Gramma in a Box Football Treats

Enjoy homemade treats without having to bake

  My boys have expressed an interest in cooking and baking so I am teaching them more. I would love to see them be able to bake cookies or make dinner without my help as these are life skills that they need to learn. So I am starting to teach them more and let them be in the kitchen more. That is hard for me as that also means a messy kitchen. Sure I am teaching them how to clean up after they cook but they don't seem to clean like me. So, I have to take deep breaths and put aside my control freak behavior and realize that they are learning. To do this, I sit in the family room which is right next to the kitchen and let my boys do simple recipes like things in the microwave. I have learned that teaching the boys how to cook has some advantages as I can have them make me a cup of tea. I love that they know how to safely turn on and off the stove to use the tea kettle!

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  During winter break my boys had a blast helping me bake cookies. They really enjoyed pressing the cookie cutters into the sugar dough. The most fun came with decorating the cookies. By the time we were done with the cookies, the kitchen was a mess. I really don't like cleaning so baking with the boys only happens once in a while. I know I should bake more with them but time gets in the way or we don't have the ingredients in the house. So I am happy when my boys get a Gramma Box in the mail. That way they can make sweet treats all on their own with very little mess.

The monthly Gramma in a Box includes cookies, frosting, & sprinkles

  So when our monthly box of cookie and candy projects arrived, I decided to let the boys create the treats all by themselves. I gave them a couple of instructions like they had to clean up their mess and they had to share the treats with me. The boys were excited to make the treats this month as the theme was football and New Year related.

The instructions were easy to read!

 The boxes from Gramma always include easy to read instructions with pictures of how the treats should look. I love that all the ingredients are individually packed in small containers so my boys know which ones to use for which recipe. The monthly treat boxes always have three treat projects and one is always cookie decorating. This month's cookies were shaped like footballs and the frosting colors were blue, white, and yellow. There was also plenty of sprinkles to decorate with.

Gramma always shares the ingredients

 I like that all the ingredients for each treat project are listed on the back of the recipe card along with what allergens are present. Thankfully my boys do not have food allergies but this information is good for me as I have a dairy allergy. My boys have learned to read food labels as they don't want to see me coughing. I only discovered my dairy allergy 6 months ago and I sometimes sneak treats that have dairy in them thinking that I will be ok but I always regret it later when I am having a coughing attack. My husband always chews me when I start coughing and asks me if I had dairy. So he has put the boys in charge of not letting me have treats with dairy in them. So by letting the boys make the treats on their own, they will only offer me the treats that are safe for me.

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The sweet treats always look amazing

 The recipes in this sweet treat cookie box are always kid-friendly and only require a microwave to melt the chocolate. The projects are also so simple that my boys can make the treats look so amazing. This is the fourth box that we have received in the mail. My boys always get excited when the monthly Gramma Box arrives and look forward to a day of cooking/baking. Each month the box of goodies is a different theme. The last box we made was filled with Thanksgiving cookies and the box before had beach shaped cookies. My boys had a blast with the emoji cookies and they always wonder what next months theme will be. Sure some might say that these boxes are not filled with healthy food but I say as long as you are eating healthy foods 80% of the time then sweets are perfectly fine for kids. I am not going to be that mom that bans sweets but I am going to teach my boys about healthy food. I am also going to be the grandma that bakes cookies with my grandkids. My grandbaby is still too young for cookies as she just started on baby food.

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Hen in a Hurry Chef Prepared Meal Box Review

I like getting food delivered to my home

                  I received 4 meals from Hen in a Hurry to facilitate this post.

 Most days my life can get crazy and it is hard to get dinner on the table so we have what is called fend for yourself night. Then there are the nights when I just don't feel like cooking as I am not hungry as I ate a late lunch. So I like having meals that I can pull out of the freezer that makes cooking dinner easy and fast. So when I was asked to try Hen in a Hurry, I was excited. That way I had a couple nights off from cooking. The meal service had an awesome selection of healthy meals to choose from. I liked that these meals were chef-prepared meals and made with clean, sustainably sourced, responsibly raised ingredients from our trusted farmers and purveyors.

No Waste. No Prep. No Preservatives. Just heat and enjoy!

  I liked the sound of heat and eat. It was also great that the meals had no preservatives in them. Unlike other meal subscriptions that I have tried, these meals were ready to eat, no having to prep my food. I was able to select my meals by ingredients and I liked that because of my food allergies. I loved that I was able to choose vegetarian and vegan meals. Hen in a Hurry also had Paleo, gluten-free, and Keto meals. While there were many meals to choose from, I was disappointed that there was only one dairy free, vegan meal and the bad part was that this meal had tofu in it. I have soy and dairy allergies so buying prepared meals can be tough. So I selected meals that I knew that my family would enjoy and some of them had veggies that I could enjoy.

The meals came in a huge cooler

  The meals arrive at my house in a big styrofoam cooler. They were still frozen as the cooler had plenty of dry ice in it. The meals that I selected were

 + Bourbon Braised Pork Belly with Stone Ground Grits
 + Cheddar and Chicken Enchiladas with Creamed Corn
 + Shrimp and Quinoa “Grits” with Buttered Brussels
 + Whole Grain Hash with Tofu with Grilled Green Beans

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  I decide to heat up the Shrimp and Quinoa “Grits” with Buttered Brussels for dinner as I do love shrimp. I thought that I could at least enjoy the shrimp and the Brussel Sprouts. The Butter Brussels were cooked in coconut oil and not butter so that was a plus for me. I liked that the packages listed all the ingredients so I could know which ones had dairy and soy in them. It only took 8 minutes to cook the meals in the microwave. Once they were done, I had to taste. I like that the Brussels were lightly seasoned and not mushy. The shrimp was also delicious.

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  My family is excited to try out the rest of the meals, especially the Bourbon Braised Pork Belly. I will be making this one this weekend when the teenager comes home for fall break. The rest of the meals will be enjoyed later in the week. I will update this post after they eat those meals. My family likes that there are delicious chef-prepared meals in the freezer so they can quickly heat them up for dinner. Hen in a Hurry meal service has a huge selection of meals that can fit almost any diet. For a limited time, you can save money on these delicious meals also. Just click on the below link.

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Check out the unboxing of the meals