Monday, March 24, 2014

New post coming this week!

It's been a bit crazy around here.  Seems like every night last week we had 2-3 activities.  I barely cooked much less tried a new recipe.  I stuck to our old favorites when I did.  BBQ chicken sandwiches with homemade BBQ sauce, spaghetti and meat sauce, steak, and I don't know what else!  One night was leftover buffet.  This is when I take out all the viable food in the fridge, heat it up, cut up some veggies if there aren't any leftover, and call it dinner.

What does dinner look like in your house when you get busy?

I heard on the radio this morning that after a hiatus more consumers are going out to restaurants again.  Apparently the Great Recession kept some families home in an effort to cut household expenses.  Did you and your family start cooking at home more when the Recession hit?  If so do you go to restaurants more now?  We generally go out either Friday or Saturday night for dinner and sometimes will grab lunch or brunch out one weekend day too.  Sometimes it's at a nicer restaurant.  Other times when we've been running errands and driving kids around all day it's the local sub shop or a diner.  This is a pattern we've had for years.  I still prefer home cooking the best!

Look for a new recipe this week!

Sarah

4 comments:

  1. Hi Sarah. I often roast a chicken or make a pot roast for the week so that making dinner is as quick and easy as warming it up and making some quick sides like boiled potatoes and roasted veggies.

    As far as eating out and the recession, we didn't change our habits since we don't eat out more than a couple of times a week. Like you, we love to have brunch out on the weekend.

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    1. Unfortunately last week was even too busy to roast a chicken! Sounds lame but I barely had time to go to the store. Things will slow down eventually!

      What I find interesting is that when families were eating at home for every meal there didn't seem to be a correlation to better health. (The news story didn't address this directly but I've read in other news stories that in the same period Americans have gotten larger and other health indicators like cholesterol levels and heart attack rates have risen.) Of course it depends on what was made at home. It doesn't mean everything was made from scratch.

      Thanks for commenting, Averyl!

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  2. Most of the restaurants in our small city are chains so we don't eat out much since moving here a year and a half ago. My home cooking has spoiled us...I just don't like the flavor of mass-produced food!

    It's been busy for us, too, so I've been grateful for the collection of home-made frozen dinners. The Mister has been pulling them out of the freezer for us. But we're starting to get to the end of our collection so I'm going to have to make a concerted effort to prepare meals with the intention of putting the leftovers in the freezer!

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    1. Dr. JulieAnn, I know what you mean about the flavor of mass produced food. It's like my taste buds have changed. They're definitely more sensitive to salt. My Mister (ha ha, I love that!) gets used to restaurant meals when he's traveling for work and has to re-set when he comes home. .

      Good for you for freezing leftovers! I try to do that too but we often eat the leftovers for lunch- or as I wrote in the post- leftover buffet.

      Thanks for your comments!

      Sarah

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