You have just returned from vacation, still the sun in your eyes, the salt on your skin and relaxed rhythms summer? Here's how to organize meals without forgetfulness and stress.

Let's start with kitchen. Three simple and fast menus they will help to plan the meals of the week, offering the family a complete and balanced lunch or dinner, as well as various and rich in taste. The first step is to do the shopping, making sure you have all the ingredients available for the preparation of these quick menus that require 30 to 45 minutes each. Not having to do the shopping and not being satisfied with what is left in the pantry, will be the first sure step towards an effective organization of your table.

Mixed salads, light first courses, cold second courses and simple desserts, are the ideal for the preparation of quick and tasty menus that invite you to sit at the table without sacrificing the time-saving courses.

Alternating vegetarian menus with meat and fish meals is a good idea to encourage balanced and complete nutrition, as well as stimulating and intriguing.

Quick vegetarian menu

Fresh bean salad, green beans and grapes, eggplant and scamorza sandwich and tartlets with ricotta and pear.

Quick meat menu

Short pasta with parsley and champignon sauce, turkey cannoli stuffed with pine nuts ricotta and quick cream with rum and almond prunes.

Quick fish menu

Egg salad with pumpkin seeds, potato soup with mushrooms and croutons and sea bass escalopes with vegetables in foil.

Our 3 quick menus for the week:

The Easter holidays have just ended and our week has already taken the usual frenetic pace. Abandon the most elaborate preparations, the temptation to solve lunches and dinners with a quick salad is very strong. Accomplices the first fruits and the fresh seasonal ingredients, it is possible to vary and compose balanced mixed salads but … watch out for boredom!

In fact, our palate requires different flavors and the metabolism itself, with which we are less in touch, claims different dishes and foods that can satisfy the nutritional needs of our body with the most possible variations. That's why a simple menu to prepare in just 40 minutes is an excellent solution: throat, variability and tight deadlines are finally satisfied.

First, it is a good idea to organize the pantry so that you have all the ingredients necessary for preparing the recipes. Spending in fact often constitutes a waste of time during the week, which leaves little room for preparations. However, the three quick menus offered are simple to prepare and you may find yourself already in possession of all the elements necessary for preparing meals. The first menu offered is composed of three vegetarian dishes: salad with asparagus and raspadura, strips of zucchini and gorgonzola flowers and dove and kiwi sandwiches. It is proposed with a very fast menu (45 minutes total) based on fish that will amaze you with taste and lightness: thin fettuccine with broad beans and bottarga, squid stuffed with aromatic bread and cup of strawberries and lime ricotta. The dessert is a good idea from which to take inspiration for delicious and light desserts: ricotta is in fact preferable to cream and cream if you try not to overdo calories. The third menu proposed instead, is composed of three very fast plates: bruschetta of 'nduja and provola cheese, turkey scallops with Marsala, avocado sorbet. Balanced and tasty, it combines spiciness, aroma and freshness, ending with a real exotic surprise.

The vegetarian menu

The menu based on fish

The meat menu