Do you feel you're not organized enough to get dinner on the table every night? There's just not enough time? Think again. These simple shortcuts can save you mounds of time and help you get dinner on the table in a flash...no pizza delivery required.

1. Use kitchen scissors. If you don't have kitchen scissors in your kitchen, you don't know what you're missing. In many cases, it's much easier to use scissors for meal preparation than it is to use a knife. Cut open packages, easily trim fat off meat, snip fresh herbs. Snip, snip, snap--and you're done!

2. Get bagged salad greens. It may seem a bit more expensive to buy bagged salad greens than it is to buy lettuce, carrots and other salad veggies. Perhaps. But, it's certainly less 'time expensive' to buy the bagged, chopped, pre-washed variety.

I even buy bagged spinach, cabbage, broccoli and more. They can be tossed in a pot and sauteed or steamed easily in no time at all. Or, you can even quickly season and microwave them.

3. Speed up cooking potatoes. Make 'baked' potatoes in your microwave. Pierce them with a fork, wrap in a paper towel and cook on high, until they're tender when you pierce them with a fork. I usually microwave for 7 minutes and then pierce with a fork to check for doneness. I then turn the potato and cook in 2 minute increments until it's done.

If you're boiling potatoes on the stove for potato salad, dice them small. They'll cook much faster.

If you're boiling potatoes on the stove for mashed potatoes, do so without taking the potato peels off. It's healthier to eat mashed potatoes this way, and they taste great.

4. Prepare foods ahead of time. Whenever possible, prepare foods ahead of time and freeze until you're ready to use them.

Cook up a large portion of homemade spaghetti sauce. When cool, divide up into 3-4 freezer containers, and freeze. On pasta night, just thaw and heat.

Pork chops and chicken can be breaded and frozen, up to 2 months in advance. Just bread cutlets, wrap in wax paper, and store in a freezer bag in your freezer. The night before you're ready to use them, thaw in your refrigerator before baking them.

Also, be sure to read recipes carefully, as many will give you instructions for cooking foods up until a certain point in the recipe. At that point you can store what you prepared so far, and finish up the recipe at a later time when you're ready for the meal.

In prepping meals ahead of time, you'll have some nights when you can just heat and eat. Doing so is a wonderful timesaver on busy nights.

5. Make double batches. No matter what you're cooking, make twice as much. As soon as it's finished cooking, divide it in half and refrigerate or freeze the second half--if you don't do this immediately, there's a chance there won't be anything left at the end of dinner to store. Serve the first half tonight.

Later in the week, just heat up the second half. You may choose to have it tomorrow, later in the week, or within a few weeks. Or, perhaps you'll bring some of the leftovers to work for lunch for the next few days.

Whatever you choose, you're basically cutting down your cooking time in half-- or more--by always cooking up enough for 2 or more meals.

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