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Soul Tucker Mobile App for Iphone and Android

Penina Petersen — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:50:02 +0000

Soul Tucker is dedicated to unleashing precious wisdom for the young, the middle-aged and the elderly! This self help guide will improve motivation, give you daily inspiration, help fight depression, deliver you happy and positive quotes, improve your self esteem and lift your mood. Think of Soul Tucker like your mum on your mobile device! Nice!

TT Wisdom Companion

This companion can be used alone as a standard resource or in conjunction with other Table Tucker apps, which deliver healthy meals 52 weeks of the year. If you want to tackle both your mental and physical well being at once, our suite of apps is the perfect solution. With these simple words you will become a calmer, more centered and happier individual.

Soul Tucker includes poetic reflections on family love, reinventing yourself, finding freedom, the definition of a great party, what is cool, finding adventure, increasing happiness, finding your soulmate, seeing your inner beauty, the definition of a happy home, finding your passion and reflections on parental advice.

Do you have a child or know of a young adult leaving home?

Soul Tucker puts some nice parental advice into the pockets of your loved ones. This app lightly touches on topics such as bullying, drug addiction, depression, being a leader, and living a positive and active life.

Feeling a little uninspired today?

Pick a topic and find some instant inspiration if you are feeling low today. Soul Tucker will help you find reasons to be grateful.

Lacking adventure and that spirit of excitement or passion in your life?

Soul Tucker will get you all fired up and help you to extract the juice out of every hour of every day. We help you to find your purpose and follow your dreams.

Perhaps you’d like to feel happier about your home?

Soul Tucker delivers up ways to feel more grateful about your home and the essentials to a great home. Use in conjunction with Home Tucker and reap the benefits! Helping the homeless is also touched on.

Are you single and looking for a soulmate in life?

My definition of a soulmate delivers a different view. It will change the way you think about finding that perfect partner in life. Or it will not! Because I believe there is nothing wrong with flying solo and there is way too much pressure from society to be partnered.

Want to break out of your comfort zones and live differently today?

Learn how to make the most of each day and find ways to completely reinvent yourself.

If all of the above isn’t enough, there’s more!

Submit your version of one of our topics or create a new topic using the submission form on this app!

Also register at the Table Tucker website and become part of our inspired community. Connect and make friends with others who are looking for more positivity and enjoyment in life.

Learn personal development tricks so you can live better today, tomorrow and in future days to come.

Finally, celebrate all of the above by throwing a party!

Whether you are looking for the perfect gift for a loved one or whether you just want to treat yourself, Soul Tucker is the inspired choice!

Blog

Read author Penina Petersen’s blog and grab even more savings and cooking tips.

Submit Wisdom

Submit your own precious wisdom and help our community to become even more inspired.

Social Pages

Check out all our social networks including Facebook Twitter, YouTube, Savings Room and the Table Tucker community website. Join the conversation.

If you want to join our community or learn more about our app suite, visit www.tabletucker.com.au

About TT Cookbook

Revolutionary quick-scan recipe format
Meals account for lunches and leftovers too
Save time, money and petrol by buying in bulk
Cook only three times each week
Save big chunks of time, money and sanity each week.
Save thousands on groceries.
Grocery lists are cheap and consistent in cost.
Learn supermarket saving strategies.
Eat fresh, healthy and Earth-happy meals!
Save a big on groceries and the hidden costs of groceries.
Stay focused at the supermarket
Find clarity, reduce stress and gain control of spend
No more working out what to eat, writing lists or budgets! It is all done!
Reduce food waste
Easy everyday recipes your mum would cook for you
Flexible cooking system that works for any situation
Easily delegate your shopping to others in the home
Recommended by nutritionists for resulting health benefits.
A great way to trim down the waistline

Download Mobile Apps

Home Tucker Mobile App for Iphone and Android

Penina Petersen — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:44:53 +0000

Welcome to Table Tucker’s home hints and tips companion. Discover how to save on groceries, as well as secret supermarket shopping strategies for saving time and money. Learn kitchen, cooking, cleaning and household tips. Learn how to buy in bulk, use up dinner leftovers and stretch out your grocery budget further.

Home Tucker, which is included in Table Tucker’s suite of six apps, is a great resource for cash-strapped students, singles, couples, single parents, working families, pensioners, time-poor parents, tired commuters and pensioners on a budget! Our suite of apps get dinner sorted 52 weeks of the year, organise the home and also provide instant inspiration!

What’s included in Home Tucker

Become a calmer, more conscious consumer and all while making your home a happier one! Learn how to take grocery shopping holidays, how to be a better consumer, how to buy in bulk and how to stretch out your grocery budget further.

Grab kitchen and cooking tips, which help you to prepare better for the week ahead. Learn how to eat healthy and Earth-happy meals while also saving precious time, money and sanity. Learn how to fake-it for a smaller waistline and how making your own can produce even bigger savings!

Find out why using a cooking system is the best thing you will ever decide to do this year. Discover how you can put your feet up four nights each week and take a holiday from cooking in the evenings!

Learn how you can increase your fitness levels and how to buff your house on the cheap. Grab priceless home cleaning tips that improve your mental clarity during the week.

Learn personal finance and budgeting tricks so you can stretch each dollar further on a daily basis.

Finally, celebrate all of the above by throwing an Earth-happy party!

Blog

Read author Penina Petersen’s blog and grab even more savings and cooking tips.

