Recipes That Require Dirtying 5 Dishes or Less
If you’re like most people, the dreaded cleanup after fixing a meal for your family can be enough to make you never want to cook again. Luckily, these tasty recipes and helpful tips that will help make the cooking AND cleanup a breeze!
One-Pan Recipes
A simple way to avoid excess cleanup is to serve meals from the dish you cook them in. These one-pan meals make for quick serving and cleanup, plus they cooking everything together adds a ton of flavor to your dish.
Serve and Store in One Dish
Save even more time and dishes by serving and storing your meal in the same dish. Casseroles are a perfect choice for lessening the amount of dishes needed to serve a meal. Once the meal is over, you can put a lid on your dish and store it in the fridge for easy leftovers and very minimal cleanup!
Multitask With Slow Cooker Recipes
Limit time in the kitchen by multitasking as much as possible. Put away ingredients in your fridge and pantry when you get new ones out. If you are cooking a hands-off recipe (like our slow cooker recipes), use the wait time to cook to clean dishes and countertops.
One Bowl, No Bake Recipes
Eliminate extra cleanup by using the same bowl to mix all of the ingredients for your meal. These recipes require no cooking and are some of the quickest and easiest recipes that make for virtually no cleanup.
Weekly Dinners for Less
We’ve taken the guesswork out of grocery shopping and budget meal planning for you! Use these meal plans to feed your family, creating new flavors with the same affordable core ingredients.
Budget Meal Planning
Sticking to a grocery budget can be hard, especially when you're balancing healthy eating goals, busy work schedules and family members' personal preferences. The good news? It's totally possible with a little bit of time spent planning ahead. Use these affordable, delicious and easy recipes to plan meals that fit into your budget!
Small Efforts, Big Rewards
There are little things that you and your family can be mindful of throughout the day that will save you a lot of time in the kitchen.
- Limit family members to only one glass per day.
- Add name tags to the cups to make sure they are not getting mixed up throughout the day.
- Rinse and reuse dishes when it is sanitary to do so while cooking to save on dishes afterwards. For example, if you are going to be using a knife to cut up multiple ingredients, first start by cutting up your produce and saving your raw meat for last.
- Do a cupboard clean out to get rid of excess dishes. The fewer you have, the fewer you will use!