Cheeseball Challenge

As I was scrolling through Pinterest one day (I'm still totally addicted... how about you?), I saw these great turkey cheeseballs:

 

 

How cute are they??
And this darling snowman cheeseball:



How can something be so cute AND delicious looking?

I was trying to think of any occasion I could make them for when I had (what I think is) a genius idea!  
The Great FACS Food Studies Cheeseball Challenge!  
Each cooking group makes a sweet or savory cheeseball and then makes it into some fantastic shape.  The ones above are just the beginning.  Check out my Pinterest board for even more great ideas:







And many more!  

Bring in your administration, teachers or other students to judge and then dig in.

I wish I had my own classroom to try this, but sadly I am still a substitute teacher... So please, let me live vicariously through you and your classroom!

Have you ever had a cheeseball challenge?  Or another cooking challenge?

Soapy Solution

Holy Molies. Has it really been OVER a year since I last posted?!?

Never again.

In fact, I have a goal to post something a couple times a week.
Sometimes it will just be an idea... like today.

When I heard this idea I thought "why didn't I think of that... 6 years ago?!"

Such a simple idea, but in my opinion a GENIUS idea.

I am a fan of having a small bottle of dish soap in each kitchen. Small being the key word as I find students use more when they see more.

Instead of scouring the stores for those small dish soap bottles that are never in stock when you need them but everywhere you look when you don't and get all gunky, and the lids break off, and the paper labels get soggy/saggy/sticky... use these: Squeeze Bottles.

Easy to clean. Easy to refill. Easy to spot when they are in need of a refill. And easy to find at craft or restaurant supply stores.

I'll take 8 please.