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Let your kids set the table. It’s helpful to you and helps them learn to serve others.
When meal- time is over each person should take their plate to the sink.
Assign one person to wipe the table and clean up any trash under the table. Ask another to put up any leftovers and wipe the counters.
When pr
eparing many types of food, it’s really just as easy to make two of the main dish as it is one. Keep some extra aluminum foil pans to put your “double” in. Put masking tape on the covered top of the dish. Write the name of the dish and the date. On days that you just can’t get to everything, or one of the kids is sick, you’ve got something that your family likes to pull out of the freezer. If your best buddy has a crisis one day you could take supper to her with no problem. Another hint is to use your own container, line it with foil and then add your food. Put it in the freezer until it’s frozen throughout. Then lift the foil and food out of the dish, put it in a zip-lock bag, label and freeze. When you are ready to cook it just drop the frozen food in foil back into the same dish it was prepared in and bake. Voila! No washing of pots!
One day a week, make out menus for the week and your grocery list to go with it. Wednesday is a good day to do this because grocery ads are in the newspaper and you can see what’s on sale that week.Make menus for whatever works for you. It can be just dinners or 3 meals per day. The benefit to this is you don’t get the 5pm panic of “What are we going to have for dinner tonight !?!” You don’t have to think and you don’t have to go to the grocery store. It’s all there. Just do what the plan says.
Once every two or three months when I would get a few hours to myself, I would give myself a “break” by cooking for hours! I’d prepare two lasagnas and two meat loafs and two squash casseroles (or whatever else freezes well).
I might cook two chickens and cut up the chicken and put it in zip-lock bags ready for whatever I wanted to use it for. I would usually use the chicken broth to make homemade soup. When it is done, I would measure out how much you would expect would serve your family for a meal and freeze it! All could go in the freezer and when those hectic days come I did not even have to think. It was ready.
eparing many types of food, it’s really just as easy to make two of the main dish as it is one. Keep some extra aluminum foil pans to put your “double” in. Put masking tape on the covered top of the dish. Write the name of the dish and the date. On days that you just can’t get to everything, or one of the kids is sick, you’ve got something that your family likes to pull out of the freezer. If your best buddy has a crisis one day you could take supper to her with no problem. Another hint is to use your own container, line it with foil and then add your food. Put it in the freezer until it’s frozen throughout. Then lift the foil and food out of the dish, put it in a zip-lock bag, label and freeze. When you are ready to cook it just drop the frozen food in foil back into the same dish it was prepared in and bake. Voila! No washing of pots!
One day a week, make out menus for the week and your grocery list to go with it. Wednesday is a good day to do this because grocery ads are in the newspaper and you can see what’s on sale that week.
Once every two or three months when I would get a few hours to myself, I would give myself a “break” by cooking for hours! I’d prepare two lasagnas and two meat loafs and two squash casseroles (or whatever else freezes well).
