Potato chips have never been better.  I promise!  This is fast, easy, and super yummy.  As soon as I make these between my husband and children they are gone.

You are now 10 minutes away from creating your own homemade potato chips.
Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 potato, sliced paper thin (peel optional)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste

Directions

1. Pour the vegetable oil into a plastic bag (a produce bag works well). Add the potato slices, and shake to coat.
2. Coat a large dinner plate lightly with oil or cooking spray. Arrange potato slices in a single layer on the dish.
3. Cook in the microwave for 3 to 5 minutes, or until lightly browned (if not browned, they will not become crisp). Times will vary depending on the power of your microwave. Remove chips from plate, and toss with salt (or other seasonings). Let cool. Repeat process with the remaining potato slices. You will not need to keep oiling the plate.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/potato-chips/

I flavored these with old bay tonight and they were SO good. 
Enjoy!

Chocolate syrup
Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 cup cocoa powder
• 1 dash salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Combine the water, sugar, cocoa powder, and salt together in a saucepan over low heat; whisk constantly until the mixture thickens and begins to simmer. Remove from heat and stir the vanilla into the sauce. Serve warm or cover and refrigerate until serving.

I follow this recipe except I add an extra teaspoon of vanilla extract. 
The longer you whisk and simmer the thicker the mixture is. My family likes it a little thinner

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-syrup/

This is the recipe I followed to make chocolate syrup when my husband said he wanted chocolate milk.  This works great for chocolate milk, hot cocoa, ice cream topping, and so much more!
The ingredients are so few it is crazy the amount of things that are added to the stuff you buy from the store.

My goal is to try to make as much as I can from scratch.  As I come to a need in our home I go on-line to find a recipe for what I need.  The latest item is cereal, my kids LOVE cereal!  I am guilty for feeding my children cereal for dinner on the nights I just don't wanna make anything. It's quick easy and so handy. I never realized I am feeding my children, my family, my walking hearts, poison!  Even those lovely finger cereals we give our babies are poison. 
http://www.realfoodfreaks.com/2011/09/14/is-cereal-good-for-you/

So I tell my kids "NO MORE CEREAL IN THIS HOUSE!" so my oldest sons reply was "I would rather starve than eat oatmeal!"- Great so instead of poisoning my children, I will just starve them.  What is a mom to do?  I have done hours and hours of research and I have found the recipe.  I promise once I make it and of course have my little lab rats, I mean children test taste I will let my friends know.  But in the mean time get rid of the poison in your homes and make oatmeal, eggs, pancakes, waffles, anything but cereal!
Don't believe me I double dog dare you to find a recipe for a cereal you can buy in the store!  Good-luck
Here is the website where I found the recipe I will soon make.
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/homemade-cold-breakfast-cereal-grain-free/

 Mommy, I want those!  This is what I hear when I take my children to the grocery store. Gummies are one of my children's favorite foods!  Who knows what are in those gummies that our children love SO much and have to have right then and there?  Here is your first step to becoming homemade!  Not only is this a great way to spend more time with our children but educational for them too!  Take 20 minutes and make some gummies.

Supplies needed
Double boiler/ Sauce pan and Pyrex measuring cup
about 3 candy molds
Rubber spatula
Ingredients
3oz box of jello- small box
1/2 cup of juice- fresh squeezed or store bought- citrus seems to reduce the jello flavor from the gummies
3 packages of gelatin- one box has 4 packages
Extract- I use the flavor of the jello (optional)
Directions
Put the jello, juice, gelatin in the Pyrex measuring cup or double boiler.
Put enough water in the sauce pan to surround the gummy mixture that is in the Pyrex measuring cup.
Turn the eye of your stove on about medium and continue to stir until the mixture is completely dissolved.  It will look like a thick kool-aid. Add the extract at this point, add a few drops and taste.  When this reaches the taste you are happy with, start to pour in the candy molds.
When the candy molds are full place them in your freezer for about 10 minutes to firm completely and then of course test taste before your children because once seen there will be no more left. You can put powder sugar or corn starch on them to keep them from sticking to each other but the gummies I make don't last long enough to worry about adding more ingredients.

Today was my first "real attempt" at making Orange Marmalade.  It was a whole bunch of work!  Of course anything homemade normally is time consuming.  My lesson learned today is to make sure you have everything before starting your project. I did not have enough sugar, so off to the store I went and well then I needed onions and the produce was awesome prices.  After bananas, berries, onions, and sugar of course I am on the road to making my first batch of orange marmalade. 
Here's the recipe I somewhat followed-
http://www.kraftbrands.com/surejell/recipes/recipe-detail.aspx?recipeId=52014&recipeName=SURE.JELL Orange Marmalade 
After all that work it says to measure 4 cups of the fruit mixture, well I used it all.  NO WAY the rest was going to waste.  After making my own judgment to continue "my way" I added anther cup of water and later added an additional cup of sugar. After stirring, stirring, stirring some more I thought it would never thicken. I found this great tip on-line about putting a plate in the freezer, place a spoon full of the marmalade/ jelly on the center of the plate and if it gels after 30 seconds you may start canning.  Thank goodness for this tip because I would have pulled it to soon.  Now it is in the jars cooling and this says it will take over 24 hours to set.  So here's to being patient again and waiting for the end result! 
Future projects- Gummies, BBQ sauce, ketchup 

I thought along with my website I would start a blog about my weekly homemade items. For my sort-of New Years resolution I have decided to try to make most of everything we eat.  I say most of everything because I am not making meat.  We do however have a hunter in our home so I am proud to say venison is a big part of our protein.  Last year is when I started this whole goal of making our food at home.  So far I have made gummies, bread, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, marshmallows, hamburger buns, and chocolate sauce.  My future goals are; Orange Marmalade, Ketchup, and BBQ sauce.  So along my way of becoming homemade, I thought I would include my fellow blog followers.