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Time Saving Meal Preparation Tips
As seen on BCTV November 2/99
TIME SAVING MEAL PREPARATION TIPS
At this point, most of us are well into a busy Fall routine and may be finding ourselves cooking less due to a shortage of time. Here are a few suggestions to motivate you to prepare home cooked meals.
1) Shop once a week. This ensures you’ll have a good supply of groceries on hand, it gives you a sense of what your household using in a week, it saves time and you even become more familiar with the regular and sale prices of items you routinely use.
2) Wash and cut up fruits and vegetables in advance and put things away in an organized fashion. I even go so far as to say, don?t even buy groceries unless you have time to put things away functionally once you get home.
3) Keep a supply of frozen fruits and vegetables on hand to save time washing, peeling and cutting up.
4) Keep a variety of bread products in the freezer? pita pockets, tortillas, rolls, bread, etc. This way you have many options without them spoiling or going bad.
5) Use beans and tofu in place of meat. This will no doubt save preparation and clean up time.
6) Have decent equipment on hand. Non-stick pans, sharp knives, measuring spoons and scissors. (Cutting meat with scissors, not a knife, saves time.)
7) And, as always, plan meals based on what’s in the fridge, not the cupboards. Emphasize fresh produce, lean meats and then whole grains. Don’t just eat salty, convenience noodle or rice mixes.
Watch for the Eating for Energy segment every Tuesday on BCTV’s Noon News Hour!
Article written by Patricia Chuey and reprinted with permission