Wednesday, May 6, 2015

How To Make Healthy 30 Minute Meals

By Toni Vang


With the busy lives everyone has these days it sounds exciting to be able to quickly prepare a meal for the family. Unfortunately, this is not as realistic as it may sound. Folks cannot just get home from work and throw together healthy 30 minute meals without some preparation ahead of time. This is an awesome concept however real life does not always cooperate.

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.

The reality is, that it might take forty or more minutes to get dinner served. When you have prepared certain dishes several times it is possible to get them done faster. If this does not work, you will need to prepare in advance to get dinner served faster. An alternative is also to select a different recipe that takes less time.

There are some things that folks can do to help them pull a good nutritious dinner together in thirty to forty minutes. There are people who have such a busy schedule that they need to find a way to put dinner on the table in record time every night. There are some tips that can help make life less stressful.

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.

Remember, it is okay to order takeout food once in a while. Or purchase already prepared dinners at your local grocery store. Give yourself a break and bring home the dinner already cooked and waiting to be eaten. If your budget can handle it, you may even want to eat out every so often.




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