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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP - we also live in the land of sucky schedules. We cook ahead on the weekends and also use the crock pot during the week (it's totally safe). I was convinced all the meals would be nasty, soft, creamy affairs, but we use non-creamy recipes found on the 365 crockpot blog. If you have an hour or so one night just check out the blog and try it out. Everything has been good except for one kinda nasty chicken. We make the recipe and then freeze half to eat two weeks later.

Other easy things to do on the weekends that you can heat up in under 10 minutes during the week. We buy 1 pound of ground beef and buy a soft and hard taco kit and cook the beef ahead of time. Day of we add veggies and rice and can of black beans.

One trick here is if you plan ahead, you can cut the to-be-added veggies up ahead of time for all your meals (like lettuce, onions, peel and cut carrots, etc.)

We buy ground turkey, brown it with tomatoes, italian seasoning and a jar of some hopefully healthy tomato sauce. We cook one box of pasta. Store in fridge, add salad night of, voila. (if you put water on the pasta it actually reheats well in the microwave.

Another good idea is to bread chicken breasts, toss at 350 in the oven for 45 minutes and then you can do tons with that during the week. Fast stir-frys, or add to rice and veggies, etc.

also, for day of, cheese quesadillas with broccoli take under 10 min to cook up fresh. Add some black beans and sour cream.

I know it seems daunting, and admittedly part of our system works b/c my husband takes the kids out for 2 hours on Sundays while I do all this, but if you sit down and plan, you'll see you could easily come up with 10 meals for a solid rotation, you could figure out which meals you could cook at the same time, which cuts down on what you have to do overall. Green Giant makes awesome frozen veggies and we eat them probably 4-5 nights per week. Ziploc makes awesome steamer bags and we also toss veggies in there and steam them a ton.

Good luck. It is doable. It took us a while to really get the hang of it but it works.
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