5 Ways to Make Meal Time Less Stressful During Quarantine

Whether you are quarantined with your family and kids, significant other, or with your pets, here are some tips to help alleviate meal-time stress!

1. Establish a meal time routine - Establish a role for everyone in your household to play at meal time, whether that is prepping the food, cooking, cleaning, or even setting the table.  Having that routine will help meal time flow easier!
2. Enjoy your meal and your time together - Have discussions about everyone’s day, or their plans for the day!  Try to turn off screens, and enjoy the food and the time with your family.
3. Meal Prepping - Having pre-cooked veggies, pre-made meals, or even pre-washed produce will help make meal time easier.  This will cut down on the stress of preparing a meal and the time you need to spend on cooking nightly!
4. Check out one-pot or one-pan meals - These are great for easy prep and easy clean up!  They help you minimize the materials you use and get dirty, because you are only using one pot or one pan to cook your meal.  Check out this website for some more inspiration: https://thegirlonbloor.com/25-super-easy-sheet-pan-dinners/
5. Try 5 ingredient or less meals - Along similar lines of the one-pot meals, using 5 ingredients or less eliminates the need for long, complicated cooking!  Especially during quarantine, and with grocery store shelves sparsely stocked in some areas, 5 ingredient or less meals will help alleviate stress of a missing ingredient and keep meals from being too expensive!

Be sure to check out our other blogs: 
Creating a Flexible Grocery List that Works
3 Ways to Use Potatoes

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