For those that know me, it is a well-established fact that I do not cook. Not that I'm necessarily terrible at it, I just don't do it. Don't get me wrong...my mom, grandmother, grandfather, and my dad and his family are all wonderful cooks. I just never seemed to find pleasure in the act of cooking. Being all-knowing as He is, God blessed me by providing a husband who is very gifted in the kitchen. If this were not the case, I would be even more over-weight than I am currently because we'd have been eating out for every single meal of our eleven year marriage.
So, what's my point? Drum Roll PLEASE...
I have cooked five meals this week!
Okay, now you can pick your chin up off the floor. They have by no means been "meals" of the multi-course variety, but meals none-the-less. Two were for dinner and three have been breakfast. Yea, yea...I know... But please remember this is a life-changing habit for me, so I am taking BABY STEPS!
The overall themes of my New Year's Resolutions are "TIME,HOUSE, and WEIGHT MANAGEMENT". For nearly six months, I have totally squandered the available time I have had to make my home a better place to live. I only work half of the day (afternoon) and I began with lofty dreams of using the other half of the day (the morning) to keep my house clean, to plan for dinner, and to exercise. Like I said - I totally wasted that precious time.
So this week I started life over again. I decided the only way to make it work is to wake up with Patrick at 5:30 am and go to the gym. When we get home, I make breakfast (which this week has been eggs and sausage and breakfast burritos). The next step crucial and most important step is to spend personal time with God in prayer and Bible study. After that step, my goal is to clean the house and keep it clean with small steps and projects throughout the week. And I do mean small steps. It's not that our house is terrible filthy, it's just that I need to develop some important easy routines to keep the ship running in top shape. I've enlisted some ideas from Valerie, as well as FLYLADY.
As far as the cooking goes, I have enlisted some help as well! Through HomeLife Magazine I found a wonderful website called E-Mealz. For a few dollars a month, they give you menus for dinner each week and even make a shopping list for you. I just did my first E-Mealz shopping last night and it was great. I haven't made any of the recipes yet, but I am ready to. The dinners I've made this week were one-pot kind of meals for which I already had recipes.
Well, all I can do is pray that the Lord will help me continue developing good and healthy habits. I'm already past my newly assigned computer/internet time limit, so I better say by for now!
2 comments:
Yea! I'm so proud of you! :)
Hey, you have to check out
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes/ it's a wonderful recipe website. (the one I mentioned to you, while you guys were here). It's FREE and you can create your own cookbook (saving recipes in your cookbook), and get a shopping list from the meals you choose. I make a lot of crockpot meals (which is great...start in the morning and done at dinner time) all from recipes off this site. Everything we have tried so far has been OUTSTANDING....no complaints yet. However, keep in mind, I ONLY choose recipes that have been rated and have great ratings....I don't want to be the "guinea pig" :) so I always make sure I choose meals with great ratings and read some of the feedback on them. Oh and you mentioned Breakfast Burritos...this website has a great Breakfast Burrito recipe that you can make ahead and freeze...they are delicious. I made a huge batch of them and we just pull out how many we want at a time and heat in microwave.
Anyway, I'm proud of ya'. It's hard to get "life" and our "days" in a routine....but like you said and FLYLADY says, BABYSTEPS and once ya' establish new habits...it becomes routine and ya' just do it without thinking. :)
Love You Guys,
~Valerie
we also use recipezar and it is cool. We started a little cookbook that Jenner made at her MOPS group, and are clipping recipes that sound cool that we have never tried before from many magazines. We made homemade bread for the first time and it was good and simple. You make this big batch of dough then pinch off what you need or want. I'll blog about it.
Love,
Brandon
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