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Featured
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It’s About Time to Get Cooking
by
Jolene
Philo |
For years
the question, “What’s for supper?” filled
me with dread because I rarely knew the answer.
I was married eight years before I stumbled
upon the practice of menu planning. Once discovered,
it made my life a whole lot easier. I spent
less time cooking, reduced food waste, saved
money and my family ate better. These ten
tips can make your life easier, too, so give
them a try.
Tip One: Be
a Fabulous Cook Once a Day
Reserve your best cooking
for your main family meal. Put all other
meals on autopilot by creating a weekly
menu of simple meals like those shown on
this table.
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Breakfast |
Lunch |
Sun |
Orange juice, cold
cereal, toast |
Sunday dinner, then
popcorn at supper |
Mon |
Grape juice, instant
oatmeal |
Soup, PBJs, baby carrots |
Tues |
Orange slices, toaster
waffles |
Grilled cheese, chips,
canned fruit |
Wed |
Orange juice, cold
cereal, toast |
Leftovers |
Thurs |
Grapes and muffins |
Hot dogs, veggies
and chips |
Fri |
Grape juice, PB toast
or English muffins |
Mac & cheese, fresh
veggies with dip |
Sat |
Apple slices, Pop Tarts |
Lunch meat sandwiches,
fresh fruit |
*This menu assumes milk
is served with meals
Tip Two:
Plan Menus Weekly
Think of main dishes for
the main meal of each day. Write them on
your monthly wall calendar or in your planner.
Check church, school and work calendars
as you go so you don’t plan something
for the night of the PTA pancake supper.
Do your planning on the day you get your
favorite grocery store ads. Make your grocery
list as you go, letting good deals on produce
and other items guide your side dish choices.
Tip Three:
Utilize the Crock Pot and Grill
Plan at least two crock
pot meals per week during the winter months
and two grilled meals in the summer. Crock
pot and grilling recipes are everywhere.
Inexpensive cookbooks are available in the
check out lanes at grocery stores. Google
“crockpot” or “grilling”
and see what you get. You can also check
at the library or in women’s magazines
and newpapers.
Tip Four:
Use Leftovers
When planning menus, include
at least one meal per week that yields leftovers
to be used for the main dish of another
meal. Grill a turkey and boil off the carcass
for soup. Use leftover meat in hash or a
casserole. Put a beef or pork roast in the
crock pot and use the leftovers for hot
sandwiches, stew or stir fry. Or reheat
leftovers for an easy lunch.
Tip Five: Shop
Once a Week
Menu planning will help
you develop a once-a-week shopping mindset.
As you plan meals, make your grocery list.
Post it on your refrigerator. As you run
out of items during the week, add them to
the list. Always take your list with you
to the store.
Tip Six:
Stockpile Basic Ingredients
Once your breakfast and
lunch menus are in place, stockpile kid
foods such as canned soup, Spaghettios and
macaroni and cheese when they’re on
sale. Do the same with ingredients you use
regularly such as flour, sugar, spaghetti
sauce, pasta, spices, oil, canned tuna and
salad dressings. Check the stockpile as
you plan menus and add needed ingredients
to your grocery list.
Tip Seven: Make
Your Freezer Your Best Friend
If you have a deep freeze,
take advantage of it. Buy sale-price meat
and large quantities of staples to freeze.
Date and label everything. Store food in
freezer bags or disposable aluminum pans
if you run out of casserole dishes.
Tip Eight:
Fix More Than One
You can maximize your time
by making double, triple or quadruple batches
of anything you prepare – casseroles,
baked good, snack mix, cheese balls. Serve
one batch immediately and put the rest,
labeled and dated, in the freezer. By doing
this consistently, you will have meals on
hand for busy days.
Tip Nine:
Develop a Plan for Picky Eaters
Inform the picky eaters
at your house that a one choice optional
menu plan is available. It should be nutritious
but not very glamorous. At our house it
was peanut butter sandwiches. As soon as
the picksters are old enough, they should
fix the optional meal by themselves. This
method feeds picksters without catering
to them, and they often begin trying new
foods.
