by Tiffany Tennail

Created on: January 15, 2010   Last Updated: January 17, 2010

As a full time mom with a full time job, let me be the first to admit it is difficult to include cooking in my scedule, but I do it anyway. I would agree that cooking is becoming a lost art. I am a twenty-nine year old mother of two boys ages 8, and 5. I work as a manager at a loan institute and my work hours are crazy, but is seems as though I find myself and my husband speaking around lunch time about what we would like to have for dinner. We discuss ingredients we have in our pantry, what type of meat, fish, or poultry we might want and in what fashion we would like to prepare it.

 We as moms should schedule in days if necessary to include cooking and eating with our families. Set it as an alarm in your cell phone, write it down in your daybook, log it into your palm pilot, have your secretary remind you. GET IT DONE...... I'm telling you it has made the difference in my family life. Cooking has brought my husband and I closer together. We find ourselves  in the grocery store lookig at food and ingredients, herbs, meats, cheeses. A great grocery store can only be compared to an experience at Macy's where the quality of products are amazing and all sectioned out in departments, and the variety to choose from is enormous. A good grocery store has this wonderful smell when you walk in {think SEESELS, WORLD MARKET, and more...}.here are many specialty and locally owned stores you should visiit as well. You should make a day of it or go when you have the time to just walk around and look at all the things you can cook. However you decide, pick a good grocery with a deli and bakery and stick to it.

Here are a few things that might help you include cooking in your schedule.

Prepare a menu with your family on a day that you can all get together as a family.

 Let each member pick a meal for dinner each day of the week.  Then make a list of the things you ned and stick to it. If you get strapped for ideas, go buy a cookbook and work your way through it. I'm not saying that the dishes should be difficult. The point is simply some great quality time with the family and a qulity product that everyone enjoys. It is almost a reward for the work youve completed together.

Try and keep yor pantry stocked with items you might need all the time, and things you can make a quick meal out of if necessary.  For example:

Oils, vinegars, pastas, canned fruits, vegetables, and sauces. Things like canned tomatoes, soups, bases, unusual items

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