Good morning bloggers.
During the past few months I have been clipping coupons and trying many prepared meals only to find out that my family won't eat them. Being as expensive as they are, some $10.00 or more for a dinner for two, my family appreciates my efforts each evening when I cook a meal from scratch. A hard concept for many, yes, but not being one to buy bagged or boxed meals I had to see what the other side was like. Sure when our kids were growing up many nights dinner would come from a box, Stove Top Stuffing, Hamburger Helper, and everyone's favorite to this day, Kraft Mac and Cheese. The first, the original, not the fancy new ones with sauce packets.

That was fine for the younger years but after figuring out that I can make the same meal for 1/10th the cost of the packaged ones and avoid all the preservatives and other things that I can't even pronounce, my family now won't allow me to get away with dinner on the slide.

Don't get me wrong. I like short cuts but when I can make pasta in less than 10 minutes and have a stroganoff on the table by using a little cornstarch and bouillon and other spices from the cabinet, they now have developed a taste for home cooking not box cooking.

Tonight is pizza night at my house. It was either that or a frozen, prepackaged P.J. Chang's that I got on sale and had coupons for. We're going to give it a try when I don't have time to cook, but for tonight it is homemade.

Hope your Friday night dinner is memorable for all the right reasons.