These are suggestions shared by many women on our HFPE Group. Feel free to share your ideas too. Don’t forget to purchase our Cooking group ebooks to make your job easier!

Our cooking group is really a “taste and take the recipe” thing. We did have demo on how to make a basic cream base for soups but most of our women know the basics of cooking, they just don’t have a large collection of recipes they like and they are afraid to try new ones at home. So we pick a topic each month and have the sisters, who would like to, bring a sample and the recipe. That way you get to try it and if you like it you have the recipe right there. It’s been a lot of fun and we’ve gotten a wide age range of sisters attending. I’d have to say it’s one of the more successful groups yet!

-Karisa Walker

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We had it at the home of one of our sister’s. 3 sisters were asked to demo a signature dish. (one’s that they are known for, or that are their favorites). They did their demos and had samples, and basically just visited after that. We have a sister who is the leader for the group, and she coordinated and scheduled it.

-Robyn Jensen

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We had our first “Spoonie Loonies” group. It is a cooking and recipe exchange group. We had 10 sisters attending last night (pretty good since this is a long week-end here and many are out of town).

One of us prepared poached salmon and quinoa for the demonstration and everyone else brought a little something to taste and a copy of the recipe.

We had a great time, laughed a lot, chatted about food and nutrition and passed the baby around ;-).

We will be meeting again on the last Friday of every month and have decided that we would like to make extra dishes for compassionate service as well as help prepare the food for the Christmas Social and the Anniversary Dinner in March. We will be compiling all of our recipes and cooking tips and later on we may make up a recipe book for the other sisters in the ward!

~*Lynn Lomon

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We have a cooking group going in our ward and it is doing great. The sister in charge is less active and she has it in her home. There is an average of about 8 sisters that go. We have a small ward so we are pleased with that. There are less active and non-members that go to it. The sister in charge decides what she would like to teach each month.

This month she did things to do with leftover turkey. In October she did fun Halloween ideas for kids. I know in January she is planning to do Chinese food. She has at least 3 easy recipes each month. She them splits the group into smaller groups and each smaller group prepares the recipes. She has everything pre-cut and pre-measured. She also has copies of the recipes for each sister to take home with her. After the recipes are prepared and cooked we all sit down and eat and evaluate them. It has been a lot of fun.

This month she also sent around a sheet that we could all suggest things that we want to learn how to cook. We have felt that this has been a great success in our ward. I hope this helps.

Thanks, Sarah Lee