Home cooking

Just read through some of my posts the last few months - I haven't mentioned how much we make things from scratch now. Just in the next days we'll make homemade crockpot yogurt, bagel chips (this is a new experiment), veggie broth/stock (usually 8-11 cups for the freezer-pantry), red sauce (we use it for pizza, spaghetti, meatloaf, anything that calls for marinara/red sauce) - making 6 cups at a time approx, French bread. We'll also dry some fruit both for snacking, and in anticipation of making our own granola-style cereal in another week.

We've made a few other things too - tried our hand at sandwich thins, but we would be making those every week to keep up with our crew, and they weren't the easiest either.

We made homemade pretzel sticks for our trip, as well as home-dried jerky, and garlic-sesame sticks.

Whew! Lots of cooking, but I greatly appreciate my husband's willingness to help us eat more healthily. He does most of the cooking and I keep up with dishes. That's saying alot, for both of us!