Times are tough right now, and saving money where we can makes a big difference. I came across a set of 10 freezer-prep meals that are simple, budget-friendly, and perfect for stretching groceries a little further.
The recipes are pretty basic, which is great because you can make them your own. Just add your favorite seasonings, spices, or extras. Think of them as solid starter meals you can build off of without breaking the bank.
Sharing in case it helps anyone else because we could all use easy, inexpensive meal ideas these days!
First, the recipe list and grocery list:
1. Crockpot Sweet and Sour Pork Chops with Stir Fry Veggies, over rice
2. Crockpot Tomato Basil Chicken with Baby Spinach & Spaghetti
3. Crockpot Southwestern Chicken Chili with Peppers and Corn & Tortilla Chips
4. Crockpot Brown Sugar Bourbon Chicken with Green Beans over Rice or Baked Sweet Potato
5. Crockpot Honey Lime Chicken with Butternut Squash over rice
6. Crockpot Ground Turkey Tacos with Bell Peppers
7. Crockpot Beef Stew with Vegetables with Bread
8. Crockpot Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots
9. Crockpot Hamburger Vegetable Soup with Peas and Carrots with Garlic Bread
10. Crockpot Beef Teriyaki with Sugar Snap Peas over rice
Bonus Recipe: My Sweet and Sour Chicken for the Crockpot, over rice or noodles. It's yummy!
I had a disciplined update drafted, but events have moved faster than even I expected. A thread.
First, a baseline reminder:
Congressional Republicans will never arrive at impeachment the way Democrats do.
They will not frame it around morality, cruelty, victims, or outrage, even if those factors exist privately.
Republicans act when institutions stop functioning and they lose power as a result. I hesitate to call out only impeachment in this analysis. Instead, I am using “institutional change” to encompass both that, and removal of the Speaker, and more sudden & unexpected retirement/resignation announcements.
If movement happens, it will be justified as restoring order, preserving Congress’s constitutional role, and making governance possible again. The language will be procedural, restrained, and frankly boring on purpose.
If you’re waiting for Republicans to say, “Trump crossed a moral line,” you’ll wait forever.
If you’re watching for Republicans to say, calmly, “this is no longer sustainable,” you’re watching the right thing.
Here are the signals that have happened congress went in to recess, which is the date I’m using as a timeline marker.
1. Elite Donors and Corporate Power Have Gone Quiet.
During the election, inauguration, and through late December, major corporate and financial figures were publicly engaged: congratulatory statements, “working together” language, meetings, photo-ops, and selective policy support.
Since the VE attacks, that engagement has collapsed into silence. They are not defending Trump’s actions. They are not amplifying his agenda. They are not publicly owning outcomes. This is not neutrality. This is reputational risk containment.
When elite actors go quiet all at once and/or pushback (See: oil companies), it usually means they no longer believe defending the governing trajectory is worth the downside risk. That matters, a lot.
2. A Senior, Institutionally Respected Republican Drew a Structural Red Line.
I’ve been watching for a very specific moment: a senior Republican, not a MAGA firebrand and not a habitual dissenter, publicly rebuking Trump over function, not morality.
That happened!!!!!
Tom Tillis went on the Senate floor and drew a clear red line around Greenland, not because it’s “wrong,” but because it breaks institutional order and bypasses Congress.
His tone wasn’t fear or performative outrage. It was exasperation and the sound of someone who has already processed the implications.
Important point:
You do not do this publicly unless you’ve already taken the temperature privately!!!! You only do it if you have support, even if it is private support for now.
3. Leadership Has Gone Silent Instead of Directive.
In moments of crisis, functional leadership (Speaker, majority and minority leaders, whips, committee chairs) does one of two things: coordinates messaging, or goes quiet when coordination isn’t possible. Speaker Johnson has done the latter. Remember, the GOP just held it’s “start of the session” pep rally, uh, “retreat” on MONDAY! Messaging has already fallen apart.
