Healthy Fast Meals
to Avoid Fast Food
Need healthy fast meals on those nights when you are simply too tired to cook? Or like me, you are too tired and you also don’t like to cook?
Try these fast meal ideas that can be on the table in 10 minutes. The ingredients are on the shopping list so you will have them all in your kitchen, ready to go.
Because you don’t need to be good cook to eat healthy! And you don't need fast food to have a meal on the table in minutes!
Healthy Fast Meals
1. Waffle Sandwiches
Deli meat and cheese sandwiches on wheat bread, cooked in the waffle iron with no butter. Put a slice of lean turkey breast with a slice of cheddar cheese. Place on hot waffle iron, and cook until done. The sandwiches emerge hot and crispy with a crisscross pattern on the bread.
Serve the sandwiches with sugar snap peas and apples for a plate containing a variety of colors and textures. It takes about 10 minutes to get the whole meal on the table.
2. Mediterranean Feast
A favorite quick lunch on warm summer days. Serve plain yogurt with fruit, fresh vegetables with hummus dip, kalamata olives, and whole grain bread.
My kids call their yogurt “yogurt surprise” because I put whatever frozen fruit I have on hand into their yogurt bowls. They dig through their bowls mining for the yogurt covered secret treasure. My children think yogurt surprise is a special summertime treat.
I laugh to myself and think that sometimes it is all in the marketing.
3. Breakfast for Dinner
The most requested healthy fast food from my kitchen. When my husband is away on business, my children delight in an evening meal of scrambled eggs, baby tomatoes, turkey bacon, wheat toast, and fruit. They think they are being really sneaky by eating morning food in the evening. Or if you have about 20 minutes, try an egg bake instead.
4. Asian-themed Dinner
Try an Asian themed dinner with teriyaki chicken (pre-cooked frozen chicken breasts that I can heat in the microwave), edamame beans, cucumber slices, and cold sesame noodles (4 ounces cooked spaghetti mixed with 2 tablespoons peanut butter and ½ teaspoon of sesame oil).
5. Italian Antipasto Platter
Arrange chopped red and yellow bell pepper, sugar snap peas, mozzarella cheese sticks, swiss cheese, sliced ham, and turkey sausage with a side of pasta. Click here for the recipe.
6. Chicken Edamame Bean Salad
Toss together cooked chicken, shelled edamame beans, shredded carrots, and chopped red bell pepper. Add the dressing, and you have a hearty, crunch fresh salad.
What's Your Favorite
Healthy Fast Meal?
Do you have a favorite healthy fast meal? We'd love to hear it and add it to our list!
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