Submit a Tip

Submit tips to help our community learn more.

Social Pages

Check out all our social networks including Facebook Twitter, YouTube, Savings Room and the Table Tucker community website. Join the conversation.

About TT Cookbook | What’s in the cookbook?

Revolutionary quick-scan recipe format
Meals account for lunches and leftovers too
Save time, money and petrol by buying in bulk
Cook only three times each week
Save big chunks of time, money and sanity each week.
Save thousands on groceries.
Grocery lists are cheap and consistent in cost.
Learn supermarket saving strategies.
Eat fresh, healthy and Earth-happy meals!
Save a big on groceries and the hidden costs of groceries.
Stay focused at the supermarket
Find clarity, reduce stress and gain control of spend
No more working out what to eat, writing lists or budgets! It is all done!
Reduce food waste
Easy everyday recipes your mum would cook for you
Flexible cooking system that works for any situation
Easily delegate your shopping to others in the home
Recommended by nutritionists for resulting health benefits.
A great way to trim down the waistline

Download Mobile Apps

Winter Tucker Mobile App for Iphone and Android

Penina Petersen — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:36:22 +0000

Enjoy four nights off cooking each week with Table Tucker’s meal planning and cooking system for Winter! Dinner is sorted with 13 budget dinner menus and meal plans, 13 grocery lists for easy supermarket shopping and fresh and healthy dinner recipes for six days of the week. Ditch working out meals ever again and eat a healthy diet plan every week this Winter!

Winter Tucker, which is included in Table Tucker’s suite of six apps, is perfect for students, singles, couples, single parents, working families, pensioners, time-poor parents, tired commuters and pensioners on a budget! We get dinner sorted 52 weeks of the year with our Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter apps.

See below for all the ways Winter Tucker, and Table Tucker’s suite of apps, will change your life and help you to save thousands of dollars, hours of time, give you priceless sanity and even help the Earth!

What’s included in Winter Tucker

Cookbook

13 weeks of budget weekly dinner menus (app suite includes 52 weeks in total)
Budget seasonal recipes (app suite includes 280 recipes in total)
Annual, seasonal and winter monthly pantries for buying in bulk
13 seasonal shopping lists for menus and recipes (App suite totals 13 weeks of menus and recipes)
Hundreds of hints and tips for grocery shopping, cooking and for the home (Intro pages & Home Tucker app)
Inspirational wisdom for staying happy, motivated and grateful (Quotes & Soul Tucker)

Blog

Read author Penina Petersen’s blog and grab even more savings and cooking tips.

Submit Recipe and Photo

Take a photo of your own recipe and email it to us. Send it to us in the TT recipe format via email straight from your phone and have other members in our community try it!

Social Pages

Check out all our social networks including Facebook Twitter, YouTube, Savings Room and the Table Tucker community website

Cooking System Benefits

Revolutionary quick-scan recipe format
Meals account for lunches and leftovers too
Save time, money and petrol by buying in bulk
Cook only three times each week
Save big chunks of time, money and sanity each week.
Save thousands on groceries.
Grocery lists are cheap and consistent in cost.
Learn supermarket saving strategies.
Eat fresh, healthy and Earth-happy meals!
Save a big on groceries and the hidden costs of groceries.
Stay focused at the supermarket
Find clarity, reduce stress and gain control of spend
No more working out what to eat, writing lists or budgets! It is all done!
Reduce food waste
Easy everyday recipes your mum would cook for you
Flexible cooking system that works for any situation
Easily delegate your shopping to others in the home
Recommended by nutritionists for resulting health benefits.
A great way to trim down the waistline

Download Mobile Apps

Autumn Tucker Mobile App for Iphone and Android

Penina Petersen — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:36:17 +0000

Enjoy four nights off cooking each week with Table Tucker’s meal planning and cooking system for Autumn! Dinner is sorted with 13 budget dinner menus and meal plans, 13 grocery lists for easy supermarket shopping and fresh and healthy dinner recipes for six days of the week. Ditch working out meals ever again and eat a healthy diet plan every week this Autumn!

Autumn Tucker, which is included in Table Tucker’s suite of six apps, is perfect for students, singles, couples, single parents, working families, pensioners, time-poor parents, tired commuters and pensioners on a budget! We get dinner sorted 52 weeks of the year with our Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter apps.

See below for all the ways Autumn Tucker, and Table Tucker’s suite of apps, will change your life and help you to save thousands of dollars, hours of time, give you priceless sanity and even help the Earth!

What’s included in Autumn Tucker

Cookbook

13 weeks of budget weekly dinner menus (app suite includes 52 weeks in total)
Budget seasonal recipes (app suite includes 280 recipes in total)
Annual, seasonal and autumn monthly pantries for buying in bulk
13 seasonal shopping lists for menus and recipes (App suite totals 13 weeks of menus and recipes)
Hundreds of hints and tips for grocery shopping, cooking and for the home (Intro pages & Home Tucker app)
Inspirational wisdom for staying happy, motivated and grateful (Quotes & Soul Tucker)

Blog

Read author Penina Petersen’s blog and grab even more savings and cooking tips.

Submit Recipe and Photo

Take a photo of your own recipe and email it to us. Send it to us in the TT recipe format via email straight from your phone and have other members in our community try it!

