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I Am Watching You
The Maid
Hopeless
It Ends with Us
Unmissing
The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving: Over 200 of the Best Canned, Jammed, Pickled, and Preserved Recipes
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
Jurassic World: The Official Cookbook
Halo: The Official Cookbook
Ugly Love
Verity
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Moonlight Child
Becky: The Heartbreaking Story of Becky Watts by Her Father Darren Galsworthy
Freed
Drowning in Stars
Behind Her Eyes
The Girl in the White Van
Regretting You
Defending Jacob


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CopyCat Del Taco Chicken Tacos

Living in Arizona for 13 years of my adolescent life I grew up loving Del Taco. My parents would get take out there often. My sister, Michelle, that was her favorite taco out. If we did take out one night, Michelle always wanted Del Taco over anything else. She loves the chicken tacos. Now that I live in Ohio, Del Taco is not really out here. I have found 1 or 2 but they are some distance away from us. So, I decided to try and make that for my Sunday Family Movie night pick. Tonight, is my pick and I drew Mexican food so why not give it a try.  Marinade: 3 Large Chicken (I used thin chicken breast), diced 1 Lime, juiced 1 tbsp Taco Seasoning  1 tbsp Soy Sauce 1 tsp Garlic Powder 1 tsp Onion Powder 1 tsp Chicken Bouillon Powder 1/4 tsp Paprika Place all ingredients above into a ziplock, shake well and marinade for 30 minutes to an hour. I found the longer the better flavor.  White Sauce: 1 cup Mayo 1 Lime, juiced Whisk together in a bowl until smooth, set aside until ready for assembly.
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Family Movie Night Game

For about a year now we have been doing this "drawing" where each person, myself, husband, son and daughter, each pick a meal theme and movie genre out of a ziplock. I got sick of this way, it felt like we were getting all the same things week after week. So, each week one person draws their movie and dinner theme then we make the menu for the whole month. Since there is 4 of us, we each get 1 day a week, normally Sunday's unless birthdays fall on that day or Holiday's. I was doing some looking online for gifts for my husbands birthday and stumbled across a gum ball machine (yes, I got him one for his Christmas gift for his coffee). I bought the machine, bought the pods (listed below) and decided to make this game instead of drawing from a ziplock. We LOVE this way a LOT more. 

Not only has this made us come together to make the dinner menu monthly (we don't do weekly, we do the whole month), if gives us down time together. We know that Sunday's is for family day only and that is very important to me. It's brought us closer together. Allowing us to try new types of meals we may have never tried before. 

I hope ya'll use this for your own family movie nights! We love it!! I am going to attach my "game" list. This is movie genre and dinner theme. 

GAME HERE

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