I'm the queen of procrastinating on the shopping. Fortunately, I have a husband who isn't afraid of a little cart-pushing around the local grocery store.
But with procrastinating about the shopping also comes procrastinating about list making, and my husband is not a mind reader (he's working on it, but you know what they say about not marrying a man with the intention of changing him). So more often than not, the pickings in our closet come dinner time are . . . slim to none.
Easier to deal with before the economy took a dive (hello? yes, I'd like a large pie . . . ). Now that we're cutting back, I've been spending a little more time on the list-making and the shopping . . . and a lot more time of scrounging around the closet looking for ideas.
Which would be easier if I didn't have a three year old who liked to stand at the doorway to the kitchen and ask, repeatedly, "Mommy, what are we eating, Mommy, what's for dinner, Mommmmmmy."
My new find? Not Beans Again. Plug five ingredients into their homepage, and they spit back a list of choices you can make with what you have left (and a few basics - come on, if you don't have flour in your house, you REALLY need to get food shopping). Use it to bust your picky eater out of their comfort zone by letting them pick the ingredients.
You don't have to stick with their recipes, if they don't interest you, but it's a great jumping off point for parents who have gotten stuck in that chicken nuggets and mac and cheese rut. Especially parents like me, who procrastinate.
Even if you're not cooking tonight, it's a good (free) time waster. What are the weirdest combinations of foods you can come up with to plug into the list? Can't think of any good ones? Ask your kids - they'll come up with something goofy.
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