Menu Plan: March 9th – 16th
Tuesday:
Breakfast – Grits
Dinner – Chicken (in crock pot), potatoes, carrots, peas
Supper – Salad with Wheat bread
Notes: Put beef into the refrigerator from the freezer, soak navy beans
Wednesday:
Breakfast – Yogurt with berries
Dinner – Navy Bean Chili with Corn Bread
Supper – Chips n’ salsa and avocado dip with Seven Layer Bean dip
Snack: Soft pretzels
Notes: Put pinto beans in the crockpot at 11am, freeze leftover.
Thursday:
Breakfast – Scrambled Eggs with Cheese
Dinner – Hamburgers with Buns, raw Carrots, Salad
Supper – Spinach Pasta Salad (meat n’ pasta for Dad)
Snack: Cottage cheese and Raw Sunflower Seeds
Notes: Save handful of hamburger out for Supper, make buns at 11am
Friday:
Breakfast – Grits
Dinner – Veggie tray (carrots, celery, broccoli, black olives, pepper, cucumbers, pickles), Sour Cream Onion dip
Shabbat Meal – Roast chicken with dressing, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Peas, and Salad. Challah Bread with honey butter.
Dessert: German Chocolate Cake
Notes: Prepare beef stew in large white bowl, store in the refrigerator. Prepare chicken BBQ for Shabbat Dinner, put in crockpot on low. Set out two sticks butter to soften. Prepare yogurt and berries, deviled eggs, carrots, and lettuce.
Saturday:
Breakfast – Yogurt with Berries
Shabbat Dinner – Chicken BBQ sandwiches, Carrots, Deviled Eggs.
Havdalah Supper – Beef Stew (beef, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes peas, green beans, onions, celery) with Bread
Snacks: Salad
Notes: Put beef stew in crockpot on high at 12pm.
Sunday:
Breakfast – Grits
Dinner – Stir Fry (broccoli, carrots, onions, peppers, water chestnuts) and Rice
Supper – Leftovers
Snack: Chocolate and Powdered Sugar Doughnuts
Notes: Make tortillas and crackers for Monday
Monday:
Breakfast – Egg burritos with Cheese
Dinner – Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Peas
Supper – Cheese n’ Crackers, Raw Carrots, Celery, and Broccoli
Snack: Popcorn, Pickles, Cheese
Train Them Up To Love
Training up our children is a hard task. With all the influences in this world today, it takes great determination to train up children who will know the difference and not look like the world – the pagans – do. As moms, we have a giant task ahead of us. Couple that with the fact that there is so little difference between many Christians and the world today, and you really must be on your guard to keep them in him.
We can be sure to train up daughters and sons who will walk in his ways if we do two things:
- Teach them the reasons behind walking in these ways – meaning, teach them the Scriptures, not just a fear of conforming or not, and
- Walk in these ways as the parent.
Yah told his people in Deuteronomy 6 that we are to lead by example and relationship. We are to walk with them and talk with them, teaching them these words:
“Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה [Adonai- God] our Elohim, יהוה [Adonai- God] is one! ”
{Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Mark 12:28-30}
Why these words? What is so special about getting these words into the hearts of your children and to repeat them as you rise and as you lay down to sleep? There are so many commandments; why these words?
Because if you know in your heart and believe as a foundation that he is the greatest and set apart god, and that he is Echad – One, then you have what you need to build the other Scriptures on. If this is repeated on your lips and into your heart, you will know that he is set apart from other gods, as we are to be set apart from those who follow the other gods, and that he is Echad – One, and we are to be one with him. This keeps us his. It conforms our minds to being his and does not allow us to contemplate being one with other gods.
It is not uncommon, however, to go through all the proper training, teaching them the Scriptures and failing much-as we do as humans, picking ourselves up again to re-teach and re- show them just how to walk in his ways. It is also not uncommon, from my experience, to do all of this training for fifteen or twenty years, only to find that they may know the Scriptures, but they surely don’t know how to be kind and respectful.
It is so important to teach our children the applications and how to convey them. Teach them the truth that no matter what they know, it does not supersede respecting another person. When they get offended or hurt, it is not ok to throw it all to the wind and go with the ‘ole emotions, no matter how old or where they are. We must be ladies and gentlemen and give proper respect to people, even when they disagree with us or even when they are showing us their ugly side.
Here is a great Scripture to teach our children:
Ephesians 4 (Complete Jewish Bible)
1 Therefore I, the prisoner united with the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called. 2 Always be humble, gentle and patient, bearing with one another in love, 3 and making every effort to preserve the unity the Spirit gives through the binding power of shalom.
11 Furthermore, he gave some people as emissaries, some as prophets, some as proclaimers of the Good News, and some as shepherds and teachers. 12 Their task is to equip God’s people for the work of service that builds the body of the Messiah, 13 until we all arrive at the unity implied by trusting and knowing the Son of God, at full manhood, at the standard of maturity set by the Messiah’s perfection. 14 We will then no longer be infants tossed about by the waves and blown along by every wind of teaching, at the mercy of people clever in devising ways to deceive.
