{"id":261571,"date":"2010-02-01T19:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/five-shortcuts-to-keep-you-from-reaching-for-the-take-out-menus\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T19:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:01:23","slug":"five-shortcuts-to-keep-you-from-reaching-for-the-take-out-menus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/261571","title":{"rendered":"Five Shortcuts to Keep You From Reaching for the Take Out Menus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take out is usually a great way to blow your grocery budget, but when you are tired and don\u2019t want to think about doing 15 minutes of menu planning and an hour of prep work, take out happens. To keep yourself from ordering take out a couple times a week when you are running late, why not try some of these shortcuts that can help you get a delicious meal on the table fast?\"tortillas\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

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  1. Buy all the ingredients for fast and easy meals and keep them on hand. One example is soft taco shells, shredded Mexican cheese, frozen corn and beans and a package of pre-seasoned taco turkey. Freeze your turkey, corn and beans, put the shells and cheese in the fridge and you\u2019ve got the ingredients for an emergency meal that goes from freezer to table in under an hour.<\/li>\n
  2. Use a service like Let\u2019s Dish or Suddenly Suppers to create a few weeks of \u201cfrom scratch\u201d meals and pop them in the freezer. They are a bit more expensive than grocery store sales combined with coupons, but they are usually cheaper than dinner out.<\/li>\n
  3. Make your own frozen meals during holidays or other times you cook too much food. I like to plate up five Thanksgiving dinners and use my vacuum sealer to get rid of all the extra air so the meals freeze well.<\/li>\n
  4. Have breakfast or lunch for dinner. Sometimes, serving eggs, waffles and sausage can be a nice break. Most people with half empty pantries still have breakfast food in the fridge and freezer. <\/li>\n
  5. Use a site like Recipe Key<\/a> to help you throw together a meal using your pantry ingredients. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Five Shortcuts to Keep You From Reaching for the Take Out Menus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Take out is usually a great way to blow your grocery budget, but when you are tired and don\u2019t want to think about doing 15 minutes of menu planning and an hour of prep work, take out happens. To keep yourself from ordering take out a couple times a week when you are running late, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}