Several terrific ideas for quick recipes that are delicious, nutritious, time savers!
After a day's work and a dozen errands, it's hard to get behind preparing a gourmet meal. We're all pressed for time. While you want to wrap up the day by enjoying a tasty, nutritious meal, you don't want to spend an hour or more fixing dinner. Breakfast? Although we all know it's touted as the most important meal of the day, most of us dash out the door with a cup of Joe and leave it at that. For lunch, you may bag up a ham sandwich and a banana, or eat at the cafeteria at work. What you need are quick recipes that provide good nutrition and are a bit more exotic than this sort of fare. Here are some suggestions to help you prepare quick recipes that are good for you, economical and satisfy your taste buds as well. This is not a mission impossible!
Let's start with breakfast. One tasty, nutritious and quick recipe is the fruit smoothie. If you keep a few fresh fruits, such as bananas, apples and oranges on hand and supplement your supply with some frozen fruits from the freezer, such as strawberries, peaches and blueberries, you've got an almost instant breakfast which you can prepare in just 10 minutes. Toss a mixture of fruits into the blender, add a cup of juice and a dab of yogurt and press the button. This quick recipe is a powerhouse of nutrients, including those essential antioxidants and a good amount of fiber. It's also filling enough to keep you going until lunch. Not much clean up work is involved either rinse out your glass and the blender and you're good to go!
Save some money on those cafeteria lunches using this simple strategy. When you make chicken, a rice pilaf and a dinner salad for dinner, make a little extra. Pack this ready-made chicken and rice lunch in a plastic container and refrigerate. You'll find that the taste improves, as the seasonings 'marry', enhancing the flavors. Set aside an undressed salad portion in another dish. Bring your dressing in a separate, small container. Delicious, cheap and nutritious. Cook once, enjoy twice. You can apply this strategy to many meals, such as casseroles, meat loaf, spaghetti and fried rice for a truly quick recipe that can't be beat.
Other quick recipe ideas for lunch? When you shop for deli meats, always take advantage of the sales. Buy a pound or two of your favorite meats and cheeses. When you get home, wrap 2-3 slices of each meat in a sheet of waxed paper. Do the same with the cheese. Stack them up, fold the ends of the waxed paper over to seal out air and store in a freezer bag. Most breads, tightly wrapped can be stored in the freezer for about a month without losing quality of texture. In the evening, take your bread or hoagie and the combination of meats and cheese you want out of the freezer and put them in the frig. In the morning, assemble your sandwich. For ultimate freshness, bag up a portion of mayo, horseradish or mustard in a small container, along with a small knife. When you're ready to eat, apply your condiments and eat.
How about dinner? Do-aheads are the key to a quick recipe for dinner. On the weekend, spend just a couple of hours making double or triple batches of one meal that you can serve tonight, while freezing the remainder for future meals. Spaghetti sauce, meatloaf, taco meat fillings and fried rice are all good candidates for this strategy to a quick recipe. One cleanup instead of several makes this even quicker. Cook just once and you've got several meals that can be on the table in minutes!
Use these strategies to eat better and gain a little kick-back time for weeks!
After a day's work and a dozen errands, it's hard to get behind preparing a gourmet meal. We're all pressed for time. While you want to wrap up the day by enjoying a tasty, nutritious meal, you don't want to spend an hour or more fixing dinner. Breakfast? Although we all know it's touted as the most important meal of the day, most of us dash out the door with a cup of Joe and leave it at that. For lunch, you may bag up a ham sandwich and a banana, or eat at the cafeteria at work. What you need are quick recipes that provide good nutrition and are a bit more exotic than this sort of fare. Here are some suggestions to help you prepare quick recipes that are good for you, economical and satisfy your taste buds as well. This is not a mission impossible!
Let's start with breakfast. One tasty, nutritious and quick recipe is the fruit smoothie. If you keep a few fresh fruits, such as bananas, apples and oranges on hand and supplement your supply with some frozen fruits from the freezer, such as strawberries, peaches and blueberries, you've got an almost instant breakfast which you can prepare in just 10 minutes. Toss a mixture of fruits into the blender, add a cup of juice and a dab of yogurt and press the button. This quick recipe is a powerhouse of nutrients, including those essential antioxidants and a good amount of fiber. It's also filling enough to keep you going until lunch. Not much clean up work is involved either rinse out your glass and the blender and you're good to go!
Save some money on those cafeteria lunches using this simple strategy. When you make chicken, a rice pilaf and a dinner salad for dinner, make a little extra. Pack this ready-made chicken and rice lunch in a plastic container and refrigerate. You'll find that the taste improves, as the seasonings 'marry', enhancing the flavors. Set aside an undressed salad portion in another dish. Bring your dressing in a separate, small container. Delicious, cheap and nutritious. Cook once, enjoy twice. You can apply this strategy to many meals, such as casseroles, meat loaf, spaghetti and fried rice for a truly quick recipe that can't be beat.
Other quick recipe ideas for lunch? When you shop for deli meats, always take advantage of the sales. Buy a pound or two of your favorite meats and cheeses. When you get home, wrap 2-3 slices of each meat in a sheet of waxed paper. Do the same with the cheese. Stack them up, fold the ends of the waxed paper over to seal out air and store in a freezer bag. Most breads, tightly wrapped can be stored in the freezer for about a month without losing quality of texture. In the evening, take your bread or hoagie and the combination of meats and cheese you want out of the freezer and put them in the frig. In the morning, assemble your sandwich. For ultimate freshness, bag up a portion of mayo, horseradish or mustard in a small container, along with a small knife. When you're ready to eat, apply your condiments and eat.
How about dinner? Do-aheads are the key to a quick recipe for dinner. On the weekend, spend just a couple of hours making double or triple batches of one meal that you can serve tonight, while freezing the remainder for future meals. Spaghetti sauce, meatloaf, taco meat fillings and fried rice are all good candidates for this strategy to a quick recipe. One cleanup instead of several makes this even quicker. Cook just once and you've got several meals that can be on the table in minutes!
Use these strategies to eat better and gain a little kick-back time for weeks!
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