I hate everything about food. I hate shopping for it. I hate deciding what to make. I hate making it. I hate dishing it up. I hate cleaning up after it. I hate dealing with left overs. I hate dealing with rotten food that got forgotten. I hate poopy diapers that are a result of food. I hate thinking about how ungrateful I am when thinking about all the hunger in the world. In fact, more often then not, I hate even EATING food because I am so picky and I am often just forcing things down me that I know are good for me. If I like it, it probably has MSGs or sugar, and then I hate the guilt. I once heard that God made food for our enjoyment, and I have to say that principal was really hard for me to swallow.
HOWEVER, I am getting to the point of being able to say "I USED TO hate." Let's face it: Starvation is not an option. I feel like I'm finally learning how to be a happy home maker and help my hypoglycaemic husband be able to live happily.
For the past year I've started to learn how to have a cleaner house (cleaning up food) happily, and just recently, I've developed a dinner system that makes the shopping, choosing meals, and cooking meals very manageable.
So here's my system. I made some 4x6 cards with recipes on them. I have about 25 cards so far. I made them with recipes we have tried and enjoyed. I have all the ingredients that I would need to buy for that meal on the left hand side of the card, listed in order of rarest to common staples. I laminate the cards.
I then put these cards the middle slot of a three slot file folder that I put in my purse. I take out 6 cards at the grocery store and get all the ingredients off the six cards. I put these in the first slot now.
When I get home, I clip these 6 cards on my oven range hood with magnet clips. Thus if a recipe is on my range hood, then I know I have the ingredients for it. I have 6 to choose from at first, so I don't feel too stuck to a schedule.
After I've made a dinner from a card, I put it in the last slot in the file folder. Once all the cards have been used from the middle, I rotate the cards from the last slot to the middle slot, and we begin again.
Does this make sense?
Well, it's worked for me so far, and I feel freedom in my organization.
I'm beginning to NOT hate food.
4 comments:
Just have to say, as an organizing junkie, that I LOVE this idea. I'm stealing it from you!
I love your idea!! Clever, clever, clever!
I can relate to much of what you said about food. My biggest complaint is I do not enjoy cooking. I'm not good at it and it's not fun for me. I'm not sure that will ever change. What makes me keep cooking is knowing that if I don't, we will die. :) And if I have a menu, I do so much better with my shopping/budgeting and making things that are enjoyed by my family. When I have a menu life is so much easier and I don't begrudge fixing dinner, but when I don't, I just wait until the last minute for "inspriration" for what we are going to eat! I'm really tired of that...
Anyway, thank you for sharing your idea!!
Linds, I TOTALLY agree with your take on food. I also really like this idea and hope you can send me your recipes, I need all the help I can get
Love it! Meal planning can be a bit of a struggle for me, too.
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