A whiz app , easy back - air pocket meal , and one secret weapon ( husband Freddie Prinze Jr. ) keep everyone eating well in the busy actress ’s home .
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Sarah Michelle Gellar ’s schedule is more packed than ever , between raising two stripling with husband Freddie Prinze Jr. and balancing work onDexter : Original Sin , the sequel toReady or Not , and the reboot of a little show calledBuffy the Vampire Slayer . So how does she stay both reasonable and healthy?Meal provision .
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She ’s presently a spokesperson for MyFitnessPal ’s meal - preparation feature , but her passion for cookery goes back decades : " Basically to when I go out of my mummy ’s house and realized that food just does n’t seem , " says Gellar , who has also written a cookery book about broil with children . We talked to her about all things food , entertaining , and her honey of lean .
Meal-Planning Strategies
" I notice that we make our sorry choices when we ’re rushed for time , right ? That ’s when we grab the fried food for thought or something that ’s been in the deep-freeze forever that ’s full of sodium , " says Gellar . A big exponent of meal planning ( and ego - identify lean lover in universal ) , she has traditionally gotten forwards of the week with a Sunday trip to thefarmer ’s marketwith her best friend , and then a supermarket workshop .
But these day , she ’s going all in on the digital age with theMyFitnessPal meal - planning tool , through which you could choose recipes , then have any component you ’re missing added to your cart and delivered . As soon as she tried it , she says : " I thought this is the key that ’s missing in repast prep . It ’s something that I ’ve been attempting to do on my own for a recollective time , but it was a lot of oeuvre . The tool shit it so much easier and takes all that influence off your ' plate'—it ’s so unseamed . "
Go-To Meals
So what are Gellar ’s tried - and - true recipes when she ’s in a hurry ? " aboveboard , whatever Iput in the Deepfreeze . With repast planning , you could look at your calendar week and say , goodness , on this 24-hour interval we are so swamped for sentence , I need something I can just take out and reheat . Or ooh , this next daytime is really crazy , I want to have a great tiffin on the go . What can I make at dark that I can make into lunch for tomorrow ? " ( And yes , she ’s known forpacking her own lunchto convey to place . ) Here are some current favorites :
Chicken Warren Burger : She likes to batch prepare chicken burgers as a talent to her future ( busy ) ego . " I will put some in the freezer for those days when I just take to pop out dinner . "
Zucchini boats:“Zucchiniis one of those bully vegetable that you may really find year - pear-shaped , " she says . " We ’re big courgette hoi polloi in our planetary house . " She makes zucchini " boats " by scoop out the veg , filling them with a mixture of ground chicken , attic , and vegetables , and then roast them .
avocado pear toast:“I unquestionably am a goner girl , andavocado toastis a great path to get protein . I love to put an egg , perhaps a keen littleburrata cheeseflower , on top . "
Making Cooking a Family Activity
Gellar has a skilled spouse in getting syndicate meal on the mesa : Husband Freddie , who — little - lie with fact — went to culinary school day and has author a cookery book . " He ’s the chef ; I ’m the cook , " she says .
Together , the two advance their kids to cook from a young age — an investment that ’s start to give off . " Now they make for me . My daughter will find these recipe on Instagram and try them . She had a pasta recipe last week , which is so funny because she cerebrate she invented making alimentary paste with a littlechicken stock . But it ’s great , she ’s break down for it . "
The whole family makes a distributor point to cook on the road , too . " We always endeavor to take cooking lesson wherever we go , " she say . " So we went to Italy last summertime , and we did apasta - makingclass in this woman ’s home in Tuscany and did apizza - makingclass in an apartment in Florence … We have sex to learn from wherever we are . "
If Gellar could say one thing to her young self about food ? " I would say do n’t be so preoccupied . You do n’t have to overthink every bite you put into your mouth … If you ’re craving afters , have a fiddling sweet . "
Combatting Picky Eating
Gellar has two strategies for raise not - too - picky eater . The first is a committal to misrepresent one meal for everyone . “The one thing we never did [ when our kids were small ] was make separate meals . They knew that this was what was for dinner . We were a fellowship , we were eating . "
She and Freddie also plant a linguistic rule in their house ahead of time on : " You ca n’t decide that you do n’t like something until you ’ve tried it 10 times and two times more . Because a lot of metre , kids may not like something the first clip , and then you do n’t give it to them again . But possibly it was the preparation . perhaps it was a picky historic period . So our kids have it away they have to keep taste . "
Secret Entertaining Weapon
" We want people to feel at dwelling , " she says about her approach to hosting . " Having our friend and family line over is really significant because it ’s often the only way we get to see them . We just want them to feel well-off . "
Her conjuring trick to entertaining ? " It ’s called Freddie , " she laugh . " He ’s always essay to switch it up , but I will say guests always rave about his tomato soup from scratch with no cream . Nobody ever believe it has no ointment . "
