Home Management means working efficiently at home, so that
household chores do not overwhelm us. It can be anything like cutting
vegetables for two days in one sitting and packing them in plastic bags
and storing them in the refrigerator, or running the dishwasher
regularly and saving some time and energy! Share your thoughts and tips.
1. One easy and healthy recipe is: SOUP
ReplyDeleteTake carrots, spinach, beans, potato, masoor daal and put them in a pressure cooker. Add, a bit of cream and butter before serving it piping hot with some bread. This is very very healthy (your child eats it all) and saves cooking time enormously! If your family is not used to this kind of food, slowly get them used to....say once a week will be home made soup!
We have a tendency of accumulating things - things which we perhaps required at that moment and dont need it anymore, things we bought in sale, things we bought for 'perhaps in future we will need it' and gifts from him and her. If I need 5 things, I feel I have 5 necessary + 5 unnecessary things! My cabinet is overflowing with table clothes, cloth, plastic, spot resistant, different colours, do I need so many, I wonder! Do you face the same problem? Do you give your stuff in a Brocki? What other solution?
ReplyDeleteThis Christmas, I plan to start sorting out my clothes and one by one each room.
It is a common problem with all of us. To make the situation better, let us stick to shopping list practice. We prepare a list of necessary stuff and we buy only those stuffs. This way we can refrain from buying unwanted items.
DeleteFor the already accumulated stuff, i think it is nice idea to give it to brocki, or boutiques like CARITAS where they take your stuff for free and sell them. Whatever money they make they donate it to their NGO partner. We can also talk about it in our friends network and see if anyone needs what I already have.
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DeleteEase up your cooking tasks
ReplyDeleteCooking from scratch is time consuming and tough. Making rice and daal still manageable but making curry is what takes a lot of time. But what if we have all the ingredients ready. Ginger- garlic paste and all other spices are available in market already. If we get chopped vegetables then process of making sabji is also not so tough. Follow these tips and this will prove quite useful
When buy vegetable like carrot, cauliflower, cabbage etc, buying a bigger packet is always economical. In your free time, chop these vegetables and store them in zip-lock fridge bags. They last for quite long time and you have ready ingredients to cook
While enjoying your favorite TV show, you can peel of garlic pods and store them in air tight container in fridge or any fridge bags
You can also store cut vegetables in deep freezer and they will last even longer.
Planning to manage cooking:
ReplyDeleteHome management is much vaster than any project management. So like any other project, you the housewife, must have a plan to deliver your task.
The most time consuming and daunting task of the day- what to cook??
How I deal with this is I make a plan for a week. I know what I am going to cook on Monday, Tuesday,....Friday. I usually plan it during the weekend and do the shopping. Once I know what to cook I am much faster when I return from office. I just jump into the kitchen and kick off the process of "cooking". When I know what I am going to cook in evening, I can actually start it in morning itself like soaking beans, chhola etc or the day before and in the morning I pressure cook them. Well begun is half done.....
Tips to fix menu: Deciding menu is also quite tough, so try it this way- Monday soup, Tuesday rice, sabji and daal, Wednesday pasta, Thursday roti-sabji, Friday grilled meat and vegetables. This not only eases planning but also helps you to have a balanced diet. Try this and see how it works for you.
Happy planning and happy cooking!!
This is a good plan. But sometimes my husband shops for groceries sometimes me and we end up having different kind of vegetables each week, so I tend to mix and match depending on how much time I have in the weekend. If I am running late, then I cook pasta, but always put broccoli and carrots into it (for nutrition), and if daal chawal, then have a mixed vegetable always.
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