Dine with out Whine: Dinner Planning For Busy School Days
Dinner Planning For Busy School Days
Another summer has quickly passed us by. The kids have reluctantly goneback to school. It stands to reason that life should be a little lesshectic, right? Unfortunately, that’s usually not the case. Between all ofyour daily ‘Mom obligations’, helping with homework and providingtransportation to every extra-curricular activity under the sun, youprobably have little time to devote to dinner planning. Many times busy parents resort to hot dogs and macaroni and cheese, frozenpizza or frequent trips to a fast-food restaurant. That’s not healthy foryou or the kids – not to mention its pretty rough on the family grocerybudget. Kitchen time saversThere are things you can do to cut down on time spent in the kitchen. Pickone day a week and prepare several freezer friendly meals. You can even gothe extra mile and package them in individual serving size containers.Doing so will provide your family with a larger variety of entrée choices,on any given day.Do you have friends that are intrigued with the idea of a one-day a weekcooking spree or a meal planning service? Get together with 2 or 3 ofthem. Each of you decides on 2 main dishes you want to prepare. Buy enoughingredients to make the entrees for each family. You need to plan aheadOne simple thing that you can do is keep an ample supply of fresh fruits,salad ingredients, soups and fresh sandwich fixings, on hand. Quick mealssuch as this are nutritious and don’t require a great deal of preparationtime. If you take on the task of meal planning and want to get in the habit ofconsistently putting together weekly menus yourself, you may be surprisedat how much time it involves. Did you know that the typical family mealplanner spends roughly 3 hours per week combing through cookbooks,choosing recipes and compiling a grocery list? That translates into 156hours, per year. Yikes! A menu service can helpYou can say goodbye to last minute thrown together meals and eliminate thestress of dinner planning for your family by subscribing to a meal planningservice. This type of service is very affordable, usually costing only afew cents per day. Menus are often designed to be family friendly andeasily adaptable. When you purchase a subscription to a service such as this, yourmembership will typically feature a weekly menu emailed right to yourinbox. This includes seven main dish recipes, side dish suggestions anddessert ideas. As an added benefit, you receive a detailed shopping list,categorized by aisle, which makes your trip to the grocery store that mucheasier. Simply cross off items already in your pantry, add any otherproducts you may be in need of and you’re off!If you enjoy planning your own menu, you may want to consider a dinnerplanning service, in addition to your own choices. Why? It will still saveyou time, in the long run. Use the membership menu as a base. Then, searchfor recipes that will deliciously compliment that weekly plan.Remember, nothing is more important than family time. Don’t let dinnerplanning get you down. Consider the suggestions we’ve made and you’llspend less time slaving over hot stove and more time with the people youlove.
Check out our website: www.dinewithoutwhine.com/kaybugs
Another summer has quickly passed us by. The kids have reluctantly goneback to school. It stands to reason that life should be a little lesshectic, right? Unfortunately, that’s usually not the case. Between all ofyour daily ‘Mom obligations’, helping with homework and providingtransportation to every extra-curricular activity under the sun, youprobably have little time to devote to dinner planning. Many times busy parents resort to hot dogs and macaroni and cheese, frozenpizza or frequent trips to a fast-food restaurant. That’s not healthy foryou or the kids – not to mention its pretty rough on the family grocerybudget. Kitchen time saversThere are things you can do to cut down on time spent in the kitchen. Pickone day a week and prepare several freezer friendly meals. You can even gothe extra mile and package them in individual serving size containers.Doing so will provide your family with a larger variety of entrée choices,on any given day.Do you have friends that are intrigued with the idea of a one-day a weekcooking spree or a meal planning service? Get together with 2 or 3 ofthem. Each of you decides on 2 main dishes you want to prepare. Buy enoughingredients to make the entrees for each family. You need to plan aheadOne simple thing that you can do is keep an ample supply of fresh fruits,salad ingredients, soups and fresh sandwich fixings, on hand. Quick mealssuch as this are nutritious and don’t require a great deal of preparationtime. If you take on the task of meal planning and want to get in the habit ofconsistently putting together weekly menus yourself, you may be surprisedat how much time it involves. Did you know that the typical family mealplanner spends roughly 3 hours per week combing through cookbooks,choosing recipes and compiling a grocery list? That translates into 156hours, per year. Yikes! A menu service can helpYou can say goodbye to last minute thrown together meals and eliminate thestress of dinner planning for your family by subscribing to a meal planningservice. This type of service is very affordable, usually costing only afew cents per day. Menus are often designed to be family friendly andeasily adaptable. When you purchase a subscription to a service such as this, yourmembership will typically feature a weekly menu emailed right to yourinbox. This includes seven main dish recipes, side dish suggestions anddessert ideas. As an added benefit, you receive a detailed shopping list,categorized by aisle, which makes your trip to the grocery store that mucheasier. Simply cross off items already in your pantry, add any otherproducts you may be in need of and you’re off!If you enjoy planning your own menu, you may want to consider a dinnerplanning service, in addition to your own choices. Why? It will still saveyou time, in the long run. Use the membership menu as a base. Then, searchfor recipes that will deliciously compliment that weekly plan.Remember, nothing is more important than family time. Don’t let dinnerplanning get you down. Consider the suggestions we’ve made and you’llspend less time slaving over hot stove and more time with the people youlove.
Check out our website: www.dinewithoutwhine.com/kaybugs
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