Last week I was craving a bit of chocolate, and since I’m really trying to cut down on my sweets intake, plus lose a bit of weight/get healthier, I didn’t want to just pig out altogether. So, I made these Choco-Peanut Butter Cups, from the Pillsbury website, and then shared with our small group at church.:) I figure when I want to bake something really rich and fattening, I’ll just find others to share it with….and then we don’t just pig out on it all. It’s a no-brainer, win-win situation, right?:)Check out the recipe for Choco-Peanut Butter Cups on Pillsbury.

(Disclosure: I was NOT compensated in any way for this post by Pillsbury; I simply wanted to share a yummy nummy recipe involving chocolate.)

It’s snowing here this evening (the weatherman was just a teensy bit wrong….real shocker there), so I’m feelin’ all cozy. Thought a few recipes might warm us up this week….enjoy! Be sure to link up your giveaways!

Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, check out this beautiful Rainbow Cake from Tonya at Create-Celebrate-Explore.

Ali at Mom Spark posted a yummy looking, No-brainer Recipe for Blueberry Crumb Bars.

Check out these St. Patrick’s Day Snacks from Hoosier Homemade. Too cute!

My grandma used to make the best snickerdoodles; ever since, I’ve loved making them for my own kids. I had no idea there were any such thing as Snickerdoodle Muffins, as seen on Tasty Kitchen. Yum!

Make your own Chinese food with Mommy’s Kitchen, via her Orange Chicken & Vegetables. She also has a delish looking recipe for Alphabet Beef Vegetable Soup.

That should get your mouth waterin’. Have a happy Tuesday, and link up your giveaways!

Congratulations to Aaron Matthews, from A Disciple’s Guide to Common Sense, on winning a copy of The Life Ready Woman.

Thank you to all who entered. Have a wonderful day!

So, once again, I’m accepting Sandy’s organizing mission and working hard on my home this week. Last week I focused on my pantry, along with my baking pans/lids. I was super excited to conquer this area of my home because our pantry is a huge part of our daily lives. The clutter and mess was really getting to me. So, without further adieu, here are the before pics (which I am truly blushing over….they are horrid)….As you can see it’s just a big, cluttered mess. Somehow our big container of sandwich cutters got opened up and just thrown in the bottom.I wasn’t sure what to do with all this stuff. We have our dehydrator, lunch cooler (for hiking and bike trails), pressure cooker buried in there, as well as our food processor and some other stuff. Oh my.The food is just all over the place. I had gotten the door shelf kit at Walmart just a couple of weeks ago, and Dan helped me put it up, but I still hadn’t gotten around to organizing it.Notice the top is cluttered up with all kinds of stuff too….plastic tableware all over the place.Ok, so here is after!!!:) Dan is going to build 1-2 extra shelves in this closet and move the middle two up a bit; that way we don’t have all of the wasted space, and we can stock more non-perishable foods, which is one of our goals over the next year. We keep all our extra food/drinks in here; I stock things like soup, beans, rice, pasta, Ginger Ale….I was able to move our cooler to our entryway closet, since we had space there, and that’s a really good place for it. I got rid of a few things, moving them out to shelves in the garage. I mainly moved things we don’t use very often at all.I didn’t show you my top overhead shelf above our heads in our laundry room, but I also cleaned all the empty jars off of it, so now I have that space for canned foods; we keep all of our home canned foods up there. Our food shelf is looking much better now, though.Our top shelf is completely organized now. I found an empty plastic container with lid for all of our loose plastic tableware and moved the baby bottles to the back; that way, we could keep things we use all the time out front, like paper towels, paper plates (we use these a lot for school projects), jar lids, etc.The door is organized too and just works so much better.Finally, here are before and after pics of my cabinet with baking pans….so messy before.I bought this $5 organizer at Walmart, which I’d seen on another blog, and was able to get them in order….so much better.All in all, I’m really pleased. I will be glad to get the extra shelves put in because then it can be a bit less cluttered.:) Have you organized anything lately? Why not join in Organizing with Sandy’s Organizing Mission Monday? It’s fun, and you can get a LOT of great inspiration! Happy Monday to you all!