Saturday November 14th, 2009
Today’s Activity:
Are you like me and get sick and tired of cooking by the time Saturday comes around? Well I say delegate! Set a budget for your kids and put them in charge of dinner. You can either supervise or ask your husband to.
FREE:
If you’re grocery money has already been spent for the pay period then let them shop in the cupboards.
Note:
Be patient and when they serve you Peanut Butter and pickle sandwiches eat them with a smile on your face. You don’t want to make them feel the way they make you feel when they don’t like what you cooked. Besides, once they are in bed you could always have a pizza delivered.
Evaluate:
When I told Max he and his sister got to be in charge of dinner he immediately suggested rice & beans “because that will be easy!” Well when he says rice & beans he is referring to the “rice and beans place” aka Cancun Cafe, his favorite restaurant. He wasn’t terbbly upset when I told him he had to cook it. So we attempted to make our own rice and beans. I googled a recipe for Mexican rice because honestly, I’ve only made Spanish rice. The problem is that it called for an onion and I didn’t have one (grocery day is tomorrow, well today now) and I really didn’t want to go the the store just to go again tomorrow, so we found some OLD onion powder in my moms cupboard and used that. It was date night so Steven and I actually went to the rice and beans place to enjoy the real thing while we left the kids and their sitter home with our attempt at rice and canned beans (really, you think I was going to try to make homemade re-fried beans with a 5 & 2 year old?).
