Monday, January 25, 2010
How to Easily Answer the Question: “What’s For Dinner?”
And who gets to take every weekend off? We still have to eat then. No wonder we get tired. What are some ways we can make this huge job easier and more pleasant?
Get the family involved.
Children love to help and while it may take extra time right now, if they learn to love to cook, what a great gift you’re giving them—a skill that will help them eat healthfully their whole lives. In addition, you’ll be creating wonderful memories that all of you will cherish. And, you’re giving yourself a gift of future nights off. When they are old enough they can have their own cooking night!
Assign a theme for each day of the week.
Monday could be pasta; Tuesday-Mexican; Wednesday-stir fry; Thursday-soup, salad, and sandwiches; Friday-pizza. Your themes could be more centered on the types of meat you’ll use: chicken night, pork night, fish night, beef night, no meat night. On the weekend why not try out new recipes, have breakfast for dinner or use up all the leftovers. Choose themes that work for you.
Use websites to simplify meal planning.
I mentioned three meal-planning websites that are free in an earlier blog. You can choose to plan ahead for a week or a month at a time. Make sure you get a service that gives you recipes as well as the coordinating shopping list. There are also good meal-planning websites that require a fee. Many offer a trial period so you can try them before you make a decision. Let me know which one is your favorite.
Use a meal delivery service.
Check out the blog I wrote about some of the cool meal delivery services here in the Silicon Valley that use fresh, local and organic foods. It can relieve a great deal of stress knowing you can come home and someone else has already done the cooking.
You’ll come home to a kitchen filled with delicious aromas and a meal ready to eat. Some of our clients have even dog-eared an interesting recipe to have our assistants prepare it!
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