Self Sufficiency

[Michlow]

I think teaching your child to cook, is an important task that many parents inadvertantly neglect. I was never taught to cook, and for the first 6 years my husband and I were together, we lived on mainly processed food.

I credit poverty as my real motivation in learning. When it comes to food, you both pay for the convience of not having to make it yourself, not to mention how unhealthy it is.

I only learned 4 years ago, that mashed potatoes didn't come in a box full of flakes.

I was actually so proud of myself the other day. Trying to use up our overabudance of plums from our trees, I made two plum pies. I didn't make the crusts (baby steps, LOL), but the rest was from scratch. They were very yummy, tasted like Cherry Pies.