October 2009 J.A.M. (Just Add Meat) Menu
Here’s an opportunity to purchase up to 8 different meals to take home to your family. These meals will come to you in freezer bags, containing all the ingredients (except the meat) for a delicious home-cooked entrée that feeds 6 or more. It will also include freezer labels with preparation instructions, and leftover ideas. Most of these meals can be slow-cooked! Just take the meal out of your freezer in the morning, put it into your slow-cooker on low, and you will come home to a hot, home-cooked meal, ready and waiting for you! Free assembly service with your order. Please call or email your order by:
Order by Tuesday, October 13th, for pickup/delivery on Friday, October 16th.
Order by Tuesday, October 27th, for pickup/delivery on Friday, October 30th.
HOW MUCH? Only $6.00 Per Meal!!
Did you know that a family of 4 dining at Olive Garden 8 times spends around $480? Eight pizza deliveries cost about $200! Eight trips to McDonalds run about $180! What I’m offering is a fabulous deal! Plus it’s a great chance to save time, eat healthier meals at home and stretch your grocery budget!
This Month’s Menu Includes:
Southwest Chicken - Our Southwest seasoning mix, with tomatoes is so full of flavor and so healthy! You can add chicken, pork, beef, fish or shrimp. Serve over rice for a south of the border meal. Can be Baked or Slow-cooked.
Asian Pork Tenderloin – Uses a combination of our Garlic Lemon seasoning, soy sauce and honey for out of this world flavor! This is best prepared in the Slow-cooker.
Home style Spaghetti Sauce – This is an easy slow-cooker meal. Just add browned burger and you will have a delicious sauce to be served over your favorite pasta for a flavorful Italian dinner.
Raspberry Chipotle - You can add Chicken, Shrimp, Pork Loin or Pork Chops for this flavorful mix. A little kick from the chipotle seasoning, mixed with the tart sweetness of raspberry preserves. Bake or Slow-cook.
Italian Chicken – Diced bell pepper and special herbs and spices create a savory Italian entrée. Bake or Slow-cook.
Garlic Basil Chicken – Our Garlic Basil seasoning mix, with tomatoes is so full of flavor and so healthy! Bake, Grill or Slow-cook.
Sunday Roast Chicken or Beef – Just like it sounds. Flavorful and simple. You can make this entrée with either chicken or roast. Bake or Slow-cook.
Garlic Lemon Chicken – The light and refreshing flavor of lemon with a hint of garlic. You can make this with chicken, pork, shrimp or fish.
Yvette Mason
Homemade Gourmet® Meal Planning Consultant #848324
Phone: 304-262-4337 Email me at: wahmbiz@comcast.net
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Benefits of Eating Together - Families That Eat Together Stay Together
It's here, National Eat Together Week!
There are so many benefits of eating together as a family. Wondering what some of those benefits are? Here's a great article I found on SparksPeople.com. Read the article and take some time this week to enjoy dinner with your family and reap the benefits!
The Benefits of Eating Together
The Family Who Eats Together Stays Together
-- By Becky Hand, Licensed & Registered Dietician
"Come and get it!" It may be dinnertime, but when was the last time your family sat down and enjoyed a mealtogether? With music lessons, ball practice, play rehearsal, and work schedules, it can be tough. Rounding up the troops for an evening meal can be almost impossible! However, research is beginning to show that eating as a family has great benefits for your children and teenagers. Here are 8 more reasons why you should try to sit down together 5-6 times a week, whether for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Reason #1: Communication and Well-Being
Conversations during the meal provide opportunities for the family to bond, plan, connect, and learn from one another. It’s a chance to share information and news of the day, as well as give extra attention to your children and teens. Family meals foster warmth, security and love, as well as feelings of belonging. It can be a unifying experience for all.
Reason #2: Model Manners (and more)
Family mealtime is the perfect opportunity to display appropriate table manners, meal etiquette, and social skills. Keep the mood light, relaxed, and loving. Try not to instruct or criticize—lead by example.
Reason # 3: Expand Their World…One Food at a Time
Encourage your children to try new foods, without forcing, coercing, or bribing. Introduce a new food along with some of the stand-by favorites. Remember that it can take 8-10 exposures to a new food before it is accepted, so be patient. Trying a new food is like starting a new hobby. It expands your child’s knowledge, experience, and skill.
