Article: Mix-and-match menus make it easy.(FoodPlus)

Remember Geranimals? The mix-and-match clothes for kids came with animal tags; any combination of giraffes worked together, same with the elephants and zebras.

It was a quick and easy way to buy kids clothes.

Danice Boyd of Glendale Heights, a busy working mother of two children, uses the same mix-and-match formula for preparing simple, fast, nutritious meals with homemade taste. All her dinners consist of one meat, one vegetable and one starch, and they can all be interchanged like a wardrobe full of red, white and blue clothing.

"That's what makes it go so fast," says Danice.

She begins the ensemble with some protein - chicken breasts, pork chops, Italian ...

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