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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since it sounds like you don’t really cook, here are some ideas for premade stuff we regular stock up on from there for a quick kid friendly dinner:

Chicken cilantro wontons: steam with a bit of broth in a skillet with sugar snap peas or broccoli

Ravioli + sauce

Gyro meat. Serve on pitas with cherry tomato’s, cucumbers, red onion, plain yogurt

Frozen meatballs. Make meatball subs or pasta

Chicken apple sausage. Slice and sauté with apples and onions. Serve on rice

Salmon burgers / salmon fillets. Grill and put on a bun with avocado and lettuce.

The chicken tacos and chickpea/quinoa salad in the premade meals case are really good too.

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I love to cook and I miss it, but with 3 kids it is so much work to plan, shop, prep, and cook. I do resort to the premade stuff all too often. I do miss REAL cooking![/quote]

We almost exclusively shop at Costco, but I have 2 teen boys and a husband with fast metabolisms so they eat a ton of food. What I do is make a bunch of ingredients that I then can assemble in different ways. Like I will buy the 10 lb bag of dried black beans and cook a pound of them on Sunday, to use in tacos, black bean burgers, enchiladas, nachos, etc during the week. I’ll cook a pound of rice and use it in stir fry, curries, rice bowls, etc. I’ll roast a huge bag of broccoli and use it as a side, in wraps, bowls, etc.

This gives me the flexibility to change my meal on the fly, but still have most things pre-cooked and ready to go.[/quote]

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