One month of baking in a day/Meal and Pantry Prep

[DuckieLady]

I'll post the lady's video below for those who are interested. I have a minor soy allergy and most of the breads and mixes in grocery stores use soy flour in their products. I'm really considering doing this myself to cut back on spending and avoid all of the fillers and unnecessary ingredients they use.

Little House Living - Frugal Living - Simple Living - From Scratch Recipes is also a really good resource for pancake mixes, cereals, and other things.

I've done bulk baking (obviously) but most of the time, the dough was premade. Also, it contained soy flour. So I'm scared.

We have a bunch of deli containers meant for freezing soups. I haven't got on it yet.

Just thought I'd share and if anyone has any suggestions on how to prevent all the croissants from tasting like freezer a week later, I'm here for it.

 

[Wynona]

Thank you!

 

[Verily]

I do bulk baking with french bread (for pizza night once a week for a month) and for buttermilk belgium waffles (for waffles once a week for month) and homemade rolls (for my husbands lunch all week, weekly) and even premake his favorite cakes (which he pulls out of the freezer for me to ice them (after each thaws). These along with pie crusts, soft pretzels and bagels do wonderfully in the freezer for a month's time (longer than that actually) without having the need to pull out the food saver or take any other extra measures.

I never tried croissants in the freezer though

Here's some French guy's video on tricks on freezing them

I will say, the one bread I do not like after its been frozen would be sour dough bread, I don't even prefer it if it were in a premade sandwich and stuck it in the fridge, that just makes it taste bad for whatever reason.

We have 6 freezers and I find that its all the bready stuff is what takes up most of the room in them.

 

[DuckieLady]

I do bulk baking with french bread (for pizza night once a week for a month) and for buttermilk belgium waffles (for waffles once a week for month) and homemade rolls (for my husbands lunch all week, weekly) and even premake his favorite cakes (which he pulls out of the freezer for me to ice them (after each thaws). These along with pie crusts, soft pretzels and bagels do wonderfully in the freezer for a month's time (longer than that actually) without having the need to pull out the food saver or take any other extra measures.

I never tried croissants in the freezer though

Here's some French guy's video on tricks on freezing them

I will say, the one bread I do not like after its been frozen would be sour dough bread, I don't even prefer it if it were in a premade sandwich and stuck it in the fridge, that just makes it taste bad for whatever reason.

We have 6 freezers and I find that its all the bready stuff is what takes up most of the room in them.

I love the waffles idea. I have a waffle iron but it's gotta be 50+ years old. A General Electric cast iron one and everything sticks to it- even with oil. Lol.

I forgot I know what to do with the bread. You're supposed to let it cool first and add a paper towel to the bread.

Do you use a mixer for all of this? I do everything by hand and it takes me a full day to make bagels and then they're gone within 20 minutes.

 

[Verily]

I love the waffles idea. I have a waffle iron but it's gotta be 50+ years old. A General Electric cast iron one and everything sticks to it- even with oil. Lol.

I forgot I know what to do with the bread. You're supposed to let it cool first and add a paper towel to the bread.

Do you use a mixer for all of this? I do everything by hand and it takes me a full day to make bagels and then they're gone within 20 minutes.

My waffle maker is about the same old age as yours, but I got a little lucky that my waffles don't stick to it, it must be a very well seasoned waffle maker over those years lol.

And yeah, definately let the bread cool down before you stick in the freezer or the bag will look like someone is alive and breathing inside the bag lol

You know, I have been using my grandmothers Kitchenaid mixer, which must be over 40 years old but it was really struggling through the soft pretzel dough recipe since. It is a lower hydration dough and kitchenaids really shouldnt be used for that dough. The thing kept dropping this screw out of the back of it everytime it thumped on the counter working through that mass. It really wouldn't perform that well when doing anymore than one pound/batch at a time when I did use it. I just recently splurged for an Ankarsrum mixer and that is really working out well, the motor is in the base of it. I have tried 4 batches of bread in it and it did great. It takes less time in doing bulk baking in the fashion for which we might chose to do it as you describe.

