Examine your meal planning this week for your mental mission…or if you just fly by the seat of your pants, ask yourself if you’d benefit from some pre-planning. Do you meal plan? How far in advance? What system do you use, if any? Have you changed the way you do this over the years? ***Is [...]
Entries from March 9th, 2009
Mental Mission: Do you plan your meals?
March 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Tags: meal planning·mental missions
Monday Mission: Use your Dishwasher Wisely
March 9th, 2009 · 49 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Cleaning
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to focus on being master of your dishwasher: getting it to do its best to serve you with clean dishes and serve the environment by using the least energy and resources possible. 1. Cut down on the detergent you use. (click for more) 2. Exchange your Jet [...]
Meatless Meals Carnival
March 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Recipes
Meatless Meals Carnival Going meatless is a good sacrifice for Lent, and it can be very frugal as well. I try to have at least one meatless meal per week, all year long. So during Lent I do two. Here are some of our family’s favorites, as well as a smattering from other bloggers: One [...]
Tags: beans·Lent·meatless meals
Recipe Connection: Tuscan Bean Soup
March 6th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Recipes
Find this recipe, updated and with even more frugal tips and transformation options, along with 29 other bean recipes and a ton of information on cooking dry beans, the health benefits of beans, and ideas for bean haters in The Everything Beans Book, available now at Kitchen Stewardship! Kimi over at The Nourishing Gourmet is [...]
Tags: beans·Frugality·soups·Super Foods
Food for Thought: The cost of using your kitchen’s appliances
March 5th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Avoiding Waste
I’ve asked you this week to think about your energy usage in the kitchen. This includes oven, range-top, microwave, toaster oven, lights (over your sink, your stove, ceiling lights, etc), refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, garbage disposal and hot water from the tap. Clearly some of those are going to be bigger energy-drainers than others, but we [...]
Why I have empty Ziplocs in my fridge
March 3rd, 2009 · 26 Comments · KS lifestyle
My first “carnival” entry! Call me frugal, efficient, or lazy – I’ll acknowledge them all. Any way you look at it, you may wonder why I have empty Ziplocs in my freezer. It’s all about doing fewer dishes and being prepared for healthy eating, my friend. Some of my shortcuts when preparing a meal using [...]
Announcing: A Meatless Meals Carnival
March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Please join Kitchen Stewardship Monday, March 9 for a Meatless Meals Carnival. You’ll find lots of good recipes from all over the blogosphere, whether you’re Catholic and have already exhausted the cheese pizza and spaghetti with sauce options for Fridays, or you’re just looking for frugal, nutritious meals to add to your planner. If you’re [...]
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