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1. Plan meals at least a week in advance to incorporate the use
of leftovers. For example, have baked chicken, mashed potatoes,
and gravy for dinner Sunday, and then use the leftover gravy as
the base of beef stroganoff Monday.
2. If you know you're not going to have time to cook one evening,
prepare two dinners the night before and just reheat one the next
night.
3. When preparing a meal using grated cheese, chopped onions,
etc., prepare more than the recipe calls for and refrigerate the
rest for another meal.
4. Clean your kitchen workspace as you go. When you're done there
will be little left to clean.
5. On grocery shopping day, have your children help individually
wrap their cookies, snacks, etc., for their lunches. Makes lunch
preparation for the rest of the week a breeze and snacks
don't disappear before lunches are made.
6. Don't hide your cookbooks away. Organize them where you can
get to them easily, and you will use them a lot more.
7. Keep a notepad on the front of the refrigerator for your
shopping list. When you run out of something write it on the list
right away. Encourage family members to do the same.
8. Prepare favorite beverages like lemonade, tea, or Kool Aid in
gallon-sized pitchers, and you won't have to make them as often.
Recommended Reading
Dinners in a Dish or a Dash : 275 Easy One-Dish Meals Plus Tons of Time-Saving Tips
by Jean Anderson
Anyone responsible for keeping a family fed day in and day out
appreciates the value of that old standby, the one-dish meal.
It combines components from several food groups, it ends up in
a single pot, and it can often be prepared ahead, frozen, and
reheated in either a microwave or a conventional oven. Noted
cookbook author Anderson has brought together a number of
one-dish meals: soups, casseroles, stir-fries, and
skillet dinners.
(courtesy: Amazon.com)
About the Author:
Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom who is the author of
the Creative Homemaking Recipe of the Week Club Cookbook, a
cookbook containing more than 250 quick easy dinner
ideas. Visit Creative Homemaking
and in the Home and Garden section of Suite 101.
Let's Get Cooking!
While there are many reasons for teaching kids to cook -- less expensive than eating out, preserves family heritage, etc, the most important
reason is that by teaching your child to cook, you're giving him a better chance to be a healthy grown-up. Enabling your child with the ability
to appreciate freshness and to transform ingredients into tasty foods opens their eyes to making wiser choices about what to eat...
by Rachel Paxton
Recommended Reading
Let's Get Cooking!
