Quick and Healthy Meals

Rachael Ray - What can I say about my hometown girl! Over the years Rachael's meals have been getting healthier. Great innovation and excitement with this. I even did her Thanksgiving in 60 a few years back. My boys like watching this show, too.

Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller. Ms. Miller is a food editor with a masters degree in nutrition. I find her recipes to be healthy without being extreme.

What I find most impressive is her technique. I have always done something similar, but not with the precision and certainly not to do this for most of the meals in a week.

Basically she takes one main ingredient cooks it once, along with some other meal prep and turns it into 3 completely different main dishes. This did seem rather different to me, as a I couldn't fathom having chicken three night a week. Did you ever have so much chicken you thought you'd start growing feathers? Well, I found that not to be the case with this technique. The three dishes from the main ingredient are so different, your taste buds do not get bored.

In addition the time savings are tremendous. One hour during the weekend to cook and prep ahead, and you can get your meals on the table in 15 minutes or less.

My routine now is to use Robin Miller's method for 50% of my cooking, and the freezer and crockpot methods, 40%. 10% eating out.

Nigella Express- You know I had to put Nigella in somewhere! Want fabulous fast food and short cuts? Well it's here, served up British style. I love the simple elegance Nigella injects into meals, even when entertaining. Amazing.

For more information and show times visit: Food Network