When TV was young the moms depicted on the shows would wear pearls and dresses while cleaning house, then cook a complicated meal while dolling advice to the kids.  That wasn’t just on TV, it was a reflection of real life.  But today lives are faster paced and full of more to do.  But now people want easy fast dinner recipes.  TV moms may not have known better because they didn’t have computers.  Easy cooking is easy to find online with search engines like Yahoo and Google.

One steak can go a long way.  Make different meals with different side dishes.  Take a trip around the world with rotating spices.  Start with one large flank steak.  On Monday serve steak with roasted potatoes and a salad.  On Tuesday add some spices and a little salsa for a taste from south of the border – make it steak Fajitas.  Rice, some Teriyaki sauce and steamed vegetables make Wednesday an Asian day.  Add asparagus on Thursday and smash the potatoes.  Friday is the day for some pita bread and Greek spices.  That’s right, Gyros.  A whole work day week of meals based on one main meat. 

You want the steak to go even further?   OK, get the plates and forks ready.  Do southwestern steak with black bean wraps, or lentil and orzo salad with flank steak smothered in feta cheese .  Now add another meat, and the variety is even more endless.  Chicken can be fried, broiled with potatoes, cut into strips and added to salad, or cooked into a soup with noodles or dumplings.  That’s a lot of eating.

Do the cooking on weekends then serve the food throughout the week.  Make out the menu for the whole month, buy bulk foods and make sure to use coupons to add extreme savings to the mix.  Let the kids get involved.  Put them in charge for a week.  Rotate days amongst the family.

And you thought easy fast dinner recipes were hard.

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