These Time-Saving Meals Are Made for Back-to-School Season
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Right now, huge changes are happening. For the first time in well over a year, kids are headed back into the classroom – and adults are headed back into the office. After adapting to a completely at-home routine, it's time to return to the busy mornings and packed evenings full of homework, after-school activities and your own hectic work demands.
If these "back to normal" changes are making you a bit nervous, you definitely aren't alone. After all, it's been awhile. The days of packing lunches, prepping weeknight meals and balancing busy school and work schedules sure seem like they happened ages ago. And getting back into the swing of office life and back-to-school season just takes the right time-saving tips.
Whether you're still enjoying the last few days of summer or are preparing to step back into the office soon, we've got the meal plans, lunch recipes and speedy dinner ideas you need to make the transition easier. You can transform your favorite work-from-home lunches into tasty meals for your midday office meals and add a little gourmet flavor to every day. And if you have an Instant Pot, you can create almost effortless weeknight meals no matter how crammed your schedule might be.
To really save time, our meal plans are key. You can cook just once and fill your entire workweek with healthy, delicious and wholesome meals, taking almost all of the challenges of cooking off the table. With recipes like these, you'll have weekdays mastered once again.