Welcome to one of our newest features here at Heavenly Homemakers! I love hearing the stories of how you are using the recipes you find on our site or in our books. Do you have a story to share? Take a picture or two, then email me with the details of how you use your favorite Heavenly Homemaker recipe. Share your story!
This story, sent in by another gal by the name of Laura, is so inspiring!!
I wish I had pictures, but I don’t. I had asked you a couple years ago for permission to use your Learn to Cook cookbook with my husband’s job. He worked with at-risk youth and had asked me to teach a cooking class once a week. I had eight students. Many of them were single parents and really still children themselves.
They were skeptical about some of my planned lessons from your book and balked at meal-planning homework. The week we made your Creamy Mac and Cheese. I had brought in a boxed version so we could compare ingredients. They were shocked at how good the real stuff was and how easy it had been to make.
The week I made the Italian Pasta Bake they were unsure about cooking noodles in sauce, but when I left my portion on top of the stove while my children and I visited with coworkers we returned to find half of our dinner pilfered and several students raving about how good my snack was. Unfortunately my kids had to have fast food that night since we were headed to church after class.
The students kept coming back to see what new yummy thing we would learn to make using real ingredients and take home to share with their families. Many of them planned to try other recipes in the book.
Thank you for sharing your book with these young people. It helped me have a place to start in teaching about healthy eating and encouraging children to eat well too.
What a fantastic way to bless and empower youth. Thank you, Laura A., for ministering in this way and for sharing your story with us!
Keep sending in your Heavenly Homemakers recipe stories. These are so fun to read and share! :)
Laura A. you are AWESOME! Thanks for taking the time to minister to these kids. I am sure they will one day remember what you did for them. Praising God!
What a touching story. So nice of you Laura A. to do this for the parent ‘kids’.
GOD BLESS!!!
That’s such an awesome story!! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing such an inspiring story! I am a high school teacher, and it is great to hear about at-risk kids learning such a valuable skill!