More cooking tales!

Cooking has been slow due to lack of time to use my awesome slow cooker, however I have now used it a total of 3 times and have had success each time! The second time I actually bought a pre-prepared meal from Walmart which contained meat potatoes and veggies. It was so easy to prep, I literally just had to throw everything into the slow cooker and just add some water and that was it. I was a bit skeptical on the taste, but sure enough it was actually good for what it was and lasted me 3 meals which I was excited about.

Just a couple of days ago, I decided to take a recipe out of one of the books my sister bought and mailed for me - Chicken drumsticks! The recipe was a bit more difficult had a lot of items and didn't have any veggies or anything but that was easily remedied by just buying a couple of green peppers and carrots to also bring with me for my meals. The halved the recipe since it called for 4 lbs of drummies and I knew I wouldnt be able to eat that much before they would go bad so I was a bit nervous and I also had forgotten one item but it turned out great! I was very happy.

Work is going well. For two weeks in a row I have gotten the two sales awards that we have which is for most phone calls and most sales in the week. I have gotten the award for most phone calls every week since my second week working there. I did not think at all that I was close to doing it again this week but I did so I was very happy :)

I still haven't explored the inner city of Knoxville as much as I would like - I do enjoy just walking around cities but there really isn't much to Knoxville. It's far different than Nashville, Boston, New York City, or any other bigger city I've been to. It's more like a small city that you don't go to just to explore.

Still trying to balance out my grocery shopping cost. My last bill was approximately $75 but I bought hot dogs (Hebrew National 97% fat free) which can easily cook in 1.5ish hours in the slow cooker and taste great along with veggies and some other stuff. I think that in the end it will end up lasting me for a week and a half before I have to go back to get more turkey for lunches but I should be set for dinners for at least 2 weeks if not maybe 2.5 . I have some tortellinis which I have found some good slow cooker recipes for. We will see!

Sorry it has been so long - I really will try to update more :)