Healthy family meals: Best of Parent Hacks

Keeping the family fed is one of my biggest time- and attention-consumers. We could all use a bit of help feeding the family when we get home late, or when we just want a break.

Here are our best tips and recipes for easy, healthy family feeding. We add new tips all the time; come back often!

Quick and easy meals

• Use the coffeemaker to heat water for quick oats
• Heat leftover pancakes in the toaster
• "Bachelor chow" egg muffin makes a fine daddy breakfast
• Quick, healthy breakfast ideas
• Portable breakfast ideas
• Serve-it-yourself cereal
• 20 minute dinner: Chicken Dumpling Soup
• 20 minute dinner: Pasta with creamy marinara sauce
• 20 minute dinner: Chick pea and rice salad, quick tomato soup
• 20 minute dinner: Instant Enchiladas
• 20 minute dinner: Pasta with roasted pepper tomato sauce, steamed sugar snap peas
• 20 minute dinner: Clear-the-pantry chili
• 20 minute dinner: My favorite stir-fry
• Turn leftover meat and pantry items into an easy, hearty soup
• High protein and kid-friendly: Cheese and Potato Crustless Quiche

Time-saving meal-prep ideas

• No-prep pasta: Grab ingredients from the grocery salad bar
• Parenthackers' best slow cooker tips
• Meal orders reduce the morning madness

Meal planning and grocery shopping

• Cook from a single cookbook all week (or all month)
• Schedule when to use your freezer leftovers
• Favorite kids' cookbook? Talk amongst yourselves.
• DIY cookbook for families with food allergies
• Quick, thrifty, and retro: food remnant and leftover tips
• Online grocery services organize your shopping list for you -- even if you don't buy
• Take a camera phone picture of the shopping list on your whiteboard
• What are your "secret ingredients" for a quick, home-cooked dinner? Talk amongst yourselves.
• Reinspiration: the weekly meal plan
• Grocery coupons: balancing time spent with money saved
• Streamline grocery shopping and meal planning with a pre-printed list (download)