I think it depends on the recipe though, there is a pizza dough I always did by hand that requires 15 minutes of kneading and the french bread recipe which only requires 5 minutes which I do by hand, and all my sour dough recipes are no knead breads (which I prefer). The only recipe I wanted that new mixer for was for the soft Pretzels, my husband loves those things and they freeze great too. The heavier doughs, I need to find more recipes for those sorts of doughs, "just because I can" (now) lol

I only made bagels once, and that was before I learned how to make breads as I do all the time now but I recall thinking, "heck with this, its too labor intensive" lol But now I am like, "what were you griping about these are easy peasy"!

I would never touch a recipe that was more than a 1/2 page long. Anything more than that was a dread. But as we learn, practice and grow in baking skills (and beg the husband for better equipment, haha) I dont dread anything that is 3 pages long now, and I dont see that as being labor intensive anymore.

My husband loves woopie pies too, and that recipe is one I dread, I think they are gross (gets all over my fingers). 3 cookie caps take up the entire baking sheet and it takes me a day to get through that one. He goes through those pretty fast (and I hate that too) I will only make these once a year for him now, maybe twice if I am feeling I owe him one or something. But I have 4 gallon freezer bags filled with them, and he tries to make them last.

I try and stay away from breads as much as I can, most of the baking is just for the husband, although I do cave with a waffle on waffle night and a piece of pizza on pizza night. I honestly dont like alot of the same things he likes which works for me.

I like big batch baking and I do it all the time, but I never feel that "I have arrived" and so I can take a break because there always seems to be something that needs to be baked/cooked again and another big batch cooking day arrives way too fast.

So instead of cooking one small meal daily I am always cooking large meals. Sometimes I feel like I am defeating my initial purpose (which was??) I forget.

But at least there is always something in the freezer to heat up and thats good.

I just started making that L Reuteri yogurt. That is really good, its takes 36 hours to make at a very low tempt and I have been running that yogurt maker 24/7 this past week. Ever try that particular yogurt? It's pretty good. I like trying new things.

 

[DuckieLady]

My waffle maker is about the same old age as yours, but I got a little lucky that my waffles don't stick to it, it must be a very well seasoned waffle maker over those years lol.

And yeah, definately let the bread cool down before you stick in the freezer or the bag will look like someone is alive and breathing inside the bag lol

You know, I have been using my grandmothers Kitchenaid mixer, which must be over 40 years old but it was really struggling through the soft pretzel dough recipe since. It is a lower hydration dough and kitchenaids really shouldnt be used for that dough. The thing kept dropping this screw out of the back of it everytime it thumped on the counter working through that mass. It really wouldn't perform that well when doing anymore than one pound/batch at a time when I did use it. I just recently splurged for an Ankarsrum mixer and that is really working out well, the motor is in the base of it. I have tried 4 batches of bread in it and it did great. It takes less time in doing bulk baking in the fashion for which we might chose to do it as you describe.

I think it depends on the recipe though, there is a pizza dough I always did by hand that requires 15 minutes of kneading and the french bread recipe which only requires 5 minutes which I do by hand, and all my sour dough recipes are no knead breads (which I prefer). The only recipe I wanted that new mixer for was for the soft Pretzels, my husband loves those things and they freeze great too. The heavier doughs, I need to find more recipes for those sorts of doughs, "just because I can" (now) lol

I only made bagels once, and that was before I learned how to make breads as I do all the time now but I recall thinking, "heck with this, its too labor intensive" lol But now I am like, "what were you griping about these are easy peasy"!

I would never touch a recipe that was more than a 1/2 page long. Anything more than that was a dread. But as we learn, practice and grow in baking skills (and beg the husband for better equipment, haha) I dont dread anything that is 3 pages long now, and I dont see that as being labor intensive anymore.

My husband loves woopie pies too, and that recipe is one I dread, I think they are gross (gets all over my fingers). 3 cookie caps take up the entire baking sheet and it takes me a day to get through that one. He goes through those pretty fast (and I hate that too) I will only make these once a year for him now, maybe twice if I am feeling I owe him one or something. But I have 4 gallon freezer bags filled with them, and he tries to make them last.

I try and stay away from breads as much as I can, most of the baking is just for the husband, although I do cave with a waffle on waffle night and a piece of pizza on pizza night. I honestly dont like alot of the same things he likes which works for me.

I like big batch baking and I do it all the time, but I never feel that "I have arrived" and so I can take a break because there always seems to be something that needs to be baked/cooked again and another big batch cooking day arrives way too fast.

So instead of cooking one small meal daily I am always cooking large meals. Sometimes I feel like I am defeating my initial purpose (which was??) I forget.

