Month-of-Dinners
Blank Chart
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Main Dish |
Side Dish |
Veggie |
Accompaniment |
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1
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1
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1
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1
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2
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3
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2
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2
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4
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5
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3
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2
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3
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6
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7
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4
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4
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8
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9
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5
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3
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5
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10
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11
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6
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6
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12
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13
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7
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4
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7
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14
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15
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8
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8
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16
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17
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9
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5
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9
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18
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19
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10
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10
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20
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21
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11
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6
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11
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22
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23
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12
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12
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24
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25
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13
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7
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13
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26
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27
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14
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14
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28
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29
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15
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8
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15
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30
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31
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16
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16
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(32)
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How to Use This Page...
The
basic idea of this page is pretty obvious, but allow me to explain a few
things anyway... First, no one will ever need this many home-made
dinners in one month. You'll probably go out for dinner a few
times, maybe get invited to someone's home, use fast foods a few times
(like Kraft macaroni 'n' cheese, frozen fish sticks and tater tots,
Hamburger Helper, canned Chinese food, etc.) Plus there are always
leftovers to use up. So the idea behind this isn't that you'll
actually DO all these dinners in one month! Rather it's to help a
young lady "equip" herself with this many dinners that she is
able to make from start to finish, and can also do completely on
her own. I feel it's important to be able to do the entire meal
alone because managing and cooking a meal on one's own is quite a skill
of its own, separate from knowing how to cook each individual dish. I
remember Laura, in the Little House book, saying she discovered
that it was quite different cooking a whole meal on her own from just
helping Ma. I was actually a little surprised that Ma, with all her
wisdom and being a teacher, hadn't taught that aspect to Laura.
Well, the good side of it is that now there's ONE thing I thought of
that Ma didn't!
Main
Dish ~ Yes, I know I said
"Month" of dinners, but 31 didn't come out even for the other
Side
Dish ~ We don't need to know how
to make nearly as many side dishes, so that's why this column has room
for only half as many items.
Veggie ~ We actually only do three main vegetables (fresh steamed broccoli being our favorite), but there are basically eight I want her to know how to do. See Carlianne's Month-of-Dinners Chart for all of them.
Accompaniment
~ These are things like Jello
salads, rolls, muffins, breads,
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Let's go through each column:
columns involved, and besides, I thought of one more main dish I just
couldn't leave out. Thus we have 32 and not 31 days worth of
dinners. 
and a few others. Again, see
Carlianne's 