I started letting our granddaughter help with cooking. She loves it and takes great pride on everything she does. Now, I'm not condoning children working with hot stoves etc, but some things they can wash their hands thorally and help. Tonight, we are having pizza. I made crust from scratch amd rolled it out. I defrosted the pizza sauce and granddaughter spread it with a pastry brush. Then she sori joes the cheese and arranged the pepperoni. Gramps took over from there.
I knew just where she was while I cooked dinner and she got much pleasure from a job well done.
She stirs, helps count cups and pours cups into bowls. She's figuring out that food doesn't come from a box or the take out!
I am trying pizza dough recipes until one works well for me. Imhadmcoupoms thick crust recipe years ago. We want thin crust now,so we are trying new recipes.
After I tackle pizza dough, I will start on baguettes without using the bread machine or cold rise method, Then, tortillas. I don't have the right kind of a pan for those. It'll be down the road a while. I just bought a pressure cooker. I can get tortillas for as cheap as a quarter with coupons,
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a different perspectives.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until it goes on sale again or to keep a controlled non-perishable stock of the things you use on a weekly basis.
This means that instead of shopping daily or weekly for just the things you need to cook your meals for the week. You go to two stores and buy :
1) a protein that is a RBP - enough to make that meal for x number of days. (I.e.: if you eat it once a week, buy enough for 4 meals.)
2) produce and dairy you will need to fill in the meals for the week.
3) a stock item, if you need to and it is on a RBP - enough to fill in to your self imposed stock level.
You often are paying 1/2 price for your food. This allows you to put well-balanced meals on the table consistently on a four dollar a day per person budget. You spend more time on the locomotive ( planning and shopping ) end of the train, and less time in the caboose ( kitchen j) by
cooking more efficiently.
Four dollars a day is the target amount for people on snap. My premise is that of you can do it on 4 dollars a day, spending more is not difficult and you still get more nutrition for your buck.
I knew just where she was while I cooked dinner and she got much pleasure from a job well done.
She stirs, helps count cups and pours cups into bowls. She's figuring out that food doesn't come from a box or the take out!
I am trying pizza dough recipes until one works well for me. Imhadmcoupoms thick crust recipe years ago. We want thin crust now,so we are trying new recipes.
After I tackle pizza dough, I will start on baguettes without using the bread machine or cold rise method, Then, tortillas. I don't have the right kind of a pan for those. It'll be down the road a while. I just bought a pressure cooker. I can get tortillas for as cheap as a quarter with coupons,
Groceries on the cheap is looking at the "put the meal on the table train" from a different perspectives.
The emphasis is on purchasing good shelf stable or frozen food for a RBP in quantity - enough to last you until it goes on sale again or to keep a controlled non-perishable stock of the things you use on a weekly basis.
This means that instead of shopping daily or weekly for just the things you need to cook your meals for the week. You go to two stores and buy :
1) a protein that is a RBP - enough to make that meal for x number of days. (I.e.: if you eat it once a week, buy enough for 4 meals.)
2) produce and dairy you will need to fill in the meals for the week.
3) a stock item, if you need to and it is on a RBP - enough to fill in to your self imposed stock level.
You often are paying 1/2 price for your food. This allows you to put well-balanced meals on the table consistently on a four dollar a day per person budget. You spend more time on the locomotive ( planning and shopping ) end of the train, and less time in the caboose ( kitchen j) by
cooking more efficiently.
Four dollars a day is the target amount for people on snap. My premise is that of you can do it on 4 dollars a day, spending more is not difficult and you still get more nutrition for your buck.
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