How to Make Healthy Recipes.

Healthy Recipe Tip #1

Using convenient appliances such as slow cookers and microwaves can be a huge time saver when planning and preparing meals. Many delicious and healthy recipes can be started in the morning and left to cook all day in a crock pot or slow cooker. These are great choices for working families.

In addition, making the meals ahead of time on the weekend and heating them in the microwave is a great way to stretch your food and your time. You can make many microwavable healthy meals at home, and single-serving microwave-safe containers allow every family member to eat on their schedule.

When planning the meals for the week, it is a good idea to create a chart listing each day’s menu and each day’s schedule.

Healthy Recipe Tip #2

Get your family involved in creating the week’s meal plan by asking for their input and noting everyone’s favorite foods. Eating healthy meals is still very important, so that (of course) does not mean eating pizza every night or having ice cream for dinner. But by involving your spouse and children in healthy recipe planning, you’ll help increase their interest in healthy eating immediately.

Healthy Recipe Tip #3

Cooking large quantities of healthy food recipes – and freezing the leftovers – is an easy way to save time. Cooking large amounts of stews, soups, pasta, chili, and casseroles can be a huge time saver. Making double and even triple batches of these staple foods, and freezing the leftovers for later use, is a great way to save time and money.

When freezing leftovers, however, it is important to label the containers carefully, using freezer tape and a permanent marker. Try to keep the oldest foods near the top to avoid having to throw away expired items.

Healthy Recipe Tip #4

Keeping a well-stocked pantry is as important as keeping a well-stocked freezer. Stocking the pantry with a good supply of staple items like canned vegetables, canned fruits, soup stocks, and the like will make healthy recipe preparation much faster and easier.

Stocking the pantry can save you money as well as time. Grocery stores are always running sales, and these sales are a great time to stock up. For instance, buying several cases of canned vegetables on sale can save lots of money and provide the basic ingredients for many nutritious, easy-to-prepare meals.

I hope you found these tips easy as pie!