A post about food
First the rant:
J and I have been talking recently about certain food items that seem to be a total rip-off in terms of what you get for the price. His main gripe is cereal, my main gripe is salsa. I was getting groceries yesterday and added another item to the list: bread. I want a healthy whole grain/wheat bread that does NOT have high fructose corn syrup in it that doesn't cost four dollars a loaf! It's almost enough to make me want to dig out the bread pans. Almost.
On to the raves:
I bought a cookbook recently that I am utterly in love with. I may have posted about it before, but it's called Hollywood Dish by Akasha Richmond. It's rare that I have a cookbook that I have tried almost every single recipe and almost every single recipe has been fantastic. This book is mainly filled with vegetarian/vegan type of dishes (a lot of soy milk and cheese) but she also has some chicken and seafood recipes. The cookbook is also a history book of the health foods movement in Hollywood and it's really fascinating. I highly recommend checking this book out and seeing if it's for you.
I really try to make a menu and shopping list for a few days when I get groceries in order to save money. It seems like if I have to go to the store to get one night's worth of food I end up getting a lot of other things I don't need and end up spending too much money. I read about a service in the paper a while ago that I have tried out and really like. It's called Relish. It's about five bucks a month to subscribe, and each Thursday you get a PDF to download that has five days of main dishes and a side dish to go with each. They have the shopping list on one page and they try to make the whole menu cost about $80 for the five days, which I have found is usually about right. Each meal is coded (A, B, C, D) so if you don't want that meal you don't buy the items with that letter next to it. My only gripe about it, and I feel bad for griping because it's a great service, is that it's a little too meat focused. I understand why they do this in order to appeal to the average family, but some weeks I just can't deal with the all of the meat. The recipes are easy, and I have found them to be really good. They are coded to let you know if you need to marinate all day, or use the crock pot, and if some would need to be adjusted for children's taste buds. Try the free trial and see what you think.
This may be to soon to rave about since I just found this but I recently stumbled across this website's food section and have been printing recipes like a mad woman. I have made a couple of recipes so far and they have both been great. The recipes are collected from a variety of different sources, but they are all vegetarian and more health minded than most. The Italian Supper Dumplings are fantastic, as is the Venus' Onion and Goat Cheese Tart. I'll keep you posted.
J and I have been talking recently about certain food items that seem to be a total rip-off in terms of what you get for the price. His main gripe is cereal, my main gripe is salsa. I was getting groceries yesterday and added another item to the list: bread. I want a healthy whole grain/wheat bread that does NOT have high fructose corn syrup in it that doesn't cost four dollars a loaf! It's almost enough to make me want to dig out the bread pans. Almost.
On to the raves:
I bought a cookbook recently that I am utterly in love with. I may have posted about it before, but it's called Hollywood Dish by Akasha Richmond. It's rare that I have a cookbook that I have tried almost every single recipe and almost every single recipe has been fantastic. This book is mainly filled with vegetarian/vegan type of dishes (a lot of soy milk and cheese) but she also has some chicken and seafood recipes. The cookbook is also a history book of the health foods movement in Hollywood and it's really fascinating. I highly recommend checking this book out and seeing if it's for you.
I really try to make a menu and shopping list for a few days when I get groceries in order to save money. It seems like if I have to go to the store to get one night's worth of food I end up getting a lot of other things I don't need and end up spending too much money. I read about a service in the paper a while ago that I have tried out and really like. It's called Relish. It's about five bucks a month to subscribe, and each Thursday you get a PDF to download that has five days of main dishes and a side dish to go with each. They have the shopping list on one page and they try to make the whole menu cost about $80 for the five days, which I have found is usually about right. Each meal is coded (A, B, C, D) so if you don't want that meal you don't buy the items with that letter next to it. My only gripe about it, and I feel bad for griping because it's a great service, is that it's a little too meat focused. I understand why they do this in order to appeal to the average family, but some weeks I just can't deal with the all of the meat. The recipes are easy, and I have found them to be really good. They are coded to let you know if you need to marinate all day, or use the crock pot, and if some would need to be adjusted for children's taste buds. Try the free trial and see what you think.
This may be to soon to rave about since I just found this but I recently stumbled across this website's food section and have been printing recipes like a mad woman. I have made a couple of recipes so far and they have both been great. The recipes are collected from a variety of different sources, but they are all vegetarian and more health minded than most. The Italian Supper Dumplings are fantastic, as is the Venus' Onion and Goat Cheese Tart. I'll keep you posted.
2 Comments:
I know of two other meal planning sites that offer menus for the week. The first is Savingdinner.com and they have a vegetarian version. The other is sixoclockscramble.com.
I haven't used either one so I can't recommend one or the other.
Right on! Thanks for the sites, I will check them out.
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