Social Pages

Check out all our social networks including Facebook Twitter, YouTube, Savings Room and the Table Tucker community website

Cooking System Benefits

Revolutionary quick-scan recipe format
Meals account for lunches and leftovers too
Save time, money and petrol by buying in bulk
Cook only three times each week
Save big chunks of time, money and sanity each week.
Save thousands on groceries.
Grocery lists are cheap and consistent in cost.
Learn supermarket saving strategies.
Eat fresh, healthy and Earth-happy meals!
Save a big on groceries and the hidden costs of groceries.
Stay focused at the supermarket
Find clarity, reduce stress and gain control of spend
No more working out what to eat, writing lists or budgets! It is all done!
Reduce food waste
Easy everyday recipes your mum would cook for you
Flexible cooking system that works for any situation
Easily delegate your shopping to others in the home
Recommended by nutritionists for resulting health benefits.
A great way to trim down the waistline

Download Mobile Apps

Summer Tucker Mobile App for Iphone and Android

Penina Petersen — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:36:11 +0000

Enjoy four nights off cooking each week with Table Tucker’s meal planning and cooking system for Summer! Dinner is sorted with 13 budget dinner menus and meal plans, 13 grocery lists for easy supermarket shopping and fresh and healthy dinner recipes for six days of the week. Ditch working out meals ever again and eat a healthy diet plan every week this Summer!

Summer Tucker, which is included in Table Tucker’s suite of six apps, is perfect for students, singles, couples, single parents, working families, pensioners, time-poor parents, tired commuters and pensioners on a budget! We get dinner sorted 52 weeks of the year with our Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter apps.

See below for all the ways Summer Tucker, and Table Tucker’s suite of apps, will change your life and help you to save thousands of dollars, hours of time, give you priceless sanity and even help the Earth!

What’s included in Summer Tucker

Cookbook

13 weeks of budget weekly dinner menus (app suite includes 52 weeks in total)
2. Budget seasonal recipes (app suite includes 280 recipes in total)
3. Annual, seasonal and summer monthly pantries for buying in bulk
4. 13 seasonal shopping lists for menus and recipes (App suite totals 13 weeks of menus and recipes)
5. Hundreds of hints and tips for grocery shopping, cooking and for the home (Intro pages & Home Tucker app)
6. Inspirational wisdom for staying happy, motivated and grateful (Quotes & Soul Tucker)

Blog

Read author Penina Petersen’s blog and grab even more savings and cooking tips.

Submit Recipe and Photo

Take a photo of your own recipe and email it to us. Send it to us in the TT recipe format via email straight from your phone and have other members in our community try it!

Social Pages

Check out all our social networks including Facebook Twitter, YouTube, Savings Room and the Table Tucker community website

Cooking System Benefits

Revolutionary quick-scan recipe format
Meals account for lunches and leftovers too
Save time, money and petrol by buying in bulk
Cook only three times each week
Save big chunks of time, money and sanity each week.
Save thousands on groceries.
Grocery lists are cheap and consistent in cost.
Learn supermarket saving strategies.
Eat fresh, healthy and Earth-happy meals!
Save a big on groceries and the hidden costs of groceries.
Stay focused at the supermarket
Find clarity, reduce stress and gain control of spend
No more working out what to eat, writing lists or budgets! It is all done!
Reduce food waste
Easy everyday recipes your mum would cook for you
Flexible cooking system that works for any situation
Easily delegate your shopping to others in the home
Recommended by nutritionists for resulting health benefits.
A great way to trim down the waistline

Download Mobile Apps

Spring Tucker Mobile App for Iphone and Android

Penina Petersen — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:27:06 +0000

Enjoy four nights off cooking each week with Table Tucker’s meal planning and cooking system for Spring! Dinner is sorted with 13 budget dinner menus and meal plans, 13 grocery lists for easy supermarket shopping and fresh and healthy dinner recipes for six days of the week. Ditch working out meals ever again and eat a healthy diet plan every week this Spring!

Spring Tucker, which is included in Table Tucker’s suite of six apps, is perfect for students, singles, couples, single parents, working families, pensioners, time-poor parents, tired commuters and pensioners on a budget! We get dinner sorted 52 weeks of the year with our Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter apps.

See below for all the ways Spring Tucker, and Table Tucker’s suite of apps, will change your life and help you to save thousands of dollars, hours of time, give you priceless sanity and even help the Earth!

What’s included in Spring Tucker

Cookbook

13 weeks of budget weekly dinner menus (app suite includes 52 weeks in total)
Budget seasonal recipes (app suite includes 280 recipes in total)
Annual, seasonal and spring monthly pantries for buying in bulk
13 seasonal shopping lists for menus and recipes (App suite totals 13 weeks of menus and recipes)
Hundreds of hints and tips for grocery shopping, cooking and for the home (Intro pages & Home Tucker app)
Inspirational wisdom for staying happy, motivated and grateful (Quotes & Soul Tucker)

Blog

Read author Penina Petersen’s blog and grab even more savings and cooking tips.

Submit Recipe and Photo

Take a photo of your own recipe and email it to us. Send it to us in the TT recipe format via email straight from your phone and have other members in our community try it!

