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From now on I plan to post photos of our meals on this blog. Hopefully I’ll type the recipes out for the website, but if nothing else it will give me a place to keep these things. Sometimes they’re blurry and sometimes I can’t get things to look as good in photo as they do in front of us, but I’ll post my favorite pictures nonetheless.

Jack and I were on vacation last week, and as a result I haven’t planned a menu for this week. When we do come up with a menu, I want to cook from The Modern Family Cook Book by Meta Givens, which I got last weekend in the mail.

I’m always looking for ways to get a quality job done in less time. Since we cook almost entirely from scratch, we can spend a lot of time in the kitchen if we don’t plan ahead. Last week, I decided that with our new budget we should try preparing the week’s meals over the weekend.

It started innocently last year when we didn’t want to spend $8 to buy a block of cheese we were only going to melt in recipes. From there, it became a habit. We started buying Velveeta on a regular basis to use in casseroles, macaroni and cheese, sandwiches and more.

Yesterday I wanted to surprise Jack with chocolate chip cookies. The only problem was that we didn’t have chocolate chips in the pantry. What we did have was Whoppers.