Welcome! I am Michelle Nelson, a mom of 3 and married to an amazing man. My love language is food!
08/17/2024
Have you checked out our new Brilliance Nonstick Bakeware yet? I love how easy they are to bake with and how easy they are to clean!
I've used the 9x13 pan for making scotcharoos (peanut butter rice crispies) and they just came right out of the pan with no issues! If you've ever made ricecrispy treats before you know how sticky of a mess that can be!
To get the most out of your Multi Cooker you'll want to make sure you have the necessary accessories! And lucky you all the accessories are on sale for 25% off! 🤯
Which of these accessories would you get the most use out of?
01/25/2024
This month only you can get your hands on one of Pampered Chef's Multi Cookers for just $199! No hosting, no parties, and free shipping!
I have been learning about making bread from scratch this year and one way I never thought to bake my bread was in my Pressure Cooker!
Check out how you can easily make this delicious loaf of Multi-Grain bread in your pressure cooker! What do you think? Would you try this method of baking bread?
01/23/2024
There are so many great reasons to try pressure cooking but here are 5 of my top reasons!
1. You don’t have to plan meals ahead of time. It happens to everyone: You get to work and realize you forgot to take the meat out of the freezer for dinner, and there’s nothing in the house that’s ready to make instead. Your only options are to stop by a store on your way home or hit the drive-thru. With a pressure cooker, you can cook frozen meat without thawing it, and have a flavorful meal on the table in just a few minutes more than it takes to cook thawed meat.
2. You can make weekend meals with weekday effort. You might dream of making a pot roast on a weeknight, but between work, kids’ activities, and everything else going on, it’s just not an option. With a pressure cooker, you can make a meal featuring pot roast 70 percent faster than you could in the oven or on the stovetop. It’s the fastest way to cook big cuts of meat and still get tender, juicy, delicious results.
3. You’ll save a little money. A pressure cooker helps you save money two ways. First, pressure cookers use far less energy than traditional cooking methods because they cook so quickly. Second, you can use them to cook whole foods like beans, legumes, and stock, so you don’t have to buy more expensive canned or prepared versions at the store.
4. They’re so easy to use that you can spend time doing something other than cooking. Unlike stovetop pressure cookers, you don’t have to adjust electric pressure cookers while they work—just push a button and let it work its magic. To make things even easier, the next generation of pressure cookers is programmed so you don’t have to guess how long to cook chicken, stew, rice, or the other foods you cook all the time.
5. They encourage you to experiment with new foods and flavors. Using a pressure cooker opens up a world of possibilities. These appliances can make anything from your family’s standbys to something totally unexpected and completely delicious like perfect cheesecakes, homemade yogurt, or anything else you can imagine.
01/22/2024
This week I am going to be sharing about a product that helps many homes get dinner on the table fast! Even if they forgot to pull the chicken out of the freezer! Pampered Chef's Pressure Cooker!
Our Multi Cooker is so much more than just a pressure cooker though. With 16 different settings, you can pressure cook, slow cook, sous vide, and even sterilize! Do you have a pressure cooker?
01/21/2024
I started doing a load of laundry every day years ago and it was the best way for me to not feel overwhelmed or feel like I lost an entire day to folding laundry.
How do you do your laundry? Are you a load-a-day type of person? Do you only do the laundry when you need something? Or do you dedicate an entire day to getting all your laundry done at once?
01/20/2024
We have been snow/iced in the past week and the roads were finally cleared enough for us to escape today! So we took the family out to checkout the new in Kalama. Such a cool spot and so much room for more cool shops to open up!
01/19/2024
I am NOT a fan of the cold weather but I am a fan of being able to wear my cozy slippers all day!
All my work-from-home friends let's see what shoes you like to wear all day! Do you have cozy slippers too?
01/18/2024
Here is a closer look at our Pop & Stir!
01/17/2024
This week is all about popcorn over in my VIP group! And today I shared a handful of delicious popcorn recipes! If you would like to go check them out and join the fun just follow this link!
