They should never know about that whole stick of butter.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhether at Stratford University, within WebCookingClasses.com, or at my own cooking school, students often recall how their Mother, Grandmother, Grandfather or other relative long ago introduced them to cooking. With each item they prepare, they remember the smells and tastes that person added to their consciousness. The impression lasts a lifetime. It\u2019s a powerful gift to give someone.<\/p>\n
If you have favorite family recipes from long ago, be thankful.<\/strong> Then, honor your family heritage by updating them with new cooking knowledge and the world of healthy ingredients now available.<\/p>\nGrandma\u2019s entire stick of butter to saute a chicken breast CAN be changed to a tablespoon of olive oil.<\/strong> The blue box of chemicals called Mac and Cheese you\u2019ve been eating, and now serving your children, can be made with real milk and cheese in the new year once you know how. Even Nana\u2019s Apple Pie filling can be thickened with cornstarch, omitting some of the butter that past generations spackled on the lattice.<\/p>\nReplace the sodium-soaked \u201cSteak-ums\u201d with an actual steak from the farmers market this year.<\/strong> You\u2019ll find that the real flavor of wholesome ingredients will have your children eating LESS of something that is actually giving them MORE.<\/p>\nPitch the processed pizza rolls and spend 30 minutes in the kitchen with your children,<\/strong> teach them how to make English muffin pizzas with real tomatoes and whole mozzarella. Don\u2019t let your food heritage be a microwaved egg-puck biscuit for breakfast when it\u2019s incredibly easy to fry an egg and toast whole wheat bread.<\/p>\nYou can take the old, make small incremental changes, and start to incorporate them into your weekly menus<\/strong> and snacks. Updating these foods will have an impact on your family for decades, far more than any tax break ever will.<\/p>\nThe greatest gift you can give your family is learning to cook their own food.<\/strong><\/p>\nTo start the new year, I challenge you to find an old favorite recipe and update it with new ingredients<\/strong>, new procedures, or new seasonings. Strive to use some of the nutritional information and worldwide items available to us since 1970, and create a new family heirloom recipe. Your children and their children will benefit from never knowing how to use an entire stick of butter to saut\u00e9 chicken or even what a TV dinner is.<\/p>\nYou can worry, fret, and chew your nails over the dollar taxes that you fear are lost<\/strong> while you are inflicting a taxation of much greater consequence to your kids, and their kids\u2026a legacy of unhealthy eating that will make you poor quicker than any taxes will.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Which is worst to pass onto your grandchildren, fiscal irresponsibility or fat and calorie irresponsibility? Which would burden them more? Are we racking up financial debt or fat debt for future generations based on the decisions we make today? Which is worse? Yes, money is important and times are tough everywhere. But remember, you can\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[30],"tags":[222],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16818"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}