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Menu Planning Tutorial Part 7: Food Storage

cara@thehouseholdhelper.com (Cara Mirabella) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:00:20 +0000

Food Storage All your hard work can go up in smoke if you don’t store the foods you buy correctly. In the pantry/cupboard, put your newer items behind any you already have of the same item. Use the older foods first. This is vitally important, especially to foods with a short shelf life such as [...]

Menu Planning Tutorial Part 6: Your Grocery List

cara@thehouseholdhelper.com (Cara Mirabella) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:00:34 +0000

Your Grocery List Today we are going to talk about how to create your grocery list. Start planning your meals according to that is on sale at the grocery store each week. You would look through the store’s circular, or “weekly ad,” which can usually be found in the local Sunday paper as well as [...]

Menu Planning Tutorial Part 5: Your Recipes

cara@thehouseholdhelper.com (Cara Mirabella) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:00:41 +0000

Your Recipes In order to effectively plan your family menu, you need to have your recipes organized. If you’re a collector of cookbooks and recipes like me, this can be a daunting task! I’ve found the best way to collect and organize recipes is a three-ring binder. My binder has tabs to separate the categories. [...]

Online Shopping (Thrifty Thursday)

cara@thehouseholdhelper.com (Cara Mirabella) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:00:48 +0000

I’ve written before about how I save for my son’s education by joining Upromise (click here to read that post), but here two sites you can join to save money and get free stuff! Ebates Shop at 1200 Top Online Merchants and Get Up To 25% Cash Back at Ebates.com! Swagbucks WIN FREE PRIZES just [...]

Menu Planning Tutorial Part 4: Your Family Calendar

cara@thehouseholdhelper.com (Cara Mirabella) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:00:46 +0000

Your Family Calendar Use your family calendar to plan your meals for the week appropriately. You wouldn’t want to plan to make a roast that requires 3-4 hours of time in the oven when you have an appointment that will keep you out of the house. Or maybe you’re going to be babysitting for an [...]