Becoming the Housewife MacGyver IN THE KITCHEN

Welcome to June! Amongst the summer craziness (including a family trip for us), this month we are learning to become a little bit more MacGyver in the kitchen. 

If you're just joining us, this year-long series about Becoming the Housewife MacGyver is all about gaining self-reliance, bit by bit, by learning to better use and manage our resources. That may sound like a stretch to learn from the man with the mullet, but MacGyver does it his way and we'll do it ours. :) You can read all about Housewife MacGyver and catch up on the last 5 months (can you believe it?) of posts here.

So, self-reliance in the kitchen is feeling more confident and knowing our options in the kitchen -- how to use what we have available to the best ends possible for ourselves and our families. Coming to share some assorted self-reliance topics with us this month are...

• Gwen from Gwenny Penny
• the lovely Keira
• Heather of Small Fry and Co
• Ginny from Cooking with Chopin

These fantastic women have taken time from their schedule to prepare some AWESOME posts for you, so would you be so kind as to take a minute and pop on over to their blogs to say hello? You won't be sorry -- they are each amazingly talented!

Okay, now that you're back and completely amazed with the awesome guests who will be joining us in the next few weeks, let's get personal: what are YOU going to do this month to become a little more MacGyver in the kitchen?

You could spice up the dinner (or lunch or breakfast) menu and try a food you've never tried before.

You could go old-school and make a sauce from scratch that you normally buy in a jar. 

You could actually PLAN a menu... and maybe even stick to the plan. :)

You could learn how to preserve food -- jerky, jelly, good ol' freezer meals

You could grow a garden... or keep it even simpler and grow an herb garden.

Personally, my goal this month is to learn to cook squash so that it doesn't taste like squash so that my family will eat it. If strawberries go on sale again, I'll be making more jam, too. Because it's SO easy and SO yummy.

How are you earning your MacGyver mullet (in name only... please don't go to the salon and request The MacGyver) this month? Baby steps...