Internet Service Awards | Quick Meal Tips
Everybody has a hectic, busy schedule these days, and finding time to prepare meals can be difficult. The internet, again, provides us with the resources we need to shorten that prep time and get our meals on the table in record time.
- GoodHousekeeping.com – If you love the quick, easy recipes that you find in the Good Housekeeping Magazine, then you’ll love their website even more. Just go to their Quick and Easy Recipe section to find all those simple to make recipes, nicely arranged in categories. You can find lunch recipes, soup recipes, seafood recipes and even, picky eaters recipes.
- Busycooks.About.com – About.com has a combined all its quick and easy recipes and tips into a section called Busycooks. It has wonderful quick tips for throwing a meal together, often without any measuring at all. It also has sections on make-ahead and crockpot recipes.
- HowStuffWorks.com – If you’re just looking for tips on how to speed up your preparation process, then The Learning Channel’s website is a good place to look. They provide tips on what types of food to have on hand for last minute meals and suggestions that will help you get any meal on the table faster.
- Healthy-Quick-Meals.com – Sometimes the tips you get for quick and easy meals are not the most healthy options for your family. This site tries to maintain the balance of both. Besides recipes, it has a whole page full of cooking tips that can help shave some minutes off your preparation time, as well.
- QuickMealHelp.com – The subtitle of this site is: 20 minute meals with what’s on hand. The site has a recipe search that searches by the ingredients you type in. All the recipes are for meals that can be made in 20 minutes or less. The site also has great tips for saving time on meal preparation and a e-newsletter that will send tips direct to your inbox.
- SimpleandDelicious.com – This site does deliver ’simple and delicious’ recipes, but also has a great wealth of information on how to save time and effort in your kitchen. A lot of the time saving tips have to do with organization and planning. Plan your menu. Organize your spice shelf. They help you shave a few minutes off of everything you do during the week, when it comes to meal preparation.
- CheapFamilyMeals.info – Although the website title says ‘cheap’ not quick, the two do tend to go together. You’ll find plenty of tips for saving time, as well as money. The site also has recipe categories for Quick Dinner Recipes and Easy Freezer Recipes.
- MyRecipes.com – This recipe internet service has its own category for quick and easy recipes. It also provides a list of 20-minute meals that are heart healthy, under its healthy diet category. You can even sign up for an email that will send a new quick and healthy dinner recipe to your inbox every weekday.
- MealsMatter.org – Vegetarian, one-pot dishes, kid-friendly dishes… this site takes all its quick and easy meals and puts them into categories for you, to make it even easier to find what you are looking for. You can use the site without joining, but there are extra benefits available to members, like a newsletter with tips for busy families.
- CookingDebauchery.com – Even gourmet chefs need to find ways to shorten their meal prep time. This is a cooking blog with pictures of food items that are sure to stir your appetite. Among the great recipes, the blogger also provides great tips for saving time without sacrificing flavor.
