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02-25-2009, 10:47 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan
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| My new dinner routine My kids have always been really interested in cooking. I LOVE to cook, and would love to have a restaurant or catering business. I find myself getting easily irritated though when dinner time comes because I get crowded in the kitchen and end up kicking everyone out of the kitchen because it's overwhelming to have everyone helping me. I am rather particular about the way I like things done when I am cooking too, so having all 6 of my kids underfoot while I am cooking gets very frustrating. So while updating the kids' chore chart, I had an idea for dinner time. 5 of the 6 kids get to help me on their own day, the baby is too young yet. So everyone has an assigned day, and not only do they help, but every wednesday all they pick their menu for the next week from one of the cookbooks so that way when I do my Thursday grocery shopping, I have my list of things to pick up. This is helpful because I have gotten stuck in a dinner rut and dinners have been rather redundant lately. Obviously the dinners need to not cost a lot to buy ingredients for and need to be reasonably uncomplicated and healthy. The kids have been having a blast with this and it's really helped me out because I don't need to rack my brain for creative dinners as the kids are picking them. Plus, the kids are exploring more foods because they are preparing them and they are more apt to try something new if they cooked it. Also it makes dinner prep time much less stressful for me because everyone has their designated day to help so they aren't fighting over who helps me. I was excited when I had the idea, but a skeptical that it would work out as I pictured in my head, but it's been great! It is so important to me that my kids learn to cook. I think it's great for families to get kids in the kitchen and active in making smart meal choices. In todays world, it's so easy to run to the value menu because it's convenient and cheap, and obesity is such a problem anymore.
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02-25-2009, 10:53 AM | #2 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Satellite Beach, FL
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| What a great idea, PLUS you get some one on one time with them. |
02-26-2009, 07:35 AM | #3 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Halifax, NS
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| What a great idea - from every angle. You took what was stressing you out and made it into a great family ritual. |
02-26-2009, 08:56 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan
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| It really is a great thing. Last night me and our oldest who is almost 11 made a huge chicken pot pie. Our 6 year old daughter ate so much of it and loved it so much, she wants to make it for her day, which is Saturday I am thinking I need to make some more guidelines apparenly, lol.
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02-26-2009, 01:00 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New Hampshire
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| That sounds awesome! What a great idea! I think I might try that with my bfs kids. I think they could use something like that to keep them occupied and honestly they do need to eat more healthy also!
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