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Home economics course for free

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Having a large family has taught me many things:

1. I want my daughters to grow up to be skilled homemakers.  I want them to learn things that took me years to learn as a new wife.  Don’t you always want better for you children?

2. We must be frugal with all of the money that the Lord has given us to use.  How can I rightly justify spending hundreds of dollars on school books when I know that I can recreate that same hundreds of dollar curriculum with a little bit of time and work.

When it comes time to figuring out what curriculum I want to use for my children, sometimes it can be tough.  Depending upon my season in life, there are times when I have had absolutely zero time to research and just bought whatever looked like a good complete curriculum.  That year cost us much in money for schooling, but it was all I could do at the time.

Then there was the year that my husband was laid off and there wasn’t even a talk about “using any money for schooling” I did not want to burden my husband with the added pressure of schooling curriculum expense.  That was the year I realized how much “free” teaching there was online.  I took days and weeks of researching and planned out whole curriculum’s for each of my children.  That by far was their favorite year of schooling.

 

With all that said…I am excited to be able to offer our home economics curriculum to you for FREE!

The reason I chose this curriculum to do is because you cannot find “whole” curriculum for training your daughters without spending money. BTW  I am all for buying and blessing someone else’s hard work for sure, but I do know that there are a multitude of people out there in the same boat as we are and would appreciate a FREE curriculum.

You can click here for the Kitchen Course or here for Household and Personal Management Course.

 

once a month shopping for large family series part 4 preparing

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After we have done all of our shopping and put everything away, it is time to prep  the meat that we purchased in bulk.

This month I happened to get the following from our meat store:

  • 20 lbs ground chuck
  • 8 whole boneless, skinless chicken breast
  • roast
  • turkey bacon
  • breakfast sausage
  • minute steaks

For the roast, I place it into the crock pot and let it cook on low for hours. It makes it very tender this way. I then cut up and place it into containers, depending upon the meals.  For this month, I planned on steak fajitas, beef tips, and beef stew.

The bacon, sausage, and minute steaks I just had my butcher freezer wrap and I just place them “as is” in the freezer.

For the chicken, I placed 2 whole breast in individual ziploc baggies. I then wrote on the bags which recipe they were for. Chicken parmesan, creamy chicken pasta, honey chicken, and chicken fajitas. In the summer time when we do a lot of barbecuing, I usually pour a bottle of italian dressing right into the bag and let it freeze. It is an excellent marinade for chicken. Plus cuts down on the time to marinade it, as it thaws it does the work.

For the hamburger, it takes some prep, but well worth it. Here is what we did:

I place 15 lbs of the hamburger in a large mixing bowl. I then add to it the following:

  • 13 eggs
  • 1-15 oz container of bread crumbs
  • 4 cups oatmeal
  • 2 teaspoons of salt and pepper

 

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I then mix it thoroughly by hand.

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Now for my hamburger I need to make the following out of this:

  • cheeseburger meatloaf
  • 2 servings of meatballs
  • 2 serving of  hamburgers
  • Salisbury steak

For the meatloaf, I put down a piece of parchment paper.  I used to use waxed paper but it tore so easily, I would rather spend the extra and use this stuff.

Pat the meat into a large rectangle shape

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Place some cheese slices on top of your meat form.  I had some nacho cheese leftover and decided to use that.  I just smeared it all over the top.

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Then squirt some ketchup and mustard on top of the cheese.  I sprinkled it with minced onions, but you can use “real” chopped onions.  We used to add diced up pickles but have since realized we do not care for warm pickles.

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Carefully do a jelly style roll of your meatloaf.

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Here is what it looks like all rolled up.  I then wrap this whole form in tin foil and freeze it until it is time to make this dinner.055
I then roll out some hamburgers for a meal.  I am going to make homemade hamburger buns and mini burgers this month.

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 Here is a tray of meatballs and Salisbury steak

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I then place these in the freezer for a few hours until completely frozen.  I then put them into labeled ziploc baggies.  The hamburgers I place on a single layer in a gallon sized bag.  The meatballs and Salisbury steak I just place in the bags, I cook those from a frozen solid state.   The hamburgers I thaw a bit and I do not want them to get mushy and stick together.

I then cook the other 5 lbs of hamburger and place it into quart sized baggies in 1 lb sizes.  This is great for cooking because you don’t need to cook the meat first before adding it to your casseroles.  All you need to do is thaw it.  Simplify your life.

Now my freezers are full of easy to make meals.  I am ready for the month.

 

 

 

 

 

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