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Originally Posted by Bentley Green  I don't by those premade foods either. I make my own - put simply and principally, to control the amount of salt. Those foods are way too blasted salty for me!!
For a husband and wife who are both working and have small children in school, they are often coming home in the afternoon to be with the kids and are most often in a rush trying to get dinner on the table so they usually resort to premade foods like Hambuger Helper, Banquet meals orRice-A-Roni, Banquet frozen fried Chicken, which all have tons os sodium and chemicals in them, not to mention transfats. Yuck!!  |
I can't be entirely objective, because I don't have children, but.... There are days where I am pretty tired, but still manage to whip up something for dinner, the secret for me is to have dishes that are easy to whip up. I keep roasted chicken which I have pulled off the bone and vacuum sealed for quick and easy meals, I have made quesadillas, Caesar wraps, roast chicken with gravy, pot pie etc... with it. I vacuum seal chicken breast, and always keep good seasoning blends around, throw the chicken in a contact grill, make some rice (I sautée garlic and onion, and replace the water with chicken stock) some frozen veg in the microwave and dinner is done. All of these can be done in the time it takes to make hamburger helper, and because I buy all of my meat on sale for around 1/2 price it is pretty inexpensive. I hate taking the time to peel potatoes, so I use red potatoes just cut-em up and boil, add a little milk and butter and done. I have to push myself to do it sometimes, a year ago we were eating entirely too much take out and our health was taking a beating for it.
I think what keeps many moms and dads from cooking is that they don't know where to start and recipes can often be daunting, I would love to be able to teach a class on easy economical cooking.
MAC