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September 30, 2006, 7:09 pm PDT
 Quote From: missy77 I used to make a list of recepies I would make for the week and go grocery shopping and doing all my meals, but I was eating stuff my kids and husband didn't have to eat all the time so I started making them other healthy dishes.
I got so sick of making food all the time(I run an in home daycare so I'm alway's making food) that I just stopped planning my meals and started to eat the same food as husband and kids, wich was healthy but.......just not what I was eating. It's so easy to fall of track and hard to get back on!
For the winter, I'll probably go back to eating more of what I used to eat, see, I love the outdoors and gone camiping all summer long, so that made it harder to eat all the right stuff!
If you have any good recepies that are easy to make, I would love to have some new ideas! I make great food, everybody love my cooking, but after a while it's alway's the same?! The neat thing I've just recently learned about meal planning is that is just a tool that I don't need to be so anal about as I get better at it.
TASTE OF HOME has a magazine that has nothing but healthy recipes in it. One of the support members gets it and always makes 1-2 new dishes out of it.
Right now, I'm collecting recipes and I figure that if I get 21 dinners ... then I can rotate thru them. I got that suggestion from one of my magazine .. I tend to forget what I can make .. I'm writing them down on index cards .. I want to separate them by the type of meat ... Like I've found out that my grocery stores actually have a pattern when it comes to selling their meats.
Like always .. the end of the month they sell chicken breast real cheap. They sell pork loin cheap 1x a month as well. I can buy the chicken breast and can figure out what meals I want to make and how I want to fix them -- write it down.
I'm thinking of numbering the index cards & my list so I can remember to look at it
I guess if you have to cook all the time .. it does seem like work. I'm just relearning to cook ...LONG STORY THERE ... any way, it's coming along rather okay.
It's all about figuring out what meals are healthy and then remembering they are there ... isn't that nuts. However, it's not a habit ... I'm just now practicing it so it can become one that I want to fit.
With the weather turning colder ... you could make it a goal to start looking at your recipes, magazines, etc. for recipes for grilling -- isn't that how you cook when you go camping? And take your recipes and make them healthier. Like using low fat dairy instead of plain old milk.
Then when you go camping next year, you can take your new healthier recipes camping with you. Would that be a good idea? |
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