February 11, 2016
Personal Progress – Good Works Value Experience
#2
Service is an essential principle of family
living. Help plan your family’s menus, obtain the food, and prepare part of the
meals for two weeks. During that time help your family gather to share
mealtimes. Report to your class what you have learned.
I have learned that
in meal planning it is helpful to plan ahead. I choose 5-8 dinners to
shop for at a time. In addition to that, I try to always keep things for
breakfasts and lunches and quick, easy dinners on hand in my pantry. When
I have chosen my 5-8 dinners I make a list of things we will need to buy to
make those dinners, I also add lunch items, breakfast items and fruits and
veggies that we are running low on to the list. Then about once a week, I
go to the store and purchase those items. Each morning I decide which of
the meals on my list I will make for dinner that evening. I make a mental
note of how long it will take to make dinner and what activities we have going
on that evening so I can try to do as much prep ahead of time as
possible. When I am cooking if I notice I am running low on spices or
condiments I put that on my shopping list right away so I won’t forget to buy
more. I try to do this with cleaning supplies as I am cleaning and every
other type of household good too. In addition to that, I try to keep at
least two of each spice, canned food, cleaning supply, etc. on hand at all
times and then when the one I am using runs out I have a backup on hand and
then I replace the backup right away. (I’m not sure if that makes sense,
but I don’t know how to explain it better.) Planning ahead makes things
go much more smoothly. It helps my life go better because dinner becomes
less of a hassle...most of the time anyway. If I'm able to keep food,
fruits and veggies, and snacks on hand I don't hear my kids grumble about
be "starving" quite as often. ;) Sometimes I love cooking,
sometimes I don't love it, but I feel it is a necessary skill when raising a
family.
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