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Fast, easy, wholesome meals to keep your family going
Yeseven on a frantic schedule, you can create nutritious and delicious meals that keep everyone in your family happy, healthy, and brimming with energy. Here is all the help you need to plan and prepare a wide variety of tasty dishes that will satisfy even the pickiest eaters, all without a great deal of time or effort!
Quick Meal Solutions is the ultimate handbook for parents with little time and stomachs to fill. It puts the flavorand the nutritionback in fast food, with more than 150 winning recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and healthy snacks. For those truly stressful times, you'll find a tempting selection of ten-minute meals, one-dish dinners, thirty-minute dishes, make-ahead foods, and even speedy and sensational treats for parties and celebrations. You'll keep everybody smiling with:
Avocado Chicken Salad Sandwiches Healthy Sweet & Sour Slaw Moist Berry Muffins Pita Pizza Chicken Pesto Panini Quick and Easy Vegetable Stir Fry Beef Casserole Turkey Chili Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches and many more
This healthy fast-food guide also includes:
- Time-saving ideas and grocery shopping lists
- Meal-planning guidance and quick-prep tips
- Nutrition-savvy ingredient swaps for creating healthier meals
- A user-friendly tour through the new USDA MyPyramid nutrition guidelines
Synopsis
In this follow-up to "Quick Meals for Healthy Kids and Busy Parents," the authors deliver fast, healthy meal solutions and more than 170 quick and delicious recipes.
Synopsis
Quick Meal Solutions puts the flavor—and the nutrition—back in fast food. From Healthy Sweet & Sour Slaw to Chicken Pesto Panini and Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches, it gives you more than 150 winning recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and healthy snacks. You'll find a tempting selection of ten-minute meals, one-dish dinners, thirty-minute dishes, make-ahead foods, and even speedy and sensational treats for parties and celebrations
About the Author
AUDREY C. WRIGHT, MS, RD, is the former director of Father Walter Memorial Child Care Center in Montgomery, Alabama.MARGARET L. BOGLE, PhD, RD, is Executive Director of the Lower Mississippi Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative.SANDRA K. NISSENBERG, MS, RD, is a registered dietitian and full-time cookbook editor, as well as the author of several books on healthy eating for children.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Chapter 1. What's Happening to Our Eating Habits Today?
Chapter 2. Understanding and Using the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Chapter 3. Planning Ahead.
Chapter 4. Make Mealtime Family Time.
Chapter 5. Meal Solutions for Busy People.
Chapter 6. Breakfast to Go and Stay.
Chapter 7. Lunch on the Run.
Chapter 8. Meals in Tem Minutes or Less.
Chapter 9. Countdown to Dinner.
Chapter 10. One Dish Dinners.
Chapter 11. Make-ahead Meals.
Chapter 12. On the Side.
Chapter 13. Mobile Munchies and Other Snack Ideas.
Appendix 1: Commonly Asked Questions from Busy Parents.
Appendix 2: Resources.
Index.
About the Author.