Most people don't have time to cook nutritious foods every day for every meal. That's why it's important to learn how to make your cooking count. When you cook foods, try to multi task and make multiple meals out of a few ingredients.
Here's some ideas of how to do this and make 2 meals in 60 minutes. (Vegetable Bean Soup and Black Bean & Quinoa Burgers with baked sweet potatoes)
Gather all of your ingredients
Chop all of your veggies
Boil 2 cups water and cook 1 cup quinoa for 10 minutes.
Stick the sweet potatoes in the oven - (pierce them with a fork and cook 400 for about 45 min)
Put the chopped veggies in a big pan to saute for the soup and whatever other veggies left over in another pan for the burgers (I added kale because I had some extra)
Let them all cook at once and keep track of time (but even if you don't, you can't really mess up these dishes too badly).
Once the quinoa is ready, follow the recipe to make the burgers. And add the rest of the ingredients to the soup pot.
The more you practice cooking, the easier it becomes.
I decided to food process some of the soup and sweet potatoes for the baby.
Once it's pureed, put in ice cube trays, freeze, then take the cubes out and put in freezer bags. Store for up to a month.
Looks good ~ What a good idea to make some for the baby too.
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