Meat/Fish Tips

Frozen and canned, ready to eat meat and fish are your friend.  Pre-cooked, drained and frozen ground beef.  Shredded cooked chicken.  Canned salmon.  Canned tuna.  Canned crab. Frozen shrimp.  These are all great way to start or fill out a meal.  It is easy in a one pot meal to get stuck with what to do for the protein.  Or worse, get stuck cooking the protein for way too long.  A little effort on the front end, or a little ingenuity when you have ingredients available can help later on down the road.  Buying a roast chicken?  Buy two.  Shred the other one and freeze it.  Browning ground beef?  Brown extra and freeze it. Frozen shrimp (even frozen raw shrimp) cook in no time flat and are very tasty!