How do you 'cheat' on dinner? (fast food, freezer, healthy, defrost)
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You can flavor them with anything that strikes your fancy, I like mine with lime and chipotle or curry powder. Love to put them on salad or sprinkled on top of soup.
Thank you!! And thank you Dawn for the thread! I'll check it out. I'm a total pansy when it comes to anything remotely spicy. I cry over Wendy's chili for pity sake! So I think I'll stick to trying it with more mild seasonings!
Chop up two or three leftover boneless chicken breasts (which we almost always have), add 8 cups water, Better than Bouillon, 1 big bag frozen veggies. Season and simmer for a little while, then eat. Also works with frozen cheese tortellini instead of chicken.
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Thank you!! And thank you Dawn for the thread! I'll check it out. I'm a total pansy when it comes to anything remotely spicy. I cry over Wendy's chili for pity sake! So I think I'll stick to trying it with more mild seasonings!
I've only done them the way I posted the original recipe. It's a really good snack, but that's all it is -- a snack.
PS. I hadn't properly read your initial post here (so I didn't realize that you weren't feeling well). Sorry about that. Feel better, Ronni!
I buy the 5 Lbs bag of Polska Kielbasa at Costco and when I forget to defrost something, I pull out a loop and sautee it with sliced onion and sweet peppers. I mcrowave some rice and thats dinner in less than 20 minutes!
^^^ These comments are closest to what I do as well.
When cooking pasta, I always fix enough to freeze some...then just remove and defrost in microwave=perfect. Jarred sauce and fresh cheeses then make a quick meal. Or saute bits of leftover veggies in olive oil/garlic. Pasta added in thin soups, easy mac/cheese or mixed in with salad for a heartier meal.
Love to get ideas for v-e-r-y fast meals
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I'm surprised you managed that when sick! Isn't that what canned soup is for?
I'm a huge fan of homemade and from-scratch, but sometimes...
Speaking of canned soup, I always keep a few cans of cream-of broccoli, celery, and mushroom on hand. They make great bases for other meals.
I always have frozen peas and broccoli cuts and chopped spinach on hand. That way there is always something "green" in the house.
We buy boxed mac and cheese . Only, since we are grown-ups, it's the organic Annies variety now. Really, the bunny on the box is what gets to me.
We're veggies, so I keep canned black beans and chickpeas in the pantry.
I always have a bag (or clamshell) of organic mixed greens in the fridge. I tried to give them up once upon a time, but our salad consumption dropped by 90%.
So, emergency "go to" meals are some riff on the above.
Mac n cheese with a green salad.
Broccoli soup with with real (frozen) broccoli and cheddar cheese, served with crusty French bread and a salad.
Black beans rolled in a whole wheat wrap with the greens and some salsa.
Chickpeas heated with canned diced tomatoes and a bit of curry powder. Add lemon and spinach at the end. Serve over basmati rice.
I LOVE breakfast for dinner!! I feel guilty doing it with a little one in the house - feel like I should have at least a couple veggies at dinner - but it really is a guilty pleasure for me!
Breakfast for dinner is always an easy go to meal.
When I'm sick, I like comfort food like grilled cheese and tomato soup or macaroni and cheese.
One of my easy cheat meals which hubby loves is roast beef and gravy or turkey and gravy using sliced cold cuts and packaged or jarred gravy. It's super easy and you can add sides for a filling meal
I LOVE breakfast for dinner!! I feel guilty doing it with a little one in the house - feel like I should have at least a couple veggies at dinner - but it really is a guilty pleasure for me!
I try and do Western Omelet with whatever veggies we have on hand.
I'm jealous! We live in the middle of nowhere so no one delivers here. The closest restaurants are half an hour away. Hubby grew up in Jersey and NYC so he's always complaining that they're not 'real' restaurants. LOL I'd be happy if we had just ONE place that would deliver here for those nights that I'm exhausted or don't feel good and have no desire to really cook or drive an hour round trip to pick something up. Didn't realize how good we had it before we moved here. The things we take for granted!
I can empathize. I lived in rural Florida years ago and the nearest grocery store was 20 minutes away on a bumpy, non-paved, road. I did enough cursing to last a life time when I lived there. I swore never again.
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. Only, since we are grown-ups, it's the organic Annies variety now. Really, the bunny on the box is what gets to me. 
