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Try These Amazing Healthy Dinner Recipes
By Olivia Mittak,
21 days ago
The road to health begins at the family table. Planning ahead by having healthy weekly menus saves time, money, and the temptation to hit take-out restaurants.
We know how it is. You come home from work, you’re tired and hungry and the last thing you feel like doing is preparing your family a meal! The urge to order takeout, go to a restaurant, or pop something in the microwave can be irresistible.
Tips For Making Healthy Dinners
Here are some tips to prevent that from happening.
Make Meals in Advance: When you are coming home from work, you’re exhausted and probably don’t feel like cooking. That’s why it’s a good idea to make your meals in advance. Take some time, maybe on the weekend, to make meals that can be stored during the week. It might not be as delicious as serving fresh food, but it may be worth your sanity and well-being!
Think of What You Are Going to Serve: Take some time to plan your meals in advance. Meatball Mondays, Taco Tuesdays, Wasabi Wednesdays… and so on. This way, you can be sure you have all your ingredients on hand for your meals and you don’t have to think too much about the dishes that need to be prepared.
Consider Health and Time: Of course, we want all our meals to be healthy, but we also want meals that can be made quickly and easily. It’s a good idea to scout out recipes in advance. When doing so, try to find ones that have healthy ingredients.
Keep Your Kitchen Organized: Keeping an organized kitchen is key to making dinner as easy and efficient as possible. If you have ingredients scattered all over the place and your cooking utensils aren't organized, you'll be scrambling to find items during cooking and stressing yourself out unnecessarily. Keep all of your utensils and ingredients organized. If you can separate them by recipe, even better.
Try To Give Yourself Enough Time: It can be hard to find enough time to cook when it's a particularly busy night. That's why it's important to plan ahead, as we mentioned above. By planning ahead, you'll be able to make easier recipes on busier nights. That way, you'll have plenty of time for tougher meals on nights when you don't have as much to do.
Other Things to Keep In Mind
Chicken and turkey are great lean meats, while vegetables are a good source of vitamins. Red meats and carbohydrates can be added in limited amounts. Be careful with red meat, as too much of it isn't great. To make it healthier, try finding the leanest red meat that you can in the store. For example, we recommend buying 93/7 ground beef or leaner.
Use the planned weekly meals we put together as they are, or substitute meals with other choices from our Healthy Dinner Ideas section. It’s filled with even more family-friendly healthy dinners you and your family are sure to love.
8 Weeks of Healthy Dinner Menus & Recipes
Use the free 8 weeks of meal plans we put together for a simple no-stress way to eat healthy dinners your family will love.
The fourth week of healthy dinner recipes , including a comfort food favorite and aromatic sauces for chicken and pork.
* Beef Stir-Fry * Pesto Chicken with Squash * Pork Chops with Peach Sauce * Pasta Primavera with Cheese * South of the Border Meatloaf * Chicken Cutlets with Ginger Sauce * Little Italy Sausage Potato Skillet
In the seventh week of healthy recipes, you'll find a spicy favorite jerk chicken, peachy pork chops, and linguine with white clam sauce.
* Penne with Chicken and Broccoli * Linguine with White Clam Sauce * Lentil and Kielbasa Stew * Pork with Peachy Salsa * Spicy Sloppy Joes * Jerk Chicken * Flank Steak with Spicy Crust
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