Day 1: Repurposed Food

Lots of people have thirty day challenges in the web-o-sphere. If you know me or read the description on my blog, you know that sticking with anything for thirty days doesn't happen often. Open the door in our second bedroom and see all of the unused supplies I purchased for my future craft projects, for my next hobby. Ha, I started this blog over a year ago and have one official post and three draft posts.

Anyways, enter the 30 Day Make Something Challenge. I am going to make something every day for thirty days and brag about it here. Seriously. I am going to stick with it. Food, craft, friend - doesn't matter as long as I make something. Here we go:

Day 1 

I don't like chocolate (Blah, keep your comments to yourself. I have heard them all before.) So even if I do bake, poor Craig doesn't get many chocolate desserts (and in not many, I mean zero). I feel bad occasionally about this so when my mom recently commented how much she loves Chocolate Cheerios, I knew I needed to buy them for the poor guy. And he ate one bowl. He says he likes Cheerios but the chocolate ones just weren't for him and the big box of two bags of Chocolate Cheerios (i went to Costco) sat on the counter taking up valuable kitchen real estate.

Project number 1: Repurpose those Cheerios. 

I made them into Rice Krispies treats. Well, without the Rice Krispies. It wasn't a life changing Make Something project but it had to be done and was a good, easy way to start. In case you have never made Rice Krispies treats, here's the basics:

Melt three tablespoons of butter; add a bag of marshmallows.

The official Rice Krispies recipe online says to use 40 marshmallows but are you really going to count out 40 and what are you going to do with the extra dozen?! Throw the entire bag in there and you won't have dry, hurt the roof of your mouth marshmallow treats.

Once the marshmallows are melted, remove from the heat and add 6 heaping cups of cereal. You added extra marshmallows so a little extra cereal is a good thing. Spread in a butter coated 13x9 pan with a buttered spatula.

Cut into a square, put in a lunch bag, and send your boyfriend to work with a
lunch time treat.