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Filed Under: Home Management · Recipes

The Dinner Challenge: Day Three and Four

On Day Three I didn't cook any dinner for our dinner challenge since we had so much leftover Beef and Tomato Bake from Day Two's dinner. And then today's dinner was rather…shall we say…interesting? You see I was out of rice for the Chicken Fried Rice recipe, so I had Jeff pick some up at […]

Filed Under: Home Management · Recipes

The Dinner Challenge: Day Two

Dinner challeng day two can't make up for last nights flop but it got an all thumbs up from my people. Last night was a strikeout, but tonight was a home run! { Sorry, I don't know why I'm using baseball analogies — I don't even like baseball! } Tonight's dinner was Beef and Tomato […]

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The Dinner Challenge: Day One

Not a good start for my dinner challenge week. Dinner was a bust today. The recipe I chose, slow cooker barbecue chicken, was entirely too spicy. I actually liked it, but Jeff will probably have horrible indigestion the rest of the night. Jaden thought it was okay, but it had such a kick he had […]

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Home Economics Curriculum

UPDATE: Unfortunately this curriculum is no longer available for free. But you can still purchase it as an ebook for $16.99. Michelle at Beyond the Silver and the Gold linked to a wonderful home economics curriculum recently. Future Christian Homemakers has their entire home economics book available online as downloadable and printable pdfs. I haven't […]

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The Lunch Challenge: Summary and Recipe Link-up

After this last week, I discovered that I'm not too great at making lunches as you'll see in my summary of this lunch challenge week. My lunch-making ability pretty much fell apart toward the end of the week. Monday: Day one was a success; it was easy to prepare and everyone loved the meal. I […]

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Menu Plan Monday: The Dinner Challenge

For the last two weeks Amanda and I have challenged each other to cook more for our families, focusing on only one meal per week. The first week it was breakfasts, and last week it was lunches. This coming week our task is to focus on dinners, one meal that I've always had difficulty preparing […]