Nourish your family with wholesome recipes, made from scratch, with no small appliances or gadgets required. This is a complete plan for feeding your family real, honest food throughout the whole month. Includes recipes for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks… with a detailed grocery list and tips for once-a-month grocery shopping. Created with larger families in mind, these recipes will feed a family of 6 to 8 (depending on the ages and appetites of your children), with an easy downloadable supplement for extra-blessed sized families (with 8 to 12 members).Your family will enjoy some Amish / Mennonite classics, along with more modern American & Canadian food. The meals here are simple and hearty – perfect for busy moms and their active families.Northern November contains a month's worth of family-sized meals. Some meals are to be used only once, while others repeat a few times. (A checklist and free printable are included.)Use them in any order you wish, and check off each box as you use a meal.These meals can all be prepared without any fancy tools or small appliances. We do things simply around here, and I hope you’ll try doing things the plain way too!You will need access to a chest freezer, and a very small refrigerator or old-fashioned ice box will suffice. This is a guide to good, old-fashioned seasonal eating, with tips for saving time and money by only shopping for groceries once per month.Very simple, kid-friendly recipes are marked with a green apple icon. These could easily be prepared by children under 8 who are able to read. (You may have to do the recipe with them the first time.) The other recipes here are also quite simple. Most kids aged 10 and up could prepare any recipe in this book if you do it by their side the first time or two.If you plan ahead and ensure all the ingredients they need are ready (you may need to make a batch of buns or soak some beans), you’ll be free to do other things like weed the garden, work one-on-one with another child, or have some much-needed quiet time.Notes about the November plan:This month’s meal plan includes 29 breakfasts, 21 lunches (with the other 8 lunches being leftover days), 29 dinners, and 30 snacks. This leaves room for one lunch and dinner away from home, and one breakfast of leftovers. The November plan includes a full turkey dinner for Thanksgiving.If you're Canadian and celebrate Thanksgiving in October, you may wish to use the Old Fashioned October plan instead. Or you could celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season with a turkey dinner near the end of November. Turkey is an economical, crowd-pleasing meal! Our family is Canadian, but we celebrate Thanksgiving in November because October is a very busy month for us, with harvesting, chopping wood, and getting ready for winter. We prefer to have a nice relaxed Thanksgiving as a kick-off to the holiday season.Before you go shopping, please have a look over the Thanksgiving Dinner menu, and if there are any "must have" traditional dishes for your family that aren't represented here, please add them to your grocery list. Or, better yet, ask one of your guests to bring them!Most of the baked snacks will feed your family for 2 snacks, or will give you leftovers for the next day’s breakfast, which may help you stretch this meal plan even longer than one month.There are a few snacks that don’t include recipes… These are buttered popcorn and applesauce. You may, of course, substitute some fresh fruit or whatever you have on-hand, but this is not included in your grocery list. At our house we avoid pork, so when I say “bacon” or “sausage”, I mean turkey bacon or chicken/beef/goat sausage. I’m assuming that you will use the meat of your choice, in the quantities each recipe calls for.