But at least there is always something in the freezer to heat up and thats good.

I just started making that L Reuteri yogurt. That is really good, its takes 36 hours to make at a very low tempt and I have been running that yogurt maker 24/7 this past week. Ever try that particular yogurt? It's pretty good. I like trying new things.

That sounds like a lot of work! I should probably get a mixer, but they are costly so it will need to wait.

I do have a yogurt machine and usually we make kefir milk, but I have to start over since I accidentally left my grains in my old place. Now I'll have to start over.

I saw a whoopie pie kit at the thrift store but Mr. Duck and I are pretty inflammation prone and so I left it.

I hurt my shoulder somehow, so I'm going to have to keep it simple today. Just buttermilk biscuits for a roasted chicken dinner.

I really want to make some mini cupcakes and low sugar cookies to go along with for teatime, if my body will let me. It seems to disagree with me this week. My body and my brain are having an argument.

 

[DuckieLady]

Hopefully I wrote that okay. I'm sorry if there are mistakes. I am in the middle of an impromptu chai tea party with saltine crackers covered in Tabasco sauce.

 

[Verily]

You got a bum shoulder. Sorry to hear about that DuckieLady, I sure hope the Lord puts that back into working order for you soon.
I just made buttermilk biscuits today myself (and my own shoulder is just fine) it was just an easy day. I had made them for the freezer because I had extra buttermilk left over from the waffles I had just recently made (wanted to put it to good use rather than chuck it).

And you write well. I wouldn't worry about that. I can be the easiest target for my bad writing, the bad form, run on sentences, spelling errors, grammar, the works. If its improper (such as my non-use of apostrophies which is habitual at this point) or just droning on and on when speaking freely, I engage in every one of those trespasses.

Nothing is worse than that sort of online policing. So I usually prefer to copy paste the scriptures and say as little as possible from myself, but I really couldnt do that sort of thing on a thread like this lol

I wouldnt doubt that crackers and tobasco sauce couldnt be a kind of addictive snack once you get started, although I could have never imagined Chai going well with it lol

I hope you are enjoying yourself over there (sounds like it!)

 

[DuckieLady]

You got a bum shoulder. Sorry to hear about that DuckieLady, I sure hope the Lord puts that back into working order for you soon.
I just made buttermilk biscuits today myself (and my own shoulder is just fine) it was just an easy day. I had made them for the freezer because I had extra buttermilk left over from the waffles I had just recently made (wanted to put it to good use rather than chuck it).

And you write well. I wouldn't worry about that. I can be the easiest target for my bad writing, the bad form, run on sentences, spelling errors, grammar, the works. If its improper (such as my non-use of apostrophies which is habitual at this point) or just droning on and on when speaking freely, I engage in every one of those trespasses.

Nothing is worse than that sort of online policing. So I usually prefer to copy paste the scriptures and say as little as possible from myself, but I really couldnt do that sort of thing on a thread like this lol

I wouldnt doubt that crackers and tobasco sauce couldnt be a kind of addictive snack once you get started, although I could have never imagined Chai going well with it lol

I hope you are enjoying yourself over there (sounds like it!)

Thank you for your prayers! I actually feel better today. Mr. Duck came home and asked for manwiches. Maybe we'll do yesterday's dinner today.

Crackers and tabasco sauce is not great but my child wanted the whole set up and came up with it. Lol

I hope you all have an awesome Thanksgiving! We're skipping it this year. We just didn't feel like it.

 

[Verily]

Thank you for your prayers! I actually feel better today. Mr. Duck came home and asked for manwiches. Maybe we'll do yesterday's dinner today.

Crackers and tabasco sauce is not great but my child wanted the whole set up and came up with it. Lol

I hope you all have an awesome Thanksgiving! We're skipping it this year. We just didn't feel like it.

Praise the Lord your shoulder feels a bit better!

And thats adorable! You might get something better if you have your child taste
what you are expected to eat, its how they learn faster lol! (mmm... delicious, taste and see!) as
mouth is engulfed in flames, I am sure you will get something milder.

We havent celebrated a gathering for thanksgiving for decades, so I am as you this year. I am not much of a turkey person myself. My husband did drag home a 22 pound frozen turkey for lunch meat, so I am making one for just that. Its rock hard still. I had to look up whether I could cook that bad boy frozen, turns out you supposedly can. I love a good experiment, so I am giving that a go tommorrow. I am making stuffing now beyond that nothing else.


