Time to wind down November!  Menu planning for December is going to be interesting as 3 of my 4 children will be away on holiday.  Child #1 will be away for the entire month and children #2 and #3 will be away for 3 weeks and these are my biggest eaters! This past week was […]

I don’t know about you but I have enough gadgets and recipe books in my kitchen to start a restaurant! What do we really need? Now, if you are kosher, just double up! Obviously, you will need plates to eat off and your usual cutlery and crockery. In the kitchen though, the first thing to […]

Last week I wrote about keeping children safe in shopping malls due to the rash of attempted kidnappings in the Pretoria and Centurion areas. This week I need to write about one of my pet peeves. With over 25 years of nursing experience,  some of it in an emergency department, 5 years working as a […]

Looking back at this past week, filled with ups and downs all over the world, not following your menu plan seems like such a silly thing to write about but our lives go on regardless and people must eat. The menu for the blog week started on Thursday night with the plan being Boerewors kebabs/ […]

In recent news, and on a few ‘Mom’  Facebook  groups, there have been talks about abductions and attempted abductions of children, especially around Pretoria and Centurion. An identikit of the two suspects has been released and can be found all over FB. I know this may start a bit of a controversy but I believe […]

It’s Thursday and I am checking to see how I measured up to my menu plan for the week. This week was better than last week for nearly going according to plan. Last Thursday night I made a mushroom and red pepper sauce for the vegetarian nuggets, which I served over couscous. Though the sauce […]

Today I am looking for presents, that don’t cost the earth, for you to give your friends and family for Xmas. Do you have a particular skill? It doesn’t have to be related to your work, if you are working. For years we have struggled financially and in 2010 I suddenly needed about 15 gifts […]

As I said last week, for the month of November I will be reviewing my menu plan and seeing how it was followed. Each week I will look from Thursday to Wednesday. Recipes for the different dishes can be found on the blog and a weekly and monthly menu planner can also be found there. http://kasheringyourlife.co.za/index.php/printables/monthly-menu-planner-and-shopping-list/ and […]

The Rand Water Board announced this week that South Africa has been hit by the worst drought in 23 years! The last droughts of this magnitude were in 1982 and 1991 and I remember them both! We are in for more heat waves, high incidences of fires and the hottest temperatures ever for this summer. If we […]

I was recently in a discussion on FB with a few women who have very little money. It is coming up to the festive season when gifts are expected to be given and received. What happens when you can’t meet these expectations? I am Jewish, so I don’t celebrate Xmas, but I do wonder if […]