Time Saver Tip: Prep & Cook Once, 3 Meals.
Like most parents / carers, I am busy. To save myself a heap of time, I like to prepare and cook once, but make sure that I can what I cook for multiple meals.
Here's an example.
🍗Tuesday night was Rilien's birthday. He asked for Crumbed Chicken Sushi for his birthday meal. I prepared and cooked up enough crumbed chicken and salad veg that allowed me to serve it for 3 different meals.
1️⃣Tuesday Night Dinner - Crumbed Chicken Sushi.
2️⃣Wednesday Breakfast - Deconstructed Crumbed Chicken Sushi bowl.
3️⃣Thursday Lunch - Crumbed Chicken Salad Rolls.
3 different meals all with just one lot of prep and cooking. See image below.
For breakfast and lunch, all I had to do was assemble the ingredients that I had prepared on Tuesday night.
You can use this approach with vegetarian meals too.
For instance, I break up 3 blocks of tofu into crumble, then saute it with some garlic, onion, ginger and curry powder. Then make a batch of baked beans. Here's how I make 3 meals from that.
1️⃣Night Dinner - serve along side some homemade baked beans, and different roasted and steamed veg to make poke bowls.
2️⃣Next Day Breakfast - Serve the tofu and beans with sourdough.
3️⃣Day After Lunch - Curried Tofu and beans in a wrap.