Saturday, October 16, 2010

Quick and easy recipes for the busy family by Jamie Francis

Many families lead very busy lives, especially during the working and school week when the days are taken up with work and school and the evenings are taken up with homework, extracurricular activities, household chores and parents trying to find time to put their feet up and spend quality time together. When everyone is finally home, all they want is a nice hearty dinner before they go to bed.
It can be difficult to cook inspirational food night after night, especially if time is short and they want the meals to be healthy, nutritious and delicious but thanks to the internet, there are hundreds of quick healthy recipes to choose from and making batches to freeze can be a sure-fire way to make sure that you never get tempted to buy convenience foods.
Healthy recipes used to mean hours of preparation in the kitchen but these days chefs and amateur cooks have found ways to speed up the process and ensure that healthy really is a viable option even for busy families. This is down to easy to source and store ingredients, a mixture of fresh and cupboard items, quick ways to prepare food, quick ways to cook the food and assemble it and also recipes for large batches of food that can be frozen and cooked quickly on demand.
The internet is one of the best places to source quick healthy recipes and you will find everything from Spanish and Italian recipes, to vegetarian dishes, the perfect lasagne recipe and healthy recipes for fussy children. Once you know some basics about what foods are healthy and easy to prepare, you can experiment on finding ways to cook dinner in half the time that you normally would and to get the rest of the family involved in the preparation too.
Make anything from quick healthy pasta dishes and healthy stews, to quick nutritious curries and vegetable dishes in under an hour and choose from loads of recipes which allow you to prepare it quickly and then simply put it in the oven for an hour while you get on with other things. The more you know about cooking and the more recipes you cook from, the easier it will be for you to prepare fast and easy home cooked meals that the whole family will enjoy.
Choose from thousands of quick healthy recipes online and you will find the perfect lasagne recipe to keep the whole family happy.
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Jamie Francis

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