Tackling staggered meal schedules on For Your Life TV

When it comes to getting wholesome home cooked meals on the table, we all have our challenges. We tackle how to work with staggered meal schedules on the TV show For Your Life — spoiler here.

In the segment ‘Cook Once, Eat Twice’, newlyweds Megan and Kevin Peplow, want to eat well — but they struggle with knowing how to ‘cook homemade’ — right from what to buy at the grocery store,  getting dinner to the table and what to do with leftovers.

What’s your cooking conundrum?? We’d like to see if we can help – just send a comment in our comment box below.

Watch the show on TV (posting of timings below) or take the sneak peek (spoiler) here:

Our solutions for their Staggered Schedule challenge:

At the grocery store:

• think about buying a powerful protein to anchor the plate. Studies indicate that starting of with a single ingredient protein like beef actually encourages healthy eating patterns since you tend to eat more vegetables (to go with the meat).
•  think about how different cuts of meat can work for the type of cooking you want to do — if you want to simmer in a slow cooker, try a Simmering Steak or Pot Roast like Cross Rib or Blade. Need a last minute dinner? Kabobs can be grilled in minutes.
• Don’t know what cut to buy or how to cook it? The Roundup is a free app for your smartphone so you the help you need right at the grocery store.

At home:

• put the slow cooker to work. Choose simmering cuts and a super simple recipe like Greek Pot Roast and then let dinner simmer all day while you go to work. Your slow cooker will even stop cooking and go into a warming hold stage until you get home from work.
• think Cook Once Eat Twice – using leftovers to support you for an easy next day lunch
• Link to the Video, Recipe and Lunch from Leftover idea here.

Newlyweds Newly Fed will be shown as part of For Your Life, airing:

SLICE: Sun, Sept. 27 @ 8am

CHCH: Sat, Oct. 3 @ 7am

CHEK:  Sun, Oct. 11 @ 10am

FDCN: Sun, Oct. 18 @ 8am

HGTVC: Sun, Oct. 4 @ 8am

SHOW: Sat, Oct. 24 @ 9am