Homemade Cheesesticks

My husband is tired of spending so much on cheesesticks for the kids.  I started chopping up cheese and  putting them in those snack size zip storage bags.  You can't cut them up too far ahead or they can start tasting old, but when you're making dinner with cheese, cut some up and put them in individual baggies for when you're running out the door in a hurry.  It saves quite a bit of money to do it this way instead of buying the cheesesticks at the store.

Carlsbad State Beach

 

We went to Carlsbad State Beach Park the beginning of October.  It's a great deal if you want to visit San Diego and don't mind camping.  All sorts of shopping is close by and it's really close to Legoland.  If memory serves, it's about $50.00 a night.  I've heard it's hard to get a spot in the summer, that you have to do it way in advance, but our reservations in October were made about a month before.  You camp up on a bluff and walk down to the beach.  They have bathrooms and showers.  Not super clean, but not awful either.  We had a couple sunny and a couple rainy days the beginning of October.