It’s Week 2 of the “What’s for Dinner” Contest!

It’s week 2 of our “What’s for Dinner” back-to-school giveaway.  There’s still time for you to win a Dinner Prize Pack filled with Reser’s Main St. Bistro Baked Dinners and Sides.

The average American family spends less than 30 minutes making dinner. Reser’s can cut that time to only 7 minutes. Just pop one of our delicious Baked Dinners into the microwave and you can take all the credit for the ‘home-baked’ taste!

Vote in our “What’s for Dinner” poll and be automatically entered to win a “Reser’s Baked Dinner” prize pack. Each week, two lucky people (picked at random) will get to taste our savory and delicious new Baked Sides and Dinners. MMMM…Baked Mac & Cheese anyone? Head over to our Facebook page to vote on this week’s “What’s for Dinner” poll question! Winners will be selected the Thursday of each week and announced on the Blog! Prize packs will be shipped out the following Monday for the winners to enjoy with their families. Good luck everyone!

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Prize Pack will include:

• 2 Reser’s Main St. Bistro Baked Dinners
• 2 Reser’s Main St. Bistro Baked Sides
• Recipe Ideas
• 1 Surprise gift

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8 Tips for Making Dinnertime Easier

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1. Plan…but just enough

We all know that taking time to plan your meals really cuts down on that “oh my gosh it’s 5:00 PM and I have no idea what to make for dinner tonight!” stress. So why don’t more of us do it? I think we tend to get too detailed. We think we have to plan out every single recipe and side dish for the week, at which point meal planning becomes more stressful than that “oh my gosh it’s 5:00 PM” feeling. 

Keeping it simple it the trick to meal planning that really works.  For example, you might try and plan for several dinner “categories” (like a pasta night, a chicken night, a fish night) and then at the same time aim to have several side dishes on-hand that can mix-and-match with your various entrees.

This post over on Simple Mom has lots more great easy meal planning ideas.

2. Make a recipe binder

Having a set of simple, go-to recipes organized and in one place makes it easy to walk into your kitchen and whip something together. Conversely, flipping through cook books after a long day of work, trying to figure out if you think you have the right pans/ exotic ingredients/skills to make certain recipes can be incredibly frustrating.

So take a Sunday afternoon to print our or photocopy all your favorite easy recipes. Then, fill them into a binder, using divider tabs to organize them into different entrée and side dish categories. Make notes about what side dishes and vegetables go well with what entrees.

3. Balance your workload

If cooking an entire meal seems like too much some nights, then try making an entrée from scratch but then serving it with a store-bought refrigerated side dish, like Reser’s Sensational Sides Creamy Mashed Potatoes, Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Macaroni & Cheese, and more.

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Creative Ways to Serve Thanksgiving Leftovers: 4 Recipes

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For a creative way to serve Thanksgiving leftovers, try one of these easy recipes—each calls for one or more Thanksgiving leftovers like turkey, mashed potatoes, or stuffing:

1) Easy Cheddar Mashed Potato Puffs Recipe

Turn your leftover mashed potatoes into Cheddar Mashed Potato Puffs!

This is a great recipe for times when you have leftover mashed potatoes but no leftover entrée-dish to serve alongside them.                                                   

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What’s Your Biggest Weeknight Dinner Challenge? (Plus $8.00 Coupon Giveaway!)

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Happy Friday, everyone! Today I want to ask you all a question: what’s your biggest weeknight dinner challenge? Meal planning? Catering to picky eaters? Repetition of the same recipes? Not knowing how to season foods? I’d love to hear from you so I can incorporate your feedback into my posts.

To get the conversation rolling I’m giving away $8.00-coupons to five random people who share their answers in the comments–I’ll announce the winners Monday morning. The coupons are good for $8.00 any one item from Reser’s Fine Foods’ family of brands, which also includes Stonemill Kitchens, Sedgefield, Mrs. Kinser’s, Lynn Wilson, Don Pancho, and Mrs. Giles.

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