This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own.

Health & Fitness

How To Make Fast Food Healthy

Drive right past the drive-thru this National Fast Food Day and enjoy fast, delicious food at home.

 

November 16th is National Fast Food Day. Whoa! Hold up! Before you celebrate with a ride thru the drive through I recommend trying two tips to help you enjoy fast, delicious, well balanced, and cost-effective food in the comfort of your own kitchen.

Find out what's happening in Brooklinewith free, real-time updates from Patch.

 

One of the main reasons people turn to fast food establishments for meals is because they are busy. Another is that they can’t think of what to cook. And some people are unaware of the high calorie count and unhealthy ingredients contained in many commercially sold fast food meals.

Find out what's happening in Brooklinewith free, real-time updates from Patch.

 

But eating healthy, delicious meals that are quick to make is easier than you may think, and it is totally “doable” for even the busiest people. It’s all a matter of getting the resources you need and in working around your schedule.

 

Try these two tips to make eating healthy fast food at home easy:

 

Make a Date to Plan. Set a regular 10-minute appointment on your calendar for looking at your weekly schedule, and use that time to formulate your menu plan for the upcoming week.

 

Find Your Biggest Time Blocks. Identify the one or two days you will have the most time to cook in the upcoming week. Make one-dish meals, such as chili or pork goulash in double batches. Then, reheat them on your busiest days. Or make meals that can easily be converted into another quick dish, such as using leftover meat in quesadillas or pasta.

 

If you’re not interested in figuring out how to balance your meals by using all the food groups, or are fresh out of creative ways to make your leftovers taste good, spend $7.99 for the best eating resource that money can buy. For that price you can download one year full of weekly menu plans, grocery lists, and the recipes to make healthy, balanced, delicious, and fast meals for your family.

 

Easy Weekly Meals touchscreen cookbooks download to all mobile devices including phones, tablets, e-readers, and computers. They’ve got everything you need to make fast food at home for every day of the year. The books’ menu plans are designed for 15-30-minute meals on most days. They use every leftover morsel, and in ways that make them seem like totally different dishes. Sometimes leftovers are even converted from one type of cuisine to another.

 

And the books are portable! That means you can tap your touchscreen to display your weekly grocery list while at the supermarket and shop directly from your phone. The weekly lists are organized by the aisles where you will find ingredients in the grocery store.

 

The books are smart too! They do all of the thinking and planning for you. Unfamiliar with a particular cooking term? Don’t worry! Every term is linked to the books’ glossary so one tap of the screen takes you from the recipe to the term’s definition and one more tap takes you back to your place in the recipe. Not sure how to execute a particular technique? The more difficult ones are linked to a slide show demonstration. Just tap your way to the demo and tap your way back to the recipe when you are done.

 

Save money on food waste, save time with quick meals, and eat healthy food all year long the Easy way.

 

Celebrate this National Fast Food Day at home!

 

Photos courtesy of Easy Weekly Meals

We’ve removed the ability to reply as we work to make improvements. Learn more here

The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Want to post on Patch?