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Healthy Meals in Minutes
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Families are especially busy these days and often resort to fast food or packaged food to make mealtime simple. However, packaged food means sacrificing nutrition for convenience. There are nutritious meals that take only minutes to prepare. This articles contains three recipes - Crustless Quiche, 3-Way Stir-Fry, and Vegetable Stew - that will meet the needs of busy families. They´re fast, healthy, and delicious. |
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These days families are busier than ever. Both parents work, often commuting long distances. Kids are involved in multiple extra-curricular activities, sometimes two and three per evening. It’s a wonder families ever find time to have dinner together at all, much less sit down to a healthy, homemade meal. Packaged foods such as macaroni and cheese, prepared pasta sauce, and frozen pizzas have replaced casseroles and meat-and-potatoes as daily staples. But while the convenience is appealing, the health issues that result are often far from desirable. Just when Mom, Dad, and the kids need more energy than ever to keep up with their ultra-busy schedules, packaged foods high in fat, sodium, and preservatives do little to keep a body healthy. So what’s an over-scheduled family to do?
Contrary to popular belief, worried parents can provide healthy meals in a short amount of time. What’s required isn’t so much extra time, but a shift in mindset. Skip the center aisles of the grocery store and hit the outer produce and meat/egg/dairy aisles instead. The following healthy meals take mere minutes to prepare and provide all the necessary nutrition a busy body needs.
CRUSTLESS QUICHE
This meal is a great way to clean out the produce drawer and makes it to the table in less than 35 minutes.
Preheat a skillet to medium, add a splash of olive or safflower oil, and toss in a pile of roughly-chopped vegetables. Broccoli, asparagus and bell pepper can be easily chunked; corn and spinach can be tossed straight from their bags. Sauté the vegetables until slightly tender, about 8 minutes. In a separate bowl, whisk together...
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