The beginning

So here I am, at the end of 2010, thinking about things I've miserably failed to do this last year.  One of these is to eat actual food most of the time.  The other is to keep my apartment halfway clean.  I would like to try to more or less follow the FlyLady method of housekeeping, but this attempt at blogging is not about that.

So here comes Resolution #1 for 2011:  Eat real food at least once a week.

I own a slow cooker.  It belonged to my mother, it is a Sears brand cooker, it has 70s-ish gold-and-brown pattern on the sides, a solid, removable, brown ceramic crock inside with a glass lid.  It appears to hold 14-16 cups of water easily, which makes it about a 3.5 - 4 quarter slow cooker.  It has a low setting, a high setting, and an auto-shift setting.  I usually use it on a timer.  I also don't use it enough.

Generally, I use it to make one-pot meals.  These one-pot meals typically involve meat and several vegetables.  They also tend to last several days, meaning that I have lunch to take to work when I actually use the slow cooker.  Which I don't do enough of.

Thus, Corollary to Resolution #1 for 2011:  Use the slow cooker at least twice a month.

I figure that it'll be harder to lose track of the fact that it's been three or four or five weeks since I last used it if I actually write it down somewhere.  So here I am.