This is an easy recipe that everyone will rave over!
All you need is a Boston Butt, BBQ Sauce (BBQ sauce recipe coming soon ), a crock pot and time! I like to soak my Boston Butt over night in a ziploc baggie with the BBQ sauce. This isn't necessary but I think it gives the pulled pork a little something extra.
When I start my day, I pull out the crock pot, empty the ziploc into it and set it on low for the day. I try to make the fatty side up, just so when its time to eat it's easier to pull off the strip of fat.
By the time we both get home from work, dinner is ready and the house smells amazing! Estimated cook time on low is about 6 hours. As long as the meat is covered with liquid, the longer it cooks, the better it tastes!  We take as much of the BBQ sauce from the crock pot and simmer it on the stove. If needed, add corn starch to thicken the sauce.
Last week, we made Homemade slaw to serve with the pulled pork sandwiches.

Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap.
I have read about this all over. I have watched it on The Duggar's.  I am constantly doing laundry! Who isn't? Why not try this homemade laundry soap? Will this soap come out smelling funny? Would it really CLEAN my clothing? What is this going to do to our new HE washing machine? Would it be worth the time spent? Then I started thinking, it will cost just as much as buying it. There's only one way to find out! I bit the bullet and made some laundry soap.
Your ingredient list:

1. Arm & Hammer  All Natural Super Washing Soda
2. 20 Mule Borax All Natural Laundry Booster
3. Fels-naptha bar soap
4. old cheese grater
5. Five gallon bucket
6. Storage for your laundry soap! (we chose mason jars)
7. ***optional ingredient*** You can also buy Purex Crystals for different scented laundry soap. I choose to leave mine plain.

The only place that I was able to find all of these ingredients, was at Walmart. Not the biggest fan of Walmart, but we can save that for another post. I had the old cheese grater and 5 gallon bucket at home. My total at Walmart was just under $8! I was excited with $8 for a 5 gallon bucket of laundry soap. Little did I know, my next few buckets would only cost me a bar of fels-naptha soap (which runs about 97¢!).
This is the hardest part... Grab the fels-naptha bar soap and the cheese grater and grate away! This takes the most time. Make sure to use the smallest grate because you will be dissolving the soap into some hot water.All together you will need:1 Fels-Naptha soap bar1 cup of Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda1/2 cup of BoraxAnd a lot of HOT water Next, I filled a medium sized soup pan halfway with water. As soon as the water is boiling, add the grated fels-naptha. Stir until all of the soap has dissolved.  Fill a 5-gallon bucket a little less than half way with super hot tap water. Add the hot melted soap, 1 cup washing soda and 1/2 cup of borax. Mix well.
After that, I boiled a few pots of water and filled the bucket pretty close to the top. Stir well. I used a ladle and divided up my 5 gallons into Mason Jars for easy storage. These jars took about 10 hours to cool off. The larger your container, the longer it will take to cool off. We use about 1/4 cup in our top loading HE washing machine. As far as the smell, it smells like clean laundry to me!  It has gotten any stains out of our clothing and even takes out the smell from my husbands work clothing. To make sure the dog blankets aren't stinky anymore, I add a half cup of white vinegar in with that load. I haven't noticed a difference in our machine, this detergent doesn't leave a residue.  I spent less than an hour making homemade laundry soap. I also knoeve ything that is in our soap. I don't think we will ever go back to using prepackaged laundry soaps.
Is borax safe?

Hello! I am just getting started on the entire blog idea but I think we can make this work! I love making things from home and figuring out more ways to save money! I'll be sure to keep you up to date on anything new I find as well as what has been working for me lately!