BlfrLancaatar Farming, Saturday, September 10, 1994
At a workshop, Jill Bond tells the audience how to stretch their food dollars by pur
chasing in bulk and preparing frozen entrees. “You can spend $5.79 for the tuna In a
large can (enough for 10 meals) or you can spend $15.96 for the same amount of tuna
by buying small cans.”
More Time,
Dinner’s In The Freezer
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
Jill Bond teaches women how to be
professional mommies.
She teaches women how to have
more time to enjoy their families
and less time being a harried
housewife.
Under her expertise, women
leant how to take a break from
cooking meals for one whole
month and still serve the family
nutritious foods at a much lower
cost than the average housewife
normally spends.
With her husband Alan and four
children, Jill has perfected her sys
tem and written a 250-page book,
“Dinner’s In the Freezer,” to assist
professional mommies.
Jill joined the professional
mommy track when motherhood
interrupted her studies toward a
master’s degree in industrial engi
neering. AS a former Disney World
trainer and a computer systems
designer, Jill was well-versed in
the business concepts needed to
run a successful company. She
applied these management ideas to
the kitchen, where women spend a
major portion of their time.
She wants to help women do
manual labor the best, quickest,
and most efficient way possible so
that they can have time to rock their
baby and read to their children.
If you think Jill’s ideas may be
professional “gobbledy gook"
without fun or alternatives for
plans gone awry you are wrong.
Jill is a warm, friendly woman
The 250-page book, "Din
ner’s In the Freezer,”
Includes tips, detailed
Instructions, recipes, family
antedotes, and Illustrations
to help women become pro
fessional mommies.
Mone
, Fun, And Less Work
who intersperses her teaching and
writing style with family antidotes
that show “if I can do it, anybody
M
can.
Jill said, “Motherhood is the
most important role ever ordained
by God.”
When she fills out a form asking
for “occupation” she writes Profes
sional Mommy. That disturbs
many people. They question her,
one even crossed it off. Jill could
write author, speaker, or business-.
woman, but she believes profes
sional mommy is her only full-time'
job and one that requires every
professional skill she has learned in
college, graduate school, and the
working world.
Motherhood, she believes,
deserves to be valued. It challenges
your intellect to answer your child
ren’s inquisitive questions, it chal
lenges your creativity, personality,
organizational ability, interperson
al skills, and every quality valued
on a resume.
Meeting the demands of raising
a family can result in stress. A
home management system is
needed to lessen stress.
Under her method, women are
taught to “mega-cook.” That
means shopping, cooking, and
storing enough meals to last one or
more months in a few days. The
entrees arenotrepetitive'and, using
her methods for freezing, the din
ners taste fresh, not freezer burnt
Jill said that she wrote a book on
the subject because so many people
questioned how she accomplished
so much and how the family man
aged on one salary.
“I have one and one-half more
hours in my day and only spend
about half as much on groceries as
the average housewife,” Jill
answers.
She finds more time by follow
ing her mega-cooking methods.
“When you buy only fresh, healthy
food from farmers’ markets and
co-ops, you can save money.” she
said.
Buying convenient food results
in spending more money, which
usually means money wasted on
packaging and preservatives.
“Control what is put into food.”
Jill told the audience attending an
all-day seminar she recently held in
the area.
Control begins by preparing
your own convenient foods.
“Home ec is a lost art,” said Jill,
who believes that much of the
demise of homemaking skills lies
in society’s negative viewpoint of
women “being just a housewife.”
She said. “We don’t need to be
liberated out of the kitchen. We
need to be liberated in the kitchen.”
* Jill wants to give women the best
tools to help them do the best job
a professional mommy.
“A professional is one who has
an assured competence in a a parti
cular Held or occupation. Profes
sionals are committed. They strive
fen* excellence in their work,” Jill
said.
. Business terms such ,as econo
mies of sale is actually buying a big
jar of peanut butter in place of a
small one. Inventory control is the
pantry, quality assurance is mold
control, optimal production quo
tients are let the dishwasher do the
work, and labor negotiating skills
mean getting the kids to help.
The concept on mega-cooking is
the theory that it doesn’t take more
time to measure a tablespoon of an
ingredient than a teaspoon, and that
it doesn’t take double the time to
mix up two meat loaves and freeze
one than in does to make one for
dinner.
Advantages of “dinner’s in the
freezer” results in less waste, less
water, less electricity, and less
work.
Mega-cooking is not easy, espe
cially the first time, Jill warns. The
secret i$ using teamwork and being
flexible. Depending on the ages of
children, they can help form meat
balls and tuna patties.
Despite the hazzles of mega
cooking days, the stress and time
saved from daily cooking convin
ces even the most skeptical that life
is much more enjoyable when din
ner is in the freezer.
Even those people who never
quite get around to cooking a
whole month of dinners apply
much of her advice to their daily
routines and will make a double
batch of brownies or lasagna to
freeze and use later.
In addition to ntega cooking,
some of Jill’s money-saving
advice includes the following:
• Buy turkeys when they are on
sale after thanksgiving. Substitute
turkey for chicken in casseroles
and use ground turkey in place of
ground beef or sausage.
• Onions and peppers can be
chopped in advance and frozen.
• Meat can be cubed faster by
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Landing Rd.
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103 Cemetery Street
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