Like I said yesterday, our Pop & Stir can do so much more than pop popcorn. You can make delicious candied nuts as well! When making the popcorn or nuts you just put your ingredients in and let the machine do the work. There is a rotating arm that moves the nuts or kernels around to ensure they don't get scorched. And clean-up is a breeze! The cooking tray comes right off and can go in the dishwasher!
Have you ever made popcorn or candied nuts fresh at home?
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Hi! And Welcome to my journey with The Pampered Chef. This is a journey that of course includes fun times with friends, good food and some amazing products that help bring it all together. But this story started with a not so fun time.
On August 25th 2017 it started like any other day. I woke up, drank my coffee, got my 3 kids up and ready for the day, dropped my oldest off at school while my 2 younger children and I went to work for my family’s business. Well just a few hours into the day things took a turn and my crazy courious, into everything, can not turn your back for a SECOND little beauty stuck her finger where it should not have gone and got it cut pretty bad. So bad that we had to rush her to the Emergency Room to make sure it was salvageable. (There was A LOT of blood and screaming none of us around could tell just how bad the cut was.)
So we went to the ER and after finally getting her a nerve block so she would not be in pain anymore the doctors were able to tell that she had cut the tendon that makes the tip of your finger bend and the nerve that ran on the side of the finger. (Like where a pencil would hit if you were writing.) So after 2 surgeries and a nights stay at the hospital we were finally released to go home. After that she had a full arm cast (kids are the worst with casts...) for like 6 weeks, then once that came off we had to do physical therapy and numerous check ins with the surgeon to make sure everything was healing the way it was supposed to.
When something traumatic happens to your child, in the moment, you don’t shop around for the best deal, you don’t worry about the bill. All you worry about is making sure that your child, your precious little cupcake is going to be treated by the best and that they are going to be okay. But then the bill comes...
We knew the bills were coming but we had no idea how much they were going to be. Neither my husband or I had experience in this area. So at the end of September when the bills started rolling in we (okay mainly I) started to panic. Yes most places will set up payment plans. But they all want $100-$200 or more a month and when you get a bill from each doctor you saw and each surgeon and each anesthesiologist etc... that $100-$200 adds up FAST. When all the bills had come in we added it up to almost $9000!!!! For a finger!!!! And yes that is AFTER insurance...
We did NOT have $9000 laying around that we could just pay it all off and be done and thankful our child was okay. So we had to figure out how this was going to get paid. My husband was already (is still) working 50ish hours a week. And I was working part time so that I could be home after our oldest was out of school because child care for 3 kids is more than our mortgage. We had already cut our bills down dramatically because we were trying to pay off all our other debt so doing that was not going to help. So I had to think of a way to make some extra money to cover these doctor bills.
I had sold Pampered Chef before back in 2009 when I had my son but it was not the right time in my life. There was not a lot of training available, I was not close to the girl who signed my up at all and that all made it really hard. Especially since I had NO experience in selling. But after all these bills came in, I saw a thing that my current Pampered Chef rep posted that was an event on Facebook about being a Pampered Chef consultant where people who were curious could ask questions and hear from other consultants about the training available and what it takes to be a consultant. I was curious so I joined the event and watched everyone ask questions and asked a couple myself.
The thing that sold me was the fact that they now had “Virtual Consultants”. Which is a consultant that does virtual parties all on Facebook! I thought what?!?! I am on Facebook all the time and your telling me I can run my own business on Facebook?! So I joined. And as of March 1st 2018 thanks to Pampered Chef we only have $998.16 left to pay!!!
I joined thinking I was just going to sell and use my commission to pay off the bills and once they were paid off I was going to hang up my apron and continue on with my life as it was. But now I have a team and things are getting so fun and I am so excited to see what my future holds with Pampered Chef!
If you get anything from reading my story I hope it is the realization that anything is possible. There is always a way to get your self out of a sticky situation. And sometimes the answer is not what you thought it would be.
