Are we STILL making excuses for not cooking?

How to Find Time to Cook Healthy Meals [Dumb Little Man]

We're all adults here. The various excuses against cooking just don't hold water (i.e., "I don't have time", "I'm really bad at it", etc.). You've got time, and it's as simple as throwing a few ingredients in a pot. Dumb Little Man put together a great list of ways you can clear time for cooking. As you cringe at the thought, think about this: a few little changes, and you can have delicious, home-cooked meals EVERY DAY. Is that not enough motivation for you?

Use slow cookers and pressure cookers
Slow cookers (aka crock pots) work by adding a bunch of ingredients to a pot on low heat and cooking them slowly over many hours until they are ready. This is a simple and effective way to make complete meals in large batches. Set it up right and your meals are magically ready when you get home from work.

Pressure cookers are exactly the opposite. Rather than low heat, pressure cookers use high pressure to increase temperature and rapidly cook foods that normally take hours. That may sound crazy, but once you taste beans from a pressure cooker you will never go back to canned. It can also be used for grains, meat and vegetables.

The idea of a pressure cooker can be scary to kitchen novices, but the actual mechanism is very simple. Once you get used to it your pressure cooker will be one of the best time-saving kitchen tools you own.

I did that this week and made a delicious lasagna. I'll share that recipe with you later this week. Do you have any great cooking tips? Let's hear 'em!