15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in every respect grow up into him who is the head, the Messiah. 16 Under his control, the whole body is being fitted and held together by the support of every joint, with each part working to fulfill its function; this is how the body grows and builds itself up in love.
17 Therefore I say this – indeed, in union with the Lord I insist on it: do not live any longer as the pagans live, with their sterile ways of thinking. 18 Their intelligence has been shrouded in darkness, and they are estranged from the life of God, because of the ignorance in them, which in turn comes from resisting God’s will. 19 They have lost all feeling, so they have abandoned themselves to sensuality, practicing any kind of impurity and always greedy for more.
20 But this is not the lesson you learned from the Messiah! 21 If you really listened to him and were instructed about him, then you learned that since what is in Yeshua is truth, 22 then, so far as your former way of life is concerned, you must strip off your old nature, because your old nature is thoroughly rotted by its deceptive desires; 23 and you must let your spirits and minds keep being renewed, 24 and clothe yourselves with the new nature created to be godly, which expresses itself in the righteousness and holiness that flow from the truth. 25 Therefore, stripping off falsehood, let everyone speak truth with his neighbor, because we are intimately related to each other as parts of a body. 26 Be angry, but don’t sine – don’t let the sun go down before you have dealt with the cause of your anger; 27 otherwise you leave room for the Adversary. 28 The thief must stop stealing; instead, he should make an honest living by his own efforts. This way he will be able to share with those in need.
29 Let no harmful language come from your mouth, only good words that are helpful in meeting the need, words that will benefit those who hear them. 30 Don’t cause grief to God’s Ruach HaKodesh, for he has stamped you as his property until the day of final redemption.
31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, violent assertiveness and slander, along with all spitefulness.
AND, FINALLY:
32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted; and forgive each other, just as in the Messiah God has also forgiven you.
If we can do only all of these things, we have won half the battle. It is hard to not go off and have an attitude of superiority or anger or self-pity. It is human nature to do so.
Let’s not.
Let’s do the right things and glorify Yah-God, instead of our own flesh.
Let’s train up some ladies and some gentlemen. Hurt words, like toothpaste, cannot be crammed back in once the hurt is there. There is forgiveness, and repair, and the scar will fade, but it will always be visible.
Let us teach from the heart how to love and be forgiving and above all in our speech and kindness to all, especially our sisters in Him.
Shalom~
Menu Plan Monday March 2-8
Tuesday (2) -
Lunch: Quesadillas
Dinner: Loaded baked potatoes, loaded salads
Wednesday (3) -
Lunch: Con Queso with hamburger and Blue Corn Chips
Dinner: Spaghetti, Salad, Breadsticks, fried green beans
Thursday (4) -
Lunch: Stir fry
Dinner: Homemade Pizza and Salad
Friday (5) -
Lunch: Leftovers
Shabbat Dinner: Challah, Honey mustard chicken, rice, salad, fried okra
Saturday (6) -
Lunch: Chicken Noodle soup
Havdalah Dinner: Chili and Fritos
Sunday (7) -
Lunch: Leftovers
Dinner: Hamburgers with homemade buns, french fries, carrots, salad
Monday (8) -
Lunch: Soup and rolls
Dinner: Green Chili Meat Burritos
What’s on your menu this week? Share with us! 
Making The Home – A Bad Egg?
Having chickens for four years I’ve wondered many a time if an egg I’ve found is good or bad. I mean, I didn’t know when the chickens laid it and it could have been there for a few weeks…
If you have an egg you find that you don’t know when its from, don’t throw it out right away! You could be wasting a good egg. There is a simple way of testing to see if an egg is good or bad. If you want to know if your egg is still good, here’s how you can tell:
Put the egg in a glass of cold water. If it sinks, it’s a good egg. If the egg floats to the top of the glass, it’s bad.
Isn’t that COOL? Quite a simple way to tell if an egg is good or bad.
Another thing I learned is that the only thing about this teasting is once your egg has been in the water, you need to eat it within the next few days. The water washes off the “bloom” on the shell which protects it from bacteria entering. We never washed our fresh eggs until ready to use them for this particular reason.
shalom!
-Ra’chel
Menu Plan Monday February 23-March 1
Tuesday (23) -
Lunch: Leftovers
Dinner: Hamburgers, french fries, carrots, salad
Wednesday (24) -
Lunch: Spinach Pasta Salad
Dinner: Pizza
Thursday (25) -
Lunch: Quesadillas
Dinner: Lasagna, fried green beans, Caesar salad
Friday (26) -
Lunch: Macaroni and Cheese with jalapenos
Shabbat Dinner: Chicken Dumplings, mashed potatoes, cream peas, corn
Saturday (27) -
Lunch: Hot Broccoli Dip and Blue Corn Tortilla Chips
Havdalah Dinner: Tacos
Sunday (28) -
Brunch: Eggs, Turkey Bacon, Pancakes,
Dinner: Baked Chicken, rice, broccoli, peas
Monday (1) -
Lunch: leftovers
Dinner: Soup, salad, grilled cheese