You have a wonderful day regardless, God richly bless you and yours in Christ

 

[DuckieLady]

Praise the Lord your shoulder feels a bit better!

And thats adorable! You might get something better if you have your child taste
what you are expected to eat, its how they learn faster lol! (mmm... delicious, taste and see!) as
mouth is engulfed in flames, I am sure you will get something milder.

We havent celebrated a gathering for thanksgiving for decades, so I am as you this year. I am not much of a turkey person myself. My husband did drag home a 22 pound frozen turkey for lunch meat, so I am making one for just that. Its rock hard still. I had to look up whether I could cook that bad boy frozen, turns out you supposedly can. I love a good experiment, so I am giving that a go tommorrow. I am making stuffing now beyond that nothing else.


You have a wonderful day regardless, God richly bless you and yours in Christ

That is a genius idea. I know there was a video somewhere on making deli meat at home, but I never tried it myself. How did it turn out?

I think today were going to make a bunch of potato salad, fried jojos, and Mr. Duck got a bunch of frozen dinner rolls I wasn't a fan of, so I'm going to see if I can roll them out into a cinnamon bread for breakfast.

I might set up a marinade to make jerky tomorrow.

I found a genius app on android called Supercook that takes all of the ingredients you have on hand and gives you all of the recipes using what you have.

It is the smartest thing I have seen yet. Now I have 7,709 options. Haha!

 

[Verily]

That is a genius idea. I know there was a video somewhere on making deli meat at home, but I never tried it myself. How did it turn out?

I think today were going to make a bunch of potato salad, fried jojos, and Mr. Duck got a bunch of frozen dinner rolls I wasn't a fan of, so I'm going to see if I can roll them out into a cinnamon bread for breakfast.

I might set up a marinade to make jerky tomorrow.

I found a genius app on android called Supercook that takes all of the ingredients you have on hand and gives you all of the recipes using what you have.

It is the smartest thing I have seen yet. Now I have 7,709 options. Haha!

Theres an idea. I know its so fustrating when you are beginning to cook to figure out if a certain recipe will still work without a particular ingredient. I recall, tossing out the whole idea of making something simply because I did not have a teaspoon of sage (haha). And every recipe always had something in it that I did not have. So I spent weeks researching all sorts of spices herbs and the like and just splurged and purchased in bulk every one of them sealing them in quart mason jars. THEN I began learning how to cook from there, it was a less fustrating things, made things a little easier. I just did not want to be bothered with running to the store for 1/2 a teaspoon of anything. We live rurally and there is no short trips to the store.

Then I arranged my cookbooks as

Go to favorites (includes everything)
Hubbys favorite meals
Meals me and hubby like togther
Hubbys favorite deserts
My favorite deserts
Soups and beans
Beans and rice
International (for the most part, Mexican, Chinese, Persian, German etc)
Drinks (various, including fermented)
Sauces (and sauces to make from the peppers in the garden)
Seasonings (to make your own mixes)
Keto favorites (I still have that one when I was on that)
Breads (all kinds)
Canning favorites
Recipes from our garden more specifically (according to what we grow)
The grill and the smoker
Then for various possible substitutions, additions for effects, and other misc alternatives etc

I copied them and put them in clear sleeves and keep them all in 3 ring binders. I do that so if the internet goes down I will have them in my hand. I do the same with adresses and phone numbers and checking etc. Quite a few of the recipes are copied off numerous times between the binders because a "go to favorite" could fall under one of the other categories. And I am actually glad I did that, because in so doing makes them easier to find. Its not as speedy as the internet ofcourse but its good enough (especially if we do not have the internet) so everything isnt locked up on the internet and I am powerless to make a decent meal, heh.

I saw a dinner recipe I thought looked awesome (used for cinnamon rolls) it looked like it would kill you but it was like one of those fast and easy things (no kneading, just a dump and pour sort of recipe).

I keep it just in case I wanted a heart attack but hadn't tried it. I'll post it, whether to try for yourself or for making it for others in a pinch.

