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Pina Colada Cake

This is one of my very favorite cakes to make! It’s so moist and yummy! I don’t have a picture to show you because I don’t make it very often, and the last one I made I forgot to take a picture of it.
  • 1 box yellow cake mix
  • 1 can pina colada mix
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 large boxes vanilla pudding
  • 3 cups milk
  • 1 regular container cool whip
  • 1 (8 oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained
  • approx. 1 cup shredded coconut
  1. Bake cake according to directions (can use homemade mix).
  2. Mix sweetened condensed milk and pina colada mix together and set aside.
  3. When cake is done, poke holes in top of cake with the end of a table knife. Pour condensed milk mixture over top of cake and set aside to cool.
  4. Mix pudding and milk together. When cake is cool pour over top of cake.
  5. Mix cool whip, pineapple, and coconut together and put in top of pudding. Cover and place in fridge to chill.
  6. enjoy
**If you can’t find pina colada mix, it’ simply equal parts of coconut cream and pineapple juice. **
**I don’t use Cool Whip.  I use homemade Whipped Cream instead.  The taste is so much better!**
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7 Quick Takes #3

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This week has been an amazing week. Our church did something unusual – we had a summer revival! And, the Lord was definitely present! I cannot begin to describe how awesome it is to see God working in so many people’s lives at once, especially when one of them is my own daughter, Melia! I’m happy to say that she is now my sister in Christ! God is truly awesome! I can’t wait to see what He has in store for everyone in the future! I have a feeling that it’s something big!

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We’re spending today with my parents. It’s been a while since we’ve gotten to see them, so it should be a fun day for all of us! A good family day!

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I want to say “Thank You” to all of our men and women who serve/have served our country. Thank you so much for defending our freedom in America. May God bless you and your family, and may He keep you safe and bring you home safely to your loved ones.

4.

This is my Shi-Tzu, Chip. Don’t ask me where he found the sticker, but I thought it was funny that he got it stuck on his chin and didn’t know it.

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I kept track of how many eggs my chickens laid last month, and let me just say that I’m very thankful that God has provided me with people to purchase some of them because there is no way that we could use them all!

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Grand Total: 408 eggs for the month of June!

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I have to brag a bit. I have gotten all my work done and I have a full 4 days off! I can’t tell you the last time I had a holiday off, and I’m very grateful! I’m looking forward to being able to spend the weekend with my family!

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Happy 4th of July, everyone!

Don’t forget to check out Conversion Diaries for you Quick Takes!

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July Grocery Shopping – Week 1 (Update)

I’m trying again this month to feed my family of 5 for $300 or less.

Here’s what I bought this week:

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Piggly Wiggly:

  • 1 gallon milk (not pictured) $2.99
  • 10 packages Cream Cheese (on sale for $0.99/each) $9.90

Sam’s Club:

  • 8 lb butter $13.16
  • Glad trash bags $11.88
  • 7 lb powdered sugar $4.39
  • 6 lb peanut butter $7.22

Wal-Mart:

  • 2 gal Milk $5.30
  • 1 gal Vanilla Milk (for ice cream) $8.16
  • 1/2 gal buttermilk $1.95
  • 2 gal Lipton Green Tea $5.96
  • 20 lb potatoes $6.00
  • Vanilla wafers $2.00
  • Napkins $1.66
  • Plastic spoons $2.28
  • 2 bxs Vanilla pudding mix $2.00
  • 2 cans sweetened condensed milk $3.12  (Ouch!)
  • 2.4 lb fresh cherries $4.80
  • 2.09 lb bananas $1.05
  • 2 cantaloupe $3.00
  • celery $1.36
  • 6 lb yellow onions $4.56
  • Sour cream $1.06
  • Whipped topping $2.94

Tax: $9.10

Total OOP: $115.02

Saved:  $9.00

It’s more than I had planned on spending this week, but we had a last minute cookout with my mother-in-law and father-in-law, and we decided to make banana pudding and homemade ice cream, so that constituted a few purchases that I had not initially planned on.  Next weekend, we’ll have another get together because it’s Katie’s birthday so some of these items will be put aside for that.  And, 8 of the packages of cream cheese went into the freezer.  I can’t remember the last time I found it that low around here!  All in all, I don’t think that it was too bad.   I should still be able to stay under $300 for the month. 

Don’t forget to check out the Grocery Chart Challenge to see how everyone else is doing this week.