I am exhausted just typing about it.

I feel a little bit lately like life is running faster than I can keep up with. Like when you are a child and you run down a steep hill and your legs and pumping wildly and you teeter right on the edge of losing control of them and tumbling down like that scene in Princess Bride when Buttercup pushes Wesley down the ravine and then throws herself tumbling after him.

I don't know where May went and we are a good portion of the way through June. We have huge things coming up at our house - a move to a new house and all that goes a long with it. We have to pack, clean out the old place, clean the new place AND then unpack it all again. To make matters even more complicated, our dates aren't over-lapping at all and so we will be staying with family for two weeks while our entire house sits in storage. It is going to be like we are moving twice, within two weeks.  I am exhausted just typing about it. 

Which brings me to the point of my post today, I got a Great article in my email the other day about how to find the energy to make dinner when you are already so tired at the end of the day - who doesn't want to know that information. 

1. Use convenient ingredients.

There aren’t any prizes for cooking everything yourself from scratch. Let convenience food do what it’s supposed to do!

2. Prepare in advance.

If you hate being super organised, just skip this one. But if you are inclined to squirrel things away for a rainy day, cooking whole meals like soups or stews or curries in bulk and freezing for later does make a difference.

3. Have actual food in the house

Here’s the thing, no matter how great a cook you are, if there isn’t food in the house and it’s been a long day, you (and all of us) are way more likely to pick up some takeout than go to the store, buy ingredients, come home and cook. So having food in the house gives you a HUGE head start.

I find there are 2 parts to this. First, having a well stocked pantry can be a huge life saver.

The other piece of the puzzle is finding some sort of regular system for buying fresh ingredients. 

4. Have a collection of fast, simple recipes.

There’s a time and place for fancy cheffy recipes, but that isn’t on a regular ‘school’ night. Having a collection of quick, easy recipes is key. If you know that dinner is only going to take you 10 minutes or so, aren’t you more likely to be able to find the energy you need to make it happen?

We teach all those things at Food $ense. If you don't have time to go to a formal class, you can find some time to take one or two online. 

We can do it, we busy, tired, over whelmed with our own lives people! Food $ense can teach us how and make it not seem like the Mt Everest that it sometimes feels like.