Tip Ten: Create
a Recipe Arsenal
Menu planning is easier
if you have a large number of recipes you
like. Look for recipes that are uncomplicated,
nutritious, freeze well and use inexpensive
ingredients. One book that meets all these
criteria is Once a Month Cooking by Mimi
Wilson & Mary Beth Lagerborg (published
by Focus on the Family). Other sources of
good recipes include: good cooks, church
cookbooks, newspapers and magazines, the
library, the Internet and food packaging.
Set a goal of trying a new recipe once or
twice a month. If your family gives it a
thumbs up, add it to your arsenal.
Once I implemented menu
planning, I didn’t hate the “What’s
for supper?” question because I always
had an answer. You will too, with a little
practice. So as winter sets in, try these
ten tips. And send an email to tell me how
you’re progressing. If you do, I’ll
send you some of my favorite recipes. So
go on, it’s time to get cooking!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jolene Philo is a freelance writer and
speaker who lives in Boone, Iowa. She shares
her house and her home office with her
husband Hiram, daughter Anne, and dachshund
Abby. You can learn more about her at her
website,
www.jolenephilo.com.
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Featured Recipe
Tuna
Pastry |
2 cans tuna,
drained
Mayo
2 cans crescent rolls
Shredded Cheddar cheese
Celery salt
Mix tuna with just enough
mayo to keep tuna together. Be careful not
to add too much mayo as the tuna mixture may
leak out of the pastry. Mix in a handful of
cheese. Add a couple sprinkles of celery
salt. At this point, you can add in other
things, such as cooked peas and carrots,
mushrooms, onions, etc., whatever your
family likes. Spread mixture over dough.
Open second can and spread over mixture,
sealing dough (open crescent rolls and
unroll. Do not separate the triangles. Lay
the sheets of crescent roll dough in the
bottom of a jelly roll pan. Using your
fingers, push the seams together and spread
dough out a bit to make the bottom sheet
larger). Bake according to
instructions on crescent roll packages and
remove when pastry is golden brown.
Recipe
Source:
Submitted by: Michelle
Revelle
Bizymoms Cookbook by Diana
Ennen & Kelly Poelker
Virtual Word Publishing, Inc.
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diana@virtualwordpublishing.com
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Tell kids to throw
snowballs in the house? That's right -- it's
the aim of this cool target game .
MATERIALS:
Plastic container (ours is a 32-ounce bowl
by GladWare)
Adhesive craft foam (in black and white)
Cotton balls
Time needed: Under 1 Hour
1. To make the igloo target: Cut a 2
1/2-inch hole in the bottom of the plastic
container. Set the container bottom up and
attach a black adhesive craft foam door.
2. Cut a 9- by 12-inch sheet of white
adhesive craft foam into squares and attach
them to the outside of the container.
 3.
To play: Set the igloo on the ground or on a
tabletop. Standing a set distance away, see
who can throw the most cotton balls into the
hole.
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My Heart Remembers
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
A worn family
Bible. A packet of ribbon tied letters. A
faded family photograph. These are the
things that hold each of the scattered
Gallagher siblings together. Orphaned by a
fire, the three siblings are brought to
Missouri to be adopted by separate families.
Kim Vogel Sawyer masterfully weaves together
the stories of the siblings in My Heart
Remembers.
Maelle, the
oldest daughter is forced to watch as the
only family she has known is ripped away
from her. Her baby sister is adopted by a
wealthy family, while her brother Mattie is
taken in by a family grieving the loss of
their own son. With her shorn hair, Maelle
is mistaken by a boy and adopted by a
traveling photographer.
Before the separation, “Mike” (as Maelle is
known) puts a plan into motion. She gives
Molly’s adoptive parents the family Bible.
Mattie takes the family photograph and she
keeps the love letters that their parents
wrote to each other. Mike promises to come
after her siblings after she’s older so that
they can be a family again.
My Heart Remembers carefully follows each of
the young Gallagher siblings. Molly has no
recollection of any family besides the
wealthy one that she was adopted into.
Mattie is haunted by memories of a childhood
of being tossed around from house to house,
never finding a home. Mike has to come to
terms with her womanhood when she has grown
up in a man’s world. Each sibling has a
distinct story and Kim Vogel Sawyer
masterfully breathes life into each of the
characters.
The reader is taken on a journey and shown
the changes that take place in each of the
siblings. By the end of the book, the
characters have each undergone tremendous
spiritual changes without losing their
personality. If you are looking for a book
to take you on a journey, consider placing
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Review by:
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