Tag Archives: Menu Plan Monday

Still Working on Sides – Menu Plan Monday

Sleep deprivation started to get to me last week since we’re facing night-wakings x4 kids right now and it’s hard.  Hopefully we are going to get through the night wetting issues over the next few months and we’ll all be sleeping better.  Until then I need to remember that what doesn’t kill me makes me [...]

Cooking with Wines – Menu Plan Monday

When I first started teaching myself to cook I was in my late teens. I live in the good old USA and I couldn’t buy wine for cooking. So I used cooking wine. Never stopped using cooking wine. But my mom got me a new cookbook for Christmas this year and the author talks about [...]

Streamlining in the Kitchen – Menu Plan Monday

Yes, this week we’re eating a lot of winter squashes.  But they are inexpensive and in season so I’m serving them. Avocados have also been on perpetual sale, we must be getting a lot trucked in. This week I’m experimenting with a suggestion of Dr. Pottenger’s, which is to serve a green salad and two [...]

Our Food Challenge Begins – Menu Plan Monday

The hour is upon us… today is the start of our 30 day food challenge.  We’re taking 30 days to follow the principles of the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) and the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (PPNF).  Everything I prepare will be based on the principles of eating healthy traditional cultures had.  And foods I’m buying [...]

Menu Plan Monday – Testing Courses

I’ve decided since I’m going to be working intensively on our nutrition that I’ll join the Menu Plan Monday brigade   Deciding this late I’m just barely going to make it on Monday I’ve decided to try serving multiple-course suppers this week, in the hopes of actually filling my family of bottomless pits up.  Thus [...]