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Dinner Impossible?

January 5th, 2007 at 08:45 pm

It's a new show being advertised on TV lately; not that I'm planning to watch......but it sums up our current menu planning/ cooking/ eating situation here.

The backyard people qualify & are using food stamps these days.......as well as I'm taking them to our local food bank 2X a month too. This yields plenty of food for them however, some pretty odd combinations of items neither of them knows much about.

So, I've begun a new deal of offering to teach them how to turn their items into dinners (or lunch & breakfasts too, for that matter). Started by leaving out a couple of my Taste of Home magazines which they have been enjoying and commenting on. Take their comments and steer them towards their "pantry" they are accumulating and see if we can come up with something similar for them.

Todays meal had to include the fresh peppers they got at the food bank yesterday, so we're using the last of the new years pork roast, a jar of their salsa, one of their onions, and simmering it all to go in soft tacos (tortillas also from the food bank). Have the dried beans soaking, waiting to simmer them up and make re fried beans to go with the meal and I think we're set...... with a couple added fresh items from our fridge.

If you don't know what to do with items, food bank donations are almost worthless to some. I'm not sure if my new dinner game is going to make an impact or not, but I feel better. They might learn something, and worse case is they don't..........but they will be on clean up on the nights I cook for/with them. I can live with that!

Learned they are both crazy about bread pudding, so that will be next on the list to turn the leftover bread & bakery items into a "new" dessert.

Dinner Impossible.........Not around here!

Posted in all things food | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Dinner Impossible?”

  1. princessperky Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 08:50 pm 1168030258
    1168030258

    That is way cool, I always thought education on cooking was lacking in the whole food bank thing.

  2. Tightwad Kitty Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 09:09 pm 1168031354
    1168031354

    If they like bread pudding, how about a savoury one.

    There are plenty of US Gov. recipes books available on the net. That can be download. www.pueblo.gsa.gov

  3. nance Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 09:32 pm 1168032744
    1168032744

    You are truly a nice person to help these people. Teaching them to use what is available is much more valuable in the long run, than "feeding" them.

  4. boomeyers Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 11:01 pm 1168038119
    1168038119

    Sometimes you wonder about the stuff people donate to a food pantry. High in fillers and low in nutrition. You can show them how to dress it up and make healthier too. Wish I was close enough to come to "cooking with contrary". That is great you can make the mess and they clean it up. That is like a dream come true!! :-)

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