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Get serious about making enough food for leftovers and bringing in lunch.

Start baking regularly.

to get more comfortable working with yeast and baking bread

I want to perfect a recipe for 100% whole wheat bread for my bread maker. Thus far every loaf I've made rises beautifully but then falls just as the baking cycle kicks in. Suggestions welcome!

resolution: to try out new cuisines. I have to branch out from my staple dishes. this book would be a great help!

eat more wholegrains and superfood

To host more dinner parties.

more meals; fewer snacks

no wasted food. everything purchased will be cooked in some shape or form and then consumed!

to get through the myriad of cookbooks in my kitchen annex!! once a week, pick a new recipe from a cookbook i've had good intentions for, but forgotten..

To cook more Asian food at home.

Make recipes from my cookbooks.

To just get back into the kitchen. I did make a large amount of different Christmas cookies but I had been lazy with the meals. Its not only cheaper to eat at home but also more healthy. Happy New Year to all foodies!

To not be afraid to step out my cooking comfort zone, last year I managed to tackle marshmallows, skinning a fish, and canning.

Eat more Vietnamese (food).

I would like to cook more whole foods for my family. Would like to cook from scratch more and meal plan better, so I do not rush to convenience products.

I would like to break out of a cooking rut. I generally go to the local farmers' markets but I bypass the unfamilar veggies. I need take a chance and pick up the new-to-me produce and learn some new recipes.

I plan to reduce the amount of food waste around here. I throw too much away and at the price of fresh fruit and veg I cannot afford this. My short term goal is to check the (semi-) fresh produce every few days and incorporate it into a receipe or into something suitable for my dogs.

I hope to be more organized in the kitchen, try meal planning (I have never succeeded before) hoping to save a little dough by knowing what to buy on shopping trips. Reduce impulse buys. Oh boy, this WILL be a challenge!

Given the price jump, I resolved never to throw away cooked rice again.

to learn to use my new pressure cooker!

To get out of a rut in the kitchen... I tend to cook the same stuff over and over again.

To go back on the diet, except once a week when we have "gourmet night" and cook whatever we want - hopefully digging into the cookbooks and trying new recipes and being more adventurous.

learning how to make sourdough bread!

To learn to can and preserve.

To learn how to glove bone a chicken!

i am GOING to can tomatoes this summer.

Eat healthier, as much as it may hurt.

This year I want to my underground restaurant project to be so successful that the health dept. is beating down my door. And one of the first things I served was Nguyen's bahn mi!

I will cook more Vietnamese food.

With help from the book I'm about to win.

I am going to cook more seasonally and use my collection of cookbooks more frequently.

I'd like to make more recipes involving meat, since this is where I feel I have the least experience.

cook more regularly at home

To cook from my free copy of Into the Vietnamese Kitchen.

To cook more at home and stop eating out so much; to actually use up the herbs I have a habit of buying before they spoil and I have to throw them away; to learn a new cuisine - either Japanese or Indian, and make an effort to cook a dish, instead of just idly reading the blogs and not doing anything; to make something from the gazillion plums I'll have come summer instead of leaving 'em all to the squirrels; to enter more foodie contests hehehe! :) I think I'll only really follow up on that last one :P

No more laziness, no more throwaway frozen meals. I'm going to cook, grow and live with my food.

dedicate more time to my garden

Use my gorgeous KitchenAid mixer more often!

Totally cliche, but I want to lose weight this year. But for a good reason - we want to have a baby!

Less guilty pleasure bacon cheesburgers at lunch

Baking my own bread! It's not THAT hard, and it's sooo good.

Making my own lunch instead of having cheerios and soy chips...

To stop eating so many potato chips.

Eat less but eat "better"

Stop when full!

To cook more. I've been baking quite a bit recently, but still need to experiment at regular mealtimes.

Eat less. Much, much less!

eliminate unnecessary carbs (bread, pasta, cereal) from my daily diet and focus on more veggies and fruit.

make a sourdough starter

To get a food related job!

Cook more grains, learn different methods of preserving foods, waste less!

To finally purchase the SLR camera I've been yearning for and take mouthwatering photos!

eat more fruit

to cut back on sugar, hoping to help my teeth out!

