Got Twenty Minutes? Then You’ve Got Time to Make Dinner!

“I don’t have time to cook“, is one of the most common complaints I hear from clients.

“After a busy day with the kids, or twelve hours at the office, the last thing I want to do is spend hours slaving away over a hot stove“, is another.

Well, guess what?

Neither have to be the reality.   If you can find twenty minutes, you can prepare a healthy meal.  

Here’s  great example of what one client, who is the mom of two young kids, prepared at 7:00 PM recently after her two month old had gone to sleep, and her three year old ‘helped’ our by drawing a menu for her dad, so that all would be ready for his 7:30 PM arrival home from the office.

First, she took some grass-fed flank steak out of the fridge and let it come to room temperature.
Then, washed and spun dry some arugula and fresh basil, then placed it in a large salad bowl.
Next, she washed some broccoli florets, some strawberries and an avocado.
Then, she chopped some garlic.
After that, added the berries and avocado to the arugula and basil and set that bowl on the table.
She then heated a cast iron skillet over medium and seared the flank steak for two minutes on each side, then placed it on a plate under foil to let it rest.
In the same skillet, she heated some coconut oil and sautéed the garlic for about three minutes.
Finally, she added the broccoli florets to sauté them with the garlic and oil.

She peeked at the clock, saw that it was 7:20 and realized she had ten minutes to hang out with her daughter an praise her for her artful contribution.

All it takes is a little mise-in-place and a bit of planning and we can all find the time to create a healthy, fresh, Paleo dinner, in the same amount of time one might spend heating a crappy, frozen meal and staring at the microwave until it’s defrosted.

You choose!