by Carrie on April 9, 2010
I just love free reusable tote bags. I’ve already got a stack all of which were free but a few are starting to get a little worn out so I’ll be planning to pick these up this month as well:
Check this post out for info on Seventh Generation coupons and rebates to score some really cheap Seventh Generation products (and don’t forget to enter my Seventh Generation giveaway for a chance to win some free products):
And my main issue when it comes to food is portion control (especially on the junk food) and I have a good friend who has had fabulous success with Weight Watchers which I thought was all about portion control but this post reveals that a lot of it comes down to artificially fat free products and food substitues:
by Carrie on March 12, 2010
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by Carrie on March 1, 2010
I’m finding myself only to be up for cooking on the alternating weeks between chemo treatments so I’m trying yet another format for this month’s meal plan. This month rather than organizing by week I’ll be organizing by type of dish so it’s easy to pick something I’m in the mood for.
Chicken
Beef
- fajitas (meat precut and seasoned in the freezer)
- chili (already cooked and in the freezer)
- meatloaf (recipe from The Pioneer Woman Cooks) served with tater tots or mashed potatoes
Other Meats
- turkey meatballs (from the freezer) with pasta
Vegetarian
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by Carrie on February 26, 2010
First things first, make sure you pop over to my other blog, Carrie Actually, and enter my $15 iTunes gift card giveaway (ends 3/1).
Now on to today’s link round up:
by Carrie on February 11, 2010
Early last year, I got it into my head that I wanted all the recipes from all my cookbooks and magazine tear outs indexed in one place on my computer so that it was easy to pull together a meal plan. At that time, I decided to start by listing them all out by dish type in a basic text editor.
More recently, I was browsing around the blogosphere and came across Mommy Snack’s Menu Planning Recipe Box and I loved the spreadsheet idea but it needed a little tweaking to work for me.
Here’s what I came up with (click the image to enlarge):
Download the .xls file so you can play around with it yourself.
I’ve got several columns for sorting the data in various ways, left to right they are:
- a place to mark which recipes I’d like to use on my next meal plan
- name
- type of dish (main, side, salad, dessert, etc)
- protein
- produce
- starch
- tried/favorite
- notes (seasonal info or cooking notes if I want to make changes to the recipe in the future)
- source
Rather than using Google Docs (which I love because I can access my files easily from multiple computers), I decided to go with Microsoft Excel. Excel does a couple things that made my digital recipe box easier than it would have been in Google Docs: 1) it remembers what you typed in the same field in rows above so that you don’t need to type the same cookbook name over and over again, 2) it has filters so that once all my recipes are in, I can easily narrow it down to just chicken dishes, just desserts, just recipes I’ve marked as favorites, or even search for recipes with the word chocolate in the title.
