marie.
All of my Busy People's Cookbooks are available for fundraisers and medical fundraisers! For medical expenses the cost is only $7.00 per book, OF FULL CASES of 24 books (OF EACH TITLE)!
I waive all of my author profits to benefit the person needing help with their medical expenses.
This is how it works:
This special price, of $7.00 per book, which includes shipping costs, in full case quantities (24 books per case) is ONLY for those with medical expenses not covered by insurance. For other fundraisers there are different prices, 40-50 % discounts.
Please submit (by email) your request for the "Special Fund Raising Terms to Use Busy People's Cookbooks for Medical Expenses" to me, Dawn Hall, at: Dawn@DawnHallCookbooks.com
Explain briefly what the funds will be used for and who they will help.
Once the request is reviewed and approved I will let Sandy at Thomas Nelson Publishers know you are approved for the special medical fund raising price and you can contact her directly. You will receive the contact information by email.
My goal and purpose is to give you a helping hand. I cannot raise the money for you, but you can use my cookbooks as a fundraiser, I will not keep a penny, and as I did for my husband's medical expenses, you can raise the money you need yourself with the help of others who care about you. Simply ask others to help you sell the cookbooks.
How to do a Fundraiser with my easy cookbooks for busy people:
- Pay the publisher directly on your charge card. They will drop ship full cases of 24 cookbooks (of same title) anywhere within the USA.
- Insert a letter explaining the purpose of the fundraiser along with a photo of who the fundraiser is for.
- Give books to friends & family to sell for your fundraiser.
- Put press release in paper and let TV news stations know.
- Once your charge card payment is due, enough books should be sold to over the cost of the printing, and all of the profits are yours!
There are 8 different fund raising cookbooks to use. All only have 7 or less easy to find ingredients per recipes and are made within 30 minutes or less! All are low fat!
- Busy People's Fun, Fast, Festive Christmas Cookbook (Christmas Cookbooks)
- Busy People's Super Simple 30-Minute Menus (Easy Meal Planning)
- Busy People's Down-Home Cooking without the Down-Home Fat
- Busy People's Low-Fat Cookbook (Light healthy Recipes)
- Busy People's Slow Cooker Cookbook (Crock pot Cookbooks)
- Busy People's Diabetic Cookbook (Diabetic Food Recipes)
- Busy People's Low-Carb Cookbook (Healthy Food Tips)
- Busy People's Fast & Frugal Cookbook (Cheap healthy recipes)
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Sometimes when we are in stressful situations we have to consciously choose to stay calm, keep it in perspective, not allow ourselves to go berserk. That’s usually easier said than done. A top priority in living a more peaceful lifestyle is in acknowledging our areas of weakness, and then choosing to change the way we react to our behavior.
Sometimes we have to do what Dawn Hall calls “Fake it till ya make it.” Simply put: if our natural instinct is to fly off the handle and get all irate when things aren’t going our way, or allow something to ruin our day, we can choose to act or behave the way we would ideally like to, even though our natural instinct is the opposite.
We can choose to become the person we want to be. Live the way you want to be until the habit becomes so much a part of you that you do no longer have to fake it. People who knew you growing up may know you as a hot head, but if you have made a conscious choice to change your behavior when you feel inside like being a hot head then the people who know you now might think of you as a calm and easy going person.
Yes, you may still struggle with wanting to be a hot head, but with time, perseverance and self discipline you can become the person you want to be. You might call this Dawn Hall's frugal recipe for less stress :)
100 calorie sized bag of popcorn), that these 100 calorie sized snacks are not helpful in weight management or weight loss when we eat lots of them! :)- It is SOOO obvious that I was born watching my weight, isn't it? :)Thank goodness for quick low calorie recipes like those that are in Busy People's easy cookbooks, (which are ideal cooking for beginners!) Click for FREE LOW CALORIE RECIPES made with only 7 ingredients!
For a lot of us financially times are tight, let me rephrase that "REAL TIGHT"!
One serving size bag of 100 calorie popcorn often cost 35 to 50 cents per bag, compared to the lower cost of 4 bags in a box for $1.00 (of low-fat brands) with a total of 12 servings for a cost per serving of less than 9 cents per serving!
If we are REALLY buckling down to lose weight or keep it off, and we only eat one serving of the 100 calorie bags, you may feel the extra cost is worth it.
