Quick & Healthy Meals For Busy Families
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No Time for Dinner: Quick & Healthy Meals for Busy Families
With the hectic pace of life today, it seems there's barely time to breathe, let alone cook a healthy meal for your family. So when you've worn out your fast food deli sandwich options and your stomach can't take another greasy cheeseburger and super-sized fries, try some of these home cooked alternatives. They're much friendlier on your waistline and your wallet and don't take as much time as you might think!
Befriend your Crock Pot
Remember your old crock pot? It's time to dust it off and put it to good use! From meatloaf to chicken, and soups to desserts, the meals you can make in a crock pot are almost limitless. Simply take a few minutes to put the ingredients into the crock pot before work, and then let it cook while you're away. A few minutes of work is all it takes to make a healthy meal that can usually be used more than one night.
Need some crock pot recipes? Check out these sites: www.a-crock-cook.com, Better Homes and Gardens and www.momswhothink.com.
Get Creative with Leftovers
Leftovers often get a bad rap. Well maybe you just haven't met the right leftovers! Let's say you cook a pot roast on Sunday. Sunday evening you have a lovely meal of pot roast, but then later in the week, you can use the leftovers to make barbequed beef sandwiches, beef and noodles, hot roast beef sandwiches, vegetable beef soup...you get the idea! If you stop and think about it, there are many ways to use your leftovers to make quick meals and save money in the process.
Time for Breakfast
Eggs, pancakes, waffles, bacon, hashbrowns - doesn't that sound good? Of course it does, and the beauty is, you can eat these breakfast foods anytime of the day! Foods such as omelets, quiche, Canadian bacon, pancakes and waffles are fast and nutritious meals that satisfy no matter what time of day!
Cook for an Army
Choose one night a week to cook - and cook in bulk. You can cook several boneless, skinless chicken breasts at once, and then use them throughout the week by simply heating them up or by adding barbeque sauce, adding some to pasta or a salad, topping with ham and Swiss cheese and so much more. And while you're cooking those chicken breasts, you can easily cook a big pot (or a crock pot full) of soup, stew or chili and freeze what you're not going to use right away. Doing some heavy duty cooking just once a week will yield many meals all week long.
For more ideas and information, visit www.incredibleegg.org, www.foodnetwork.com and www.simpleanddelicious.com.
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