Editors of Cooking Light Magazine - Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast 24/7 5 Ingredient, 15 minute recipes

Cooking Light fresh food fast 24 / 7 Welcome Enjoy fresh, fast food every meal of the day. This latest cookbook in the Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast series makes it even easier to celebrate a healthy lifestyle 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We often hear from readers and parents who are eager to feed their families good food around the clock. Theres a growing national movement focused on healthy lunches for schoolchildren, and recent research confirms that breakfast truly is the most important meal of the day. Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast 24/7 helps you make fresh, healthy, and delicious food a bigger part of how you eat. In this new collection of 280 5-ingredient, 15-minute recipes , weve created flavor-ful, easy dinners fit for sharing with family and friends.

Youll also find ideas for breakfast and lunch on the go, brunch, and fun snacks, plus appetizers and cocktails for entertaining. Each Test Kitchenrated recipe meets at least one of two criteria: It calls for 5 ingredients or fewer (excluding water, flour, cooking spray, oil, salt, pepper, and optional ingredients), or it can be prepared in 15 minutes or less. Many accomplish both! Plusweve made life easier with a new section: Market to Meal Planners. Each planner gives you one shopping list for nine recipes, including three dinners. Recipes in each planner share common ingredients, so you can make the most of the food you buy. (Prices were derived from midsized-city supermarkets in Summer 2011. (Prices were derived from midsized-city supermarkets in Summer 2011.

Side dishes are included in the cost of the meal. Salt, pepper, and cooking spray are freebies.) To-Go Tips offer ways to pack a portable meal so it stays fresh. Switch It Up shows you how to turn a salad recipe into a sandwich, or a sandwich recipe into a saladessentially giving you a new dish to try! All the recipes are designed to get you in and out of the kitchen in minutes. Its never been easier to enjoy good food every day! The Cooking Light Editors Contents Shopping and meal planning just got easier: Each simple grocery list makes nine recipes. Get off to a great start with quick meals that supercharge your morning. Fresh fruit, veggie, and egg dishes kick off relaxing, easy weekends.

Pack these meals for school or work: Theyre designed to stay fresh and tasty on the go. Seasonal, filling ingredients star in salads, sandwiches, and more. Get over a midday hump with these granola bars, snack mixes, dips, and other bites. Fun noshes, nibbles, and sips that set the stage for entertaining. When you're short on time, these filling, flavorful entres are just right for the end of the day. Relax and enjoy a casual family dinner or a stress-free meal with friends.

Homemade ice creams, beautiful tarts, chocolate treatssweet indulgences are just minutes away. Market to Meal Planners Were skeptical of full-week meal planners because thats just not realistic for most people. Some of us spend evenings chauffeuring carloads of kids to soccer practice and play dates. Others cook just for two. Instead, in this new feature of the Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast series, we focused on creating 10 meal planners that make enjoying fresh food at any meal throughout the week more practical. Each planner includes one shopping list for three dinners and a mix of breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and desserts.

Cooking three nights a week? One planners got you covered. If youre a devoted weeknight cook, you can combine two of your favorite planners for six dinners and nearly a weeks worth of great meals. The shopping lists dont include the basics: salt, pepper, oil, all-purpose flour, and cooking spray (we assume you have those) or optional ingredients. You can download printable versions of the planners at CookingLight.com/FFFShoppingLists. Weekly Meal Plan 1 Common ingredients in this planner are baby spinach, feta cheese, fresh basil, fresh corn, pita bread, and tomatoes. (And freeze the cobs: They make great soup stock!) We use PLUM TOMATOES in some recipes because they have a meatier texture and less juice than other tomatoes. (And freeze the cobs: They make great soup stock!) We use PLUM TOMATOES in some recipes because they have a meatier texture and less juice than other tomatoes.

Weekly Meal Plan 2 Common ingredients in this planner are asparagus, avocados, bacon, and tomatoes. SHOPPING LIST produce asparagus spears, 114 pounds avocados, 4 baby heirloom tomatoes, 1 (12-ounce) package baby spinach, 1 (6-ounce) package Broccolini, 1 pound fresh basil fresh cilantro fresh corn, 2 ears garlic gourmet salad greens, 113 cups grape tomatoes, 1 pint green onions, 1 bunch large tomatoes, 2 lemons, 4 limes, 3 peaches, 8 sweet onion, 1 meat/fish/poultry boneless center-cut loin pork chops, 4 (4-ounce) chops (about 12 inch thick) (6-ounce) salmon fillets, 4 center-cut bacon, 1 pound lower-sodium bacon, 1 pound skinless, boneless rotisserie chicken breast, 1 whole breast dairy butter large eggs grated fresh Parmesan cheese, 2 ounces herbed goat cheese, 2 ounces low-fat Greek yogurt, 6-ounce container part-skim ricotta cheese, 15-ounce container plain fat-free Greek yogurt, 1 (6-ounce) container preshredded Monterey Jack cheese with jalapeo peppers, 1 ounce preshredded part-skim mozzarella cheese, 6 ounces staples baked tortilla chips canola oil capers cider vinegar commercial pizza dough, 1 (16-ounce) package corn tortillas, 9 (6-inch) crusty Chicago-style Italian bread fat-free, lower-sodium chicken broth ground cumin ground red pepper marinara sauce no-salt-added black beans, 1 (15-ounce) can olive oil stone-ground mustard thin-sliced 15-grain bread turbinado sugar miscellaneous apple juice concentrate, 1 (11.5-ounce) can dry white wine whole-wheat tandoori naan, 12 (12-ounce) package (2 naan)

Tips Why 2 kinds of GREEK YOGURT? To meet nutritional guidelines, some recipes call for fat-free Greek yogurt. You can substitute one kind for another, but the nutrition and texture of your finished dish will be different. Choose center-cut BACON: Its lower in saturated fat than regular bacon, but you still get the same great taste. Ripen AVOCADOS in a brown paper bag on the counter. Store ripe avocados in the fridge for 2 to 3 days.Next page