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[quote=Anonymous]I'm learning to cook right now.  I should have really learned a long time ago, but LSS someone was helping me with dinner while I was helping the kids with homework.  When we moved here 6 months ago, I had to learn.

It is like language immersion!  I've tried lots of things and someone in my family doesn't like them.  I wanted to do healthy things, not just glob on fat and salt and pastas to get my family to eat.  But every now and then I hit on something everybody likes and then I file that away.

I think a big help to me was not trying to come up with things, but to have an easy system to jog my memory of dinner options; I'll explain.

I've got a three-ring binder and here is my trick:  In the old days, every time I saw something I wanted to make, I'd put it in that binder.  But it doesn't work for me because it gets too junky and jammed.

What I do now is, while I still have that binder, I have my "working binder"--with recipes/articles/photos of things I've actually made and will make again.  Much thinner binder!  On the first page, I have a summary, so I don't have to use my *brain* to think about what to make for dinner.  I just go down the list.  It might say "Pork Piccata" but it will also say "Scrambled Eggs"--I don't forget the easy fast simple meals--they count too.

I also have another page with headers: Protein   Vegetable   Starch   Fruit, and under there I just list stuff--like under vegetables I put broccoli, asparagus, carrots, brussel sprouts….then I can look and mix and match before going to the store.

I've got a few things now that I make--I've got some easy things I make all the time.  We eat yams (not sweet potatoes, yams) about every other day.  We never get sick of them.  [/quote]

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