quick meals
Grab-and-go eating
Quick meals are dishes that can be prepared and served in minimal time, typically under thirty minutes.
The phrase emphasizes convenience over culinary ambition: I keep ingredients on hand for quick meals on busy weeknights.
Recipe websites and cookbooks often categorize by preparation time, with quick meals appealing to those balancing cooking with other demands.
- frozen dinnersPrecooked meals, sold iced
- tacosFilled folded tortillas
- instant noodlesFast-cooking dried pasta
- microwavingHeating with radio waves
- saladsMixed vegetables served cold
eggs · sandwiches · wraps · meal prep · rice bowls · grab-and-go · lunch break · air fryer · convenience · throw together · stir-frying · TV dinners · single-serve · ready-made · heat-and-eat · soups · pressure cooker · skillet
- Meal Kitsfresh ingredients, meal plans, subscription box, cooking instructions, HelloFresh
- toaster oven usestoasting, baking, broiling, reheating, toast
- Frozen Foodsfrozen pizza, frozen dinners, frozen vegetables, frozen chicken, frozen fish
- cookbookscookbooks, cookbook, recipe books, recipe book, vegetarian cookbooks
- food processor recipeshummus, pesto, salsa, nut butter, dips
- meal prepmeal prep, batch cooking, meal plan, food prep, lunch prep
quick mealsbraises
Cooks slowly in liquid
stews · roasts · Sunday roast · slow food · low and slow
quick mealsgourmet cooking
Refined culinary art
fine dining · haute cuisine · Thanksgiving dinner · wedding feast · banquet
quick mealsfeast
Elaborate ceremonial meal
state dinner · Christmas dinner · sit-down dinner · formal dinners · banquet