Quick Dinners for the Busy Mom

These days, in most families, both mother and father work full time. Add house cleaning , taking care of the kids, and yard and house maintenance and you barely have time to eat much less COOK a decent meal. But all hope is NOT lost. I'll give you some suggestions of some quick and easy meals that you can make for your family.

Pasta and Meat Sauce

Pasta! Now unless you're doing the low carb thing, everyone likes pasta. Now as far as tomato sauce, sure you can spend the time making a sauce from scratch but think of it....If you use a 26 ounce jar of "Ragu", "Prego" or "Franchesco Ranaldi" as a base and then adding your own minced onions, garlic powder, salt, basil, oregano and whatever else you want, how many people would really care and/or even NOTICE the difference.

Get a pot of water boiling, put in a pound of noodles, at the same time, start frying up about a pound of ground beef (or ground turkey or pork).add a few spices to your meat to give your sauce a roasted garlic taste. When you meat is well done and your noodles are tender, drain your meat and noodles, add them to a pot, pour your jar of sauce (with your added spices) into the mix (you don't need to heat it up) and stir it up until the noddles and meat are covered with sauce. And there, you have a decent meal and it only took you about 20 minutes.

Chicken Parm.