cook dinner more often

Baking a meat loaf as I am typing this. Also have started using my menu planning again. Doing well with this!

Meal planning; grocery shopping ahead of time; remembering to leave time to cook AND time to eat!

now i actually enjoy making dinner, chinese and italian food especially but hey i’m not complaining about going out to dinner :)

I’m averaging about five times a week now. I think I was not cooking for awhile because I ran out of good recipes, so I started another goal to Try 10 new recipes. In working on that one, this one just took care of itself. Happy cooking, people!

I know where i’m going wrong in this departmant, im buying foods that are mainly snacks, so in turn when its time to cook…there is not a big selection of dinner foods i can turn into meals. To be honest I like to cook when I have a new recipe i want to try…im thinking i get tired of cooking the same ole dishes and would like to broaden our dinner choices. So the next time i go shopping for groceries im not looking at any snack foods. it will be meat potatoes fresh vegetables….well i keep vegetables because i love to make a pasta dish we all love.

I am doing better on this one. Made baked ziti last night, easy, yummy, and almost everyone ate it. Yay!

This is a hard one for two reasons: One, because three of us are semi-vegetarians, and my boys love meat. Two, one of us is usually doing something at night- work, working out, running, soccer, music practice. Meals we all like: lasagne (sp?), veggie burgers and egg dishes. Ugh. But I totally want to do this because I think it creates a nice family time.

bowtie pasta with alfredo sauce. was easy and yummy and a hit with my child. yay!

Planning menus, cooking good, wholesome meals, and saving a ton of money in the process. Also, the crockpot is one of the benchmarks of modern civilization.

I’m not home that often to cook dinner all the time so I’m just going to take this off my list. I’ll just try to cook more when I’m home.
It’s also not as much fun cooking alone. It’s more fun to cook with someone else while your sharing a bottle of wine.