Food For Memories and Mealtime

Food is more than just a source of nutrition and sustenance. A good meal shared by a family can build memories and warm the bellies and hearts of your loved ones. If you think back to all your favorite childhood memories, the chances are good that food was involved.

Remembering Easter brings your mind to all the candy the bunny brought, reminiscing about Thanksgiving with your family certainly floods your mind with turkey and pies and laughter. Christmas, grilling out in the summer, family reunions, birthday parties and more are all celebrated with a yummy meal while you have fun with your loved ones.

Dinners and receptions also mark special moments in time. A wedding ceremony is comparatively short when put side by side to the wedding reception. Every good wedding reception is memorialized with unforgettable cakes, drinks, food and favors.

Wedding cakes become one of the major food groups in the wedding industry. From simple to extremely elaborate designs, these cakes can cost thousands of dollars and take hours of labor to complete.

Weddings are just one example of how cuisine can enhance a milestone to mark it in history.

For most of us, meal time is not made up of four-course dinners with rows of forks for each new course. In fact, many of us are looking for the most convenient meal at lunch time or dinner time.

In addition to something convenient and fast, moms are usually concerned with the diets and health of their family, so mothers will shop for healthier or organic food in place of sweets and junk.

But even the best intentions for feeding your family a nutritious meal can go neglected when jobs, school, social groups and the unexpected happenstances all contend for your attention to dinner time.

The best thing you can do is be prepared. And easy step to take is to make a list of 4 go-to meals that you will have in your house at all times. These meals should be quick, easy and low-cost.

• A few tips for keeping these meals handy and in-stock are to Go Vegetarian – eliminating a meat ingredient in your emergency-meal plan will make it easier for you to have all the ingredients in your pantry. This is true simply because meat expires rather quickly, so having a recipe that calls for pasta and a few frozen veggies is much easier to store in your pantry for a longer term.
• Buy Bulk – if you are going to make spaghetti for dinner, buy twice the amount and hold back half of the ingredients so you will have enough to make another meal later.
• Use Storage Containers – expanding the life of your food will mean it lasts longer and you can keep it around for a while. This is great for cereal, flour, sugar, baking goods and pasta.

Another tip for making meal time quick and easy is to prepare a menu for your week. Make a list of five or six dinners you will cook throughout the week – choose low maintenance meals that can be thrown together in about 45 minutes or less. Then do your grocery shopping and buy all the ingredients for those meals, so you do not have to keep running back to the market.

Here is a short list of meals you may enjoy

• Baked Chicken – find a recipe that calls for you to cover the chicken in bread crumbs or crackers. These are quick and simple – you basically roll the chicken and then bake.
•  Spaghetti and Garlic Bread – you can find hundreds of variations and include meatballs or ground beef.
• Sloppy Joes – these are a fun twist on hamburger night and you can play with using beef or turkey and adding your favorite sauce mixture.
• Crock Pot Meals – these take a while to cook in the pot, but once you gather the ingredients, you can walk away and let it cook. They are very simple and the possibilities are endless.

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