How many times have you stood in your kitchen and panicked that “there is nothing to eat for dinner!” I know I have done it many, many times. But as I have worked hard to start saving money on the food we eat, I have pushed myself to really try to cook from what we have whenever possible and this has taught me that this reaction is not due to a lack of gratitude for all that we are lucky enough to have, it is an expression of discomfort over what we don’t know. I have come to realize that this panic comes either from a place of not knowing (or thinking we don’t know) how to make something from what we have in the house or from a place of believing that each meal should be specially planned and shopped for in order for it to somehow be a true meal. And I have come to understand that both of these reasons are bogus and here are some ways to snap out of those mindsets….