Fast Food Alternative - Home Cooked Meals To Go

My husband and I have been very busy this week between last minute preparations for our church's Christmas play this weekend and my college finals fast approaching not to mention our home based business.  In spite of all the craziness, however, we still have to eat.  It is also important for us to keep our blood sugar steady and not compromise healthy eating habits any more than absolutely necessary.  You can only eat so many Subway sandwiches, so I decided to go back to my old friend Google and do some searching for meals that can be eaten in the car when my husband and I are on the run.

Here are a few things I found...

Big Red Kitchen's website has a very interesting series that responds to a busy mom with kids in sports that has to eat on the run.  You can read it here.

Planning Fun Road Trips has great ideas for vacation road trip recipes you can use everyday here.

A blog at Low Carb Friends has several ideas for healthy portable meals to eat on the run here. 

Eating consciously lists easy, portable and fast healthy vegan meal options to go on their website located here.

You can even find delicious brown bag recipe ideas at the busy cooks section of about.com here.

Who says you can't make your own fast food?  Fast food can be more in your control, healthier, and less expensive with some good meal planning and simple preparation techniques.

Creative recipes for Leftovers

Cheepcooking.com is an amazing idea source for leftover food inspiration.  The website has several creative ideas for leftover food on their website http://www.cheapcooking.com/articles/more-ways-with-leftovers.htm. 

Although that is a great place to get started and has taught me a great deal, I would like to add a few ideas of my own:

Leftover spaghetti noodles and Sauce:   You can cook these together for a great freeze ahead meal of baked spaghetti or use them separately.  If you don't want to freeze your leftovers the noodles can make a lovely pasta salad or be used as stir fry noodles which are both great ideas for lunch or supper.  The sauce can also be used as a pizza sauce or re-flavored to serve as sloppy joe or taco sauce. 

Leftover sandwich bread: I love to use leftover bread as a pizza crust, in grilled cheese sandwiches, in freeze ahead or ready to eat french toast or in homemade croutons.  You can find these and other recipes on the web by doing a quick google search.