| You don't have to spend hours in the kitchen to | | | | them rather than boil them. |
| have a nice sit-down family meal. Meals do not | | | | Healthy breads, cereals and pastas are all quick |
| have to be complicated to be healthy and worthy | | | | and simple ways to add complex carbohydrates |
| of family togetherness and you certainly do not | | | | to your meals. Canned tuna and ground poultry |
| have to "eat from a box" to make meals | | | | meats make great substitutes for red meats in |
| convenient. | | | | many different sauces. Turkey burgers that are |
| Microwave meals and oven-ready foods may be | | | | seasoned well make fast and scrumptious |
| simple and tasty but most of them are filled with | | | | suppers. If you have even half an hour for meal |
| different types of preservatives, saturated fats, | | | | preparation, these can be made along with a salad |
| sodium and sugars. Even those that are low in fat | | | | and some fresh fruit in less time than you have |
| and sodium would have been preserved with | | | | planned. |
| chemicals to prolong their shelf lives. While these | | | | One-dish meals such as a pot roast with potatoes |
| are convenient to use when you are in a time | | | | and carrots are easy to make in the oven but will |
| crunch, they are not the only ways to prepare a | | | | be even easier and perhaps tastier when made in |
| quick at-home meal your family will love. | | | | a crock pot. Put the vegetables in the bottom of |
| You can buy some products prepackaged. | | | | your crock pot and place the roast on top. |
| Lettuce, shredded cabbage, carrots and radishes | | | | Season, cover and let cook for several hours. Put |
| all come in bags. There are varieties of salads you | | | | it together in the morning before leaving to work |
| can buy in bags in the produce section of your | | | | and when come home in the evening you have a |
| local grocery store. If you like other vegetables | | | | healthy and delicious dinner waiting for you. What |
| on your salad, it does not take a lot of time to | | | | could be simpler than that? Well, pot roast is not |
| chop and add them. Canned vegetables and fruits | | | | your only choice and there are other recipes that |
| to which salt and sugar have not been added are | | | | are just as easy. |
| easy ways of giving your family the fruits and | | | | Make family meals easy and enjoy the time you |
| vegetables it needs. Frozen vegetables are not | | | | have together instead of eating on the run. Easy |
| unhealthy, either, though if you want the best, | | | | family meals really can be healthy! |
| you should buy your veggies fresh and steam | | | | |