Healthy Dinner Solutions For Busy Families

If your home is anything like ours (and I'm guessing it is!) weekday afternoons and evenings can be downright hectic. With juggling homework, babies needs, housework, after school activities, we have every intention of getting a nutritious home cooked meal on the table nightly - but in all reality, who honestly has the time?

Enter Prep Dish into my life - what a great idea this is! Prep Dish makes eating healthy hassle free and enjoyable. It saves you time and helps you get delicious and nutritious meals on the table for your family and helps eliminate some of that weekday madness.

When you sigh up for Prep Dish they send you a weekly menu, designed to easily fit either gluten free or paleo lifestyles effortlessly. They plan a week's worth of healthy meals for you, placing great thought into maximizing your budget, saving you time, an making sure your taste buds are satisfied. They also rely on seasonal ingredients so that your food will always taste fresh and flavorful.

In addition to the weekly menu, they'll also give you a grocery list and instructions. Their plan is designed with one two hour meal prep day, where you'll do the majority of the meal preparation, leaving you 5-20 minutes worth of cooking and plating tasks at dinner time.

I downloaded the Gluten Free Menu for the Second Week of April and couldn't wait to mix it up for my family this week. We seem to always be in the same dinner rut so this part of the menu was very exciting for me. Mustard Dill Salmon? Chicken and Bell Pepper Tacos? Shrimp Stir Fry? My taste buds were for sure salivating just reading that weeks menu!

I opened it up and got a printable shopping list that I could use to check my pantry and then purchase the remaining items I needed from the grocery store. There was a also step by step instructions for my prep day. I see friends all over Instagram using Sundays as meal prep days and I was super excited to get on board with this too. I love how I could get most of my week's dinners prepped and prepared in just a couple of hours, freeing up valuable time on hectic weekday nights.

Last Sunday I shopped for my groceries in the morning, and then while my baby napped I spend just over two hours chopping, dicing, measuring and mixing everything out, so that on dish-day there is minimal time and effort that I need to give to feed my family.

You guys, these dishes turned out incredible! I was a little nervous that my 8 year old wouldn't love the seafood dishes but he tried them and was all smiles (and even asked for seconds!) On especially busy nights when we had after school sports, I was so so thankful for the extra weekend prep work that I did, and because of that I was able to give my family a wholesome nutritious and home cooked meal - when before hand we would have probably opted for greasy takeout. 

With subscription options starting at just $14 monthly or $99 for a whole year - Prep Dish saves me so much time and money, that I would have spent in drive-thru and food delivery fees, it really is no-brainier for any busy family.

The amazing folks at Prep Dish have a greed to give all of YOU two weeks free of their healthy meal plans. Click HERE and enter code GOFAST at checkout! I can't wait to see how amazing your meals turn out!