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For many women, dread turns to panic around 4:00 in the afternoon. That's when they have to answer that age-old question, "What's for dinner?" Many resort to another supermarket rotisserie chicken or--worse yet--ordering dinner through a drive-thru intercom.In The "What's for Dinner" Solution, popular author and speaker Kathi Lipp provides a full-kitchen approach for getting dinner on the table every night. After putting her 21-day plan into action, women willsave time--with bulk shopping and cookingsave money--no more last-minute phone calls to the delivery pizza placesave their sanity--forget the last-minute scramble every night and know what they're having for dinnerThe book includes real recipes from real women, a quick guide to planning meals for a month, the best shopping strategies for saving time and money, and tips on the best ways to use a slow cooker, freezer, and pantry.With Kathi's book in hand, there's no more need to hit the panic button.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 octobre 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736942096
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Cover design by Left Coast Design, Portland, Oregon
Cover illustration Krieg Barrie
Published in association with the literary agency of WordServe Literary Group, Ltd., 10152 S. Knoll Circle, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130
THE WHAT S FOR DINNER? SOLUTION
Copyright 2011 by Kathi Lipp
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lipp, Kathi, 1967-
The what s for dinner solution / Kathi Lipp.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7369-3837-2 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-4209-6 (eBook)
1. Dinners and dining. 2. Quick and easy cooking. 3. Cookbooks. I. Title.
TX737.L57 2011
641.5-dc22
2011008138
All rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America
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To my four favorite food testers: Amanda, Jeremy, Justen, and Kimber .
Roger and I consider it among our hugest blessings that the four of you will still come home for dinner .
Acknowledgments
LaRae Weikert, as well as Brad and Arlene Moses, for brainstorming with me and Roger and being the encouragers (and instigators) that you are.
Mom-for teaching me there was more to cooking than baking, and for feeding me and my kids when my life was at its hardest. Coming home to dinner made many things OK during a pretty rough time.
The Lipps-who love us and feed us when we travel.
Betty Dobson-who s given Roger his food culture of noodles and mashed potatoes (the one point in our marriage where we will never agree).
Brian, Lucinda, and Elsa-who love food as much as we do and share their love (and goodies) with us.
To every woman who contributed her wisdom and recipes to this book, especially Ruth Shave, Regena Florenti, Vashie Miller, Ann Stea, Linda Carlblom, Martha Orlando, Robin Dilallo, Amy Redelsperger, and Linda Jenkins.
Some of my favorite six chicks (and a dude)-Tonya Walters, Vikki Francis, Shari Wideman, Penny and Elliot Sands, Kelli Simmerok, Lynette Furstenberg, and Melanie Bernard.
My amazing team-Sunnie Weber, Monica Trevino, Ginny Chapman, Angela Bowen, Kimberly Hunter, and Linda Jenkins.
My editor, Rod Morris, whose infinite patience was constantly tested during this editing, and who still makes the process fun.
Rachelle Gardner, my super-agent, who kept telling me (almost always at dinnertime), Would you hurry up and finish the book? I need it.
Erin MacPherson-my foodie friend and a constant encouragement.
Lonette Whitaker and Debbie McDonald, who have invested time, wisdom, and countless lunches in me. I m proud to call you friends.
Roger-my favorite BBQer, hole-in-the-wall finder, salsa and guac maker. You like food spicy; I like it when my food doesn t hurt. With food and with life, you challenge me to try new things, be adventurous, and kick it up a notch. Love you, baby.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Why The What s for Dinner? Solution ?
Six Quick Steps to Get Started with The What s For Dinner? Solution
Part One: GET PREPARED
1. Girl Meets Kitchen, or Not Necessarily a Love Story
2. It s Not Just About the Food
3. How to Save Time, Save Money, Save Your Sanity
4. What Are You Going to Eat for 31 Days?
Part Two: GET ORGANIZED
5. Solution 1-Organize Your Recipes
6. Solution 2-Organize Your Space
7. Solution 3-Organize Your Tools
8. Solution 4-Organize Your Pantry
Part Three: GET YOUR FOOD
9. Solution 5-Go to the Grocery Store Once a Week
10. Solution 6-Other Places to Get Your Food
Part Four: GET COOKING
11. Freezer Cooking
12. Slow Cookers
13. When Freezers and Slow Cookers Collide
14. LeftOvers On Purpose (LOOP) Meals
15. Pantry Meals
16. Fast Food at Home
17. Eat Your Veggies
Conclusion: Making Dinnertime Matter
Index of Recipes
Dear Reader
About the Author
The Husband Project
The Marriage Project
The Me Project
About the Publisher
Why The What s for Dinner? Solution ?