 

[DuckieLady]

Theres an idea. I know its so fustrating when you are beginning to cook to figure out if a certain recipe will still work without a particular ingredient. I recall, tossing out the whole idea of making something simply because I did not have a teaspoon of sage (haha). And every recipe always had something in it that I did not have. So I spent weeks researching all sorts of spices herbs and the like and just splurged and purchased in bulk every one of them sealing them in quart mason jars. THEN I began learning how to cook from there, it was a less fustrating things, made things a little easier. I just did not want to be bothered with running to the store for 1/2 a teaspoon of anything. We live rurally and there is no short trips to the store.

Then I arranged my cookbooks as

Go to favorites (includes everything)
Hubbys favorite meals
Meals me and hubby like togther
Hubbys favorite deserts
My favorite deserts
Soups and beans
Beans and rice
International (for the most part, Mexican, Chinese, Persian, German etc)
Drinks (various, including fermented)
Sauces (and sauces to make from the peppers in the garden)
Seasonings (to make your own mixes)
Keto favorites (I still have that one when I was on that)
Breads (all kinds)
Canning favorites
Recipes from our garden more specifically (according to what we grow)
The grill and the smoker
Then for various possible substitutions, additions for effects, and other misc alternatives etc

I copied them and put them in clear sleeves and keep them all in 3 ring binders. I do that so if the internet goes down I will have them in my hand. I do the same with adresses and phone numbers and checking etc. Quite a few of the recipes are copied off numerous times between the binders because a "go to favorite" could fall under one of the other categories. And I am actually glad I did that, because in so doing makes them easier to find. Its not as speedy as the internet ofcourse but its good enough (especially if we do not have the internet) so everything isnt locked up on the internet and I am powerless to make a decent meal, heh.

I saw a dinner recipe I thought looked awesome (used for cinnamon rolls) it looked like it would kill you but it was like one of those fast and easy things (no kneading, just a dump and pour sort of recipe).

I keep it just in case I wanted a heart attack but hadn't tried it. I'll post it, whether to try for yourself or for making it for others in a pinch.

I'm sorry I missed all of this! I'm not sure I ever got the notification for it.

Have you guys done anything interesting this week?

I am going to get some kind of sprouts ready to grow over the next few days. I'm not really sure what kind I have left.

Then I need to ferment some cultured butter and make a batch of oat milk.

Our yogurt is on its last day, so I guess I'm making Naan. I'm considering making a batch of some kind soup for everyone to have throughout the day.

Lately I've been craving the food of people, which is just a bunch of oats, fish, beets, sauerkraut. My son and I are the only ones who like it.

I have always wanted to try karjalanpiirakka (Karelian pie... I had to copy and paste that word... Haha! ) and Mr. Duck likes rice pudding, so I think this might be the week to give it a try.

 

[amigo de christo]

I do bulk baking with french bread (for pizza night once a week for a month) and for buttermilk belgium waffles (for waffles once a week for month) and homemade rolls (for my husbands lunch all week, weekly) and even premake his favorite cakes (which he pulls out of the freezer for me to ice them (after each thaws). These along with pie crusts, soft pretzels and bagels do wonderfully in the freezer for a month's time (longer than that actually) without having the need to pull out the food saver or take any other extra measures.

I never tried croissants in the freezer though

Here's some French guy's video on tricks on freezing them

I will say, the one bread I do not like after its been frozen would be sour dough bread, I don't even prefer it if it were in a premade sandwich and stuck it in the fridge, that just makes it taste bad for whatever reason.

We have 6 freezers and I find that its all the bready stuff is what takes up most of the room in them.

i think when they freeze it , its still raw my friend . not cooked , not baked .
Sour dough bread is good my friend . its also far better for one as the index goes .
Freezing after baking bread might not hold so well .

 

[amigo de christo]

That sounds like a lot of work! I should probably get a mixer, but they are costly so it will need to wait.

I do have a yogurt machine and usually we make kefir milk, but I have to start over since I accidentally left my grains in my old place. Now I'll have to start over.

I saw a whoopie pie kit at the thrift store but Mr. Duck and I are pretty inflammation prone and so I left it.

I hurt my shoulder somehow, so I'm going to have to keep it simple today. Just buttermilk biscuits for a roasted chicken dinner.

I really want to make some mini cupcakes and low sugar cookies to go along with for teatime, if my body will let me. It seems to disagree with me this week. My body and my brain are having an argument.

probably how you slept dear sister as to why your shoulder might be hurting .
Oh , please allow me some parting words .
ITS TIME TO PRAISE THE GLORIOUS LORD .

