Basics
Three family meals
The house eats on Tuesday. Three meals you can cook without turning dinner into a performance.
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The steps
Pasta, a sheet pan, and eggs. The week is fed.
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- 01Pasta: boil it until it is tender, heat a jar of sauce, and stir in a bag of frozen vegetables for the last two minutes. Oil and salt. That is dinner.
- 02Sheet pan: chicken or beans, chopped potatoes, and a vegetable. Oil, salt, hot oven. Chicken is done when a thermometer in the thickest piece reads 165°F. Brown on the outside is not the test.Color is not a temperature. 165°F is the USDA line for poultry. Short of that, it stays on the pan.
- 03Eggs, toast, and fruit. Or beans, rice, and salsa. Breakfast at night still counts. Cook eggs until the white and the yolk are set, not shiny.
- 04Wash your hands. Raw meat stays on its own board and its own plate. The plate that held raw chicken does not go back to the table.
- 05Leftovers go in the fridge within two hours. Eat them within four days, or freeze them. If it smells off, throw it out. Do not taste it to check.
- 06Write the three meals on the shared week card so the other adult can cook them without calling you.
- 07Allergies live on the fridge sheet, in the clinician's words. A known allergy is not a night to experiment.
- 08One of these is enough for the week you are in. If the thermometer is short of 165°F on chicken, keep cooking. Do not serve it to see.
Also on this job
The same job, in the directory.
Official pages and the DadLane steps, with a next step on each card.
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USDA MyPlate
MyPlate
USDA's plate for everyday meals. Use it to plan three meals, not to start a diet argument.
For Dads who cook the week and want a simple public picture of a meal.
- Feeding
- Basics how-tos
- Toddler
FoodSafety.gov
Food safety basics
FoodSafety.gov on handling food so dinner does not become an urgent care visit.
For Dads cooking for the house, including the grill night.
- Feeding
- Safety
- Any stage
Sources
Go to the source.
These open in a new tab. They are the organizations named here, not ads. The video, when there is one, sits above this list.
- MyPlate (opens in a new tab)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Food safety basics (opens in a new tab)
FoodSafety.gov