Three Simple Tricks to Making Dinner at Home 6 Nights a Week

I’m going to give you a Bonus Tip before I even start. It is: this doesn’t have to be complicated, stressful, or expensive. I was talking to a client a few weeks ago and she said, “The only person taking pictures of my food in my house is me. My kids and husband aren’t asking for a picture perfect meal. Once I understood that, that I didn’t need to showcase my meals, a huge stress was lifted.” Can I get an AMEN!?!?!?

Okay, now on to the actual tips. If you struggle with cooking at home, here are my top three tips for moving your meals into the “home cooked” category vs the “fast food category, I don’t feel like life-ing” category:

ONE

Think of the foods you enjoy eating! There is nothing worse than buying & making food…then not wanting to eat what you bought or made. What do you like? Burgers, tacos, salads, steaks…start here. The more you look forward to your meal, the higher likelihood you’ll bypass the drive thru to come home and eat.

TWO

Make a menu off of these foods & line it up with the events you have going on. Example - make egg sandwiches for dinner the night you’re getting home at 8:00pm. That is NOT a night for steak and baked potatoes.

Again, already planned out meals that you enjoy, higher likelihood you’ll cook dinner at home.

THREE

Ridiculously Easy

I’m gonna repeat that. Ridiculously 👏🏼 Easy 👏🏼

The less complicated the better. You can pull together a ton of meals with less than 5 ingredients. Trust me, I’ve got a website full of them right here at www.LivHillNutrition.net!

Now that you are feeling the home-cooked motivation, here’s one of my weekly GO-TO’s :)

Meatball Subs

1) Take a bag of frozen meatballs and cover with can of tomato sauce and sprinkle on Italian seasoning. Cook on low in the slow cooker for 2 hours.

2) Once done, put on sub bread + top with feta cheese.

3) Balance out with a quality side —> Salad, Veggies Steamer Bag, Carrot Sticks, Air-fried Brussel Sprouts, etc.

Like I said, Ridiculously Easy!!!