 

[amigo de christo]

I'm sorry I missed all of this! I'm not sure I ever got the notification for it.

Have you guys done anything interesting this week?

I am going to get some kind of sprouts ready to grow over the next few days. I'm not really sure what kind I have left.

Then I need to ferment some cultured butter and make a batch of oat milk.

Our yogurt is on its last day, so I guess I'm making Naan. I'm considering making a batch of some kind soup for everyone to have throughout the day.

Lately I've been craving the food of people, which is just a bunch of oats, fish, beets, sauerkraut. My son and I are the only ones who like it.

I have always wanted to try karjalanpiirakka (Karelian pie... I had to copy and paste that word... Haha! ) and Mr. Duck likes rice pudding, so I think this might be the week to give it a try.

beets must be a subconsious thing due to they are healthy .
There is not a beet one i tried that after eating it i said MAN that was good .
But i do eat on them at times for health reasons .

 

[amigo de christo]

I'm sorry I missed all of this! I'm not sure I ever got the notification for it.

Have you guys done anything interesting this week?

I am going to get some kind of sprouts ready to grow over the next few days. I'm not really sure what kind I have left.

Then I need to ferment some cultured butter and make a batch of oat milk.

Our yogurt is on its last day, so I guess I'm making Naan. I'm considering making a batch of some kind soup for everyone to have throughout the day.

Lately I've been craving the food of people, which is just a bunch of oats, fish, beets, sauerkraut. My son and I are the only ones who like it.

I have always wanted to try karjalanpiirakka (Karelian pie... I had to copy and paste that word... Haha! ) and Mr. Duck likes rice pudding, so I think this might be the week to give it a try.

saurkraut is very tasty .

 

[DuckieLady]

probably how you slept dear sister as to why your shoulder might be hurting .
Oh , please allow me some parting words .
ITS TIME TO PRAISE THE GLORIOUS LORD .

My shoulder is better now, thank you! I wrote that a while back. I think I did sleep wrong.

We love pickled beets, but not the plain ones. I have made borscht, but I don't necessarily like to make it. It's messy and I can make a whole pot and everyone has one bowl, and then they are done with it.

I haven't started on much today besides the butter. I put my refrigerator on the back porch to make room in the kitchen and now it feels like - 22 outside and everything is frozen. Oops.

I've really been considering learning how to make a zeer pot for fun, but I honestly don't know how well they do and I'd have to wait until summer to buy the pots, maybe.

 

[amigo de christo]

My shoulder is better now, thank you! I wrote that a while back. I think I did sleep wrong.

We love pickled beets, but not the plain ones. I have made borscht, but I don't necessarily like to make it. It's messy and I can make a whole pot and everyone has one bowl, and then they are done with it.

I haven't started on much today besides the butter. I put my refrigerator on the back porch to make room in the kitchen and now it feels like - 22 outside and everything is frozen. Oops.

I've really been considering learning how to make a zeer pot for fun, but I honestly don't know how well they do and I'd have to wait until summer to buy the pots, maybe.

yeah i saw when you wrote that was back in november . Dear sister you march onward in the LORD .
Have you noticed that a lot of people within christendom are having more and more of a problem
with those who KEEP procliaming the dire need to BELIEVE ON JESUS THE CHRIST .
Rather they do more and more to try and plant ideas and suggestions that its just gonna be fine in every religoin
that it really dont matter , N THE END , what one beleived .
I ask
this for a good reason . I just want to know if you have noticed it too sister .

 

[DuckieLady]

yeah i saw when you wrote that was back in november . Dear sister you march onward in the LORD .
Have you noticed that a lot of people within christendom are having more and more of a problem
with those who KEEP procliaming the dire need to BELIEVE ON JESUS THE CHRIST .
Rather they do more and more to try and plant ideas and suggestions that its just gonna be fine in every religoin
that it really dont matter , N THE END , what one beleived .
I ask
this for a good reason . I just want to know if you have noticed it too sister .

Yes, I was part of the problem in my twenties. I believed in God, but I didn't understand who God was, despite growing up in the church. Then later on I thought I was a Christian, but a Christian ashamed of Jesus. Thank God I'm forgiven.

If you really want people who are younger to have faith as they grow, then they need to be taught how to have a personal relationship with Jesus. Like a heart to heart connection.

I didn't understand that. To me, it was just stuff we did.