Easy meal prep

jgoetz1 · July 2013

Hi there. I am going back to work full-time in 3 weeks and am looking for good websites to help me prep quick, healthy meals. I have two little ones and luckily our home daycare provider will be cooking breakfast and lunch for my kids, but I struggle with having the time to cook good dinners. Suggestions please?

lexusolsen · July 2013

Have you tried skinnytaste.com? I love a lot of we stuff. She even has a whole section devoted to crockpot meals.

costa2011 · July 2013

Family Circle magazine and website always has some good quick recipes on it. I'm not sure if the website has it but the magazine gives you an entire month planned out of quick recipes, it's very cool.

FemShep · July 2013

Cooking Light is great for fast, healthy meals. Real Simple is also a good choice. We also bought Nigella Express and Gordon Ramsey's fast food cookbook, and we use them both regularly.

sadie+w · July 2013

One thing hat has been very helpful for me is I make large batches of turkey meatballs and freeze them. Makes spaghetti a super easy dinner. I also make big batches of shredded chicken, and it makes quesadillas, burritos, tacos, buffalo chicken wraps all super easy and fast.

July18Bride · July 2013

I love pinterest for easy weeknight meals or freezer meals you could do now for your return.

costa2011 · July 2013

PrivacyWanted said:

I use onceamonthmom.com I cook 1x a month and have freezer meals for the entire month

I have never heard of this but it sounds amazing! Going to check that out now!

StayingSecret · July 2013

I do some crockpot meals.

Some freezer meals - where I'll freeze the whole casserole, but also where I'll just freeze parts of a meal - like taco meat or browned hamburger or cooked chicken, so that it's easy to toss together.

I only cook like 3-4 times/week because we have 2 adults and a 1-year-old, so many times, 1 casserole = 2-3 meals. We don't mind leftovers too much.

LoCarb · July 2013

Ditto skinnytaste.com

5dinners1meal.com - paid service but they offer free menu samples and specials

traveltheworld · July 2013

I never meal planned before DS, but now I plan out all our meals. I wash and chop up all vegetables on Sunday - that saves a lot of time. We'll do one crockpot or freezer meal one night and do take-outs or eat out on fridays, so that's only 3 weekday meals that I have to cook. Skinnytaste is good. I also like the gweneth paltrow "it's all good" cookbook - most of the recipes are easy and don't require a lot of ingredients and are very healthy.

jgoetz1 · July 2013

Thanks for all of these suggestions!

brandi6102 · July 2013

Kraft magazine and website has super simple recipes.

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