10 Easy Steps To Meal Planning

Weekly Meal Planning

It's always a good idea to get a handle on meal planning. 

It really does simplify home cooking, makes meals interesting and eliminates the need to think about what to make for dinner all day long. 

Not only that, you can save on your grocery bills because you only buy what you know you will be using - no food waste!"

 

10 EASY STEPS TO MEAL PLANNING

Quick and Easy Falafels with Tzatziki

 

Quick and Easy Falafels

It's  already March. Yeah! It means we’re sneaking up on spring. It’s time to freshen up our cooking routines and slip into easy meals, with fresh soon-to-be-found local spring foods.

So, lets revitalize our recipe selections and talk cookbooks!  

Do you buy or collect cookbooks? How many do you own? When you buy a new one, do you actually try the recipes? If not, why? 

To me, accumulating cookbooks is like buying kitchen gadgets that you rarely use: eventually you re-discover them in your kitchen drawer (or on your cookbook shelf) and wonder why you bought them in the first place.

New cookbooks mean new recipes, and that means changing things up. It isn’t easy. I love the idea of cooking new foods but putting it into action takes effort. 

I think you’ll agree it’s easy-peasy to cook the same old recipes over and over again. It’s like driving home from work: it’s uncomplicated to drive the same route every day. Why muddle things up by taking a longer, more scenic route, just for sake of change?

7 Day Meal Plan: Greek Chicken, Curry Veggies & More

To help ease the task of cooking everyday, I've included a 7 day meal plan in this blog post.

This meal plan starts off on Sunday with a pot roast, a meal that oozes comfort–something that we could use more of, right? 

Other recipes include Greek Chicken, Curried Veggies with Garbanzo Beans, Tuna and Pasta Casserole, Pizza, and Pasta Primavera.

I hope you find the meal plan helpful.

Enjoy & Happy Cooking!

How To Ripen An Avocado

As a kid I always ate avocados. Not because they were cool, they weren’t. In fact, food back in the day was never cool. I’m not even sure why my mom bought avocados. But she did, and they were always in our salads. As a kid I went through a “green thumb” phase where I actually grew an avocado tree. I stuck three wooden toothpicks into the giant brown seed and suspended it over a cup of water with the bottom half submerged. It sprouted roots. I planted it in a pot of dirt and kept it in my bedroom. It grew into quite a big and ugly green plant with a few broad shiny laurel-like leaves. I watered it, I babied it and took care of it like a pet. But it never did grow an avocado.