Friday, May 24, 2013

Challenging myself

I recently looked over all of my cook books and Vegetarian Times magazines and realized I have a LOT of options for delicious vegetarian meals. I have about 23 cook books!  I decided that I'm going to try to make a new meal every 2 days using most of my cookbooks. I already make a variety of meals but do tend to fall back on a few tried and true dishes when I'm in a hurry. I can't give up my rice and beans and greens :).










The kids and I will be looking for new recipes and doing the shopping for the meals, I am hoping I can get in the habit of pre- planning what I will be making at least a week ahead of time to make things easier.

Tonight I am making cauliflower mac and cheese.. delicious and with less carbs since there is no pasta in it. Not a new meal to us but one that I don't make very often. Today I added sauteed grated zucchini, carrots, diced red peppers and onions. The kids actually licked their plates clean! :)

We have made dishes from many different countries, namely Thailand, Egypt, India, Hungary, Spain, China, France, Italy and a few that I'm sure I'm forgetting right now. The girls especially, love helping with the choosing the recipes and doing some of the cooking with me. Food is such an important part of family life. I think I'm going to enjoy this challenge.
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  1. BethanyMay 24, 2013 at 8:28 PM

    sounds great! let us know how it goes. I've tried meal planning, and even use PlantoEat.com which helps me keep track of recipes (and save new ones from the internet really easily) but I still don't use it most of the time to plan ahead. life is much much simpler when I do though!

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  2. mom of 3May 24, 2013 at 11:24 PM

    That is my problem, I don't plan ahead more than a day at a time.. so i like to have a whole bunch of things always at the ready, but that's not always possible. I'm hoping I can change that little by little :)

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