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BACK TO ROUTINE, BACK TO FAMILY MEALS!
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Back to Routine, Back to Family Meals
Fall marks not just Back to School, but also what we like to call "Back to Routine." This is when the lazy days of summer become a distant memory and are replaced with homework, car pools and soccer practice. You know the drill. Now may be time to transition away from the grill and back into time-saving, weekly meal plans that include quick-to-prepare meals.
#1 Make a Plan
As the saying goes, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Sit down on Sunday afternoon, and make a plan for 4-5 dinners you want to make this week. Then build a shopping list from this plan and go shopping. You can even include the youngest members of your family in every step. The more they are involved in meal planning and cooking, the more likely they are to eat what's for dinner.
#2 Cook Once, Eat Twice
Instead of planning your meals one by one, think ahead. You can often get several meals for the time it takes to prepare one. For example, prepare an easy Lamb Roast with Garden Vegetables for Sunday night dinner and reserve half of the meat to make Lamb Pitas or Lamb Quesadillas the next night. Or consider doubling the recipe and saving half of everything for another meal by putting it in the freezer. You'll save time as well as a few dollars.
#3 Take a Short Cut
Throwing together a meal in minutes is easy when you enlist a little bit of convenience. Try using pre-made food components like pasta sauce or a bag of frozen veggies to cut preparation and cooking time in half. Make sure to stock your kitchen with a few convenient ingredients, then at a moment's notice, your next meal time will be a cinch.
Click here to download our "Cook Once, Eat Twice...with Lamb" handout!
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These ideas for Tweets or Facebook posts coordinate well with ideas we've featured in the "Back to Routine, Back to Family Meals" article above. Once you've re-purposed this article on your own website or blog, include a link to the article, your banner URL, and the hashtag #FAMILYDINNER.
- Three simple strategies for quick and easy weeknight meals!
- Get dinner on the table with lean & delicious lamb.
- Need a healthy meal in minutes? Cook once, eat twice!
- Cut mealtime in half by choosing easy to assemble recipes.
- Cook once, eat twice with lamb.
- Get back to family meals with this simple lamb recipe.
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Taming the Picky Eater: Make Dinnertime an Adventure
When your child is a picky eater, everyone has advice. "Let them dip their veggies." "Get your kids to help in the kitchen." Statistics on picky eaters vary widely, from 8 to 50 percent of kids, with the peak pickiness years ranging from 2 to 6 of age.* But one thing all parents can agree on - picky eaters strain family mealtime. Here's a fun tactic to tame even the pickiest of eaters: make eating an adventure! Build your talking points around these three themed dinner nights. Kids love to be part of something fun.
- Color Coded. Put together a dinner with food all the same color like strawberries, red bell peppers, and cherry tomatoes.
- Travel. Talk about places to visit in the world, like Greece. Discuss and show the traditional Mediterranean foods from that country and make Grilled Lamb and Vegetable Kabobs as a family to tell the story.
- Eat Backwards. Make breakfast for dinner and dinner for breakfast.
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Why Lamb? Facts Your Shoppers May Not Know
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Lamb and Your Health: Feel Good About Mealtime
Lean. On average, a 3-ounce serving of lamb is lean and has only 175 calories. Lean cuts of lamb include the leg, loin and rack.
Omega-3's. Lamb can contribute to your daily omega-3 intake. A 3 oz. serving of lamb delivers approximately 100 mg of the essential omega-3 fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid (ALA).
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