- Include foods from other cultures and countries.
- Select a new vegetable from a local farmer’s market.
- Have your child select a new recipe from a cookbook, web site, newspaper, magazine or check out the recipes on SparkPeople.
Meals prepared and eaten at home are usually more nutritious and healthy. They contain more fruits, vegetables, and dairy products along with additional nutrients such as fiber, calcium, vitamins A and C, and folate. Home cooked meals are usually not fried or highly salted, plus soda and sweetened beverage consumption is usually lower at the dinner table.
Reason #5: Become Self-Sufficient
Children today are missing out on the importance of knowing how to plan and prepare meals. Basic cooking, baking, and food preparation are necessities for being self-sufficient. Involve your family in menu planning, grocery shopping, and food preparation. Preschoolers can tear lettuce, cut bananas, and set the table. Older children can pour milk, peel vegetables, and mix batter. Teenagers can dice, chop, bake, and grill. Working as a team puts the meal on the table faster, as well as makes everyone more responsible and accepting of the outcome. Improved eating habits come with "ownership" of a meal.
Reason #6: Prevent Destructive Behaviors
Research shows that frequent family dinners (five or more a week), are associated with lower rates of smoking, drinking, and illegal drug use in pre-teens and teenagers when compared to families that eat together two or fewer times per week. Even as older children’s schedules get more complicated, it is important to make an effort to eat meals together. Scheduling is a must.
Reason #7: Improve Grades
Children do better in school when they eat more meals with their parents and family. Teenagers who eat dinner four or more times per week with their families have higher academic performance compared with teenagers who eat with their families two or fewer times per week.
Reason # 8: Save Money
Meals purchased away from home cost two to four times more than meals prepared at home. At present time the restaurant industry’s share of the total food dollar is more than 46%. Due to scheduling, commitments, and activities, families eat out several times each week.
It is time to bring the "family" back to the dinner table. Sharing dinner together gives everyone a sense of identity. It can help ease day-to-day conflicts, as well as establish traditions and memories that can last a lifetime.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
It's Apple Season - Pick An Apple Today!
It's apple season. It's the time when we all want to go pick a bushel of fresh apples for our families to enjoy.
Apples are one of my family's fruit of choice and what better time to enjoy apples than in the Fall when you can get fresh local apples at your nearest farmer's market. Did you realize that the average American eats 17.8 pounds of apples each year??? That's a lot of apples!
There are so many varieties of apples out there. You are not limited to the Red Delicious and Golden Delicious apples any longer. Here are a couple new varieties you might be interested in trying:
- Jonagold - This apple is mostly yellow with flushes of red. It has a sweet taste and is high in acidity.
- Empire - This apple is a cross between a Red Delicious and a McIntosh. It has a sweet-tart flavor.
- Honeycrisp - This apple has a mottled yellow-red skin. It will satisfy your desire for a crunchy apple!
- Esopus Spitzenburg - This apple is aromatic and spicy.
Friday, September 11, 2009
September 21 - 27 is National Eat Together Week
National Eat Together Week is fast approaching. Isn't it time you take control of your family dinners and begin eating together around the dinner table? I enjoy helping families reclaim their dinner time through fast, easy, and delicious meal planning solutions. Let me help you!
Did you know that one of the best ways to get our kids excited about dinner is by having them help prepare the meal?
Here are some important tips from A Trovola Together, to remember when cooking with your kids.
1. Invite your children to choose the recipe or help plan the meal. It gives them a sense of independence and allows them to make good choices.
2. Explain safety rules for the stove, appliances, and sharp utensils. Teaching children the "rules of the kitchen" at an early age helps instill the life skills they will need in the future.
3. Read the recipes and plan cooking steps together. You can practice those reading and problem resolutions skills!
4. Wash your hands before starting to cook or eating. It is so important to teach our children good hygiene. Explain to them why it's important.
Once your meal is prepared, you and your family will be able to enjoy great conversation over a delicious homemade meal!
You can find more ideas and great kid-friendly recipes at www.atavolatogether.com
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