Finding Time For A Family Dinner
When time is scarce, eating dinner together is a great way to catch up and spend time as a family. Yet when time is scarce, togetherness often falls by the wayside.
Finding time to cook tasty and nutritious meals for your family is a challenge all the time, but especially so in the Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year's blur. Cooking takes time and many parents are finding it increasingly difficult to prepare a home cooked dinner for the family.
To stay prepared during particularly busy periods, make double quantities of main dishes and freeze the extra meals. You'll cut down on preparation time and still enjoy a home-cooked meal. Make it special by declaring a "cooking night" each Sunday that involves the whole family.
Besides freezing meals ahead, you can also do some double-duty cooking. Bake 8 boneless chicken breast on Sunday. Use 4 for tonight's meal, and have another meal's worth of pre-cooked chicken ready for the rest of the recipe (toss with pasta and gravy for a quick dinner!). Or fix a large pork roast for dinner, shred the leftovers for barbecue pork sandwiches later in the week.
When you get creative, you'll find that your home-cooked meals can be ready quicker than it takes to wait for the pizza delivery man!
