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[quote=Anonymous]Meat sauces for pasta (turkey) or meatballs heat up really well.

Turkey pinto bean chile--great from freezer and heats up really well.

Pinto bean/butternut squash soup (epicurious) heats up well.

We do currries and lots of soups of all cuisines-- tortilla soup.  Eat the curries with rice, pita, chappati (whole wheat flatbread).

Pulled pork, bbq chicken (great in slow cooker)

We also will cook chicken etc on grill or in oven like PP and eat with salads, etc.  Roast a chicken on Sunday evening, and the next day do a salad or throw it into enchiladas (another regular meal of ours).

We learned to get super creative as I get bored eating the same thing over and over.  We also saved money on groceries because we started themes for the week as not to buy 37 different ingredients. For example, have a 1-3 mexican dishes one week; 1-3 moroccan/middle eastern dishes the following week. Less waste.

Also, a slow cooker is your friend. It allows you to make another meal while you have the other burners going. (We have a 6 burner stove and you better believe it almost all 6 can be going on our big  weekend cooking marathon).

Doing this allows for us to get dinner on the table in 20 minutes. And we eat really well. It took us a while to figure out this all so that it runs so smoothly, so don't give up if you have a few failures/run out of food on Thursday!  [/quote]

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