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Keeping Up with Changing Times
Times are changing; people are eating healthier. Many more people are developing allergies to foods. People want better foods; better food for them and their families. They are finding cooking from scratch to be a healthy alternative to all the processed foods on the market. We here and on our sister site, www.emealsforyou.com, are teaming up with registered Dietitian Lisa M. Ronco, MS RD CDN, to provide you with great recipes and meal plans that are healthy and assist you in preparing meals for those family members with health problems.
Currently in conjunction with our numerous recipe and meal plan categories ( to see all the Recipe and Meal Plan categories on emealsforyou.com click here ) we provide recipes and meal plans designed around:
Diet Friendly, good for you, balanced recipes along with Careful and Carefree Meal Plans providing 4 full weeks of meal plans (3 per day) and snacks (2 per day) fully scalable to the number of people you are feeding. As an added bonus simply click a button and print a shopping list for your choices.
Gluten Free, gluten free doesn’t have to be tasteless.
Sodium Reduced, healthier recipes for sodium restricted diets.
Vegan, for those who choose a diet based on a respect for the natural world.
Vegetarian Entrée, great ways to get balanced meals.
WOW (Watching Our Weight), our great recipes scaled down but not out.
Our Weekly Meal Planner provides you with 5-day meal plans with no repeated entrees and 20 full weeks of meals. All of our recipes and meal plans are automatically scalable; design your menu around feeding 1,2,4,6,8,10 or 12 people. Simply drop the recipes and meal plans in your Favorites Box and you are two mouse clicks away from printing a complete shopping list.
In the coming weeks we will add recipes and meal plans for creating diabetic friendly menus. Additionally, Lisa M. Ronco, MS RD CDN will be creating a method to provide guidance for those who wish a more “hands on” approach to healthy eating.
Add comment August 25, 2010
Planning Breakfast – Company Breakfast Made Easy
(From the Misc Collection at emealsforyou.com)
Mary N's Baked French Toast
With the holidays rapidly approaching we find ourselves thinking about company coming to town to enjoy a visit and immediately our brains turn to food. What to feed them? The dinner meals are usually pretty straight forward; large extravaganzas with turkeys, hams or roasts taking center stage. Fill in around these and you are all set.
It’s the other meals that drive us up a wall. Beyond juice and coffee what to serve for breakfast. You know that meal first thing in the morning that you usually skip save for a cup of coffee. Company changes all that. Bagels and doughnuts only go so far, and besides you what them to think you care about starting the day off right, right? The answer may lie in make ahead breakfast casseroles. Do all the work ahead when you have the time. Company morning get up, turn the coffee pot on and preheat the oven. Pop in your pre-made casserole and let the aroma drift through the house. Chances are everyone will show up with a smile on their face and exclaim, “boy, I can’t believe you got up early and made breakfast for us!”
This recipe comes to us via my wife’s aunt Mary. She brought some cream cheese brownies to a family function recently and this recipe was a bonus recipe from her. Both recipes are on the emealsforyou.com website. This recipe is somewhere between French Toast and OMG Sticky Buns. You can’t beat the French toast for the ease of preparing it and it is certain to become a new family favorite.
Mary N’s Baked French Toast Casserole
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Misc |
| Meal: | Other (General) |
| 1 | large | bread, french |
| 1 | Tb | butter, unsalted |
| 8 | large | egg |
| 2 | cup | cream, half and half |
| 1 | cup | milk, whole |
| 2 | Tb | sugar, white |
| 1 | tsp | vanilla |
| 0.25 | tsp | cinnamon. ground |
| 0.25 | tsp | nutmeg, ground |
| 1 | pinch | salt, table |
| 16 | Tb | butter, unsalted |
| 1 | cup | sugar, brown, light |
| 1 | cup | pecans, chopped |
| 2 | Tb | corn syrup, light |
| 0.5 | tsp | cinnamon. ground |
| 0.5 | tsp | nutmeg, ground |
Slice French bread into 1-inch slices. Butter a 9 X 13 baking dish. Place slices in 2 overlapping rows. Mix the eggs, half-and-half, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt ion a large bowl until just mixed. Pour over the bread, making sure to get mixture between and all over bread slices. Cover with foil and refrigerate over night.
For the Praline Topping: Combine butter, brown sugar, pecans, light corn syrup, cinnamon and nutmeg in a bowl, mix and allow to sit covered on a countertop over night.
Baking instructions: Spread the praline topping evenly over the casserole. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees; bake casserole for 40 minutes, until puffed and lightly golden. Serve with maple syrup.
1 comment November 9, 2009
