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[quote=Anonymous]Two working (out of the home) parents, 2 kids ages 5 and 3.  We have no hired cleaners or food prep, although we are not opposed to ordering in!  But we try to have "real" meals for the kids most days.

Our "simple" weekend prep meals include:

meat loaf muffins - mix together a pound of ground turkey, some breadcrumbs, tomato sauce, an egg, and a bag of shredded broccoli and portion out into a muffin tin.  This makes 6 "muffins" which I can cook in our tiny toaster oven.  Each muffin is a serving and freezes well.  You can of course make more at a time but I like cooking in the toaster oven since I'm usually using the bigger oven at the same time when I'm making these.

sheet pan veggies - buy two bags of precut frozen veggies.  Broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, etc.  Throw onto a baking sheet, sprinkle with oil and salt, cook.  That gets us through a week or so.

Rice.  In 45 minutes total we have enough rice for our family of four to eat with the items above.

Weekdays if we don't have any leftovers I'll make the following in under 30 minutes:

eggs scrambled with spinach and shredded cheese.

boboli pizza crust with tomato sauce and cheese on top, add some frozen vegetables or fresh mushrooms and cook in the oven

fresh fish with olive oil and salt, broiled for like 15 minutes

We try to keep a fresh baguette in the house (which is easy for me to pick up on the way home from work) and it makes almost anything feel like a more complete meal.
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