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Thyme for Cooking: Make 'dinner-time' easy

Do you want to eat healthier meals? 

Eat more vegetables?

More whole grains?

Less processed food?

 

Do you want to relax and have fun in the kitchen?

But don't have time to do the planning?

Find the recipes? 

Organize the shopping?

 

Do you want to stop making (and eating) too much food?

Buy only the food you need?

Use everything that you buy?

Get rid of all those leftover bits lurking in the fridge?

 

Free 'Weekly Menu Plans' to the rescue!

6 Day Menu             7 Day Menu              Main Courses Only

Which one is right for you? (Try them all, they're free.)

7 Day Menu

• 7 full dinner menus, including 2 days with First Courses and all side dishes.
• Recipes and step-by-step meal preparation instructions
• A coded shopping list for all of the ingredients

6 Day Menu

• 6 full dinner menus, including all side dishes.
• Recipes and step-by-step meal preparation instructions
• A coded shopping list for all of the ingredients

6 Main Courses

• 6 main course recipes  with links to suggested side dishes
• A coded shopping list for all of the ingredients

All recipes use fresh, seasonal produce.

Shopping lists help use your time more efficiently and control costs.

Enjoy menus with variety - recipes are rarely repeated within the year. 

Plan ahead - many weeks include one or two (or more) items that are planned for more than one meal.

And now..... The details:

• New menus are posted by Thursday morning to start on Friday
• The menu, each day's recipes and complete shopping list are available on the web site for easy printing - or work directly from your laptop / tablet.
• If you don't like the current week's menu there is an archive of the past 52 weeks to choose from.

The Shopping List:

• The Menu for the Week is in the upper right quarter
• Items for the current Weekly Menu are grouped by category for easy shopping
• Pantry Items are grouped so that you can easily check what's on hand.
• There are numbers next to each item to tell at a glance what day it's for.

The Recipes:

• Recipes are 'healthy easy gourmet' using fresh, seasonal ingredients and a variety of grains.  All have photos.
• Quantities: The recipes are for 2 servings - or 2 servings for 2 meals. It's simply a matter of increasing the ingredients to account for how many you want to serve..... increasing is easier than decreasing.

You will see recipes that use 1/4 cup of polenta, or 1/3 cup of rice.  I plan carefully to not make too much food.  We have 'planned-overs' not leftovers.

 

 

  

Would you like help planning dinner? 
Do you have a garden? Or a farm that supplies you with fresh vegetables?
  Try our Weekly Menu Plans!

Healthy Gourmet Dinners.  Quick, Easy Recipes.
Each weekly menu carefully planned to reduce waste and use a lots of fresh, seasonal veggies. 

By Katie Zeller  

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