Happy Holidays!

If you are a Homemade Gourmet distributor, you are smack dab in the middle of craft show season.  The time of year where you are meeting tons of new people, some familiar and some new to the great taste of Homemade Gourmet.  How exciting!

If you are a Homemade Gourmet customer, this may be the time of year when you haunt the craft shows looking for that familiar Homemade Gourmet heart so you can stock up on Pecan Pie Muffins, Chicken Enchilada Soup and Texas Cornbread!  Take heart, the good food is right around the corner, ready for you to add a few simple ingredients and serve your family a little bit of Homemade goodness.

The only sad thing about craft show season is those customers who have to wait until the end of the year to refill their pantries with Homemade Gourmet yummies! 

I hope that all the distributors are spreading the fantastic news about Homemade Gourmet Preferred.  How great to have menues, recipes, mixes and grocery lists delivered to your home once a month!  Talk about an awesome de-stresser!

Do you have any stories to share about people who have benefitted from having meals planned and not having to worry about, “What’s for dinner?”  Share the good news!

Cindy

Not a long post today.  I am sure that you are busy getting ready for your family and the big Thanksgiving holiday.  I have already started cooking, since Homemade Gourmet allows me to do tons of stuff ahead of time, so that on Thursday, I’ll be putting in dishes to simply heat up and will actually get to spend some quality time with my family.  Yippee!

I am so thankful that God has blessed me with a beautiful family and a great job.  I am grateful that we have so many distributors that are helping families around America to gather around the dinner table for a meal together.  Making memories and sharing great conversation.

Try not to “overstuff” the turkey or yourself and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Cindy

What a great feeling…a freezer full of choices!  Last time I posted on the blog I was out of choices and suffering the consequences.  Since then I have done something about it!  Now…if I had waited till I had it all figured out, I’d still be looking at an empty freezer.  Instead…I took action without a plan, but with Homemade Gourmet that is not a problem. 

First action step was the grocery store.  With my busy schedule, I had not been able to sit down and figure out which meals I wanted to put into my freezer…but the freezer was in a state of emergency and I needed to take action immediately.  I took a quick inventory of my pantry using my handy Homemade Gourmet grocery list copied from a past cookbook.  I noted on the list that I needed to restock a few basic items and canned goods and then I threw that list in my purse so I would be ready for the first time I could squeeze in a grocery trip. 

On Saturday that opportunity arose and I seized the moment.  After shopping from the list I went to the meat section.  Without a clue of what meals I was going to stock my freezer with, I just filled my cart with what was on sale and what I know my family likes…a roast, some stew meat, 10 pounds of ground beef, chicken breasts, a couple of pork tenderloins and some pork chops.  I put it all in the fridge that day so it would be ready for a quick 4m4m session on Sunday. 

Sunday evening, I pulled out all of the 4m4m planners that I have collected over the last year and started making choices.  Going through the planners, I pulled HG mixes and canned goods from my pantry and matched them with the meat of choice…and the result was over a dozen meals bagged in the freezer.  What a difference choices make!  It truly feels good to be full of them again! 

What’s in your freezer?

God Bless,

Tami