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[quote=Anonymous]We do 20/30 minute meals, but a LOT of the time it's because we do prep the night before.  Here are some constants:

Like so many others, we do pasta or millet with jarred sauce, some kind of meat, and broccoli thrown in.  Serve with salad but our salads are just mixed greens from the box with evoo and nice vinegar/squeeze of lemon, S+P so no prep time.

Lemon pepper chicken baked on rice w/ spinach or broccoli. We season the chicken, cook the onion and add to the rice with the veggies and seasonings, and put the whole thing in a baking dish.  The next day, we throw it in the oven the second we get home. Done in 30-45 minutes depending on how much chicken, but you're just hanging out playing with your family.  We make two dinners worth (8 servings).

Some kind of soup or chili in the crockpot with cornbread - prep it the night before, make the cornbread.  Next day just turn on the crockpot in the morning.  This is also two dinners plus a couple lunches worth.  We serve it with a salad.

We usually do fish once a week as well, which cooks super fast, and we serve it with seasoned rice and salad.  That takes about 20 minutes total.

On the weekends, I make something elaborate. A roast with caulflower gratin and a salad with more than just lettuce, or a roasted chicken with root veggies, or an elaborate curry.  I make big dishes though and then process the leftovers into the next week - like made a big ham, and used some for crockpot split pea soup that week. That kind of thing.

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