In the past, not so many years ago, our Mother’s and Grandmother’s would cook meals totally from scratch. Those were the days before convenience and box foods took over the shelves. Dust off those recipes and start making a list of the items you will need.  

The most commonly used items for scratch cooking will be flour, sugar, eggs, milk, salt and baking powder/soda. Stock up on these relatively cheap staples and you will have an arsenal of ready to make items on hand. If your local grocery store has these items on sale, buy in bulk to have them on hand whenever a recipe calls for it.  

The next step is to find time to prepare the meals. Cooking from scratch will take some time, so chose a day like a weekend to do all of your cooking. If you have an idea of certain meals, make them all on the same day. You can proportion the meals out into single servings and then freeze them for the week.  

The meals you can make are endless. Do a search online for some old-fashioned recipes from scratch. You will find everything from homemade pancakes, to spaghetti sauce. Another benefit from cooking from scratch is how well your family will eat and how good you will feel knowing exactly what is in the food you have prepared.  

Many people turn to convenience foods, well because of the time factor. Time is precious and trying to cook a meal from scratch every night of the week is impossible for most people. If you set aside your one day to cook all of the meals for the week and freeze them, all you will have to do is grab them from the freezer and re-heat.

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