Social Pages

Check out all our social networks including Facebook Twitter, YouTube, Savings Room and the Table Tucker community website

Cooking System Benefits

Revolutionary quick-scan recipe format
Meals account for lunches and leftovers too
Save time, money and petrol by buying in bulk
Cook only three times each week
Save big chunks of time, money and sanity each week.
Save thousands on groceries.
Grocery lists are cheap and consistent in cost.
Learn supermarket saving strategies.
Eat fresh, healthy and Earth-happy meals!
Save a big on groceries and the hidden costs of groceries.
Stay focused at the supermarket
Find clarity, reduce stress and gain control of spend
No more working out what to eat, writing lists or budgets! It is all done!
Reduce food waste
Easy everyday recipes your mum would cook for you
Flexible cooking system that works for any situation
Easily delegate your shopping to others in the home
Recommended by nutritionists for resulting health benefits.
A great way to trim down the waistline

Download Mobile Apps

Table Tucker Calendar | Northern Hemisphere

Penina Petersen — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:44:14 +0000

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere find the date for this coming Sunday on Table Tucker’s calendar below. Go grocery shopping for the corresponding weekly menu.

What week is it at Table Tucker?

Week beginning Sunday

2013
6-Jan-13	Mid Winter Menu 6
13-Jan-13	Mid Winter Menu 7
20-Jan-13	Mid Winter Menu 8
27-Jan-13	Late Winter Menu 9
3-Feb-13	Late Winter Menu 10
10-Feb-13	Late Winter Menu 11
17-Feb-13	Late Winter Menu 12
24-Feb-13	Winter Bonus Menu
Spring	Menu
3-Mar-13	Early Spring Menu 1
10-Mar-13	Early Spring Menu 2
17-Mar-13	Early Spring Menu 3
24-Mar-13	Early Spring Menu 4
31-Mar-13	Mid Spring Menu 5
7-Apr-13	Mid Spring Menu 6
14-Apr-13	Mid Spring Menu 7
21-Apr-13	Mid Spring Menu 8
28-Apr-13	Late Spring Menu 9
5-May-13	Late Spring Menu 10
12-May-13	Late Spring Menu 11
19-May-13	Late Spring Menu 12
26-May-13	Spring Bonus Menu
Summer	Menu
2-Jun-13	Early Summer Menu 1
9-Jun-13	Early Summer Menu 2
16-Jun-13	Early Summer Menu 3
23-Jun-13	Early Summer Menu 4
30-Jun-13	Mid Summer Menu 5
7-Jul-13	Mid Summer Menu 6
14-Jul-13	Mid Summer Menu 7
21-Jul-13	Mid Summer Menu 8
28-Jul-13	Late Summer Menu 9
4-Aug-13	Late Summer Menu 10
11-Aug-13	Late Summer Menu 11
18-Aug-13	Late Summer Menu 12
25-Aug-13	Summer Bonus Menu
Autumn	Menu
1-Sep-13	Early Autumn Menu 1
8-Sep-13	Early Autumn Menu 2
15-Sep-13	Early Autumn Menu 3
22-Sep-13	Early Autumn Menu 4
29-Sep-13	Mid Autumn Menu 5
6-Oct-13	Mid Autumn Menu 6
13-Oct-13	Mid Autumn Menu 7
20-Oct-13	Mid Autumn Menu 8
27-Oct-13	Late Autumn Menu 9
3-Nov-13	Late Autumn Menu 10
10-Nov-13	Late Autumn Menu 11
17-Nov-13	Late Autumn Menu 12
24-Nov-13	Autumn Bonus Menu
Winter	Menu
1-Dec-13	Early Winter Menu 1
8-Dec-13	Early Winter Menu 2
15-Dec-13	Early Winter Menu 3
22-Dec-13	Early Winter Menu 4
29-Dec-13	Mid Winter Menu 5
2014
5-Jan-14	Mid Winter Menu 6
12-Jan-14	Mid Winter Menu 7
19-Jan-14	Mid Winter Menu 8
26-Jan-14	Late Winter Menu 9
2-Feb-14	Late Winter Menu 10
9-Feb-14	Late Winter Menu 11
16-Feb-14	Late Winter Menu 12
23-Feb-14	Winter Bonus Menu
Spring	Menu
2-Mar-14	Early Spring Menu 1
9-Mar-14	Early Spring Menu 2
16-Mar-14	Early Spring Menu 3
23-Mar-14	Early Spring Menu 4
30-Mar-14	Mid Spring Menu 5
6-Apr-14	Mid Spring Menu 6
13-Apr-14	Mid Spring Menu 7
20-Apr-14	Mid Spring Menu 8
27-Apr-14	Late Spring Menu 9
4-May-14	Late Spring Menu 10
11-May-14	Late Spring Menu 11
18-May-14	Late Spring Menu 12
25-May-14	Spring Bonus Menu
Summer	Menu
1-Jun-14	Early Summer Menu 1
8-Jun-14	Early Summer Menu 2
15-Jun-14	Early Summer Menu 3
22-Jun-14	Early Summer Menu 4
29-Jun-14	Mid Summer Menu 5
6-Jul-14	Mid Summer Menu 6
13-Jul-14	Mid Summer Menu 7
20-Jul-14	Mid Summer Menu 8
27-Jul-14	Late Summer Menu 9
3-Aug-14	Late Summer Menu 10
10-Aug-14	Late Summer Menu 11
17-Aug-14	Late Summer Menu 12
24-Aug-14	Summer Bonus Menu
Autumn	Menu
31-Aug-14	Early Autumn Menu 1
7-Sep-14	Early Autumn Menu 2
14-Sep-14	Early Autumn Menu 3
21-Sep-14	Early Autumn Menu 4
28-Sep-14	Mid Autumn Menu 5
5-Oct-14	Mid Autumn Menu 6
12-Oct-14	Mid Autumn Menu 7
19-Oct-14	Mid Autumn Menu 8
26-Oct-14	Late Autumn Menu 9
2-Nov-14	Late Autumn Menu 10
9-Nov-14	Late Autumn Menu 11
16-Nov-14	Late Autumn Menu 12
23-Nov-14	Autumn Bonus Menu
Winter	Menu
30-Nov-14	Early Winter Menu 1
7-Dec-14	Early Winter Menu 2
14-Dec-14	Early Winter Menu 3
21-Dec-14	Early Winter Menu 4
28-Dec-14	Mid Winter Menu 5
2015
4-Jan-15	Mid Winter Menu 6
11-Jan-15	Mid Winter Menu 7
18-Jan-15	Mid Winter Menu 8
25-Jan-15	Late Winter Menu 9
1-Feb-15	Late Winter Menu 10
8-Feb-15	Late Winter Menu 11
