All-in-One Meals
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Eating properly doesn’t have to be a production, and need not require cast and crew.
Cooking up a healthy, nutritious meal can require little effort and just one pan – be it a skillet, a Crock-Pot or slow cooker, a wok or a saucepan.
Stews, soups, pies, jambalayas (pelau anyone?), or stir fries, the variety of foods you can make by just combining all the ingredients in one pan are endless.
You would need at least one type of all of the following:
- Protein
- Vegetable
- Grain or Starch
and add appropriate seasonings to taste and it’s on like boil’ corn.
Switch up the esthetics of the food. Tease your eyes and boost your nutrition by substituting vegetables of different colours and switching to different proteins and grains/ starch from time to time. Also, switch up the taste by experimenting with different herbs and spices, and leave excess sugar and salt out of the mix. For sweetness for example, add some sweet potatoes/ yams to the mix.
Just toss the ingredients into the slow cooker before you head to work, turn that baby on, and come home to a hot, satisfying home-cooked meal.
Alternatively, toss in the ingredients into the cooker at night, close the lid and go to sleep. You’ll wake up to a hot meal that you can pack yourself for lunch.
Slow, simmered, root vegetable foods are rich, flavourful and exactly what the doctor has ordered for the winter blues or end-of-year family get togethers.
You save time, energy and money, and best of all, you have less dishes to wash!
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