Comfort food doesn’t have to mean unhealthy food. No, quite the contrary. There are a plethora of recipes out there for home cooked meals that are also healthy for you and for your family to enjoy.
It’s winter, and if you’re anything like me in the cooler months of the year you desire warmer meals and heartier meals. Three staples that are commonly craved would have to be:
✭ Chunky Soups
✭ Slow Cooker Casseroles
✭ Roasts & Seasonal Vegetables
It’s not difficult to eat healthy and it can be done relatively quickly if you have one of the tools of the trade, like a slow cooker. Here are some recipes that could help to inspire you. Lean meat and some seasonal vegetables are a great start to whipping up a quick meal for a sit down family dinner at home. And by choosing the seasonal vegetables on offer you are more than likely to try new varieties you’ve never tried before. I know that I used to be stuck in a food rut and eat the same things year in year out, not now. By selecting seasonal vegetables it forced me to try new varieties and broaden my taste options. Some were pleasant surprise, some weren’t. But if you’re bored with food this is a great place to start.
Also if you’re time poor like many are these days, a slow cooker will definitely help you out. When you get home from work, place your chosen ingredients into the slow cooker, set the timer and forget about it until it’s time to serve and enjoy. This then frees up your time of an evening to do other important things like domestics, or exercising or spending quality time with your family members. Eating healthy doesn’t have to be complicated
Lamb shanks with mashed sweet potato and beans is a comfort food of mine, what’s yours?
