Life This Week 22/10/2018: Quick Meal Ideas.


Quick meal ideas isn’t just a phrase to me, it’s part of my way of life.  I’m a big fan of batch cooking, minimal prep and letting things like the oven and slow cooker do all the hard work.  I love some of these meals so much that their recipes are committed to memory.  Which is pretty impressive considering how bad my memory is at times….

My favourite breakfast at the moment is baked oats.  I make a few variations I’ve adapted from recipes discovered via Google.  The constants are rolled oats, psyllium, chia seeds and flax seeds.  Then the rest is whatever takes my fancy – a coconut version, one with choc chips and peanut butter and a healthier version full of fruit and pecans.  I just reheat a portion each morning and eat it with yoghurt, fresh fruit and some honey and cinnamon to taste.

Lunches are usually some kind of salad or some crudites, dip and rice crackers. 

On really crazy days, a couple of hard-boiled eggs and a Bear Naked bar do the trick.
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via Woolworths.com

I’m not ashamed to say that French Onion soup mix is a key ingredient in many of my favourite dinners.

Lamb and French Onion soup mix are a surprise match made in heaven.  There’s the infamous Lamb Obsession dish made in the slow cooker with everything in the photo above plus some onions and a lamb roast.  For a casserole, just use the soup mix, carrots and cauliflower and some lamb chops and bake in the oven.
And let’s not forget Apricot Chicken as a third non-soup dinner you can make with a humble sachet of French Onion soup.  I like to add curry powder or Moroccan spice mix too.
Another dinner that’s always on high rotation in my kitchen is Japanese Beef Curry.  It works well in the slow cooker with cheaper cuts of beef plus it always makes plenty to freeze for future dinners.
What are some of your favourite quick meal ideas?  


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