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There are some moms I know who sit down on Sunday night and plan their family’s meals for the entire week to come. They set the menus and do the shopping once for the week and every night at 6, they sit down with their family to eat dinner. Sadly, I am not one of them, as much as I aspire to be. To be sure, some weeks I manage to be more organized than others but usually the dinner plan is a mystery to me until I get home from work. (And occasionally it involves Thai food delivery!)
And that’s why I am so in love with new food site Notakeout.com. Every morning they send me an email with a great family dinner menu that can be prepared in around 30 minutes. They come with an ‘express-line friendly’ shopping list and a step-by-step ‘Game Plan’ to getting the meal on the table, starting from when you walk in the door with the grocery bags. The meals are seasonal and fresh and easy to make, while at the same time introducing you to new cooking techniques and ingredients. It’s free to subscribe and it’s saving me time and money when it comes to getting dinner on the table. There’s something to be said about having the dinner dilemma sorted out by 10 am!
We know what food we like and what food we buy and cook. How well do we really know that food? Do you know what’s inside it? I’m not talking about the jelly inside a donut. I’m talking about the nutritional information, of course.
The irony is that if we are buying packaged foods, we can read the label on the outside and find out. But if we cook the food with fresh (or not so fresh) ingredients at home, we don’t always know.
Well there is good news for those chefs who are preparing real food if you want to make sure you are following dietary guidelines or just get some reinforcement that the foods you are serving are as healthy as you think they are.
It’s a site called The Recipe Analyzer and it will convert your recipe into a label like the one you’d find on the side of a box. Let’s hope you don’t have the same amount of sodium on yours! (Did I really write that?)
Try it out here.
Do you have a favourite food site that you like for nutritional information?
I love this - it will make cooking for a diabetic child so much easier! Thanks!
We’re all about tasting new things at SavvyHQ—and not just on the culinary side. We like to delve into different sites to see what is being offered up for consumption, be it interesting articles, apps, videos and more.
So when we came upon Tasting Table, we have to admit, we were hooked. This US-based site also offers free newsletters on a range of delish topics, introducing us to unique and delish products (like argan oil or bacon caviar), tasty recipes (Grilled Taleggio Sandwich
with Apricots and Capers, anyone?), wine recommendations, unique cooking tools, surprising condiments and much more.
And while we can’t necessarily attend the different events they share, it’s neat to read about the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party or the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival (because you can always schedule a vacation around one next year).
So it’s safe to say that after having a taste of what Tasting Table has to offer, we are definitely coming back for seconds.
Do you have a favourite food site to recommend?
Last week, I was invited by Kraft Canada to take an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the Kraft Kitchens, where a number of editors and bloggers were given the opportunity to learn about the new food trends, try new recipes and get the inside scoop on new Kraft products.
Alongside Kraft Kitchen experts, I was shepherded into the famous Kraft Test Kitchen with SavvyMom friends Emma from www.embracethechaos.ca, Ann-Marie from momstown.ca and Ceri from www.sweetpotatochronicles.com, where we were asked to don an apron and prepare one Kraft recipe each. Some of us know our way around a kitchen, while others are, let’s say…still learning! I made a wonderful Mango Kulfi Cheesecake that was simple and incredibly delicious!
It was interesting to note that the test kitchens were equipped with anything but high-end, basic brand-named appliances. The Kraft Kitchen experts explained that it was important that a test environment be as close as possible to an average Canadian kitchen in an average Canadian home. (Minus the toddler yelling from his highchair and the cereal crunching under your feet, of course!)
Kraft’s goal is to create practical and accessible meal solutions for families and one of the ways they are achieving this goal is through the launch of their new app for iPhones, Blackberry or Windows devices, called iFood Assistant. The LITE version is free and the complete version is $0.99.
The iFood Assistant offers simple food ideas (like the one and only Mango Kulfi Cheesecake) at your finger tips. You can access over 100 how-to-videos, the Recipe of the Day, shopping lists and 1000’s of delicious recipes all tested in the Kraft Kitchens. Talk about a time-saver when it’s 5 pm and you’re still in the grocery store.
If you download this new app, let us know what you think. And good luck getting dinner on the table (again).
Last week, Google released its annual zeitgeist list, and included in the analysis was a compilation of the most searched recipes by Canadians in 2011. It was an interesting combination of foods, telling me we were mostly interested in cheap-and-cheerful comfort food, peppered with a little trendy fare and infused with an ethnic flavour or two.
The top recipe searches were as follows:
I did a quick search of the SavvyMom recipe database, and am happy to report that we have recipes for a few of the items searched on Google this past year. I have linked to our recipes for you, if you would like to consider giving some of the most popular dishes of the year a try.
For me, the most surprising search on the list was probably macaroni salad. I recently left a job in catering, and can honestly say that in the past five years, I think we may have made a true macaroni salad one or twice.
Were these the recipes you were looking for this year? What do you think will be popular in 2012?
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I found out about notakeout a few weeks ago. I’m not a good planner either and I’ve been struggling to prepare good food for dinner every night. The NTO site has really saved me. I’m hoping they keep the site updated with new selections every day.
Absolutly love this site! Thank-You. I am one of those “Take-Out” Mom’s but now thanks to this! It’s changing…TODAY! Thanks again.