Welcome to week 1 of menus, meals, and grocery lists designed to make your life easier!
Each week will feature a different theme, and will be accompanied by everything you need for meals for one week: a menu, a grocery list, and recipes! Menus and weeks are designed to optimize the purchase of foodstuffs (many ingredients will show up multiple times in different dishes) and to economize on food purchases, while providing healthy, well-balanced, satisfying and filling meals. I have two teenagers living at home and work full time (except during the summer), so I also include many time-saving ideas and tricks that I employ in my kitchen.
My food philosophy: calories in = energy out. I am not on the "clean," "organic" or "vegetarian" eating path (although you will find that I make many of my dishes from scratch, with ingredients from my garden). I am on the BALANCED eating path. Our bodies need proteins, carbs, fats and liquids to survive. Those ingredients can come from a large variety of sources to meet the needs of all different lifestyles. And those ingredients often MUST come from a large variety of sources to support the already over-stressed financial and time budget of the modern family. As often as possible, I will include price- and time-friendly alternatives. The sad truth is that oftentimes, people do not have unlimited time or money for meal planning and preparation, which is where this blog seeks to be of support!
I grew up in Texas and am a huge fan of southern comfort food. Southern food is delicious and economical and uniquely suited to many of the people who created some of these dishes. Click
here for an excellent article on how race, location, and socioeconomics intersected for the birth of traditional southern food.
Suggested desserts for this week:
peach cobbler,
chocolate chip cookies,
butter cake,
sweet potato pie
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