| Today's working parents have designed ingenious | | | | plan ahead and have all the ingredients on hand |
| ways of making sure there is a healthy meal on | | | | when you start to prepare the food and drink |
| the table in time for dinner each day. Some | | | | you want to serve. This means shopping for |
| parents spend Saturday and Sunday cooking | | | | these ingredients each week and making a plan |
| meals for the rest of the week. They freeze the | | | | for what you want to serve each day. Check the |
| food and then all they have to do when they get | | | | shelves of your cupboards and refrigerator to |
| home from work is to pop the ready made | | | | make sure you have the seasonings and basic |
| dinner in the oven or microwave. Of course, with | | | | foodstuffs that you need. |
| the many frozen meals you can buy at the | | | | It is also best if you plan the complete menu for |
| supermarket, there is an alternative to spending | | | | each meal. This way you know exactly what you |
| your free time cooking. While these are fine to | | | | need to buy when you go shopping for groceries. |
| get you out of a pinch, it is not a good idea to | | | | It also helps to eliminate serving the same meal |
| rely on them as the only source of dinner for | | | | twice in a row if you tend to get a little |
| adults or children. | | | | sidetracked. For example, you can serve potatoes |
| Most parents want to provide the family with a | | | | one day, rice the next, noodles the next and so |
| meal that looks as it they spent hours in the | | | | on. If you decide to cook a roast on Sunday, you |
| kitchen. There are many simple meals you can | | | | can include plans for the leftover meat in the |
| prepare when you get home from work and still | | | | menu plan for the week. |
| have dinner at a reasonable time. You do have to | | | | |