15-Feb-15	Late Winter Menu 12
22-Feb-15	Winter Bonus Menu
Spring	Menu
1-Mar-15	Early Spring Menu 1
8-Mar-15	Early Spring Menu 2
15-Mar-15	Early Spring Menu 3
22-Mar-15	Early Spring Menu 4
29-Mar-15	Mid Spring Menu 5
5-Apr-15	Mid Spring Menu 6
12-Apr-15	Mid Spring Menu 7
19-Apr-15	Mid Spring Menu 8
26-Apr-15	Late Spring Menu 9
3-May-15	Late Spring Menu 10
10-May-15	Late Spring Menu 11
17-May-15	Late Spring Menu 12
24-May-15	Spring Bonus Menu
Summer	Menu
31-May-15	Early Summer Menu 1
7-Jun-15	Early Summer Menu 2
14-Jun-15	Early Summer Menu 3
21-Jun-15	Early Summer Menu 4
28-Jun-15	Mid Summer Menu 5
5-Jul-15	Mid Summer Menu 6
12-Jul-15	Mid Summer Menu 7
19-Jul-15	Mid Summer Menu 8
26-Jul-15	Late Summer Menu 9
2-Aug-15	Late Summer Menu 10
9-Aug-15	Late Summer Menu 11
16-Aug-15	Late Summer Menu 12
23-Aug-15	Summer Bonus Menu
Autumn	Menu
30-Aug-15	Early Autumn Menu 1
6-Sep-15	Early Autumn Menu 2
13-Sep-15	Early Autumn Menu 3
20-Sep-15	Early Autumn Menu 4
27-Sep-15	Mid Autumn Menu 5
4-Oct-15	Mid Autumn Menu 6
11-Oct-15	Mid Autumn Menu 7
18-Oct-15	Mid Autumn Menu 8
25-Oct-15	Late Autumn Menu 9
1-Nov-15	Late Autumn Menu 10
8-Nov-15	Late Autumn Menu 11
15-Nov-15	Late Autumn Menu 12
22-Nov-15	Autumn Bonus Menu
Winter	Menu
29-Nov-15	Early Winter Menu 1
6-Dec-15	Early Winter Menu 2
13-Dec-15	Early Winter Menu 3
20-Dec-15	Early Winter Menu 4
27-Dec-15	Mid Winter Menu 5
2016
3-Jan-16	Mid Winter Menu 6
10-Jan-16	Mid Winter Menu 7
17-Jan-16	Mid Winter Menu 8
24-Jan-16	Late Winter Menu 9
31-Jan-16	Late Winter Menu 10
7-Feb-16	Late Winter Menu 11
14-Feb-16	Late Winter Menu 12
21-Feb-16	Winter Bonus Menu
Spring	Menu
28-Feb-16	Early Spring Menu 1
6-Mar-16	Early Spring Menu 2
13-Mar-16	Early Spring Menu 3
20-Mar-16	Early Spring Menu 4
27-Mar-16	Mid Spring Menu 5
3-Apr-16	Mid Spring Menu 6
10-Apr-16	Mid Spring Menu 7
17-Apr-16	Mid Spring Menu 8
24-Apr-16	Late Spring Menu 9
1-May-16	Late Spring Menu 10
8-May-16	Late Spring Menu 11
15-May-16	Late Spring Menu 12
22-May-16	Spring Bonus Menu
Summer	Menu
29-May-16	Early Summer Menu 1
5-Jun-16	Early Summer Menu 2
12-Jun-16	Early Summer Menu 3
19-Jun-16	Early Summer Menu 4
26-Jun-16	Mid Summer Menu 5
3-Jul-16	Mid Summer Menu 6
10-Jul-16	Mid Summer Menu 7
17-Jul-16	Mid Summer Menu 8
24-Jul-16	Late Summer Menu 9
31-Jul-16	Late Summer Menu 10
7-Aug-16	Late Summer Menu 11
14-Aug-16	Late Summer Menu 12
21-Aug-16	Summer Bonus Menu
Autumn	Menu
28-Aug-16	Early Autumn Menu 1
4-Sep-16	Early Autumn Menu 2
11-Sep-16	Early Autumn Menu 3
18-Sep-16	Early Autumn Menu 4
25-Sep-16	Mid Autumn Menu 5
2-Oct-16	Mid Autumn Menu 6
9-Oct-16	Mid Autumn Menu 7
16-Oct-16	Mid Autumn Menu 8
23-Oct-16	Late Autumn Menu 9
30-Oct-16	Late Autumn Menu 10
6-Nov-16	Late Autumn Menu 11
13-Nov-16	Late Autumn Menu 12
20-Nov-16	Autumn Bonus Menu
Winter	Menu
27-Nov-16	Early Winter Menu 1
4-Dec-16	Early Winter Menu 2
11-Dec-16	Early Winter Menu 3
18-Dec-16	Early Winter Menu 4
25-Dec-16	Mid Winter Menu 5
2017
1-Jan-17	Mid Winter Menu 6
8-Jan-17	Mid Winter Menu 7
15-Jan-17	Mid Winter Menu 8
22-Jan-17	Late Winter Menu 9
29-Jan-17	Late Winter Menu 10
5-Feb-17	Late Winter Menu 11
12-Feb-17	Late Winter Menu 12
19-Feb-17	Winter Bonus Menu
Spring	Menu
26-Feb-17	Early Spring Menu 1
5-Mar-17	Early Spring Menu 2
12-Mar-17	Early Spring Menu 3
19-Mar-17	Early Spring Menu 4
26-Mar-17	Mid Spring Menu 5
2-Apr-17	Mid Spring Menu 6
9-Apr-17	Mid Spring Menu 7
16-Apr-17	Mid Spring Menu 8
23-Apr-17	Late Spring Menu 9
30-Apr-17	Late Spring Menu 10
7-May-17	Late Spring Menu 11
14-May-17	Late Spring Menu 12
21-May-17	Spring Bonus Menu
Summer	Menu
28-May-17	Early Summer Menu 1
4-Jun-17	Early Summer Menu 2
11-Jun-17	Early Summer Menu 3
18-Jun-17	Early Summer Menu 4
25-Jun-17	Mid Summer Menu 5
2-Jul-17	Mid Summer Menu 6
9-Jul-17	Mid Summer Menu 7
16-Jul-17	Mid Summer Menu 8
23-Jul-17	Late Summer Menu 9
30-Jul-17	Late Summer Menu 10
6-Aug-17	Late Summer Menu 11
13-Aug-17	Late Summer Menu 12
20-Aug-17	Summer Bonus Menu
Autumn	Menu
27-Aug-17	Early Autumn Menu 1
3-Sep-17	Early Autumn Menu 2
10-Sep-17	Early Autumn Menu 3
17-Sep-17	Early Autumn Menu 4
24-Sep-17	Mid Autumn Menu 5
1-Oct-17	Mid Autumn Menu 6
8-Oct-17	Mid Autumn Menu 7
15-Oct-17	Mid Autumn Menu 8
22-Oct-17	Late Autumn Menu 9
29-Oct-17	Late Autumn Menu 10
5-Nov-17	Late Autumn Menu 11
12-Nov-17	Late Autumn Menu 12
19-Nov-17	Autumn Bonus Menu
Winter	Menu
26-Nov-17	Early Winter Menu 1
3-Dec-17	Early Winter Menu 2
10-Dec-17	Early Winter Menu 3
17-Dec-17	Early Winter Menu 4
24-Dec-17	Mid Winter Menu 5
31-Dec-17	Mid Winter Menu 6
2018
7-Jan-18	Mid Winter Menu 7
14-Jan-18	Mid Winter Menu 8
21-Jan-18	Late Winter Menu 9
28-Jan-18	Late Winter Menu 10
4-Feb-18	Late Winter Menu 11
11-Feb-18	Late Winter Menu 12
18-Feb-18	Winter Bonus Menu

