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On Using Canisters in the Kitchen

We cook most of our meals from scratch and to make it easier we have lots of canisters on the kitchen counter. We bought them from Sam’s Club in the Restaurant Section. They are made of hard see through plastic with plastic lids on them. They have graduated markings on them so at a glance we can see how many cups we have left to make sure that we have enough to make the recipe that we are working on.

We have flour, cornmeal, sugar, powder milk, whole wheat, white rice, brown rice, potato pearls, instant oats, rolled oats, onions, popcorn, mung beans, carrots and soybeans. What you have in yours will depend on how you cook. We use whole wheat like oatmeal for cereals and also grind it. We also have a theater sized popcorn machine so we cook popcorn almost every other day. We also do sprouts so we have wheat, mung beans and soybeans for that. I still want a few more for different grains and more dried beans that I want to start having on hand and quicker to get at. When my husband makes homemade bread he grinds up beans and put those in it too. It makes the bread heartier and adds more fiber.

My next project in this is to get smaller canisters for different pastas and for holding different flours that have already been grinded. When you grind up say rice or wheat you don’t want to keep much of it before you use it, so those can be put into smaller containers. Also except for spaghetti being so tall, pasta’s don’t come in as large bags as flours or sugar.

To me having most of my ingredients on the counter makes it so much easier to cook. So, Instead of having to get all the ingredients out first before I start, they are already within reach. I do have a shelf that has the rest of my baking ingredients on it, such as baking powder or soda, can shortening, brown sugar and powdered sugar. I have thought about putting some of the dry ingredients in the smaller canisters too. There are also walnuts, pecans and almonds along with condensed milk, graham cracker crumbs and crumbled up corn flakes.

I will update this blog after I finish getting all the canisters bought and let you know how the baking is going. I want to get this done by fall, so everything is ready to go.

Successful Parenting 1

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This is from someone’s talk at church. It has some very good insights and will be run as a series.

Principles for Successful Parenting

The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve, in 2006
gave 9 principles to guide parents in their responsibilities to teach their children. They said: “Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities.” I would like to go over each of these with you.

The 1st principle is Faith. The book states: “Parents should teach children to have faith in Jesus Christ and use their growing faith in gospel principles to govern their personal lives.” They referred to D&C 68:25 which says: “And again, inasmuch as parents have children in Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized, that teach them not to understand the doctrine of repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, when eight years old, the sin be upon the heads of the parents.” I have to say that in all the years that Rich delivered babies and that I have gone to deliveries of babies they don’t naturally pop out with an instruction book. But, the reason I love the scriptures so much is because they do contain the instructions for raising children as well as how to live our own lives. President Thomas S. Monson back in 2004 in a First Presidency Message called “Teaching Our Children” stated: “Parents and Grandparents fill the role of teacher. So do siblings of the growing child. I offer those who serve as teachers of children four simple suggestions for your consideration: 1. Teach prayer, 2. Inspire faith, 3. Live truth, and 4. Honor God.” He went on to elaborate on each and under inspire faith he stated: “I think that there is not a member of this Church today who has not been touched by the accounts of the early pioneers. Those who did so much for the good of all surely had as their objective to inspire faith. They met the goal in a magnificent manner.” Faith is where we can tell children stories of the Pioneers or your own ancestors, or when you share your testimonies, or read the scriptures together.