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. Written with larger homeschooling families in mind, the recipes are sized to feed and crowd for all three meals each day. If you're not a home learning family, but also feed a crew through breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I think you'll find this book to be a blessing. 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.Old Fashioned October 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 October plan:This month’s meal plan includes 30 breakfasts, 22 lunches (with the other 8 lunches being leftover days), 30 dinners, and 30 snacks. This leaves room for one lunch and dinner away from home, and one breakfast of leftovers. 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 popcorn with butter, applesauce, and canned fruit. You can, of course, substitute some fresh fruit or whatever you have on-hand, but this is not included in your grocery list. Your grocery list also includes some coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and cream. It should be enough for a morning pot of coffee (with cream and sugar if you wish), 3 pots of tea per week (or 12 single brewed cups), and a nighttime cup of hot chocolate for the kids (or the grown-ups!) once a week. Please add or remove these items as you need, but you’ll want to keep the cream in the grocery list, as it’s also used for a few recipes.The October meal plan does not include a Thanksgiving Dinner. If you’re Canadian and are hosting a Thanksgiving Dinner in October, please use the November meal plan instead. 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.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.