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Tag: menu planning

  • Holding My Menu Plan Loosely

    Will’s baseball schedule has kept us on our toes this spring. Not only have the practices and games added a new dimension to our family life, but the very late rainy season we had turned a very do-able schedule into something a bit more resembling chaos than order. On any given day throughout the season…

  • Trotting the Globe Menu Plan – (Dinners from Around the World)

    This week we’ll enjoy meals from all over the world – Mumbai, China, French-Italian fusion,  New Orleans, Mexico, and hometown America with a dinner sandwich based on a breakfast favorite from McDonald’s. Over the last several months, we’ve started incorporating more exotic spices and ingredients into our meals. A few of these items have even…

  • Menu for the Week

    Last week I featured three recipes from SOS! The Six O’Clock Scramble to the Rescue. The Tortellini Soup has been a favorite since I made it the first time more than a year ago. The Panko Peanut Crusted Pork Chops were new to us, but they were absolutely delicious. The third recipe, the Cassoulet, was…

  • Quick & Easy (Mostly) Menu Plan

    We’re ramping up for the start of baseball season. This is the first time, ever, that I’ve had a child participating in team sports. Our weekday evenings will be busy with practices and games, but I want to preserve the family dinner hour as many nights a week as possible. To make that happen, it’s…

  • Spicing Things Up – Adding Variety To Your Menus & Menu Plan Monday

    Routines are a good thing, and I love employing routine to my menu planning. However, if we’re not careful, our menus can become boring and filled with the same few dishes week in and week out. That might be fine, for a season, but we all like variety on the table, too. God created many…

  • This Week’s Menu – January 23, 2012

    It’s been awhile since I’ve posted our menus. I’ve been following more of a Flying By The Seat of Your Pants Approach to menu planning for the last several weeks. It works for me for awhile, but sooner or later I hit that brick wall of reality and need to get back to a system that…

  • Tasty, Tasty, Tasty

    I’ve enjoyed this stretch of four weeks of trying lots of new recipes. With only one exception, everything we’ve tried has been quite tasty! I’m not one to hang onto years worth of back magazine issues, but I rank my Taste of Home collection the same as I do a much-loved cookbook. I keep coming…

  • It Finally Feels Like Fall

    Less than a week ago, our temperatures were in the mid – high 90’s and we were running the air conditioner. Today’s high is forecast to be about 70, and the first fall rains are on their way. Yay! I’m still freshening things up in our weekly menus. It might sound crazy to say that…

  • Doing What I Love (Menu Plan Monday)

    I love cooking, I really do. What I don’t love is uninspired, same old thing all the time, cooking. I’m not a gourmet cook, by any stretch of the imagination, but that’s okay because my family members aren’t really gourmet eaters. To get my creative juices flowing again, I pulled out half a dozen back…

  • Using Your Menu Plan – Being Flexible Without Being Careless

    Now that we’re up and running with our menu plans, I want to remind you, once again, that menu planning is simply one tool in your big tool box of helps in looking well to the ways of your own household. It’s there to help you, not to hinder you. Today, I want to examine…