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Pam Mehnert

Here's How It Began

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert April 18, 2010

For me, November begins the season of cooking and the celebration of comfort foods. The smell of warm, freshly baked bread, or a pot of chili simmering on the stove, bring back strong childhood memories of comfort for me. I learned to cook from my Mom, who sent me off to college with a hand-written notebook filled with all the recipes I enjoyed at our family table. I still have the notebook, and some thirty plus years later, I’m still cooking some of the same recipes – many of them now with my own twist on flavor.
 

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Pam Mehnert

Day One - Must Organize

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert April 19, 2010
Do you see that crying garlic container on the right in this picture? That pretty much represents my feelings as I take each bottle and can of my beloved convenience items and sort them into bags for my local food pantry. This is all good food, actually great food with great flavors from my beloved Outpost Natural Foods. But it’s the food I will do without over the next 12 months as I prepare my pantry for the single ingredients that will take their place.
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Week One - Oy!

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert April 23, 2010
So how was my first week? Well it started out pretty good! This project was going to be fun and I was energized by the support everyone was giving me. I figured out a few meals we could make this week, wrote a list, and then headed to the co-op.m.
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Week One - The Chart

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert April 25, 2010
Inconvenient – from scratch vs Formerly Convenient – from Outpost Read more...
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Week Two - Production List

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert April 25, 2010
Leaving on vacation the end of this week, so I’m thinking I need to have things prepared for when we come back, or re-entry will be umm…too difficult? Read more...
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My Sunday of Mass Production, With Recipe

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert April 28, 2010
I knew that if I were going to have any chance of getting ahead of the meal planning game, I’d have to designate some time for some real meal prep. That day was Sunday. Read more...
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