Zombie Bites! A snack for The Walking Dead fans!

Are you a fan of The Walking Dead?! 

Here is a fun snack to make for Sunday night!

ZOMBIE BITES!

You will need: 

White chocolate baking chips

Waffle Style pretzels

Sugar bones (I found my in the Halloween cake items)

Food coloring (I used red, black and green)

 

Other items I used:

mixing bowls

mixing utensils (I used a fork)

toothpicks

cookie sheets

wax paper

microwave

Step 1: Separate a bag of white chocolate baking chips into two bowls (make sure the bowls are microwave safe!)

 

Follow the directions on the chocolate chips package, for timing on how to melt the chocolate without burning it. 

Step 2: while the chocolate is melting away in the microwave, I laid out my pretzels on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper (I prefer it for an easier clean up!)

 

 Step 3: When the chocolate is melted, I added the food coloring. Green to one bowl and red to the other bowl. 

Step 4: I mixed the food coloring in very well, and kept adding more until the chocolate was my desired shades of green and red. When the chocolate was my desired colors, I used my fork to drop a blob onto each pretzel. I started with the green chocolate.

 

Step 6: before the green chocolate started to harden, I placed an un-melted white chocolate chip upside-down in random places of the green chocolate.  I then took red food coloring on a toothpick and dribbled red over the entire pretzel and chocolate to make it look like blood. I added a small dab of black food coloring to the center of the un-melted white chocolate chip to make it look like an eyeball. 

Step 7: Now onto the red melted chocolate! I did the same process as step 6 for the red as well, but I also used some candy sugar bones for some of them! I also didn't use any extra red food coloring to add blood to these ones, but you totally could if you wanted to! I did however, use a fork to rough up the chocolate a little more on these ones as the chocolate was starting to harden. I was going for more of a human look for these ones, compared to the green ones.

 

Step 8: place them in the fridge until it is serving time!

Step 9: Take them out of the fridge and enjoy them with other Walking Dead fans and friends!

p.s. these would also be a fun Halloween treat as well!! Heck, even for a scary movie night with friends or the family!

If you recreate these or even make your own version please remember to share a picture with me and your thoughts on them in the comments below! Or tag #CVA on Instagram! I could love to see your creations! 

Bloody Zombie Bone Smoothies - DAIRY FREE!

 The Walking Dead? Have you ever heard of it?

ohh... I am sure you have. Who hasn't?!

Well James, my brothers, their girlfriends and myself are a little obsessed.

We get together every Sunday and eat dinner and watch the show and after show (Talking Dead) Yes. Every weekend.

For the season premiers and season finales I try to make something TWD related. I have made a giant zombie cookie, I have also made mini zombie cookies. 

Well... Tonight was the season finale. ( so sad.... ) and I wanted to make something new and fun but still TWD related. James and I have been obsessed with our Ninja Blender ever since the day we got it and use it for smoothies quite often. So I thought why not a fun smoothie.

I have dog bone shaped ice trays that I could easily use for frozen yogurt bones. Then the idea just clicked. Blood Smoothies! 

Here is how I made them...

Ingredients:

* ( 1 ) 8 oz bag of frozen raspberries

* ( 2 ) 8 oz bags of frozen strawberries

* ( 4 ) small containers of Silk dairy free vanilla yogurt

* ( 6 ) cups of Vanilla Sink Almond Milk

* ( 2 ) bananas

* ( 1 ) can of chopped strawberries with juice

* bone shaped ice cube trays (i got mine at WalMart in the pet section)

* cups

* straws

* Guests thirsty for some Zombie Blood (EWW... ACTUALLY.. HAHA)

Bone Directions: 

1. TAKE 2 OF THE YOGURT PACKS AND EMPTY THEM INTO A BOWL

2. OPEN THE CAN OR STRAWBERRIES AND MIX A LITTLE INTO THE YOGURT, BUT DON'T COMPLETELY MIX IT UP. just MAKE A RED BLOODY LOOKING SWIRL THROUGH THE WHITE YOGURT

3. PUT ABOUT A SPOONFUL ( OR 2 ) INTO EACH BONE OPENING OF THE ICE CUBE TRAY

4. PUT THAT IN THE FREEZER FOR A FEW HOURS ( i LEFT MINE IN OVER NIGHT )

Smoothie Directions:

1. MIX THE FROZEN RASPBERRIES, FROZEN STRAWBERRIES, BANANAS, OTHER 2 PACKS OF YOGURT AND VANILLA ALMOND MILD TOGETHER IN A BLENDER

