How to Keep Your Family From Eating Food Needed For Recipes

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Your family doesn’t read your mind so if you buy a box of cereal for a dessert you’re making, and then put it in the cereal cabinet, they’ll automatically think they can eat it. So if a food item is designated for cooking and not eating, it needs to be “set apart”.  Here are some ways to do it: 1.       Put a red dot on it.  I’ve never done this, but I read about it and … [Read more...]

Labels Are Not Just For File Folders

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Have you ever looked through your freezer and wondered what the heck that bag of something was?  Or found a cord in your junk drawer and had no clue what it belonged to?  LABELING is the answer. But I’m sure you’re thinking that labeling sounds like a lot of work for your already overloaded schedule.  So how do you make it happen?  You make it EASY.  If you have to dig for supplies or … [Read more...]

Grocery List Form

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Need an easy way to keep track of what you need at the grocery store? Here are a couple of ideas. Category List Look through your grocery receipt and put on the new list the things you bought last week that you know you’ll be buying again this week.  Then as you notice you’re running low on different items, add them to the list.  Don’t wait until you run out of something to put it on … [Read more...]