Homeschooling High School - Making It Through By Not Cooking

By Author: Floyd Kenneth
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One of the hard parts of homeschooling is not the schooling itself. It is the "home" part. The part where we cook, clean, maintain, organize, and sort our lives. Balancing home and schooling is the hard part. Relatively speaking, the school part is not that tough!

When I was homeschooling, one way that I coped was by cooking as little as possible. Do not get me wrong, I like cooking, and my family has always loved the meals I provide. We ate every meal together as a family, at the dining table every night. Still, my goal was to cook as little as possible.

Freezer cooking, cooking food in large quantities less frequently, became a standard. Although I
did not cook as little as once a month, as many books suggest, I did do large-batch cooking every few weeks. It really helped me feed my wonderful family while cooking less often.

They were simple and straight-forward, nothing fancy, and they provided great instruction on ways to take my regular home-cooking and adapt it for freezer cooking. If you get the books, you could almost plan your entire holiday meal ahead of time, and have a much more relaxed ...
... family celebration!

My other approach for cooking less has become a standard household joke around here. I relied on Costco. Costco lasagna, salad mixes... See, I am not too embarrassed to confess it! I am really being brutally honest here! My best meals have come from Costco! Especially as the kids got older, and their activities took us away from home more often, I began to rely heavily on their meals. Sadly, I cannot do that as much anymore. You are not going to believe this, but when you do not have children at home, it is possible for the Costco-sized chicken to get a freezer burn before you can use it up. I am not kidding.

My children are cooking for themselves in college now. They regularly shop at Costco. They put meals in the freezer at the beginning of the week. They can cook for themselves and make stellar grades, because they have learned to cook as little as possible too!

My apologies to all my friends who grind their own wheat and cook organic all the time. I hope you will still love me!

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