Keep Some Quick Meal Ingredients Handy For When Time Is Short.
All right I admit I don’t always like to cook, especially when time is short and we have run behind because of what seems like endless errands and such. While it would be much easier to just run through a drive thru on occasions like this, I hate doing that especially when it comes to supper.
What I have done is to keep on hand the ingredients for 3 or 4 meals that I can “whip up” in a short amount of time, without having to run to the grocery store.
Depending on the tastes and size of your family you may have other ideas for quick meals but these are mine.
1. Chicken and Noodles.
I make my own noodles, they are super easy and they freeze well. I often triple the batch when I am making them, since I am going to have noodles drying out on my table anyway I might as well do a bunch at once and throw a few bags in the freezer.
When I boil a chicken it is just as easy to get a big pot out and do two or three and freeze some of it. You can even freeze the broth if you have room in your freezer.
So when time is short it is not hard to grab a bag of...