I hate to waste food, but honestly, I would be financially better off buying the cheaper brands and portioning out a single serving size and then throwing the rest away. We can't keep the left over popcorn for tomorrow because microwave popcorn doesn't keep well over night. It gets stale. We could feed the extra popcorn to the birds! Let's face it those of us with low will power will eat the whole 3 serving size bag if we are not careful! :)
For lots of free quick low calorie recipes of fast, healthy food visit our Cooking For Busy People Website and join our Cooking for Busy People Facebook! We share lots of great time and money saving recipes, and fast healthy meals! We'd love to hear your favorites, too!
They say that the best athletes have the unhealthiest diets. In truth, the best athletes are blessed with great genetics, and tend to eat whenever and whatever they want. But, in looking at an Olympic athlete’s diet, one can’t help but wonder what kind of food choices they really make? Female athletes get between 2000 and 3000 calories a day and the men get between 3000 and 5000…Wow!
Depending on the Olympic sport, Olympic athletes differ in nutritional choices.
An Olympic curler is not going to have the same diet plan as an Olympic as a downhill skier. On the lighter side, the menu might consist of cereal, milk, and a banana for breakfast, a sandwich and soup for lunch, snacks consisting of trail mix and energy bars as well as chicken, rice, and vegetables for dinner.
A cross country skier's diet on the other hand would be very similar to a long distance runner's as they consume much larger quantities of food in general and a lot more protein. Experts also recommend high amounts of liquids including smoothies, fruit juices, snack foods including nuts, and energy bars.
Easy healthy dinners for a skier would be high in carbs like rice and potatoes and vegetables, bread, chicken, salmon, and beef for protein. 1,000 meter Olympic speed skating gold medalist Shani Davis’s diet might resemble Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’s. Phelps consumes of a lot of food and a very large number of calories. During training he is instructed to eat between 8000 and 10,000 calories a day.
This might sound overly extreme, but with his large body type it’s exactly what he needs. Phelps requires a large caloric input for fuel. For breakfast alone Phelps starts with 3 fried egg sandwiches with cheese and tomatoes, an omelet, 3 slices of powdered french toast, and three chocolate chip pancakes. I guess that's what he calls easy meal planning.
The bottom line is that Olympic athlete’s diets can vary immensely. The main thing is for them to eat, so that they can gain the energy needed for any event.
So if you don't happen to be an Olympic athlete who requires thousands of calories to compete, check out one of Dawn Hall's world famous Cooking for Busy People cookbooks and remember to support your local future gold medalists.
YES! she'd be a dynamic, inspirational & fun cooking guest with fast, frugal and figure-friendly home style cooking ideas for Busy People!
Her story is incredibly unbelievable! (She originally self-published Busy People's Cookbooks). All 2000+ recipes in all 8 cookbooks are made w/only 7 or less easy to find low fat home style ingredients, even though she didn't know how to type or use a computer; and over 1-million Busy People's Cookbooks have sold!
SHE WANTS ALL of HER AUTHOR PROFITS from my newest Busy People's Fast & Frugal Cookbook sold through Ellen's website for the first month (after she does a fun cooking demo on her show) to be donated to Food Banks and Haiti relief.
Plus she loves, loves, LOVES! to have fun, joke around and dance! Great fun, great food (with low fat recipes that busy people need and want) all for a great cause!
Let's do it! I'm excited! "Tell me when to put on my dancing shoes and cooking apron".
Together with Ellen, Dawn Hall is ready to cook frugal meals and dance and have lots of fun raising a lot of $$$ to help others! She looks forward to hearing from you soon! Woo-hoo! :)
www.CookingForBusyPeople.com and I'm on You Tube, too!
So Pleeeaaassseee! click HERE! and tell Ellen why Dawn Hall would be a great guest on her show.
TODAY on President's Day-Feb. 15th!Cooking fast and easy recipes to lose weight
while looking good in clothing you got half off...
can it get any better?
Look in their housewares
department for easy cookbooks of cheap healthy
recipes, too!
I also got lots of serving ware from there!
Of course, for LOTS OF FREE FAMILY DINNER RECIPES
with complete menus and grocery lists visit
Cooking For Busy People's Free Recipes Page!
All of the recipes are light healthy recipes!
Join our fan club of Cooking for Busy People on Facebook for more free goodies, savings and ideas, too!
Please share with us your time and money saving ideas for cooking delicious dinners! Share us with your friends and family, too! There is strength in helping each other. God bless you as you bless others~
So here's the question. How do you have a memorable, romantic Valentine's Day on a budget? Well first things first!
