Getting Real Food on the Table, Simplified

My goal is to prepare a nourishing meal for my family, every night. I try to keep it pretty simple, to ensure that I will be able to get a meal on the table, as well as completing my other tasks, such as homeschooling, cleaning, etc.. With the arrival of the fall season, I love making soups and a few other dishes which normally take longer to prepare. I noticed that some afternoons, it was taking an hour or more for me to prepare dinner. I came up with a plan that would help me to do the bulk of my kitchen prep work, one day a week. I usually grocery shop on Fridays or Saturdays, so I decided to assemble a list of kitchen prep tasks for one day a week, usually Saturday night.


Here is my first Saturday Night Prep. Tasks:  Chop Veggies for the week, make zucchini fritters, soak beans for soup, hardboil 9 eggs, make no-bake energy bites.

I chopped all the veggies for all the recipes I was using that week, and put them in labelled baggies. This made it so easy to prepare meals every day. Hardboiling eggs in advance makes it easy to whip up egg salad. I cooked zucchini fritters in advance, so that on breakfast night (usually Tuesday nights here), I could just reheat them in the oven.

This tip has revolutionized my time in the kitchen. I will gladly spend an hour or two in the kitchen on the weekend, to ensure that a healthy meal makes it on the table. (without having to work in the kitchen for hours each afternoon)

Do you have any kitchen preparation tips to share? I would love to hear them!

This post is linked to Kitchen Tip Tuesday, Homestead Revival,  WFMW, and WLW.