Last year I joined a csa, and this year I want to continue that, as well as begin buying chicken and beef from the farm.

Upon the arrival of my brick of instant yeast, I'm going to bake with yeast as often as possible and try lots of new recipes. Hoping to become a more advanced bread baker by 2010! :)

Eat more veggies, Especially roasted.

To try a new healthy recipe each week.

be more active!

Decrease cost and waste.

less carbs....maybe..

To control my portion sizes better!

To share more meals with the boyfriend, whether homemade or restaurant. Finding common ground, instead of admitting defeat because I'm veg and he's not (and he's waaaaaaaaaaay picky).

Learn to cook korean food.

Cook more and eat more veggie and fruit. (I think I have the same resolution every year.... )

to actually finish a box of flavored tea before I open a new box (I like to set attainable goals)

My food resolution is to make more soup now that my children are old enough to feed themselves and eat it instead of wearing it! I LOVE Vietnamese food so I really hope to win!

To throw away less food, to try new things, and to eat good meals with the people I love!

Cook more vegetables and eat less cured meat and cheese. (Tears)

Try to make my first veal stock!

To make puff pastry

to learn to use our kitchenaid mixer.

to learn to cook more

To start planning more-- Everything from meals to life goals/plans.

I want to experience more Vietnamese cuisine!

I'd like to expand my current cooking "skill set"...and eat healthier while doing so.

To eat less meat. Thanks!

My resolution is to only buy what I NEED at the store. This will help with the waiste line and waste can.

To start eating healthier.

Eat more chocolate.

to cook more carb concious

Enjoy every minute as it happens and not take things for granted.

To cook at home more, especially making lunches for the week so I don't end up grabbing $9 salads all the time.

I need to organize my recipes & take better notes.

Cut back on my consumption of sodas and deserts.

Eat more fish.

Take more time to cook and keep trying new recipes!

I resolve to substitute junkfood with healthier options.

I want to concoct creative fruit dishes.

I will eat only fresh foods without preservatives, additives, artificial colors or flavors.

To cook more homecooked, healthy meals.

What I buy, prepare and eat is healthy and delicious. But I need to stop over-shopping and food hording. Plus the two hardest words: portion control.

To cook for friends more.

To be happy. To simply let the tumultuous year that was 2008 slide away and just enjoy where I am now.

I figure that's just about as hard as my goal to stop eating junk food regularly. But just as beneficial, if not more...

I am going to eliminate midnight snacks.

To not be afraid of baking :)

go on a food trip to vietnam

Be more creative with "good" carbs (any suggestions are welcome!).

Get off the couch and exercise more!

My plan is to try to make more food from scratch and rely less on processed foods.

To waste less food

make more leftovers!

Buy more locally-produced ingredients, especially meat.

I am resolved to enact a more liberal use of vegetables, wine, sex and dancing.

my food resolution is to go through the pantry and once or twice a month make something for the sole purpose of using something that's been hiding in there unloved for too long.

We are going to be eating more veggies, fish, and drink more water. Last year's resolution to eat less junk food worked out pretty good so we are sticking with that one as well.

avoid sugar

My resolution is to start a dining club, where we all cook together 1x/month to make a kind of a DIY dinner party.

Not to do any more New Year's resolutions.

eat more

To plant an herb and tomato garden!

Would like to eat more fish and less meat!

I would like to perfect the art of sourcing things well- not so hard for produce most of the time, but I've been planning poorly on occasion and buying cheap industrial meat when I should be getting my ducks in a row and buying half lambs and veal on the cheap from my rancher girlfriend. I would also like to improve my skill at corning and brining, find more good foraging spots, and expand my meatless/meat lite dinner repertoire.

More veggies, less meat. This book would really help me out with that!

Get sourdough started and not kill it

My resolution: eat more vegetables.

I would like to be more thoughtful and less lazy about what I eat. I love cooking and want to make the time to do more of it. And I'd like to share my table with others -- that's even more fun.

My New Year's food resolution is to score a rezzie at minibar and to be really hungry when I go!!

try more interesting foods

to cook what makes me happy while keeping it healthy

Challenge myself to cook more adventurously - master new techniques and cook with a wider variety of ingredients.

cook more and eat more

I got some great new cookbooks for christmas, and I want to try at least one new recipe a week.

buy arugula and watercress more regularly so I will eat more salad!

