Great Tips Thanks ----- Original Mes sage ----- From: "delma bliss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>; "JanetsKitchen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "OurKitchenTable2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peeps-Cooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:07 PM Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Ten ideas for quick and healthy meals
> > > Ten ideas for quick and healthy meals > > 1. Keep pizza bases in the freezer. Top them with onions, red or > green peppers, fresh tomatoes or mushrooms. Go easy on the cheese. > > 2. A baked potato only takes a few minutes in the microwave. Same > with the broccoli to top it with. Can fry up some bacon ahead or bulk > sausage ahead and refridgerate. Top potato with cooked chicken, or > meat cheese, and nuke, for a good meal. Serve with salad, and your > set. > > 3. Add tuna or a few chopped pieces of ham or cooked chicken to a > prepared pasta salad. > > 4. Cooked pasta and rice both freeze very well. Cook up a large batch > of each over the weekend, and put into serving sized containers or > freezer bags to be plunged into boiling water to reheat quickly. > > I sometimes make up a vegetable fried rice ahead, and freeze, that > can be pulled in the morning, and I can then add the meat of my > choice that evening to reheat quickly. > > 5. Frozen vegetables make a lovely accompaniment to oven-roasted > chicken. While this dish takes about an hour to cook, it only takes > about two minutes to put into the oven. Either do the chicken in the > crock, or roast the day before and reheat. > > 6. Get into a habit of cooking a larger quantity of food than you > need. Freeze half of it and microwave frozen meals when you have no > time to spend on food preparation. Vegetable soups freeze > particularly well and are also healthy. > > 7. Fresh chopped vegetables, like onions or peppers, make a lovely > accompaniment to quick-cooking rice. When you go to the store, it > only takes a small amount of time longer to remove everyting from its > bags and bias cut lots of veges to eat raw, or use to cook quickly or > stir fry. They are done and ready when you need them. To keep them > fresh, put into plastic bags and add a moist paper towel to the bag. > It'll keep them from drying out. > > 8. Fresh fruit, like bananas and apples, are quite filling and easy > to grab on the run and infinitely preferable to chocolates or chips. > > 9. Keep boiled eggs in the fridge. A small amount of mayonnaise can > be added to make egg sandwiches in a minute. > > 10. Fish fingers can be cooked in the microwave without having any > oil added to them. This takes about three minutes. If you like them > microwaved. I don't, but some do. > > Delma > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.3.0/1505 - Release Date: 6/16/2008 > 07:20 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
