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Pennies and Pounds: Meal Planning Basics: Setting Up Your Meal Planner
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Meal Planning Basics: Setting Up Your Meal Planner. Welcome to Pennies and Pounds. I post meal-planning tips here regularly, along with other daily content about healthy, budget-minded eating. Subscribe to our RSS feed. Or our daily e-mail updates. To be notified about new posts that might interest you! To learn more about the benefits of meal planning, check out the post Discover Meal Planning. Here are a few possible tools for organizing your weekly meal plans. Meal-planning software and web sites.
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Pennies and Pounds: Picky Eaters? Tips on How to Introduce Vegetables
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Tips on How to Introduce Vegetables. New on Associated Content:. I didn't always like vegetables. Sure, I ate kid favorites like french fries and corn on the cob, and I even enjoyed green peas and baked beans. But boy, was I picky about the rest. I'd eat baked potatoes, but only if I could leave behind the skin. I liked tomatoes one year, then decided they were too squishy the next. I loved salad, if by salad you meant cucumbers topped with cheese, bacon bits, and chow mein noodles. Go read the rest.
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Pennies and Pounds: Meals for the Week: Restarting the Week
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Meals for the Week: Restarting the Week. Our meals got all shifted around all through last week, and we didn't end up sticking much to our schedule. Thus, this week's meals are largely what I'd planned for last week's meals! Since I didn't post meals for last week, it doesn't make much difference in the end. Shells and meatballs with tomato sauce. Beef and bean tacos. Tortilla chips and salsa. Pesto pasta with tomatoes and chicken. Merry Christmas in July! Tuesday, July 21, 2009. In On the Menu. Colleen ...
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Pennies and Pounds: In Case You Missed My Cookbook Follow-Up Comment
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In Case You Missed My Cookbook Follow-Up Comment. Will you post sample recipes from the recently finished cookbook. My goodness, I was so eager to get the word out after finishing this big project that I forgot to dot my i's and cross my t's. You can see sample recipes right now at the cookbook project web site, grancook.com. You can also take a little peak inside the cookbook at its purchase page on Lulu, which is at bit.ly/grancook. PS It's the recipe pictured on the back of the cookbook, shown above!
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Pennies and Pounds: Numbers Template for Meal Planning
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Numbers Template for Meal Planning. FYI, these files are now offered as in the ZIP format so that they will download without incident. Just decompress them when you finish the download. Please remember that these files are free for noncommercial use only. Sorry for Friday's missing post! I've created a new template that, in my opinion, improves on what I'd been using before (for a picture of that, see the entry Setting Up Your Meal Planner. I tried exporting the document to the standard Excel format, but...
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Pennies and Pounds: Discover Meal Planning
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OK, that conclusion is premature, but you. Is out of the question, and leftovers cause a serious space crunch. When you're faced with tight spaces and tight budgets (that cursed dollar! Meal planning can ride to your rescue. Your kitchen will be less cluttered, your wallet will grow fatter, your sanity will remain intact, and you'll have more time to relish all the benefits. Not to mention a meal plan will keep your overall diet healthier. That junk-food binge I mentioned above? Meal planning offers more...
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Pennies and Pounds: Recipe Sources for Meal Planning
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Recipe Sources for Meal Planning. When I packed my bags for a year in Europe, I contemplated bringing a few of my favorite cookbooks. After all, I would be living in Slovakia and the Czech Republic; I was unlikely to find many alternatives there that both used English directions and American measurements. In the end, though, weight considerations ruled the day and I left the books behind. Speaking of extensively tested recipes! If I'm looking for a recipe for something like an overnight slaw or chicken c...
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Pennies and Pounds: July 2009
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Meals for the Week: Hot, Hot, Hot. Summer has finally arrived in the Pacific Northwest. It stopped to say hello in May, then abandoned us for two months, only to return with a vengeance now in late July. Red beans and rice with smoked turkey sausage. Spinach and tomato salad. Overnight French toast casserole with sage sausage. Corndog muffins with smoked turkey sausage. Spaghetti with meatballs and hot Italian sausage. Tuesday, July 28, 2009. In On the Menu. Links to this post. Beef and bean tacos. I wou...
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Pennies and Pounds: June 2009
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America’s Test Kitchen Seeks Your Questions. America’s Test Kitchen Seeks Your Questions. Fans of America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country, listen up: The staff of Cook's Illustrated's television franchises wants to hear from you. I watch all the shows put out by the. Folks regularly, but I just don't ever have a question come up that I would think of sending in to them. As far as I'm concerned, there's no mystery in food that can't be solved through referring to my cookbooks or asking Google. The Joy o...
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Pennies and Pounds: Cookbook Project Complete!
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Sorry it's been an eternity since I posted anything, but I wanted to share a link to the big project I've been working on for the past few months:. The big project is finished! We have published the cookbook Grancook's Favorite Recipes. He book will go to support the Cancer Institute in Lebanon, Indiana, which treated Gladys during her illness. Wednesday, December 02, 2009. December 4, 2009 at 9:21 AM. Please accept my heartfelt condolences on Grandmaothers passing. December 4, 2009 at 2:01 PM. You can a...
