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| Live crabs in a Hong Kong storefront |
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| "Oranger peel" -- probably better than "old orange peel"? -- in Hong Kong |
I have been doing some much-needed rescuing of my content from an early wrong turn on the blogging highway.
I had some things I needed to tell you. Some of you kindly tell me to write a book; one of my goals here was to produce something like a first draft!
I had wanted to put certain things in a form that you could easily print out for your own use (without photos, therefore). I even had visions of you getting together with friends and using the worksheets as a starting point for discussion and mutual help! It was going to be awesome.
So I posted a bunch of things as Google Docs. But between my easily scrambled brain and the easily scrambled settings on the Google Docs, the links weren't always working for you. Throw in this new Drive thing they have going on over there in Google land (why? why, Google? It was all so... fine, before), I decided to redo these as posts in the timeline (or as near as I could figure it).
What's it all about? If you are new here, or a faithful reader who hasn't really glanced over at the sidebar, or a faithful reader who has clicked on links to no avail and given up, a little recap: These are my step-by-step hand-holding tutorials on how to solve the one thing that is making you crazy, holding you back, and sabotaging all your efforts: The Failure to Know What's for Dinner (and lunch and breakfast).
There are posts about these steps as well -- it's going to take me longer to get them all organized. I've linked the important ones on the sidebar.
Go here for Worksheet I. Learn how to make menus that are exactly right for your family -- no one else's! That is the LMLD difference!
Go here for Worksheet II. People like examples -- here you will find some to encourage you.
Go here for Worksheet III. Some people can't figure out how to make specific menus for a whole week, just because things change every day. I show you how, walking you through my own thought process!
Go here for Worksheet IV. I show you how to grocery shop, saving money big-time -- in actual groceries and in eliminating budget-busting dinners out -- without many coupons! The secret is in this worksheet!
Go here for Worksheet V. Save-a-Step Cooking! Maybe you aren't naturally a cook. Or --You love spontaneity, you're a creative cook, you can't feature freezing all your meals, but you are drowning in the work of feeding the family! Really, this method is painless.
Go here for Worksheet VI. Read the pathetic story of how I developed a worksheet (the first one, actually! typed out and taped inside my own binder) for a bland diet for sickies.
Go here for Worksheet VII. Breakfast recipes, including the absolutely indispensable Buttermilk Baking Mix of Fabulousness!
Go here for Worksheet VIII. Save a step at breakfast, and implement the breakfast recipes optimally.
Lunch secrets. This isn't a worksheet, but it contains my thoughts on lunches, which I sort of detest making.
Feel free to print these out for your own use. If you have a mother's group, I honestly believe in all humility that working on getting supper on the table can be the best activity you do! I would be honored if you printed these out for that purpose! If you post on your blog, a link would be appreciated!
Have you intrepidly hunted down the worksheets before? Have you used them and found them helpful? I'd love to hear how in the comments.
And -- don't forget -- {pretty, happy, funny, real} is still going on in yesterday's post!