To waste less food and spend less money on crap.

My whole focus this year is aimed toward achieving better health and that includes eating better also my new years resolution was to quit smoking, now on day 6 smoke free, Would really love to win this great healthy giveaway, thanks for the chance to enter

To eat more real meals, even if I'm tired. Trail mix and handfuls of cereal are not dinner.

eat healthier

Try to cook more ethnic recipes at home (especially Vietnamese!!!)

lose weight and get healthy

try to bring lunch from home more often

to cook more challenging recipes

To try new recipes more often.

eat more fruits and vegetables

fewer restaurant meals
we're cooking at home more!

Drink more water.

To broaden my vegetable gardening skills. In addition to the staples like tomato, squash, peppers, and eggplant; incorporate more winter produce like snow peas and spinach. Yay for fresh produce!

brown bag it more, eat more veggies, less sweets, and cook more at home (eat out less)

more vegetables everyday!

Love to try this book Vietnamese Kitchen

Re-organize my cookbooks for ease of access while cooking from scratch

To try new International recipes that my wife and I might enjoy and are healthy for us.

To cook more and eat out less often

To get out of this food rut I have fallen into. I've gotten lazy about cooking- it's just so easy to cook the old standby's I've cooked for years. Food has gotten really boring.

I have a lot of cookbooks, some of which I have barely looked at. I want to pick up one book a week, look through it, and try a new recipe or two on the weekend.

- Embark on a successful career as a dietitian
- Do "cooking projects", like making more Chinese food at home, canning, etc. etc.
- Keep a kosher kitchen once I start the process of converting to Judaism!

eat more veggies :)

More veggies and less carbs.

Eat less bread.

My top resolutions are to bake my own bread more often....oh, and to NEVER put anything into my freezer without labeling what it is and its entry date first.

My resolution is to learn to prepare cuisines from different countries and cultures. This book would be a step in the right direction. Thank you!

I'd love to cut down on cheese!

I'd like to make more time to cook, and feel less guilty when I indulge!

Seriously -- eat more Vietnamese or Korean foods. Their foods are like a medicine.

My my resolutions is to drink more plain old water and less soda, coffee, etc.

I'm going to eat healthier and try not to eat out so much.

Find more ways to use smoked paprika, which I recently discovered and fell in love with!

Switch to tea in the morning.... coffee only in the PM....

Bake my own bread! Saves money and is way healthier.
Also to find a use for the pomegranate molasses sitting on my shelf.

I want to cook more using fresh, local and organic, ingredients where I know the farmer (or at least the guy at the Greenmarket), the butcher, the fish monger, etc. Moreover, I want to learn to apply ethnic techniques (Asian, Italian, etc) to their preparation!

Learn to bake well and get my kids eating more veggies!

My resolution is to enjoy eating more, to savor each and every moment spent in preparation and consumption with my family.

Work on my bread baking skills.

Try to make baked goods multiple times, experimenting with the measurements until I get them just right so I can create my own recipes.

More Guacomole!!! Love it and need more of it!!
Use with all recipes!!
Carla
cpullum(at)yahoo(dot)com

eat less. learn how to make bread.

cook more

eat a more balanced meal

To cook within my means.

Eat less meat.

I want to eat more vegetables and more non-red meat proteins.

to learn more about my culture through its food.

Try out all sorts of recipes I haven't before.

Eat healthier!

To eat less and avoid HFCS.

no caffeine after 6 pm

Eat more organic veg, both raw and cooked, cut way back on hard alcohol, start a kitchen compost container, eat less red meat.

revive my garden, resume my composting, and finally, kick my secret fast food habit. mcdonald's fries, i'll miss you.

Eat more healthy and organic veggies and fruits.

eat more fruits and veggies

eat more pho, and fresh veggies.

exercise more, to reduce my guilt when indulging in good food - so that i can enjoy it better!

My biggest new year's resolution is to eat whole foods as much as possible. Thanks for the giveaway!

eat more lard.

I would like to make my own bread. I also want to start composting- trouble is I live in nyc and have no backyard.

Eating smaller portions of higher quality.

Eat less and exercise more.

Stick to whole grains as much as possible.

