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Meal Planning (Part 1)

Takeaway points: Planning ahead helps to manage costs and energy levels. If you are an office-bound carer,  plan ahead of the takeouts for healthier family meals. If you are a family carer that works from home, a support group helps cultivate the habit of making weekly menu plans. I wanted to write about preparing budget fast meals but realised I had not yet counted the costs of each ingredient of my recommended meals hence not sure if the recommended meal is ‘budget’ or not..haha so…must do homework first then I share 🙂 This blog entry is about how I started menu planning recently, more regularly, and am very glad I kept at it because now after 4 weeks I am beginning to see the benefits. I attended a  workshop on health at a non-profit organisation recently. At the Health workshop, the participants had to plan a healthy menu based on our food vision chart (pic below) – this meant that we needed to consider the kind of food we ‘saw’ ourselves eating many years down the road. ...

Meal Planning (Part 2)

Takeaway points: Having an organised kitchen space lessens food wastage, saves on food costs and moderates stress levels for the family carer for the long haul This post is kind of a ‘Part 2’ to my earlier post of  ‘A Menu Plan (Part 1)”. Every family is unique: the wants, needs, budget are very different. This blog entry just aims to give suggestions to make planning weekly meals more manageable. TIPS 1) Collect recipes that use 3 ingredients (or less !) – it cuts down marketing costs and you also have lesser grocery bags to lug home after marketing (for bulk orders, one can call for home delivery)   2) Collect recipes that use only one pot /dish (eg. rice cooker, crockpot, baking tray)  to cook a meal. Less cleaning up, washing and putting away of crockery to do!   3) File your recipes inside an App (like Evernote) and back it up in a soft copy (eg. ring binder) I started using Evernote one year ago and it has cut down my paper clutter-i used to have my recipes in ...