Breakfast in Bed Hawaiian Style!
This entire menu from one of Dawn Hall's top cookbooks, her new Fast & Frugal Cookbook can be made in 15 minutes!
- No serving Tray?- Use a jelly roll pan, baking sheet or cookie sheet.
- No money for card? Write a handwritten love note on a paper napkin or sticky note No pretty plates or napkins- Make hearts with a red pen on a paper plate and paper napkin.
- If they like coffee or tea, serve it first, even though the breakfast isn't finished yet.
- Place a real flower or silk flower on the serving tray. If you can't find one, then borrow one from a neighbor.
- Turn on soft background music.
- Write a list of "Top Ten Reasons Why You Want Them As Your Valentine"
- For extra pizzazz serve breakfast in bed to them wearing one of their favorite outfits. (Set it out and hide it the night before so they won't know).
- Do the dishes afterwords and leave no trace of the evidence you were so kind, sweet and thoughtful!
- Have fun with it
To print this recipe click on the "Print Recipe" Button.
Ok, so if you're just starting out, hopefully you got a Slow Cooker for Christmas just in time to make your sweetie some delicious dinners for Valentines Day. This fast and easy recipe comes from one of the best cook books ever! The Busy People's® Slow Cooker Cookbook.
This recipe for Pork Tenderloin Tips with Stuffing and Green Beans can be put together in my original invention "Pocket Pouches" a brain storm that I had while camping one time. Just wrap each course individually with aluminum foil and layer them in the slow cooker, then cook them in the crock pot per the instructions.
Check out the video and print the recipe below and savor to your hearts content! Your significant sweetie will love you for it!
Kudos to the Saints….great game! I think that the Colts needed a fast and easy recipe for winning a football game. I took an unbiased stance this year but I know a lot of Colts fans that are grieving the loss. As always the commercials are as much the entertainment as the actual game.
Here were my favorites:
1. Doritos – Shock Collar
Rover magically removes his shock collar and places it on his owner to maneuver his Doritos away from him. Very Funny!
2. David Letterman-CBS
This one really caught me by surprise. David Letterman complains, “This is the worst Super Bowl party ever.” Oprah Winfrey replies and then it’s revealed that Jay Leno is there as well. Leno says Letterman is unhappy he’s there. Somehow I think Conan should have been there too. I really had to take a double take on that one!
3. Snickers Commercial
This was hysterical! “You might play football like Betty White”, with the 89 year old veteran entertainer squishing around a muddy football field very wacky spot that ended with Abe Vigoda with his face in the mud. Funny!
4. Doritos
A man has a date with a single mom, but her 7 year old son slaps the man and tells him to. “Keep your hands off my mama and keep your hands off my Doritos,”
5. Pro-Life Focus On the Family
The Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tedbow’s Focus on The Family ad caused all kinds of controversy from pro-choice groups but ended up delivering a very subtle pro-life message.
All in all this was on my top 5 list for best Super Bowl Experiences. Click Here to tell us your favorite Super Bowl Commercial.
All these snack ads got me to thinking about food so I searched through Dawn Hall’s Busy People’s cookbook repertoire for some kind of healthy Snicker alternative and I came up with this treat from one of the best cook books the Busy People's Low-Carb Cookbook.
New Year's Resolution?
Are you a "let's not talk about it" person
or are you making it happen!?
If your doing good-congratulations!
If not, fear not!
I'm here to help you!
You are not alone!
Either way this Cooking for Busy People Blog has
lots of FREE quick low calorie recipes
to lose weight for you and your friends and family.
All of these free low calorie recipes are from my Busy People's easy cookbooks designed to help you lose weight and keep it of for good! Note: There is a reason why Quail Ridge Press selected the entire Busy People's Cookbook Series as one of Ohio's Best of the Best Cookbooks! After try as many free recipes as you want from my many family cookbooks, varying from the low fat slow cooker recipes to my easy healthy dinners complete with a grocery list, you'll experience hands on why they were selected the best cookbooks! Easy cookbooks with recipes to lose weight and fast healthy meals is what I am all about!
Feel free to share these free recipes and blog with your friends and family, too!
For successful weight loss and weight loss maintenance you need:
- Easy and fast healthy meals
- Quick low calorie recipes
- Easy cookbooks with grocery lists included for family dinner recipes
- Crock pot Cookbooks with low fat slow cooker recipes- for days when you want to come home to dinner done!
