Comments on: A Lazy Person’s Guide to Eating More Meals At Home http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/ Chronicling the Experience of Educating our Children and Managing our Family Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:05:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Deliverable » Blog Archive » African Safari Pilaf http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-298 Mon, 15 May 2006 03:36:41 +0000 http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-298 [...] I made African Safari Pilaf tonight. (Found via the Healthy Hillbilly Housewife by way of this really good blog post on eating more meals at home). I honestly have no idea what a pilaf is, but it ended up tasting pretty good. There weren’t any vegetables so in the future I’d probably have to add a side of something green. Looks to be a recipe I could tweak out a variety of different ways. It called for “beef broth powder”, which I assume meant beef bouillon because I couldn’t find any beef broth powder in the store. I skipped that, cause it looked like it had a ton of salt. The recipe originally called for ginger but I accidentally added curry instead. Didn’t seem to be a problem. [...] […] I made African Safari Pilaf tonight. (Found via the Healthy Hillbilly Housewife by way of this really good blog post on eating more meals at home). I honestly have no idea what a pilaf is, but it ended up tasting pretty good. There weren’t any vegetables so in the future I’d probably have to add a side of something green. Looks to be a recipe I could tweak out a variety of different ways. It called for “beef broth powder”, which I assume meant beef bouillon because I couldn’t find any beef broth powder in the store. I skipped that, cause it looked like it had a ton of salt. The recipe originally called for ginger but I accidentally added curry instead. Didn’t seem to be a problem. […]

]]> by: Eat More Meals at Home - lifehack.org http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-255 Sat, 13 May 2006 22:31:29 +0000 http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-255 [...] A Lazy Person’s Guide to Eating More Meals at home — [Educating the Wheelers] This entry was posted on Saturday, May 13th, 2006 at 2:35 am and is tagged under eating, food, hacks, howto, lifehack, money, saving . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...] […] A Lazy Person’s Guide to Eating More Meals at home — [Educating the Wheelers] This entry was posted on Saturday, May 13th, 2006 at 2:35 am and is tagged under eating, food, hacks, howto, lifehack, money, saving . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]

]]> by: Family Resource Blog » Blog Archive » The Best Way to Save Money is to Eat In http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-253 Fri, 12 May 2006 14:10:06 +0000 http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-253 [...] Get Rich Slowly brought attention to a helpful post on the Educating the Wheelers blog entitled, Lazy Person’s Guide to Eating More Meals at Home. They stated that “Cooking at home is an excellent way to save money. But if you’re accustomed to dining out for most meals, it can be a difficult transition. Fortunately, there’s plenty of help available on the web.” The author advises that people making the transition from dining out to eating at home should: [...] […] Get Rich Slowly brought attention to a helpful post on the Educating the Wheelers blog entitled, Lazy Person’s Guide to Eating More Meals at Home. They stated that “Cooking at home is an excellent way to save money. But if you’re accustomed to dining out for most meals, it can be a difficult transition. Fortunately, there’s plenty of help available on the web.” The author advises that people making the transition from dining out to eating at home should: […]

]]> by: Get Rich Slowly » Learning to Eat More Meals at Home http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-240 Wed, 10 May 2006 16:21:03 +0000 http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-240 [...] The Lazy Person’s Guide to Eating More Meals at Home is a good place to start: If you read personal finance blogs long enough, you’re going to get the idea hammered into you that cooking for yourself rather than eating out all the time is a key part of getting your budget under control.  But what if you’re lazy, and a crappy cook to boot?  Then what? Well, I’m lazy, and I used to be a crappy cook [occasionally still am!].  But these days, almost 100% of our meals are cooked from scratch, by me.  This did not happen overnight, that’s for sure. So, here’’s what worked for me.  [...] […] The Lazy Person’s Guide to Eating More Meals at Home is a good place to start: If you read personal finance blogs long enough, you’re going to get the idea hammered into you that cooking for yourself rather than eating out all the time is a key part of getting your budget under control.  But what if you’re lazy, and a crappy cook to boot?  Then what? Well, I’m lazy, and I used to be a crappy cook [occasionally still am!].  But these days, almost 100% of our meals are cooked from scratch, by me.  This did not happen overnight, that’s for sure. So, here’’s what worked for me.  […]

]]> by: appleturnover http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-121 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:55:53 +0000 http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-121 that's great! around here things are complicated by vegetarianism and non, and a huge range of food sensitivities. this makes it difficult to eat out, so it is often easier to cook. i usually make a protein dish for each separately, then a vegetable dish or two that we can all eat, sometimes with modification for people who like or can eat ___ and we all get along just fine. usually i just have more leftovers. i am currently trying to do some food shopping monthly, and the rest every other week. we've just found a bulk organics company, so going in with some friends is saving us some money that organics so rapidly takes away! i'm really enjoying *joy* as it is my first non-veg cookbook, and helps be my mother when i can't bother her for information. up until now i've been a googler too. a book in the kitchen is its own pleasure. arr, i bought it new! exciting to read this kind of information, thank you! * that’s great! around here things are complicated by vegetarianism and non, and a huge range of food sensitivities. this makes it difficult to eat out, so it is often easier to cook. i usually make a protein dish for each separately, then a vegetable dish or two that we can all eat, sometimes with modification for people who like or can eat ___ and we all get along just fine. usually i just have more leftovers.

