Cooking Catastrophe

I love to cook.  I love to blog.

With that said, I thought it would be neat to share my kitchen experiences with others.  I am a married, work at home mom of 2 boys who won’t eat much.  They are both under 5 years of age.  If you have ever had kids, you probably ran into the problem of how to feed them.  I have, many times.  My boys are the pickiest boys ever.  The older one is getting better…but the youngest?  Whew!  I have tried everything and at this point, I just make whatever I make and they can eat it or go hungry. 

In addition to this, I have a wonderful husband who is sometimes hard to please when it comes to dinner.  He always appreciates my efforts, but it is hard to get a “winner” in his opinion.  My biggest challenge is to figure out a way to satisfy his food desires while maintaining my sanity.  I have my work cut out for me.  For this reason, we have a rating system in our home.  1-10, with 10 being the best.  I have never gotten a 10.  The highest I remember is an 8. (He’s a tough judge people!  I am almost convinced that Bobby Flay and Emeril couldn’t manage to get a 10 with this man—not that I am comparing myself at all to them).

In this day and age, most of us find that we must budget our grocery money.  I am not much of a coupon shopper.  I tried it, but then the coupons were just not that great anymore and I got bored with it.  I was doing more work than saving money.  I decided to attack managing my bill another way—using my freezer and minimizing the discarding of food from my fridge.  I developed my own little system 2 months ago.  So far, it works like a charm.  I have just finished getting my freezer completely full.  The system I am using is pretty common.  I keep a list of freezer items and refrigerated leftover items on my fridge.  I cross them off as I use them and keep dates on them so I know when they are going to be throwaways.  So far, so good!  I have decreased the amount of food that we are discarding ten-fold!!!  I am not throwing away money anymore!!  It rocks!!!  Oh, and big bonus?   No gross, green,  moldy growths in my fridge anymore.  (c’mon! admit it—you’ve grown science experiments in your fridge too).

Keep coming back!  Here are some things I have planned:

• my freezer contents
• my monthly menu
• some recipes
• and some bonus stuff…

Thanks for visiting!!