Successful Meal Planning

April 14th, 2009

7:00PM

For April Enrichment we will be focusing on our Homemaking Skills by learning techniques to successful meal planning. By planning ahead we will be able to improve the nutritional quality of our diets and ensure that the best foods are being served to our families. Through meal planning we can establish a pattern of healthy food choices each week by providing a range of features to make planning healthy and doable meals easier, such as shopping lists and successful use, and rotation, of food storage.

We have a guest instructor, Denise, coming to teach us how to plan meals in advance and how to incorporate our food storage successfully. Denise Paikuli is the Early Childhood Specialist at Building Blocks Child Care Center. She oversees the kitchen at the center and is VERY knowledgeable about the USDA food program and incorporating healthy foods in meal planning. In her own life she is a mother of three and is very successful in incorporating this into her home.

Along with the meal planning "Chef" Ericka Young and a special contestant will present us with a "Food Show" by competing to show us how to incorporate our shopping lists into our planned meals of the week. This means that we get to sample their work!!!

We are excited to have Denise speak with us and participate in our own PU2 Food Show. Come and enjoy a fun evening and learn, or teach us what you know.

Example Goods and Services for Auction

Framing family portrait or picture
Chocolate Chip Cookies 1 time a week for a month
Small Fresh Flower Arrangement
2 hours of weeding
FHE Lesson
4 hours child care
Cross stitch
Clothes alterations
Gardening or tilling
2 homemade pies
Homemade loaf of bread
Evening of scrapbook organizing or help
Surprise craft project
Haircut and style
Homemade rolls for Sunday dinner
Baby blanket
Lunch together
Dinner for a family at their home
FHE treats for a month
One-on-one help with food storage
Sewing

These are just some examples. Feel free to do anything.

On Thursday, the 19th, there will be forms at the door to write what services you are auctioning off. There will also be a questionnaire to fill out to earn the points to use to buy goods and services auctioned. It is going to be an enjoyable evening with fun, laughter and service. We hope to see all of you there.

Give Your Heart In Service

Proverbs 31:20-She stretcheth out her hands to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

February is a "heartfelt" month to reach out to one another and serve. We each have wonderful opportunities to serve one another and this month we want to give service at a SERVICE AUCTION.

For those of you who have never been to a Service Auction, sisters volunteer services. Last year a sister volunteered to clean bathrooms; another volunteered her professional services for a massage; another free hair cut; manicure; some brought cookies and pies to auction off, movie ticket packages, game night, blankets and so forth. There is a form of questions, like "did you read your scriptures today?" (20 points), "did you make your bed?" (15 pts) where the sister get the points to use to buy the services. Start thinking of talents, and services that you could provide to auction off. Let's have some fun while we serve one another.

The carpets are being cleaned on our regular Enrichment night so the tentative date is:

THURSDAY
February 19th 2009
7:00PM
Stake Center

Welcome 2009! Let Us Celebrate A New Year Of...

* Greater opportunities
* Spreading love
* Making new friends
* Sharing the gospel
* Increasing spirituality
* Making reachable goals
* Accomplishing goals
* Drawing nearer to God and Jesus Christ

You name it sisters. They are your goals whatever they may be. They will be your accomplishments. The new year is not only leaving the old behind but a time to reflect on the past and prepare for the journeys ahead.

Elder Joe J. Christensen of the Presidency of the Seventy spoke on Resolutions in the December 1994 Ensign. He wrote: “While many of us take seriously our New Year’s resolutions, some of us may not have made any because of our prior problems in keeping them. We must not overlook the power that making good resolutions can have in helping make our lives happier and more successful—regardless of our past performance.”

Resolutions should be made to improve ones self. To increase in knowledge, health, happiness, spirit and prepare for the future. We find that even the Savior continued to increase wisdom and stature. “Only one verse of scripture in the entire King James Version of the New Testament suggests what the Savior did to develop himself from age twelve until he began his formal ministry at age thirty: “Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man” (Luke 2:52; see JST, Matt. 3:24–26). In other words, the Savior developed in the same areas indicated on the poll: intellectually (in wisdom and knowledge), physically (in stature), socially (in favor with man), and spiritually (in favor with God)” (Joe J. Christensen, “Resolutions,” Ensign, Dec 1994, 62–67).

Elder Christensen is convinced that “if we make and keep resolutions in those four areas, we will have a happier and more successful new year this coming year and every year for the rest of our lives. Let’s consider the nature of such resolutions and the benefits that can be ours if our resolve to improve ourselves is firm.”

We are excited to start a new year with each of you. To help us celebrate and prepare for 2009 we are going to, YES, you guessed it…be setting reachable goals!!!

Tuesday: January 13, 2009

7:00PM

Personal Development:
Goal Setting—Reaching for the Stars: Setting Motivating Goals AND Journaling—Life Lessons from Your Own Words.

December Enrichment

There was some confusion on the date for enrichment but please mark it on your calendars that it is:

TUESDAY the 9th at 7PM.

We are working on crafts old and new and socializing.
If you didn't get your projects finished from Super Saturday or you have other projects that you would like to work on this is the time.

Ribbon, paint, paper and other supplies will be available this evening.
Even if you don't have a project to work on come and join us for a fun night of chit-chat and goodies.

If you would like to bring a goody to share you are more than welcome!

The trading table will be set up to add to or take away.

One woman's junk is another woman's treasure!
Items that are left over will be donated to the Community Action Center.

We hope to see you there.