If its’ a constant struggle to keep the whole family happy at the dinner table, it’s high time you made yourself a family meal plan. Don’t know where to start? Not a problem! We’ve put together a list of everything you need to consider, plus some of our top home-cooking tips.
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Hectic and busy work or school lives can put pressure on our evenings. How often do you have to whip something up last minute or discover wilted vegetables in the fridge? With family meal plans, dinners become less challenging; you know precisely what food to cook and when. All it takes is a little pre-planning to save time throughout the week. Help yourself succeed by avoiding complex or time-consuming dishes so that you’re not overwhelmed mid-week, and steer clear of any difficult-to-access ingredients.
To get started, gather the family together to compile a list of favourite recipes for a sense of how to accommodate everyone’s tastes. Planning with this in mind is sure to reduce waste and the need for multiple trips to the store! If you want to avoid the grocery store altogether, meal kit services offer a useful alternative. With Marley Spoon you get a choice of 50+ recipes so you save time on planning, too. Either way, no more stressing at the last minute about what to cook or how to fit it in.
Catching up with your children over dinner is a treasured moment. There’s something special about sharing and caring over a delicious bowl of pasta. Bring that relationship between family and dinner back with a well-planned weekly menu. Involve your children in the process by picking out favourites and planning out meals. Tired of the same dishes every evening? A meal plan helps introduce new flavours and discover new family favourites together.
In fact, with easy-to-make recipes, you can discover (or rediscover) the joy of cooking with your family too. A meal kit service like Marley Spoon develops recipes that offer maximum flavour for minimum effort and complication. Ingredients are pre-portioned and all meals can be made in six steps or fewer! Choose from delicious family staples or deliberately challenge yourselves to try new things. Every week, you can try something different – and it’s all certain to be tasty and satisfying.
A family meal plan plays a huge part in developing a happy and healthy home: not only will you have more money in your pocket at the end of the week, but you’ll have more spare time, too. Why? It’s simple. By only buying and cooking what you need, you’ll no longer produce needless waste or spend money on produce that goes bad. Good kitchen management rubs off on your kids, too, so you’ll be instilling great life lessons! Planning your meals may sound time-consuming, but it’s not. It’s a fun family activity with benefits that far outweigh the costs.
Saving time isn’t the only benefit. Cooking for yourself is the easiest and most affordable way to improve your diet and you’ll know exactly what goes into every meal. Mix it up with low calorie, vegan, and high-protein days with a wealth of kid-friendly recipes. Meal planning is also a great way to teach your kids to reduce their carbon footprint; portion control, reduced waste, seasonal ingredients – every little helps.
I love Marley Spoon , I’ve tried other brands but none are as good. They have a huge menu selection, produce is the freshest, and the meals are incredibly tasty. I don’t have to think about what to cook just be excited about what I’m about to eat !
We’ve finished our second box - two orders so far, and I’m absolutely loving the flavours of the food and how everything is organised in the paper bags ready to go. It’s taken all the guesswork out of trying to figure out what to eat for dinner, because it is structured, organised and waiting to go... Further, the best thing of all is that it is teaching me how to cook properly and yummy foods. So I am learning so much as well. Thanks!!
Great variety of recipes, it really makes cooking a good variety of healthy and tasty meals each week easy.
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