samedi 2 mai 2015

How To Make Healthy 30 Minute Meals

By Toni Vang


Today, most families are so busy with their schedules that there is little time to make dinner. Many folks have professed to be able to help you prepare and serve healthy 30 minute meals. Unfortunately, this is very unrealistic. Getting a dinner together so quickly requires a certain amount of prep work to be done before hand. Although a great concept, the realities of life do not always oblige.

To be able to have dinner served thirty minutes after arriving home every day, you will need to do some preparations ahead of time. You can make preparations over the weekend and store everything in the freezer or refrigerator until you need them for your weekly menus. Although this sounds like a simple task, in the real world it may not be possible.

You need to be flexible and have alternatives since it is more likely to take 40 minutes to get food served. Every time you make a recipe you will get faster at putting it together. Decide which ingredients you can prep before hand that will reduce your time in the kitchen. Choose recipes that have few ingredients and are practical.

There are a few tips you should know that will help you put a nutritious dinner on the table quickly. So many folks are working with such hectic calendars that it is necessary for them to have ways to get food served in short time each night. Following a certain plan can reduce the stress of mealtime preparation.

One helpful tip is to use the weekend for blanching, roasting, or chopping vegetables. Also, make the sauces you plan to use during the week ahead of time. Planning meals a week at a time provides you with the list of ingredients you will need. A lot of recipes actually take longer to prepare ingredients than they do to cook the foods.

It is also helpful to use leftovers to create another meal during the week. When you make extra non a Monday, you will be able to use the left over food to create a dinner for Wednesday. You can recreate the meal or just serve it as you did the first time. Leftovers make great one skillet meals or can be used to make soup or stew.

It is also a good idea to invest in a crock pot or pressure cooker. Both appliances will help you get food served in record time. Prepare crock pot meals ahead of time and store in freezer bags. You can make several at a time. As you leave the house place the ingredients of a bag in your crock pot, set it, and go. When you get home at the end of the day dinner is ready to serve. A pressure cooker will prepare meat so fast that you will be amazed.

Give yourself a break now and then and get takeout for dinner. You can also buy prepared meals at your favorite grocery. In addition, eating out once in a while is great if you can fit it into your budget.




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