Table Tucker Calendar | Southern Hemisphere

Penina Petersen — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:40:33 +0000

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere find the date for this coming Sunday on Table Tucker’s calendar below. Go grocery shopping for the corresponding weekly menu.

What week is it at Table Tucker?

Week beginning Sunday

2013
06-Jan-13	Mid Summer Menu 6
13-Jan-13	Mid Summer Menu 7
20-Jan-13	Mid Summer Menu 8
27-Jan-13	Late Summer Menu 9
03-Feb-13	Late Summer Menu 10
10-Feb-13	Late Summer Menu 11
17-Feb-13	Late Summer Menu 12
24-Feb-13	Summer Bonus Menu
Summer	Menu
03-Mar-13	Early Autumn Menu 1
10-Mar-13	Early Autumn Menu 2
17-Mar-13	Early Autumn Menu 3
24-Mar-13	Early Autumn Menu 4
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Cooking Up a Storm

Penina Petersen — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:05:53 +0000

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By Suzanne McFadden Thurs 1 Oct 2009

Wearing grungy green ugg boots she bought in New Zealand many years ago, Penina Petersen stands in the kitchen of her cosy rented house on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria’s little Mediterranean.

Cooking is furthest from her mind. Her dinners are planned out for the next year. By my estimations, tomorrow night will be ginger lime chicken and Asian veggies, Tuesday falafels, and a month on Friday she’ll be dishing up ham and mushroom penne to her husband and 4-year-old son.

Auckland-born Petersen is trying to religiously stick to the 52 weeks of menu plans and shopping lists on her culinary manifesto. She needs to know she is “on track” with her followers, that the meals she espouses are simple, colourful and delicious and, for her personal benefit, keep her saving money.

According to her calculations, if you follow her plan — cooking only three times a week and stretching out your basic grocery shop to once a month — you can save $456,300, around 21 million litres of water and earn 5.4 years of cooking days-off over a lifetime.

