Showing posts with label mirz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mirz. Show all posts

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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Rainbow Cake

Over the past few weeks, the food blogsphere has been buzzing about rainbow cakes. All because of this post. To tell you the truth, I hadn't heard of them until someone linked that blog entry on the LOK Household forum. The idea of a color cake certainly piqued my interest. With a combined birthday coming up in July, I thought I might give it a try. My problem was that the author (as well as

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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Large Family Recipes + Meal Planning

First of all, I wanted to announce a brand new area on the Lotsofkids.com website. Large Family Recipes is a new sub-site focusing on recipes for large families. These recipes are a compilation of recipes submitted by the LOK visitors and staff. There are currently over 350 recipes and the number is growing. Be sure to check it out HERE.Also, I just posted a very extensive article on meal

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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A Tough Time

When I heard that there was a new outbreak of the Swine Flu, I have to admit my response was more of weariness than concern. Now, I'm not downplaying the seriousness of the situation at all. It's a dangerous flu and people have died--that's not good at all. However, over the last couple of months my family has been wracked with one illness after another. Stomach bugs, flu bugs, and severe

Friday, April 3, 2009

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Your Pantry Essentials?

A recent question over at the new LOK Household forum got me thinking. We all know about staples--the items you keep on hand to use for cooking everyday. Things like sugar, and flour, and spices. However, depending on who you are, your "essentials" could be very different from someone else's. My family lives on pasta, however I have a friend whose husband and kids hate it--and thus she never

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

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Depression-Era Cooking

Even though we are technically *just* in a recession, many economists say that the U.S. is actually experiencing a depression. There are people who are scraping to simply put food on the table, not to mention trying to keep a roof over their heads. How does one survive? Many lessons can be learned from looking to our past, to the last time our country went through this.Clara is a 93 year old

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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Cooking With Anne

Anne Coleman is a professional blogger. She used to be among the ranks of forum hosts and household bloggers here at Lots of Kids, until she made the difficult decision to leave and focus on her family and professional career. You'll see her main blog linked in our sidebar. It's full of frugal and yummy eats for families of any size.Anne was recently featured in a newspaper article and was

Thursday, January 1, 2009

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Cooking into the New Year

With food prices still risings and the economy limping along, it's with a hesitant hope that we go into the new year. All of the bloggers and staff of Large Family Cooking and Lotsofkids.com wish you and your family a healthy and happy New Year. Here's to hoping the 2009 brings better things for our country, our world, and each other. In the meantime, we'll continue to be here, sharing our

Sunday, November 30, 2008

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Copy Cat

If I had to guess, I think that eating out is probably the singlemost way to sabotage a food budget--any budget really. The reason is that most families don't factor this cost into their spending, so it's often a hidden cost. You're tired, you don't want to cook, and even though you weren't planning on it, you hit the drive-thru. Even when you do set aside a certain amount monthly for eating

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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October 2008 Kitchen Challenge Results!

The current Kitchen Challenge dared participants to create a full day of meals on $10 (for an average family) or $15 (for a 6+ people family). Full details on the challenge can be found here.We had some great submissions, and were delighted to have a few international entries! Here is the rundown of submissions:• Denise from *F*O*O*D*• Jodie from HomeSweetHome• Ranae at Cornbread and Cookies•

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Homemade Butter

While poking around the internet for various things, I found this blog entry for homemade butter. Needless to say, after drooling profusely, I bookmarked it and have made it my life's goal (this week at least) to try to do this myself. Yum and yum.Of course, I thought it would be a nice gesture to share the link with all of you. Enjoy!Homemade Butter from Little House in the Suburbs

Saturday, September 27, 2008

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Welcome!

If you ask most large families what their biggest challenge is, most will say laundry. However, a fair number will say cooking. In fact, next to laundry, feeding their crew comes in second with most families. Cooking for a large family, which can be from anywhere from 6-15 people (or more) is something that can take time, as well as a bit of ingenuity. Particularly in this time when many

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