To teach my teenaged sons how to cook. They probably won't master more than eggs, burgers and homemade pizza, but hey, it is a start.
Jo

Not really a NY resolution, but I have decided it's time to get serious about dropping the extra 20lb I have been carrying around!

Anyone wanna do a "virtual diet"? LOL

Linda

I don't really do New Year's resolutions but for the last seven or eight years, I've selected one cookbook and try to make a bunch of recipes from it during that year. I haven't morphed into the Julie of "Julie and Julia" but have had a lot of fun with it.

Some past selections were Molly O'Neill's "New York Cookbook", Ann Clark's "Fabulous Fish", Mollie Katzen's "Vegetable Heaven" and this year, it's going to be James Porterfield's "Dining by Rail".

My only food-related resolution is to figure out what is in the back of my freezer. It is full of mystery food. The second part of the resolution is to use it or toss it.

Right now I don't have room for the things I'd like to freeze like extra loaves of bread or big bags of coffee because there is no space for them.

This may be a pre-New Year's resolution because I have a few days off from work and hope to get to it now.

Happy New Year!

I have resolved to plant less broccoli and more green beans (my husband has resolved to Round-up the vegetable garden when he hits his capacity for green vegetables). I have also resolved to label all freezer containers--no matter how sure I am that I'll recognize "that", sometimes I don't and we end up with thawed marinara sauce instead of chili! Makes for an interesting dinner.
Happy New Year to all you foodies, and to the Garden Web folks who keep us posting!

Organizing recipes!

I use Google Docs for online recipe storage. It is so easy to copy and paste text and photos. Organizing is simple too, if I would keep up with it. Usually I am in a hurry. I copy, paste, save & close. Accessing and sharing is simple. DS & DDIL have access to all my recipes. The recipes can be added on any computer and opened on the kitchen laptop.

I've had a hard drive crash loosing everything that was stored on it. If something should happen to the online storage, I would cry buckets to loose all those recipes. I am determined to print out each recipe and file it 'just in case'.

Happy New Year :)

I resolve to learn to type. As an example of how urgent this is, I was unable to type that sentence without a mistake, "trype." I'm embarrassed to make public how much of my life I waste correcting typing errors. (I actually typed "correcxting" -- and I'm getting worse!) So now you know: everything I post here takes a ridiculous amount of time. It's food-related, since I could type in more long recipes if it didn't take forever.
So why haven't I done it? It's like people who say over and over that they're going to quit smoking, I guess. Lack of discipline. Gotta just do it.

IÂm with you Cloudy I canÂt type and IÂm dyslexic so it makes for some interesting combinations sometimes. Thank goodness for spell check. My only new yearÂs resolution in to get back on track walking every day. ThatÂs food related because if I would stop making bread I wouldnÂt need to loose the weight I have gained eating it all.

Claudia

I also have to get serious about losing the 12 pounds I put back on. That might not sound like much, but I'm just over 5 feet tall, so it's pretty significant.

The doc put me on blood pressure medication, so I need to cut the coffee down, cut the salt down and lose that 12 pounds. I already walk to work, but Ashley is going to nag me into Pilates and/or yoga classes.

Gotta cook healthier instead of just grabbing something because I'm only cooking for myself. Or not cooking, most of the time.

Annie

Well I guess mine will be to continue with the diet that I've been on since beginning of July.
Have lost 44 lbs so far but still need to lose more around the lower regions and keep walking an hour per day.

Will get back on track after January 1st since I was given leave to eat normally for 2 weeks over the Christmas period.
Am tasting things I haven't eaten for months but I now see clearly what it was that put the weight on in the first place. :-)

Yup it takes will power. Good luck to all those who are doing the same.

Annie I hope you are able to try a machine Pilates class. I've been doing Stott Pilates twice a week for over a year now and I absolutely love it!
I don't think it contributes to weight loss but it sure keeps you flexible, strengthens muscles you didn't know you had, and is fun to be in a group with other women doing the same.

SharonCb

I resolve to make my "to try" file smaller instead of larger! That means make them!!!!

Oh darn. I'm gonna hate this one....... LOL!

Deanna

DH and I are upping the number of ping pong lessons we do after the new year. The local club is expanding and they've hired some new coaches, and we love it, so we're doing more, more, more!

Other than that just more of the same - try to eat healthy food and not too much of it, spend time with family wherever they may be.

I hope to use my new Kitchen Aid Artisan at least once a week to try a new recipe from the 50 feet of cookbooks I have. Some of those books have moved with us four times and need to have their bindings broken. :-)

Funny this should be posted right now... I'm back at a chart trying to reorganize the kitchen. Not just to maximize the space, but better usage too. It means throwing out a lot of old food products and taking other stuff to goodwill.

Since I've been unemployed I've lost about 15 pounds and would like to lose another 15. And yes Annie, it made a difference in dropping my blood pressure - amazing!

Cloudy Christine, FYI, quitting smoking has NOTHING to do with lack of discipline - if only that were the case!!

Ah, but I have experience in quitting smoking. I did it, many years ago. Of course is a real addiction though, so it's different that way.
From then on, DH used to say to me, "A girl who quit smoking can do anything." That was when I was closer to being a girl.

I've done the January diet thing enough times to know that I won't stick with it so I'm going to just eat what I want (within reason) but try to exercise more. I have at least 20 to lose. 40 probably wouldn't be too many. I also need to get rid of some cookbooks that I never use. I collected for so many years that the shelves have gotten a little ridiculous.

Sharon, no such thing as a machine pilates class around here, although I understand there is a yoga class starting in january in Newaygo, about 10 miles away.

We do have a small "health facility" with a few weights and machines like treadmills and bicycles but I find that endlessly boring and just make excuses not to do it. I'd rather spend an hour shoveling snow and see that I accomplished something, or better yet, go shovel calf pens...

Ashley has some videos, she says she'll nag me, plus she has access to things like stethoscopes and blood pressure cuffs, so she says she'll take my blood pressure every week, LOL, that should be fun. For her!

cookebook, I lost a substantial amount of weight 3 years ago, and I work hard not to gain it back. Somehow, though, that 12 pounds has crept back on, and so it has to go. I have some seriously bad genetics with heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes on both sides of the family, so I have to be careful or I'll end up like Dad, in a wheelchair until I die of heart disease, or on a dozen meds.

Annie

Only eat things I love. Otherwise, why bother?