During the last couple of years on her Table Tucker regime, the Petersens saved enough to take their first family holiday, five days in Noosa.

Petersen’s story is not one of celebrity chef or Michelin star restaurateur offering up innovative and grandiose recipes. Gordon Ramsay would probably call her a fraud if she tried to sell herself as one. No, hers is a tale of perseverance, commonsense and self-belief; a typical mum wanting to make a difference in her family’s life and who saw a way to share it with other budget-conscious consumers.

These days who isn’t trying to save a few dollars on the supermarket shop? That’s why her publisher believes she’s onto a winner. Her originally self-published cookbook, Table Tucker, grabbed the attention of Australian homemakers last year, quickly selling out the 2500 copies she had made at her town’s local printer and sold on the internet.

When Hachette Publishing saw Petersen promoting her book on the Seven Network’s current affairs show Today Tonight last November, it scooped her up and relaunched the book, on sale in New Zealand and Australia this month under the same title.

“Here was a mum from the country who wanted to beat spiralling grocery prices and solve the eternal dilemma of what to cook for dinner,” says Hachette’s publishing director Fiona Hazard.

“I’ve been trying to hone it down to what it is,” says 37-year-old Petersen, “and it’s a cooking system-slash-inspirational book. They’re basic recipes that you know; all I’ve done is taken them and put them into a menu plan.”

The book gives week-by-week menus, shopping lists and environmentally-friendly suggestions. The creative touch is adding in dashes of her upbeat life philosophy — from tips on fixing dripping taps to her thoughts on passion: “Passion is raw, real, ripe, rough and ready!”

“I feel like I’m pregnant waiting for the launch,” she says the week before the reinvented Table Tucker is released.

“I’ve been nesting all this week, cleaning out cupboards. Now it’s like being in labour.”

Delivery came when her paperback baby was finally on the shelves. That first day, she was off to her local Kmart to see it.

“This is my dream, it’s finally here.”

It’s exhausting trying to digest this book in one sitting. It’s busy and bursting with tips and ideas. But that, it seems, is the nature of the fizzy brunette behind it.

The little, cream brick house, circa 1950s, in a leafy street of Mornington — the boot-shaped peninsula that is Melbourne’s weekend playground — is the latest base for Petersen, her husband Richard and son Saxon.

It’s their sea change, following on from a tree change and, before that, a year in the desert.

She is a nomad; born in Auckland, Penina Guttenbeil spent her childhood moving with her family between Mt Albert and Sydney. Her parents were born in foreign lands: her tradesman father Iven was a German-Samoan who sailed from Tonga to Auckland when he was 15; her mother, Sandra — now a laboratory receptionist at Auckland Hospital — is English.

Petersen went to Auckland Girls’ Grammar before graduating from Auckland University with a degree in political science. She moved to Japan to teach English and travelled the world temping. She finally settled in Melbourne in 2000, after meeting Richard through mutual Kiwi friends. But even in the stability of married life, cooking was completely foreign to her.

Her childhood memories of food, however, were rich and glutinous.

“I remember my grandmother rolling the fish eye in coconut juice around her plate, and my English aunty making pineapple upside-down cake,” she says.

“We’d have corned beef, cabbage and coconut cream one night, bangers and mash the next. We had a real mix of culture at the dinner table.”

Her mother taught her how to cook biscuits and cakes but in her early married life she relied on her husband’s rudimentary culinary skills most nights.

Friends were treated to spaghetti bolognese if they came over for dinner. But when the friend who introduced Penina and Richard returned to live in New Zealand, leaving a box of glossy magazines on the Petersen’s doorstep. She got the hint.

“I was 30, so I thought it’s probably time I learned to cook. I threw myself into creating gourmet meals out of these magazines — I fell in love with the creativity of cooking,” she says.

But mastering cooking didn’t equate to domesticated suburban bliss. Five years ago, the Petersens decided to quit city life. They cancelled their wedding plans, sold all but the few belongings they could fit in Richard’s van and eloped to Adelaide, before crossing the Nullarbor into a new life in the Western Australian outback.

They set up house in Kambalda, a nickel mining town south of Kalgoorlie, where they both got jobs in the mines. She recalls their year there with some mirth: “It was social suicide. On Thursday nights we’d go on a date to the supermarket.”

Once Saxon was born, Petersen realised she needed to be closer to civilisation, so the family packed the van again and moved to Stawell, a gold mining town in western Victoria.

They call it a “tree change” — moving to the country — and, fittingly, Petersen got a job at the local council as a bush fire recovery officer.

It was when she was working to promote the town’s economic development that the Table Tucker book idea was born.

“I really needed the book. I couldn’t find anything like it. Working at the council was full-on and I was sick of writing out grocery lists, trying to think of what to cook for dinner on the way home,” she says.

“I thought about my friends in Melbourne, who worked all day then got stuck in traffic … how did they cook dinner as well? Then I came up with the Table Tuckeridea and I thought, if this is good for me in the country, it’s got to be good for people in the city.”

So this was her idea: a cookbook that changes the way you shop, cook, eat, and live. You cook only three nights a week — Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays — when you whip up two full meals, refrigerating one for the next night. As an example, on a Thursday night in early summer you might cook what she calls a square meal — pepper steak with garlic squash — while you’re preparing the combo meal, chicken noodle salad for Friday. Saturday is leftovers. The savings are in time, money, energy, waste, and “sanity”.

