Keeping the family fed is one of my biggest time- and attention-consumers. We could all use a bit of help feeding the family when we get home late, or when we just want a break.
Here are our best tips and recipes for easy, healthy family feeding. We add new tips all the time; come back often!
Quick and easy meals
- Use the coffeemaker to heat water for quick oats
- Heat leftover pancakes in the toaster
- “Bachelor chow” egg muffin makes a fine daddy breakfast
- Quick, healthy breakfast ideas
- Portable breakfast ideas
- Serve-it-yourself cereal
- 20 minute dinner: Chicken Dumpling Soup
- 20 minute dinner: Pasta with creamy marinara sauce
- 20 minute dinner: Chick pea and rice salad, quick tomato soup
- 20 minute dinner: Instant Enchiladas
- 20 minute dinner: Pasta with roasted pepper tomato sauce, steamed sugar snap peas
- 20 minute dinner: Clear-the-pantry chili
- 20 minute dinner: My favorite stir-fry
- Turn leftover meat and pantry items into an easy, hearty soup
- High protein and kid-friendly: Cheese and Potato Crustless Quiche
Time-saving meal-prep ideas
- No-prep pasta: Grab ingredients from the grocery salad bar
- Parenthackers’ best slow cooker tips
- Meal orders reduce the morning madness
Meal planning and grocery shopping
- Cook from a single cookbook all week (or all month)
- Schedule when to use your freezer leftovers
- Favorite kids’ cookbook? Talk amongst yourselves.
- DIY cookbook for families with food allergies
- Quick, thrifty, and retro: food remnant and leftover tips
- Online grocery services organize your shopping list for you — even if you don’t buy
- Take a camera phone picture of the shopping list on your whiteboard
- What are your “secret ingredients” for a quick, home-cooked dinner? Talk amongst yourselves.
- Reinspiration: the weekly meal plan
- Grocery coupons: balancing time spent with money saved
- Streamline grocery shopping and meal planning with a pre-printed list (download)