Parents pick meals

Tonight is school night for me. I am in class for a four hour peroid, and dinner is up to my husband.  He generally does a good job making something for the girls, but sometimes he lets the oldest pick out what they are going to have for dinner.  The night he lets her pick = problems in the future. Once she starts picking, she thinks she can always call the shots at dinner. 

You pick the meals:
Parents should pick what is going to be eaten, and when it is eaten... the kids should pick which of those foods are eaten, and how much of them. These rules or guidelines for meal times should always be applied at meal time, and are based on priniciples defined by Ellyn Satter.  I would highly recommend going to her website and reading "How to Feed Children" for the age(s) of kids(s) which pertain to your family. She has some amazing information on her website and in her books that I apply with my family on a daily basis.  It works!

Lesson for the day
Mom and/or dad pick dinner, the kids pick which of those foods they eat (and how much of them).

National Herb Week!

It's National Herb Week! Apparently I was celebrating and didn't even know it... On Sunday my family and I got some new herbs and planted them in our garden.

New to the collection: Oregano, thyme, basil, and parsley!
Herbs we already had include: Sage, rosemary and chives.

My husband planted the herbs in our garden, and even planted a few smaller portions of the plants in a container for us to keep in the kitchen.

Next task! Learn how to use all the herbs we have, and make sure they don't go to waste.  We could shared 'em, but we should also think of some ways to preserve them for times a recipe calls for the herbs and we don't have fresh ones on hand.

Now the research begins for some new ideas.  Do you preserve your herbs?  Or have ways to use large amounts of them so they don't go to waste?  Or do you crop share with other people?