Spend less money on food.

trying to be more environmentally conscious in my food decisions

more veggies, less sugar

to cook more Vietnamese food

Try more fish and seafood recipes.

learn to cook healthy, filling soups to increase vegetables and fiber in my diet

Grow and eat better tomatoes!

Learning to bake bread and other doughy delights!

to eat healthier in general

eat more fish! Asian recipes like this one for fish are some of the easiest and tastiest.

To grow at least 1/3 of the vegetables we eat. We have access to land; now we just need to figure out what we're doing.

eat less meat and be more conscious of what I eat

I resolve to prepare more meals "in", using fresh ingredients and whole foods....no packaged or prepared products.

To buy something I usually wouldn't at the farmers market and make a dish out of it. Last week, I finally got enough nerve to buy leeks, and made potato/leek soup. Yummy

Eat healthy, get pregnant, still eat healthy, not find out the sex of the baby, give birth and then go to an all you can eat oyster bar.

to eat more leafy green vegetables -- keeps your digestive system happy!

to use my crockpot more instead of making sandwiches and getting fast food...I work a lot of hours and it is tough to cook,....but the crockpot is so easy and can give me home cooked meals in no time...with healthier ingredients for my family

use more exotic fruits and vegetables, or at least ones that i've never had before!

To start making charcuterie

i am going to try and cook smaller meals so there will be less waste:) thanks

bake more

To make more stuff from scratch.

Hate calling it a resolution, but I'm working on eating less rice on the whole and trying to opt for *sigh* brown rice.

Oddly enough, pho and bun/com cha gio do not fall under my cutbacks. :P

My resolution is to "travel" to a different country each month this year and learn and cook as much as I can from that area. I even started a blog to track the progress! ...I totally posted this in the wrong spot earlier. sorry...

Not to waste food. My favourite thing I have started doing is freezing fresh lemon and lime juice in ice cube trays and then storing them in freezer bags. I have thrown out more citrus fruit and I vow not to waste it anymore. One cube seems to be about two tablespoons so it's easy to use and measure and it tastes just like fresh. I can also buy the fruit when it's at its cheapest and have it on hand for months.

Eat as locally as I can.

Stop letting food go to waste in the fridge.

The closest I have to a new years eve food resolution is a goal to drink 150 new-to-me beers in 2009. (7 down, 143 to go!)

Eat less fatty food.

finally try to make sushi at home

To not eat wheat

My husband and I are trying to gradually switch over to a mostly vegetarian diet.....so far, so good!

Eat more good food!

To cook more at home and eat out less!

Less baking, more cooking.

One of my New Year's resolutions is to eat less bread. Thanks for the great giveaway!

To try all the new recipes I have bookmarked.
strimble_25@comcast.net

My resolution is to try NEW foods.

To cook and eat healthier.

We would like to eat healthier and try new foods that are interesting and good for us.

My resolution is to eat healthier foods - especially more produce and whole grains.

My resolution is to pay down debt.

To teach my 10 year old son to cook!

to add a little variety to my menus - I cook every night but it seems to be the same thing - my husband and I dont eat until 9:00 as we both work late and it is hard to be original at 8:30 at night!~! oh i;m a nana so dont have any children at home to cook for most of the time!
cdrury@gmail.com

To use more local ingredients, even if they cost more.

To cut back on my protions and healthier eating

booboo918@Hotmail.com

new years food resolution: try new recipes instead of always relying on old favorites, particularly in baking!

to eat more healthy

I'm going for soups this year. I always say I'm going to do it then I wimp out! Not this time.

my resolution is to make a concerted effort to eat the recommended allowance of fruits and veggies every day!

To eat less during the new year.

To eat better and exercise more.

To cook at home and stop eating out :)

To eat healthier! What a great start!

More fruit and fiber and less meat

To learn how to make some signature French dishes. garrettsambo@aol.com

Cook more...eat out less

Make the food more interesting more often.

to eat more fruits and vegetables

I have so many cookbooks. I want to try one recipe from each cookbook this year...at least!

To eat out less and cook with more vegetables!

Go to farmers' markets - buy local!

My resolution is to try a new recipe every week.

I want to learn to make healthier recipes for myslef & my family!

My son likes Vietnamese food