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| If any of you single parents are like me, your motivation to prepare a decent meal for you and the kids is pretty much out the window. Especially if the place settings at the table are few in numbers. With many working moms today, it is hard to find the time to meet at the kitchen table for a family meal. However, I'm sure that this notion holds true for many families regardless of family size. In my home, a decent meal frequently means waste in the garbage receptacle. It's not that my cooking skills are intolerable, only that, it is difficult for a "picky" child to see a good meal as something beyond a hot dog, cold cereal, or peanut butter and jelly. I can only imagine the horrendous calculation of wasted food that flows from kitchen to garbage. |
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| My virtual cookbook ffeatures some of my favorite recipes. From appetizers, to main dishes, beverages to desserts, there's a little something of everything. I will try to include a source and/or a link for each recipe, if available. If you would like to see one of your favorite recipes featured here, please email me the specifics. There will be no cost to you, and (you) as the source, will be revealed, if you desire. It's probably worth noting here, that, shamefully, I never owned a cookbook until I turned 41 years old, and my mother bought me one from Avon. (Yep, the famous guru marketer of cosmetics.) |
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| We all know that too much salt is not good for us, right? Try explaining that to my father, who pours it on his food by the bucket. For years and years, I never even kept a salt shaker in my kitchen. I always figured that most foods we eat today already have more then enough salt added. One day, my son asked me where "pepper's" friend is. Puzzled, I asked him who "pepper" is. He was referring to the "salt shaker" that usually pairs with the pepper shaker. I tried explaining to him, my philosophy about salt as an additive in our foods. I guess that just didn't sink in. He began to refuse eating certain food without a little dash of salt. And there it sits, on the shelf, right next to her friend "pepper". There are many spices and condiments around today, that allow us to make our foods more flavorful. It is a good thing to remember that spices and condiments, "especially salt", are okay to use, in moderation. That is, unless you are on a "restricted" diet. |
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| How do we get our kids to be less picky and more accepting of the bountiful foods we set before them? This question has been bouncing around dining rooms everywhere, since the beginning of time. While there is no true solution to the dinner time dilemma, there are some tricks, we as parents can do to make meal time a more receptable time. As soon as kids are old enough to lend a helping hand in the kitchen, it would be a possitive reinforcement to include them with meal preparation. Allow them to help you make choices, from a list of possibilities. There are some wonderful cookbooks in bookstores that are geared toward "Kid Cuisine". It may be well worth your while, in the long run, to invest in one or two of them. I only wish that I had done the same earlier on, whem my kid first began turing away from healthier foods. (Speaking of THAT, have you ever notice how one day your kid likes something, and the next it becomes something "disgusting")? What is up with that? My kid used to love his genuine mashed potatoes mixed with corn. Now he prefers the "boxed flakes". Now I will admit that I have used the boxed stuff when I've been pressed for time, but nothing beats the "real deal". How lucky he is to be an only child, instead of fending for himself, at a table of 5 or 7, as there was at our table. |
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