Easy Fast Dinner Recipes

In the golden days of TV moms who stayed home all day vacuuming the house while wearing pearls, cooking special meals, and doling out wise advice to the kids when dad wasn't around, meals could take all day and could involve intricate steps. That wasn't just on TV, it was a reflection of real life. But today lives are faster paced and full of more to do. Mothers, and fathers who now take on a large part of the cooking chore, look for easy fast dinner recipes that can get the same TV mom results with a lot less real person effort. TV moms may not have known better because they didn't have computers. There are a lot of sources on line to provide help to the busy family looking for a quality meal.

A steak can be a whole week of meals. Make different meals with different side dishes. Take a trip around the world with rotating spices. A very big flank steak is the base. On Monday serve steak with roasted potatoes and a salad. Spices and some salsa make it Fajitas on Tuesday. Rice, some Teriyaki sauce and steamed vegetables make Wednesday an Asian day. Make Thursday like Monday, but change the potatoes to mashed and throw in some asparagus. Go for Gyros on Friday with pita and Greek spices. A whole work day week of meals based on one main meat.

Want more ideas for that steak? Pull out the plates we're going in. Give a whirl to steak salad wraps with horseradish sauce, or try bean salad and flanked steak . Double the variety with another meat. Chicken makes a good soup, chicken fingers, fried chicken or even chicken salad. That's a lot of eating.

Do the cooking on weekends then serve the food throughout the week. Plan an entire menu for a month then buy all the necessities for some good savings too. Let the kids get involved. Put them in charge for a week. Let the whole family take turns.

And you thought easy fast dinner recipes were hard.