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Never run out of meal ideas
Again with These Hacks
Deciding what to cook daily can be a daunting task, especially for mums with growing families. In fact, many people find deciding what to cook just as stressful—if not more exhausting—than the actual meal prep and cooking. All that mental effort can turn cooking into a dreaded chore and make mealtimes something you no longer look forward to. Meal planning doesn’t need to be stressful. Simple and practical hacks can make your daily cooking routine easier and more enjoyable. Here are some you can try.
Meal Planning Hacks That Work (Theme Your Week)
Deciding what to cook daily can be a daunting task, especially for mums with growing families. In fact, many people find deciding what to cook just as stressful—if not more exhausting—than the actual meal prep and cooking. All that mental effort can turn cooking into a dreaded chore and make mealtimes something you no longer look forward to. Meal planning doesn’t need to be stressful. Simple and practical hacks can make your daily cooking routine easier and more enjoyable. Here are some you can try.
Create a Go-To List
Keep a rotating list of quick and reliable dishes your family enjoys. Favourites like jollof rice, pepper soup, yam porridge, plantains, and eggs are ideal for busy days. Having these familiar meals ready reduces cooking stress significantly.
Cook Smartly by Cooking in Batches.
Cook more significant portions of staple meals such as egusi soup, beans, or proteins, and freeze the extra portions. For instance, pre-cooking beans can shorten preparation time from over an hour to around 20 minutes. Weekend preparation can ensure homemade meals are always readily available during the week.
Simplify Your Spices
Simplifying your cooking process by using pre-mixed spices can save considerable time. Products like Pinnick’s Instant Party Jollof Mix offer an easy way to prepare jollof without having to source and prep multiple ingredients. This ensures consistency and authentic flavour with minimal effort.
Quick Meal Starters
Having readily available essential meal enhancers, such as cooking bases, meat broth, spice blends or tomato pastes, helps significantly reduce cooking times. These convenient ingredients add depth and flavour quickly, turning simple dishes into satisfying meals.
Dinner-to-Breakfast Strategy
Cooking slightly larger dinner portions allows you to use leftovers effectively for breakfast or lunch the next day. This approach saves preparation time and ensures you have ready-made meals when your schedule becomes busy or unpredictable, providing a sense of ease and convenience.
Making Meal Planning Easier Long-Term
- Weekly Meal Planning: A great way to plan your meals weekly is to create time during the weekend to draft them. This straightforward practice helps avoid daily meal-planning stress.
- Keep Essentials in Stock: Maintaining a pantry with staples such as rice, beans, cooking oils, and convenient products like Pinnick mixes ensures you can quickly assemble meals.
- Visible Meal Plans: Displaying your weekly meal plan on a physical or digital meal board keeps your household organized and helps avoid last-minute meal decisions.
Simplify Your Cooking with Pinnick
You can eliminate the nostalgia that comes with daydreaming about traditional Nigerian meals while being out of the country. Cooking your party jollof is now much easier. At Pinnick, we understand the comfort of having familiar flavours from home. That’s why we’ve created easy-to-use, single-step mixes that combine fresh, authentic Nigerian spices into one convenient product.
Our Instant Party Jollof Mix lets you effortlessly prepare delicious, authentic jollof rice without the hassle of figuring out multiple spice measurements. Using Pinnick’s products alongside these practical meal-planning tips, you can keep meals simple, stress-free, and enjoyable.
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