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Food Hacks

I'm no gourmet, but I need to eat better.

What I need is a "Menu" of a very limited number of Dishes (I'm thinking 5-10)
That I can:
1. Keep the basic ingredients on hand (preferrably ones that "Keep" well.
2. Make quickly (I don't particularly like to cook)
3. Improve my nutrician by eating (Did you see the moving "Super size me"?)

Nice to haves would be:
1. A mix and match set of ingredients (i.e. 6 things to combine differently to make 10 different meals)
2. Tastes reasonably good and I wouldn't be embarrassed to server to guests.

One book I found that look like the right idea is "A Man, A Can, A Plan"

Any have other resources to use to build that basic "Menu"

Appelq

TOPICS: Life Hacks
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SavingDinner.com

I like the site www.savingdinner.com, you can sign up for weekly menus (Subsciptions are for 3, 6 or 12 months and inexpensive) to be sent to you (with a grocery list) and all you have to do is follow the easy instructions. The emals are super easy and very good, my husband likes them and he is full after dinner (a rare thing!).

Once I get the weekly menu, I order the gorceries online and they arrive the next day. I can usually order organic meat and produce, so the flavours are strong.

I signed up for their Mega Menu Mailer a few weeks ago ($8.95) and you get recipes for 22 meals that you make marinades for and then freeze the meals. We have been very busy getting our online store up and running, so I thought it would be perfect, and it is. I just defrost the marinating meat, cook it up, add a salad, some veggies and maybe rice and dinner is done and it tastes great.

 
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