i am currently trying to do some food shopping monthly, and the rest every other week. we’ve just found a bulk organics company, so going in with some friends is saving us some money that organics so rapidly takes away!

i’m really enjoying *joy* as it is my first non-veg cookbook, and helps be my mother when i can’t bother her for information. up until now i’ve been a googler too. a book in the kitchen is its own pleasure. arr, i bought it new!

exciting to read this kind of information, thank you!

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]]> by: SMB http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-119 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:43:28 +0000 http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-119 I like The Frugal Family's Kitchen Book, too. When I got my copy from Amazon, I was surprised and pleased to find it was signed by the author. She has a blog, too: http://thefrugalfamilykitchen.blogspot.com/ Another of my favorites is "Good Recipes for Hard Times." It was written in the 70s and is out of print now, but after checking it out from the library and liking it, I bought it for around $20 on Amazon's Marketplace. I modify many of the recipes to make them more healthy (she uses a lot of bacon grease--yikes), but they all seem to turn out surprisingly well. I eat the batter bread (really just a soft-baked polenta) from this book quite often, with a side of baby spinach salad. I like The Frugal Family’s Kitchen Book, too. When I got my copy from Amazon, I was surprised and pleased to find it was signed by the author. She has a blog, too: http://thefrugalfamilykitchen.blogspot.com/

Another of my favorites is “Good Recipes for Hard Times.” It was written in the 70s and is out of print now, but after checking it out from the library and liking it, I bought it for around $20 on Amazon’s Marketplace. I modify many of the recipes to make them more healthy (she uses a lot of bacon grease–yikes), but they all seem to turn out surprisingly well. I eat the batter bread (really just a soft-baked polenta) from this book quite often, with a side of baby spinach salad.

]]> by: Meredith http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-118 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:11:38 +0000 http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-118 What a great, comprehensive how-to! Terri, you think of everything. What a great, comprehensive how-to! Terri, you think of everything.

]]> by: Educating the Wheelers » Festival of Frugality is Up! http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-116 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:41:22 +0000 http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-116 [...] The Nineteenth Festival of Frugality is up at Punny Money and Nick did a really great job this week.  Even if you’ve never followed this Carnival before, this is the time to try it!  [And, yup, I’ve got one in there this week, my Lazy Person’s Guide to Eating More At Home.]  Don’t miss it. [...] […] The Nineteenth Festival of Frugality is up at Punny Money and Nick did a really great job this week.  Even if you’ve never followed this Carnival before, this is the time to try it!  [And, yup, I’ve got one in there this week, my Lazy Person’s Guide to Eating More At Home.]  Don’t miss it. […]

]]> by: Punny Money http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-115 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:06:07 +0000 http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-115 [...] It can be hard to resist the allure of eating out. When you eat out, you don’t have to make your meal, and you don’t clean up afterwards. But even if all you know about frugality is its dictionary definition, then you know that eating out is bad for your finances. Enter Terri W. from Educating The Wheelers with a lot of useful advice for helping make dinner at home a much more pleasant prospect. When you’re first starting out, you probably don’t want to be chopping up a raw chicken. I sure didn’t! Start with veggie meals or “easy to deal with” meats like hamburger, ground turkey, sausages and the like. You can work up from there. [...] […] It can be hard to resist the allure of eating out. When you eat out, you don’t have to make your meal, and you don’t clean up afterwards. But even if all you know about frugality is its dictionary definition, then you know that eating out is bad for your finances. Enter Terri W. from Educating The Wheelers with a lot of useful advice for helping make dinner at home a much more pleasant prospect. When you’re first starting out, you probably don’t want to be chopping up a raw chicken. I sure didn’t! Start with veggie meals or “easy to deal with” meats like hamburger, ground turkey, sausages and the like. You can work up from there. […]

]]> by: Terri http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-104 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:42:50 +0000 http://educatingthewheelers.com/2006/04/15/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home/#comment-104 Heh. My husband agrees with you re: Joy of Cooking and friends. We debated this for awhile, and I have to admit that the main reason I probably feel it's unnecessary is because we have a computer in the kitchen. If I had to leave the room to go look up something on Google, I'd most likely rather just pull a reference off the bookshelf. Heh. My husband agrees with you re: Joy of Cooking and friends. We debated this for awhile, and I have to admit that the main reason I probably feel it’s unnecessary is because we have a computer in the kitchen. If I had to leave the room to go look up something on Google, I’d most likely rather just pull a reference off the bookshelf.

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