2. BLEND UNTIL SMOOTH

3. ADD MORE almond MILK IF NEEDED

4. YOU CAN EVEN ADD A LITTLE BIT OF THE CANNED STRAWBERRIES AND JUICE BUT SAVE SOME OF THE JUICE!

5. WHEN BLENDED SMOOTH, STOP BLENDER AND POUR INTO YOUR CUPS

6. TAKE A FROZEN YOGURT BONE AND DIP IT IN THE LEFT OVER STRAWBERRY JUICE, SCOOPING UP A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA JUICE

7. PLACE THE BLOODY LOOKING YOGURT BONE INTO THE SMOOTHIE STICKING ABOUT HALF WAY OUT. the SCOOPED UP STRAWBERRY JUICE WILL PUDDLE AROUND THE YOGURT BONE TO MAKE IT LOOK BLOODY

8. ADD A STRAW AND SERVE!

Are you a zombie OR Walking Dead LOVER?

take this to your next scary movie night or Walking Dead get together!

This is even a fun idea that I might use for Halloween this year!

Taco Balls - Foody Friday - Recipe

James and I are always trying to find or think of quick but yummy lunches and snacks. WE love to take a ton of ingredients and mix them together to see how they turn out. Well this is the case for us. James is part Mexican. I love Mexican food, As does he. We wanted tacos but did not have tortillas, we were both at home in our comfy clothes just relaxing so neither of us wanted to go to the store. I opened the fridge and saw that we had a few packs of crescent rolls. LIGHT-BULB! then they were born... and delicious! Taco Balls...

Ingredients:
* 1 pound of hamburger meat
* 1 packet of taco seasoning
* 2 rolls of crescent rolls
* sour cream
* shredded Cheese
* salsa

Directions:
1. brown your hamburger meat.

2. follow the oven preheating directions on the crescent roll packages
3. drain your hamburger meat
4. add taco seasoning
5. roll out each crescent roll
6. place 1-2 tbsp in the center of each crescent roll
7. sprinkle cheese on meat (if desired)
8. fold over all edges of crescent roll around meat and cheese
9. pinch all edges closed
10. sprinkle a dash of cheese on top to add a pretty look and some extra flavor
11. put in oven until golden brown or cooked to your personal preference
12. take out - let cool a little
13. top with sour cream, lettuce, salsa, guacamole, or any other toppings you prefer
14. ENJOY!

 

If you try them please share your experience! And I would love to hear of any adjustments or additional toppings added to your version!

DIY Meat Rub { Beef }

For the guys of my family this year, I made them little baggies of seasoning for beef. I wanted to do big jars of them for each male of the family, however, to be completely honest, it was just way to expensive. So a little one meal bag is what they got. I made cute little labels and everything! :D

I just mixed all the ingredients together and put about 4 tbsp in each baggy, then attached a tag and used a twisty tie to close it.

 

Beef Rub Ingredients:

{ Recipe I got from my school pal }

  

 And here is a picture of the basket I held them in while I passed them out.

Little container with a lot of taste!

Being at school a lot lately, has forced me to buy snacks from the school cafeteria. I have a strong love for hummus and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this deliciously looking duo! How thoughtful and perfect?! The container is split into 2 parts the top has crisp pretzel chips in it and the bottom is foiled shut with hummus below! My school has a little mini fridge fill of these! And to be honest I wish I could just buy the whole fridge! I wish I could find these in bulk some where! I buy them all the time from school now and I love that it's actually a healthy treat! ;)

Xoxo Renae

Yummy Tummy Pumpkin Seeds

One of my favorite parts of fall + Halloween is eating the seeds after the carving of the pumpkin is done! 

For these seeds, I melted a spoonful of butter + brushed it on, quickly coating each seed.

Then I sprinkled garlic powder + salt on them.

I popped them in the oven at 250 degrees for about an hour + TAH-DAH!!

Delicious! 

DIY homemade applesauce in the Crocpot!

 

Why, hello there!

I saw a few posts on Pinterest about homemade apple sauce. 

I was in the baking mood, so I ran out and bought a few bags of apples from the local grocery store,

came home. Washed them. Peeled them. Cored them. Chopped them.

I threw them in our crocpot, with 1 cup brown sugar, 1/3 cup water,  and sprinkled them with cinnamon. I put the crocpot on low, and let it cook for about 7 hours (stirring it occasionally)

And smelling it too of course! (it made the entire house smell amazing!)

After the 7 hours passed, I turned the crocpot off and I used a been smasher to smash the apple chunks. After baking all day, they were very soft and easy to smash.

I let the apple sauce cool down for a little while, and in the mean time I prepped the mason jar.

My one crocpot only filled 1 mason jar, and had a small amount left over for us to try out and snack on.

It was easy, fun, easy on the nose ;) and turned out delicious!

I just bought some more apples to make a few more jars to give away to people. 

This is a definite must try!