She makes no apologies that the recipes she has chosen are basic, dressed with garnishes.

“The book’s about old-fashioned country cooking meeting city life. I wanted to take traditional batch cooking and put it into a new concept,” she says.

The 52 weeks of menus are divided into seasons to get the benefits of buying seasonal food; each menu comes with a shopping list.

Table Tucker suggests setting up an annual pantry with dried herbs and the like; a seasonal shop at the beginning of each season for things like pasta, stock and sauces; a monthly shop for onions, pastry and mince and so on; and a weekly shop for perishables like vegetables. She prides herself on drawing up the shopping lists so that no grocery bill ever exceeds A$90 ($110) a week.

“I’ve calculated the dollar value to be the same for each week. I like that consistency,” she says.

If you follow Table Tucker’s menus and shopping lists to the letter, Petersen insists you will save money on food and petrol by buying bulk, save time spent shopping and cooking, and cut back on food packaging.

“When I started number-crunching I was constantly open-mouthed about the savings. We had always budgeted on around $170 for groceries, then I brought it down to $120. I’ve never been a rich person — I’ve always shopped at Salvos [Salvation Army stores] because we’ve never had money. But just having an extra $40 a week in your pocket means we can buy luxury items we never had before, and we’ve started a ‘lunch tradition’, going out for lunch every Saturday as a family.”

She added “Earth-happy principles” to the book after living through a typical Victorian drought.

“When I started writing, there was a beautiful dam outside my window where horses would drink. After a year, the dam was empty; the horses were scratching around in the dust. That’s when I started to think about building in the eco core principles.”

Among her suggestions: eating one less meat meal a week, after pointing out over 4000 litres of water goes into producing one steak.

“I thought, if I can be better just by eating dinner, then that’s a really easy way to help,” she says.

After a year’s writing, her first version of the book was universally trashed by family and friends.

“One friend threw it across the table at me and said ‘nah, there’s no Penina in this book. I can go online and get recipes. I want something different’,” Petersen recalls.

Disheartened, she started from scratch — writing during her work lunchbreaks with a sign “writing best-seller, do not disturb” taped to her computer monitor and at night in an uninsulated house, wearing two pairs of trackpants and ugg boots.

She and Richard left their jobs — he ran a sign-writing business — for three months to finish the book. She chose to have it printed locally in Stawell, even though it took two months longer and cost the couple $30,000.

They took out loans and pumped all their savings into it, loaded the finished product on to their ute and began to sell them online.

She contacted Today Tonight, who ran a story on her solo venture — “they love supermarket stories” — and from there the book sold out, and Hachette publishers were straight on the phone.

“As soon as we saw Penina talking about her book on Today Tonight, we loved her revolutionary culinary concept,” Fiona Hazard says.

“Her self-published edition was already flying out the door — she and her husband were spending every waking hour packing and despatching books from home — so we knew that she’d struck a chord with readers.”

Petersen already has her head down in another book, or 10.

There’s a vegetarian version of Table Tucker, dedicated to her vegan mother, a travel story and a novel.

“I have plans for 10 books, but my publisher is trying to rein me in. Apparently I have to focus on one at a time,” she says. With her fervour and all this cooking-free time on her hands, that’s not likely.

Table Tucker (Hachette, $32.99) is out now.

Save on Groceries | Grocery List for Early Winter Menu 1 | Dinner Recipes

Penina Petersen — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:35:51 +0000

Bakery

1 pkt (2-4) dinner rolls
1 pkt (4 lg) pita bread pockets
1 pkt (2) wholemeal rolls

Baking

500g pkt (1 tsp) raw sugar *A

Dairy

250g (4 tbsp) parmesan, grated
1kg tub (3 tbsp) butter/margarine
1 dozen (2) eggs
2L (1/4 cup) milk
1kg (1 cup) tasty cheese, grated

Deli

1 lg fish fillet, boneless
200g (1 cup) shaved ham

Fresh Herbs

1 bunch (1/4 cup) coriander
1 bunch (1/4 cup) mint
1 bunch (1 cup) parsley
1 bunch (6 sprigs) rosemary

Frozen

1kg (3 cups) peas

Fruit & Veg

1 bunch (1/2) baby carrots
1 bunch broccoli
1kg (2) carrots
1 cauliflower
2 lg parsnips
1/2 pumpkin
1/2 red cabbage
1/4 Savoy cabbage
1 cup seasonal salad leaves
1kg bag (1/2) brown onions *M
5 cloves garlic *M
1 lg potato *M

Grocery

250g pkt flavoured rice express
400ml can coconut cream *M
40g pkt easy cheese sauce *M
650g jar (4 tbsp) mayonnaise *M
235ml (2 tbsp) red curry paste *M
410g can tomato puree *M
1kg (1 cup) breadcrumbs *S
2kg pkt (1 cup) brown rice *S
250g jar (2 tbsp) honey *A
3L (5 tbsp) olive oil*A
1kg bag (2 tbsp) plain flour *A
500ml (2 tbsp) white vinegar *A

Herbs & Spices

110g pkt (1 tsp) chicken stock *S
110g pkt (6 tsp) vegetable stock *S
25g jar (1/4 tsp) ground allspice *A
25g jar (1 tsp) ground turmeric *A

Meat & Poultry

1kg lamb leg roast, boneless *M
1kg (4) chicken fillets *M

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