Menu Planning: Save Time in the Kitchen

From organizedhome.com

What's for dinner?

It's the question of the hour. Too many home managers look for answers in the supermarket at 5 p.m. Harried, harassed by by hungry children, they rack their brains for an answer to the dinner-hour question.

Three meals a day. Seven dinners a week. From supermarket to pantry, refrigerator to table, sink to cupboard, the kitchen routine can get old, old, old.

No wonder we hide our heads like ostriches from the plain and simple fact: into each day, one dinner must fall.

What's the answer? A menu plan.

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During Lent, Americans turn to seafood

During the Lenten season, people search for alternatives to red meat, often forgetting about a low-fat, protein-packed option they probably already have in their cupboard - canned and pouched seafood. Registered dietitian Sharon McNerney recommends pantry-ready seafood as an inexpensive and tasty option for Lenten recipes because of its convenience and the numerous health benefits.

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• How can I find more time for what is most important for my family?
• How can I organize my house once and for all?
• How can I tame the paper?
• How can I plan dinnertime with less stress?
• How can I get daily and weekly errands accomplished more smoothly?
• How can I get the grocery shopping done in less time?
• How can I teach my children to work at home without nagging?
• How can I keep a clean and clutterfree kitchen?
• How can I find time to exercise or for quiet personal time without feeling guilty about the housework waiting for me?
• How can I balance the demands of work and home with less stress?

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School Lunch Ideas for Kids

From: School-lunch ideas. com

Packing a healthy kid lunch, day in day out can be a real challenge.
Sure, kid lunch ideas seem easier and more exciting during the first few weeks of school but it doesn't take long before parents run out of healthy and delicious lunch box ideas. More

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Help your child get organized

(From Ezinearticles.com)

As a parent you have, no doubt, worked hard to teach your children good manners, how to read and write, how to tie their shoes and all of the basic life skills necessary to succeed in the world. But is there a life skill you are overlooking? Are you teaching your children to be organized? Proper organizational skills will greatly increase your child's potential to succeed in life.

The best way to teach your children how to be organized is to lead by example. If you are organized your children will naturally grow accustomed to living in an organized environment and they will be more likely to become organized adults. The best place to start is in your own home. Be sure that you have a designated home for all of your belongings and strive to keep things in their designated place when they are not in use. More

Traveling with Kids?

Beat boredom with a travel activity binder. (from Organized home.com)

At OrganizedHome.Com, we love 3-ring binders. That's why we adore this travel tip for families with children: use free printables to create a kid's activity binder before traveling.

Use these links to print free coloring pages, word games, puzzles and activity sheets. Assemble a binder for each child, and add a zipper bag containing crayons, markers, pencils and game tokens to keep the kids amused for hours of peaceful drive time.

Find free printables for kids at these Web sites:

KidsDomain.com Printables

PBSKids.org Games, Stories and Coloring Pages

TheKidzPage.com Coloring Pages

FamilyFun.com Printables

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Family Travel Tips for an Organized Vacation

by Cynthia Townley Ewer, Editor

OrganizedHome.Com

Summer's here: it's time to take to the road! Summer vacation travel can be enriching, enjoyable and exciting--but only if you're organized. The family that fails to plan for summer travel can end up frazzled, frustrated and longing for the quiet comfort of home.
This year, get ready! We've assembled OrganizedHome.Com's best, easiest tips to organize summer vacation travel. Bon voyage!

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Tips for successful New Year

by Cynthia Townley Ewer

Editor, OrganizedHome.Com

New Year’s Eve ... a festive beginning to a new year. For most of us, it's a time to take stock and decide to move toward a happier, more organized, thinner New Year. But what looks so easy as the minute hand approaches midnight falls away in the cold light of January days.

For most of us, New Year’s resolutions die a slow and quiet death. They’re tossed aside, along with the party hats and noisemakers. As January winds down, so does motivation, energy and desire for change.

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Holiday Countdown

The days seem shorter and the "to do" list longer as the holidays approach. At this time of year we want warm holiday traditions, yet there seems to be little time to make them happen. So how can we create a holiday with less stress?

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Everything about Laundry

It is a hard task. Some times you don't have time, other times you don't know how to do them. Just click on Laundry and you'll find loads of ideas from the basics to textile and fabric care, even professional links. You can access by clicking on laundry -one of the sections in the main page of this blog- or by typing clickonlaundry.blogspot.com.

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