Comments on: deadline dinners http://www.penguingirl.com/2010/02/02/deadline-dinners/ books. fibre. food. travel. words. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shanna http://www.penguingirl.com/2010/02/02/deadline-dinners/comment-page-1/#comment-62438 Shanna Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:28:18 +0000 http://www.penguingirl.com/?p=3117#comment-62438 1. Less than once a week, probably less than once a month. (I exclude Shabbat invitations out.) 2. From scratch! 3. Yes and no. The eat-out options here kinda suck, so I'd be cooking a lot anyway, but I have become more conscious of what we eat (and therefore start with more from-scratch-y ingredients than I did, say, four years ago). I still buy breads most of the time. 4. Um...sometimes? Now that I don't automatically walk past Trader Joe's almost every day, I try to have a few meals in mind before each shopping trip. But I also always (try to) keep on-hand the ingredients for two (out of about...four or five?) fallback meals (soba noodles + vegetables + tofu + broth; quesadillas; shakshuka; pizza; "big salad") plus not-from-scratch meal bases for the kids (fish sticks, polenta rolls, latkes, boxed tomato soup) on nights when it's clear we're not eating together (more an more often now) 1. Less than once a week, probably less than once a month. (I exclude Shabbat invitations out.)

2. From scratch!

3. Yes and no. The eat-out options here kinda suck, so I’d be cooking a lot anyway, but I have become more conscious of what we eat (and therefore start with more from-scratch-y ingredients than I did, say, four years ago). I still buy breads most of the time.

4. Um…sometimes? Now that I don’t automatically walk past Trader Joe’s almost every day, I try to have a few meals in mind before each shopping trip. But I also always (try to) keep on-hand the ingredients for two (out of about…four or five?) fallback meals (soba noodles + vegetables + tofu + broth; quesadillas; shakshuka; pizza; “big salad”) plus not-from-scratch meal bases for the kids (fish sticks, polenta rolls, latkes, boxed tomato soup) on nights when it’s clear we’re not eating together (more an more often now)

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