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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Making Life Better

I remember being a young kid and declaring that I would never cook. I would be one of those grownups who just didn't care for it and would get take-out every night. My mother would always say that one day when I had a family, I would care because I would want them to eat healthy. Not surprisingly, she was right. In addition to eating healthy, it also saves a lot of money to cook.

As much as my husband and I love the idea of cooking for our family, it can be hard to fit it into our busy schedules. On top of it, our oldest is now doing soccer and Tae Kwon Do which in combination occupy three evenings a week. The question is how to make it work. Ideally, it's also how to make it work so that we can have family dinners at least a couple nights a week.

Mom Central has teamed up with Making Life Better to tell you about how to make cooking dinner a little easier. Unlike just looking up recipes on the internet, which I frequently do by the way, you can actually watch demo videos. Basically it's the idea of a cooking show, but for meals you've already selected. You can also watch the videos at your own convenience. Put your laptop in your kitchen and it's like having your own personal cooking show! Jennifer Bushman, author of the Kitchen Coach cookbooks, has demo videos up there. She has a step by step video for upside down chicken pie on the YouTube Channel for Making Life Better.

The recipes are simple and use ingredients that are easy to find and stock in your kitchen like Knorr's products, Lipton, Breyers, Country Crock, Hellman and Ragu. There's a terrific recipe for a pizza meat loaf that uses Lipton's Dry Onion Soup mix and Ragu pasta sauce. The recipes are broken down at the end by approximate cost per meal as well as cost per serving. You can also choose to have recipes emailed, saved, printed on paper or even printed on a recipe card!

Another nice feature is that you can look what you have stocked in your cabinets or fridge and do a search based those ingredients. For example I selected eggs and selected stove top as my preferred cooking method. I could have also chosen which meal I was making. It gave me 43 recipes using eggs and my stove top. There are also budget recipes and recipe tips right on the recipe home page of Making Life Better.

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