My family's food goals of 2009

I decided to start this blog (and change the way my family views cooking) for three reasons:

1. Fresh, unprocessed food is getting more and more expensive. And, if you buy it and it goes bad in the fridge because you don't cook it, well, it costs even more.
2. We want to go organic - but to do so, we need to waste as little as possible, and understand how to use a given food in multiple creative ways throughout the week.
3. The best intentions do nothing, especially when both parents work full-time. A haphazard trip to the grocery store on Sunday with no real plan in mind yields a lot of harried nights of either boring food or giveup takeout, and a lot of moldy food the next weekend.

With a little planning on the weekend here's hoping that we can eat well balanced, healthy, and interesting food night after night... and learn a little about appreciating the bounty we have along the way. So I'll be tracking our planning, our menus, and our failures here.