Eating healthy can be much easier and fun if you adopt some simple habits.
Follow these simple tips to help save time preparing and cooking meals:
- Chop extra fruit and vegetables when preparing meals so you have extra for lunches, snacks, and meals the next day.
- Buy pre-cut vegetables such as broccoli, squash, and mushrooms.
- Cook twice the chicken or ground beef you need and keep extras in the fridge to make chicken salad, enchiladas, chili, or spaghetti sauce the next day.
- Ask the kids to help. By involving children in preparing food, they’ll appreciate meals more and learn important life skills. Depending on their age, kids can wash and peel vegetables, tear up lettuce, mash potatoes, wash and cut fruit, drain and rinse canned beans or lentils, and stir a pot.
- Prepare tomorrow’s supper a day ahead so all you have to do is pop it in the oven when you get home. This way it can be cooking while you prepare the next day’s meal. You will save valuable time and you’ll always know what’s for supper the next day! This method helps decrease the stress of menu planning and will make you less likely to indulge in fast food stops on the way home from work.
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For more tips and for ideas for using leftovers:
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/tips-healthy-eating/time-saving-cooking-tips-healthy-meals.html
