Boy did my garden grow!

So, as we know I planted a garden in a bath tub
Well it has grown!
I get so excited when I see that my plants have gotten bigger!
I also mulched the top of it to help keep soil moist and keep down weeds and pests.

I couldn't stop there!
I found out you can buy edible plants and seed with EBT/SNAP card!
Sooooo we got more. :)

Broccoli and Strawberries

Orange peppers, Red peppers

Spicy oregano, German thyme
Yellow peppers

Romaine lettuces, and Cucumber

And down here, you can barley see Cantaloupe, Tomatoes, and Onion.
Next week I'm planting yellow and red potatoes!

The clear buckets were part of a storage drawer system, we just poked holes in the bottom.
And the colored buckets were a dollar each! They are waste baskets from the dollar tree.

Love watching my plants grow!

Cheap mans Chicken and Dumplings

Are you in the mood for good home cooked soup.
Thick and creamy, full of flavor.
With a lot of your food groups?
But you have less than 5$ to spend?

Try a hand at my recipie of Chicken and Dumplings.
Feeds 3 really hungry adults and a toddler

Ingredients
1 big can of chicken breast
1 can of sweet peas
1 can of cut carrots
1 can of cream of chicken
1 pack of creamy chicken Ramen noodles (not the noodles just the flavor packet)
1 cup of flour
1 tbsp butter
seasonings of your choice (I suggest thyme, basil, salt, pepper, and garlic powder)

START SOUP
1) Combine Chicken, peas, and carrots in a large sauce pan, DO NOT DRAIN.
2) Add your seasoning, butter, and Ramen flavor packet, stir
3) Bring to a simmer while you fix dumplings

FIX EM DUMPLINS
1) Put cup of flour to mixing bowl
2) Slowly stir in broth from soup until flour is sticky but moist dough like

FINISH SOUP
1) Add cream of chicken to soup and stir till fully disolved, bring it back to simmering
2) Cover your fingers in dry flour and pinch off balls of dough. (What ever size you like, thick ones take longer to cook)
3) DO NOT STIR at this point, rotate the pan occasionally, dumplings will rise to top when cooked.

EAT.

I ate the dumplings before I took the picture, yes they were that yummie