Summer is winding down! We are getting lazy, a little stuck in our ways and a little too used to Momma being home and doing all the things! My kids are typically great eaters! However lately, there has been a lot of "I don't like this" and "I didn't want this" and my favorite from Stori, "you need to make me some good food"! Umm...who are you people and where did my kids go?
Once I found myself in the middle of the epic "there are kids that have nothing to eat! They have to dig through dumpsters to find food and drink from dirty water" speech, I knew something had to change. After my flesh calmed down, because I surely just wanted to holler "you ungrateful people!" I began trying to figure out what I could do to help my momma heart out and to teach them a little something.
I thought back to a conversation with a friend who has everyone in her family pick out one meal a week and tell her all the ingredients she needs to buy. I figured we could give it a shot! I dread planning a menu, so now I have assigned the kids two nights a week. SG and Lu get one night and Noah and Stori get another night. Their job is to find a recipe, tell me what I need to get, and cook their meal that night.
I really was hoping this would give the kids some sense of responsibility and maybe just a little appreciation for the people who make their food!
So here is night number one, Lu and SG. The girls decided one would choose dinner and one would choose dessert. Lu choose to make Mini Lasagnas and salad. She was pretty excited about all the cheese!
