Cook your meals in advance. After deciding on a menu plan for the week, go ahead and fix as many meals as you can. Choose a time when the entire family can help like Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon. Each person can take one meal and fix it for the following week. Once everything has cooled, store it in sealed containers, casserole dishes and aluminum pans to be frozen until the night it is needed.

Of course it is even better if you take this a step further and make up 2 or more of that meal. Now you have meals in the freezer for further weeks as well.

Get the family involved and spend less time during the week listening and wondering yourself,”What’s for dinner?”