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Healthy family meals: Best of Parent Hacks

Six O'Clock Scramble 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)

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Asha Dornfest is an author, optimist, and mom of two. She started the Parent Hacks blog in 2005, and turned it into a book in 2016. More about Asha »

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