There has been no leadership attempt to reframe recent events, set narrative boundaries, or align the caucus around all of Trump’s actions and proposals. Instead, leadership communications have retreated to safe, generic content. That absence is not accidental. It suggests internal disagreement strong enough to prevent unified messaging. Johnson didn’t even take a side on the Renee Good murder. Instead, he posted a sort of “Happy Local Police” post on X right after the Mpls shooting. He’s acting as if this event never happened. However, you can darn well be assured Levitt and team, including DT, have told him to get out there are tow the Trump line, to create unified Republican messaging. That’s his job. He didn’t and couldn’t.
That, IMO, is exactly why Vance was sent instead. Normally, you’d see Johnson in the hallways of the Capitol talking to reporters, or holding a presser, right? Not this time. He’s gone quiet since the 17 Republicans threatened him with ouster & voted yes on the restoration of ACA subsidies.
I think most people are aware that many states are building a database of people with autism.
Parents and adult adults are going to run to their doctors to be prescribed this drug. The drug manufacturer, likely Israeli company Teva pharmaceuticals, will give this information to the department of health.
Obviously this drug isn’t going to work. On your Phase 2.
Phase 2 is to have children and adults in the autism database to be involuntarily committed due to being “resistant to therapy“. They will go into wellness camps and guess who will run those? Dr. Phil.
@Acyn *On to Phase 2. Typo
@Acyn People that have followed me for a while know that I’m not very alert. This? It’s not good.
“WE NEED A RECOUNT!” No, folks. We DON’T and here’s why:
The biggest problem is not with the ballots or the totals. The problem is with the tabulation software. The ballot totals per machine are likely accurate. In the most suspect counties/states they ARE being recounted. The hack went like this:
I am being simplistic.
Machine 1 total: 100,000 votes for Harris. 73,000 votes for Trump.
The data is uploaded on to a memory stick and then uploaded into the Microsoft tabulation software. That’s where the totals change.
Machine 1 total becomes: 69,423 votes for Harris. 73,000 votes for Trump. The difference is a set percentage of the Harris mail-in ballots – in this example 4.95% or 3,577 votes.
Down ballot races were likely impacted as well.
We don’t necessarily need to recount every ballot. We need to only use the machine data and not the uploaded data in the tabulation software. The ballots are organic, real. (Assuming there was no online voter registration fraud – which is currently being investigated in PA, for example).
IF there was a hack/fraud, this is how it was done. I am no cyber expert – simply a person who is far too logical for my own good, perhaps.
What must happen is the hack has to be exposed once all counting has concluded. It has not – yet.
Holler all you want but ask yourself why Harris is in Hawaii chilling out, regrouping & resting before Thanksgiving when she could’ve just waited until January 21st to vacation.
Ask yourself why our allies are slowly building a united wall around Russia and Ukraine and allowing their weaponry to be used. Ask yourself why the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Bibi and one by one our allies are announcing they support the ICC and will detain Bibi.
Remember, Bibi visited DJT at his home, y’all. Take a look at the timeline below. Raises eyebrows, doesn’t it?
March 8th: Orban speaks on a panel with the head of Heritage Foundation before meeting DJT at MAL
JULY:
1st: SCOTUS issues presidential immunity ruling.
3rd: DJT plane at Dulles is parked next to planes owned by higher ups in the UAE and RU.
11th: Hungarian dictator Orban visits DJT at MAL.
13th: Leon publicly endorses DJT
19th: CrowdStrike/Microsoft update hack
21st: Biden withdraws.
26th: Netanyahu visits DJT at MAL.
28th & 30th: DJT says he doesn’t need votes.
So, must every ballot be recounted in every state or swing state? No, not necessarily. They only have to be RE-TOTALED.
PS: If you don’t see posts for a full day, that means I’ve been um ... forcibly quieted and you can find me where the skies are blue.
Also, the % is likely just enough over the mandatory recount % in each county/state. But what do I know. 🤷🏻♀️