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
HARRIET VAN HORNE
Are you traumatized by dinner?
Oh, I know. You know that dinner is supposed to happen every single night. You know that around six o clock, hungry mouths are going to turn to you to feed them. Everyone is looking to you and asking the same question: What s for dinner?
And they are expecting you to have an answer.
But that s not when the panic sets in. No, you ve been thinking about dinner for a while. There was a brief nod to it this morning as you were running out the door to work, but no time to really do anything about it. OK, that eliminates anything that required defrosting.
And at lunch, you thought, Maybe I should look up some recipes online for something for tonight . But you can t remember what ingredients you have at home (and more importantly, what condition they re in), so you go to plan C-drop by the supermarket on the way home.
So there you are at 5:15 at the grocery store with no doable plan, just a hope and a prayer for some inspiration as the prospect of yet another rotisserie chicken looms large.
Or maybe you re a stay-at-home mom who thinks, I have all day to get dinner on the table, but why does it have to take me all day to do it? (Perhaps it s the two toddlers hanging off your legs? But I digress )
I want you to stop the madness.
Like me, you may love to cook, but the problem with dinner is that it comes every single night. Doesn t matter whether I feel like cooking or not. Doesn t matter whether I ve found a great new recipe that inspires me. Doesn t matter if anyone will actually eat it or not.
I love cooking. I really do. But sometimes I just don t love to cook.
Dinner is just so well, daily.
If I don t go into my week with a plan for dinner (it s a lot easier to wing it for breakfast and lunch around our house), we usually end up eating a lot of takeout and fast food with a huge side of guilt.
But when I go in with a plan, that all changes:
I don t spend my day worrying about what we re going to have for dinner, because I already know what we re having.
I don t spend my lunch hour looking for recipes that require little more than baking soda and batteries (the two things in my fridge I know haven t expired).
I don t feel guilty about running past my freezer with all the meat in there waiting to be defrosted.
I don t spend money on non-nutritional dinners from places where I have to order through an intercom.
So how does this all work? Glad you asked. Here s the plan. By the time you finish this book, I want you to:
Plan your meals for a month, and then eat (most of) them at home.
Get out of your cooking ruts and put all your tools to work.
Have a kitchen that works for you.
Have some fun along the way.
Six Quick Steps to Get Started with The What s For Dinner? Solution
(I promise-they really are easy!)
1. Read through the entire book.
This is your chance to get a feel for the master plan. Go ahead and make notes in the margins, change up some ingredients in the recipes, whatever!
2. Find two friends (at least) to plan with you.
It doesn t matter if they re phone friends, Internet buddies, or face-to-face girlfriends you meet with at Starbucks down the street. Location is not important; company is. Figure out a time to spend together (after everyone has read through the book) to come up with a plan for when and how you re going to plan your meals and make it happen-maybe a joint cooking day or a freezer-meal swap? These friends will be the ones who share their favorite recipes with you, while you let them know when frozen chicken breasts go on sale.
If you re doing this as a group, be sure to check out all the free group resources on our website: www.ProjectsForYourSoul.com . There are lots of helpful tools, forms, and other fun stuff to make this a great group project.
3. Decide on a start date.
Your start date can be tomorrow or two weeks from now. Mark it in a big bold way on your kitchen calendar. Set up reminders on your computer. I definitely recommend that you give yourself a couple of days to get ramped up and pull together a plan that you re excited about.
4. Come up with your plan.
You decide what steps you re going to take each day. I ve provided a variety of ideas, but it s up to you to decide how you ll carry it out.
5. Share your plan with your friends.
I recommend that you make copies of your calendar to share with your friends. Not only does that give you accountability in making sure you get dinner on the table, but each of you will be inspired by the others. There is a Meal Planning Calendar at www.ProjectsForYourSoul.com you can download and print.
6. Be flexible.
If one of the meals you ve planned for a certain day doesn t line up with your life that day, swap it for one that will work. The intention of The What s For Dinner? Solution is not to add stress, but to feed your family with less stress and more joy.
Part One
Get Prepared
Chapter 1
Girl Meets Kitchen, or Not Necessarily a Love Story
Happy and successful cooking doesn t rely only on know-how; it comes from the heart, makes great demands on the palate and needs enthusiasm and a deep love of food to bring it to life.
GEORGES BLANC, FROM MA CUISINE DES SAISONS
I was not the kind of kid who grew up at my mom s knee, helping her chop carrots for Sunday night s chicken soup. I never really helped with any meal preparation, preferring to turn my attention in the kitchen to baking. There was always some social event with friends or a youth group party where I needed to bring brownies. The one memorable time I tried to make instant potatoes? Instea