- Taste great!
- Low cost
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Whether you’re a Saints or a Colts fan, one fact remains, there will be more parties than on any other day of the year, even more than New Year's Eve. Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest day of the year for snack food. On this unofficial American day of snacking. We will consume over 8.5 million pounds of tortilla chips, 4000 tons of popcorn, and 14,500 tons of potato chips!
Great super bowl parties include appetizers like wings, nachos, shrimp and other finger foods, and desserts. If you're having a Super Bowl party plan for plenty of food, but stick with a simple menu and easy recipes that will allow you to join the fun and enjoy the company of friends. Guests will appreciate both cold and hot beverages. So today it’s Dawn Hall to the rescue for some easy meal planning for you game day party. So Punt the Pizza and enjoy these delicious delectable low-fat are fast healthy meals that your guests are sure to enjoy. Pint the recipe buton below for Chipped Beef Rollups, Chicken Caesar Roll-ups & healthy to your heart Pizza Magic Pockets. Enjoy and may the best team win!
When I first started creating my Busy People’s Super Simple 30 Minute Menus Cookbook, I cut time by purchasing precut lettuces. It didn’t take long before I realized that if the precut lettuces weren’t on sale, I was spending an arm and a leg to save a few minutes. I’m too frugal for that, so I revamped things a bit.Unless I was under a major time constraint when preparing the fast healthy meals , or if the precut salads were on sale, I opted to chop my own lettuce. It saved oodles of money and, for the most part, the salads could be freshly cut and comfortably prepared within the 30 minutes.
A good place to purchase large quantities of precut romaine and iceberg lettuce along with spring lettuce mixes are wholesale clubs. Actually many of the menus take less than 30 minutes; however, all of them can be completely and comfortably made in 30 minutes or less.
When a meal is completed in 22 minutes I did not add extra recipes to the menu to use up time because the entire menu already has everything it needs nutritionally for a well-balanced meal with healthy portions of carbohydrates, lean proteins, and vegetables.
Sometimes I added fresh-baked bread recipes of some kind to the menu, if it wasn’t a high calorie menu. In all honesty, most families do not need the extra carbohydrates with their pasta or rice entrées. I tried to be health conscious and take into consideration what most people need, which is more free time to enjoy life.
Today I have included another tasty recipe from one of many of my easy cookbooks;
Super Simple 30 Minute Menus Cookbook; Buffalo Chicken Salad Soft Tacos. Click the Recipe Button and enjoy!
One of the hardest things about making the conscious choice to eating a healthier lifestyle is doing what I call; ”De-Fatting Your Home and Automobile.” For frugal people like myself who like to stretch the dollar this step can actually be painful and downright awful, because you are going to literally throw away what you used to think of as good food choices.
If they are loaded with simple sugars, if they have more than 3 grams of fat per a 100 calorie serving (except for half fat butter or lean meats), The are what I call “Compacted Calories” (They have a lot of calories for a little serving.)
Delicious dinners and eating healthier with lower fat doesn’t begin with what you eat, it begins with what you purchase to eat (and in the choices we make prior to our actual first bite).
There are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of fat-free, very low-fat and lower carb products on the market today that can easily be substituted for our ounce poor choice foods, and make delicious dinners with light healthy recipes. Don’t worry I am not going to ask you to eat anything that does not taste good. My motto regarding low-fat and lower carb foods is, "If it doesn't taste good don't eat it." There are too many delicious choices available today for any of us to waste calories on food that doesn't taste good.
An easy rule of thumb when reading labels: If it has more than 3 grams of fat per 100 calories don't buy it. The only time I break that rule is for half the fat butter, which I like on toast; and also you can have more than 3 grams of fat for super lean beef and pork such as:
Serving Fat % Fat
Type of Beef Size Grams Calories Calories
London Broil/ 3 oz. 6 167 32%
Flank Steak
Top Loin 3 oz. 6 162 33%
(Lean Only)
Eye of Round 3 oz. 5 150 30%
(As a steak, roast or have butcher grind for super lean hamburger).
I encourage you to make the switch to ground eye of round if you enjoy eating red meat and do not want to refrain. You'll be doing your heart, health, and waistline a lot of good! For more information and grocery lists for any of the Busy People Cookbooks Click Here!
How's this for quick low calorie recipes?
Bacon Egg & Cheese Sandwich
· 3-minutes total time
Easy home cooking at its best for breakfast on the run!
Save lots of cash, calories and fats!
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