Depends on the quality of the sauce. I have used this technique cooking for guests, and they were asking where I learned to cook, if I went to cooking school, etc. I have pre-prepared sauces in my fridge. Easy job to make a variety of different tasting dishes with different main ingredients from the same sauce. It's what's used even in many restaurants, even top restaurants http://www.greatcurryrecipes.net/2011/07/20/pre-cooking-meat-for-adding-to-restaurant-style-curries/ http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100625042311AARKP8k I was thinking more that the DH could drop the meat in himself, if the sauce was preheated, would be a simple 5 minute heat up job. The big work would be in making the sauce. DH job is just to drop the pre-prepared meat in at the end.

Yes, you are probably right. At least about poultry, even cooked it often doesn't taste good after a few days due to the amount of unsaturated fats. Sometimes It does develop a rancid taste. It could be frozen after cooking in meal sized portions to avoid this. I was thinking about restaurant style cooking. Thai and Indian restaurants use a master sauce, and then prepared meats are mixed in depending on in the customer wants vegetables only, fish, chicken, shrimp, meat, etc. It would be easy enough to prepare a master vegetarian saucy dish like a vegetable tagine, chickpea stew, curried mixed vegetables, etc. And just add meat to his meal only. Then he would have restaurant quality meat dishes with little effort. Asian markets sell raw, presliced, frozen beef, lamb and chicken. These can be added to stews, and they cook in a few minutes only.

A thing that would work well is prefrying some chicken pieces and leaving them in the fridge. If fried, they should not spoil for the week in the fridge if in a sealed container. For dinner, split any pots of vegetarian stew, soup, curry type dishes into two pots and prewarm them. One vegetable only for everyone else, and one for him. Then he can just drop the precooked chicken in his pot when he comes in, and make an instant meat stew. Will take about 6 minutes to heat the precooked chicken through if the stew is hot. Frozen shrimp doesn't even need to be precooked, they cook within a few minutes of being dropped in hot stew/soup. Frozen fish fillets are good for this as well.

Sorry that was wordered poorly on my part. Also let my imagination run wild to much. I was imaging that DH was at work all day, coming home tired and hungry. Really wanting to eat meat, but being presented with just vegetables to eat. Being too tired and hungry to cook meat himself, he settles. I wrongly assumed the diffficulties were in relation to not having enough meat meals for dinner. Didn't realize that he was doing the cooking as well. Should have read the posts more closely. Understand now that you have an arrangement where he cooks the meat portion of the meals for himself, and he gets as much as he wants. Makes sense.

The classic time to read to kids is before bed. You have their 100% attention. Reading a chapter or two of the Bible right before bed is a very effective routine. I have found it beneficial to explain what I am reading as it is read so it is not above their heads. I read it out loud, and then put the harder to understand parts in simpler words. If the goal is one chapter only, that is like a 5 to 10 minute commitment. Once routine is established, it can be expanded gradually to more chapters, or increased time explaining and illustrating. Important thing is to establish a routine.

Yes, exactly. There is one boy I know reading fluently since he can remember without ever being taught. Perfect speller. The key I think was having an intense desire to read. Those baby brains are smart. Look how fast a complex thing like speech is learned when there is a strong desire to communicate. Manipulation of vocal cords, mimicking sounds, etc. Reading is simple by comparison. But there needs to be a desire to read for self teaching.

If she is reading already so well, phonics is not necessary. She already has internalized many of the phonics rules without being taught. And will be able to decipher/guess new words she encounters. Why do something she hates. Get her to read to you instead, and correct her on any misread words. Probably you will not have to do this for very long. Some children read fluently at 4 without ever being taught any phonics or sight words. Phonics is not needed in many situations if you have a self driven reader.

This is a personality thing to work out with N. Why does he need to outdo B? Or even be as good as B? Why not just appreciate what B does better, and be happy for his brother's excellence. It is not important to be the best at academics. There are more important traits than who is best at math. For example, kindness, generosity, etc. What if B is just better in 90% of academics. That is a battle that won't be won. If you cultivate in N that it is not important to be the best, but rather to just be happy with who he is, it will not be important if B is better. On the flip side, if B is proud about being better, and is putting his brother down, maybe it's B that is the problem. And B needs to be reasoned with, whenever that trait rears it's head.

Exercise is easier than people think. Don't bother with the 20 minute workouts. Just do 5 minutes a day, alternating with different muscle groups. Like bodyweight squats one day, pull ups the next, push ups next, etc. Increased muscle mass will burn more fat. The time it takes to post on this website, you can do a few minutes exercise, enough for a day. You will see results in a couple of months. Increase to doing 5 minutes a few times a day for fast results. Also avoid MSG, aspartame, both used in animal studies to cause obesity. Hypothalamus damage.

Most seeds are hybrids. This does NOT mean genetically modified. This means that a breeder has crossed two different varieties of a plant, and come up with a desirable child. The problem with hybrids are the child seeds are unpredictable. Let's say you crossed a sweet pepper and a very hot pepper. The resulting pepper may be as sweet as the first, but have the shape of the second with no hotness. The child seeds of this hybrid may be of all types. For example, one might be sweet only, the other one hot, the next bearing the shape of the second. In other words no reliability, no consistency. A heirloom has been bred and selected for many generations for similar traits. Because the heirloom plant has had grandchildren and great great great grandchilden all selected the same, it is very very likely, that generation after following generation will all share the same traits. That means you can save your seeds, and have reliable children plants. Which means you only have to buy the seeds one time. There is also more variety in heirlooms. Since most supermarket vegetables are bred to have similar traits, as most people are not creative, and expect all tomatoes to be red and a certain size and flavor. They also must be able to ship without splitting, and have a long shelf life, etc. Heirlooms can break all these rules, for example, yellow, huge, and extremely sweet, etc.

Have you tried just cooking vegetarian food for yourself, and cooking meat for your husband and children? That would most likely resolve the conflicts. From his side, has he ever forced you to eat meat? Consider, do you force him to eat vegetarian only by excluding meat from the meals you prepare for him?