Cooking for a family meal when a bunch of hungry mouths to feed at a meal time is like a rush hour in a restaurant. Upon opening the fridge, the process starts from idea to getting your ingredients, preparation then finally cooking it for the dish. This process usually starts the second you made up your mind on what to bring to the family meal. It is the decision that sometimes takes a while to get.

To have a quick decision upon the process, you might need to have some basic principles to follow on your daily diet. This is important, because there are a lot of different combinations from which your ingredients list inside your fridge and pantry could offer you. Without the basics, you might be lost at the moment of deciding what you want quickly.

These principle ideas about diet could also be planned in your meal plan as the type of dishes would be on each meal. Another way would be what you usually buys and stock up in your fridge and pantry as the previous post about cooking habits (Grocery shopping,… meal plan).

Once you have decided on what dishes to cook, bundle together those ingredients from the fridge and bring them up to the kitchen counter top to be prepared.

Make sure, first thing first to save time in cooking: i.e when something needs to be defrost, do that first and resume to your prep, so this way you can have the defrosted ingredient ready to go when the rest of the preparation catches up.

Heating things as in cooking is the finishing step in meal preparation after all the preparation from raw ingredients to the go into the pot/wok or even the oven. At this point, applying the proper heating range and flipping the ingredient in the pot/wok to prevent burning of the food is the main task to finish your cooking.

Ready to beat the rush hour for your family? They are ready to chow down on your delicious dishes that you bring to the table!