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What is your worst cooking disaster hosting a dinner party?
While cooking a beautiful pork roast for some friends, we heard a squeaking sound. Lo and behold, a mouse had gotten stuck on a sticky trap under the oven and my guest had to fish it out, take it outside for me and finish it off! Kind of takes away the appetite... I know it's not the nicest way to dispose of mice, but that's what happened.
Grocery bagging violations
My biggest peeve is wrapping eggs in a separate plastic bag. As it is I bring reusable bags, so why would I then want plastic bags also. Further, is one measly thin bag going to prevent my eggs from breaking? I think not. What's the point???
It's time to get organized!
I tried Mastercook in the past, but there is something about the magazine clippings with handwritten notes on them that I just love. I, too, subscribe to several food magazines and one of my great pleasures is reading them and clipping recipes. I decided not to try to automate them, but rather I bought some beautiful file folders that I leave on a bookshelf with my cookbooks in my kitchen and organize them in my own way. If I automated them, I'd want to print them out to use them while cooking anyway. So, why waste the paper? Every year or so I go through them and get rid of the stuff that I haven't and probably won't make.
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I made food for both of my kids (now 4 and 2 1/2) for a majority of their meals. I really liked the book The Healthy Baby Meal Planner by Annabel Karmel. I tried a bunch of books, but this one was simple and straightforward and I continued to use it into toddlerhood.
In short, the first day you do this it takes some time. Buy a few different fruits and a few different veggies. Branch out...the jarred foods only offer so much variety such as green beans, peas, sweet potato, squash. (I've never seen broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, papaya, cantelope, etc). Steam them one at a time and I used a smoothie blender to puree them. Freeze in ice cube trays and then transfer to bags for the freezer. This makes a lot of meals and a lot of variety. Then, each week, make 1 new thing or so and you should be fine. Mix and match based on what your baby likes (such as Pear and Papaya, Apple and Sweet Potato, etc).
I swear my daughter is a good eater now b/c she had a lot of different tastes introduced. I never pureed meats, but I did offer flaky fish and beans with eggs at around 9mos to a year (whatever your dr suggests)