Non-Guilty Parent Quick Fix

I’m not going to lie, I am guilty of very quick dinners.  I am one of those parents who has never made anything from scratch.  I love fixing pasta dishes yet I always purchase my noodles.  I fix salad from a bag and dinner from a box.  There are very few meals made in our home that don’t come with instructions. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy cooking dinner.  T, my oldest daughter, even took Young Chef Academy cooking classes for a couple of months and it was a lot of fun to make the recipes she learned at home.  The issue isn’t that I hate cooking and although the issue of not knowing how to cook a lot is a problem it’s not the main issue either.  The main issue in our home of not having long, fully thought out, homemade meals is the lack of time.  Being a single mother of three while always running to appointments for Gab, working online, keeping up with the house and trying to tame a three year old, my time is taken.  Unfortunately big dinners aren’t on my to-do list.

I have suffered from major mommy guilt over not cooking enough.  Some weeks things are so crazy that we actually get burned out on fast food.  Yes, believe it or not, kids can even get tired of McDonald’s.  Plus the days that I actually don’t have kids during the day, daughters are at school and Noah is with his father, then usually I am in front of the computer all day and not fixing myself food either.  This is where complete junk food comes in or snacks most the day but for sure never anything healthy for myself.

I have made New Year’s resolutions to fix this problem.  I have made grocery shopping lists and swore to myself to cook nightly and work out of a recipe book.  But facts are facts, my life is chaotic and I’m busy.  So I am not even going to promise myself something I can’t keep or set the bar too high.  I will however make a promise to try to provide more healthy quick meals.  Fix Quix will be my savor for this.

Last week I made Gab chicken salad by mixing the cubed chicken meat in plastic container with package of mayo and pickle relish and placed on crackers, literally from the car.  We had appointments back to back all day and didn’t return home until evening from early morning.  This was our on-the-go lunch.  Fix Quix allows you to still have your easy, fast meals yet keep them full of protein.  I love Ceasar salads and although I’m guilty of pouring them out of a bag and using the prepackaged salad dressing, now I can at least toss some chicken on top.  Without adding more time to the meal I have just added a good source of protein.

You can visit Fix Quix online and see where to buy their ready to eat Grilled Chicken, Oven-Roasted Turkey, and Smoked Ham within Texas, Arizona and St. Louis only.  You can also download a printable coupon for $1 off and when you purchase Fix Quix at the store the package comes with another coupon inside for your next purchase.  So for all you coupon lovers out there, there are ways to save with each purchase.