Fast Food at Home on the Brain

 Homemakers have been utilizing quick and easy meal ideas for generations.  Everything old shows up again.  It just makes a few little adjustments for the new generation in which it arrives.   Some of my grandparents grew a large garden and cooked mostly from scratch.  My husband's grandmother grew a HUGE garden and made EVERYTHING from scratch, even her soap, for herself, family, and friends. "Because you never know when there'll be a bad year."  We all now know exactly how right she was.  We don't know when there will be a "bad" year.  

Now we're the ones learning to do what our grandparents learned to do from the the "bad" years they experienced.  Having a stash of ideas for fast food from home is a lot like having ingredients in the pantry.  Some seasons we will use more of our ingredients from the pantry; so too during some seasons we will use more from our stash of fast food ideas.  Not every meal every night will be a fast food from home meal forever, but there may be seasons of fast food from home every night.  This is okay. This is acceptable.  It is normal life.  Seasons come and go.  

 We don't use everything all at once for one meal.  We simply have what we need when we need it.  Having what we need allows us the opportunity to relax and breathe because we know that we don't have to "make it all happen" or "hustle".  Everything we need to make meals is already in our home.  Whether the ingredients are in the refrigerator, on the pantry shelf, in the kitchen cupboards, or in the freezer doesn't matter.  There is something to work with available.  Our family will be fed.

    Yes, having extra ingredients on hand can save financial resources, but the greatest value is the peace of mind it provides.  Less stress equates to increased peace, and that in and of itself is healing.  It can be compared to nutrition for the body, yet it is nutrition for the soul (mind, will, and emotions).  

Shalom, shalom, dear ones