TLC in the Kitchen

I can always use help with healthy meal planning.  Favorite tools of mine include cookbooks, the Thursday Food Section of the newspaper and the weekly grocery store ads.  Often, I just need some inspiration for planning healthy meals for the week.
 
Cookbooks are a great tool.  The index makes it easy for you to look up [...]

I think we can all use a little help when it comes to healthy meal planning. Often I don’t plan before I shop and then I have a hard time making healthy meals from what I have on hand. I have recently returned to some of my better habits in regard to healthy meal planning. [...]

It’s been one of those days where I just don’t feel like doing much of anything. Not that that is an option, of course. But, at least I could make a very quick and easy dinner that was delicious! This dinner literally took 20 minutes, the time to make the rice.

I got a lot [...]

With the Christmas holiday season underway, I am frantically trying to get all my housekeeping done and organize my home, time and energy. Housekeeping is not my strong suit, but I do like to organize. The Christmas holiday season always gets me motivated to do both.

Like my mom, I like to do a [...]

It must be time to start making my lists and checking them twice.  List making is one of my most often used techniques for organization.  For the Christmas season I will have lots of lists: a gift list, a Christmas cards list, a To Do list for the house, a “list” for the Christmas Day [...]

I used to think that everything had to be fresh.  I would chop all the vegetables for a stir-fry, soup or stew, but that can take a lot of time, now matter how good you are with a knife.  Now I take advantage of the fact that I can get some of the work done [...]

As a working mother of six children, I have learned a few things over time. One of the most important being the fact that I need organization when it comes to meals. Especially dinner. My husband is a great cook, but until the last few years, his schedule didn’t allow him to participate in a [...]