Fast food slowly

I hear a lot of people talking about how they don't have time to cook, and that is why they do so much take out. I can understand why after working all day, then driving home, maybe picking up kids from the sitters, or stopping to collect milk or bread for the next day, a person wouldn't want to spend hours and hours in the kitchen.

I remember coming home from work picking up my kid, her clamoring for food, the telemarketers calling, the next door neighbors cat jumping in through my kitchen window, and my crazy neighbor lady yelling at me for kidnapping her cat all while trying to put together something that would be tasty for both myself and a preschooler, as well as being healthy. All I wanted to really do was collapse on the couch, maybe play the cool new Super Mario, ( yeah I'm old).

Fast food is bad for us, we all know it, we see a the information put out by our govt. but sometimes a quick meal is just what we have time for. With a little planning, we can have the quickness of fast food at home but with out a lot of the nasty things like extra salt, fat and price that we would end up with if we ate out.

We could buy things like frozen hamburgers from a supermarket, those flat, sawdusty patties that are just as full of salts as the fast food place or....

Combine
1lb ground lean hamburger ( ground sirloin is a taste option)
1/4 cup minced onion
1/4 cup dry bread crumbs
1tsp Worcestershire sauce
one egg
bit of pepper.

Mix together and form into four patties, place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper( after the burgers are done cooking you can toss the paper it makes cleaning up easier) place the burgers into a 300 degree oven and cook till the burgers are dark on the outside and grey inside.

You can serve this with corn on the cob, a salad even french fries.
Cooking the burgers in the oven gives you time to make up lunches for the next day and set them into the fridge so when you are done in the kitchen you are done for the night.

You can increase this recipe up to four times the size and freeze the patties until you need them.

When I freeze these I cut out pieces of wax paper and set the paper on cookie sheets, then set the formed patties on the cookie sheets, cover with plastic wrap and freeze for a few hours, then take the frozen patties and put them into ziploc bags to store. 4 patties fit into one medium sized ziploc freezer bag. I peel off the paper and toss the frozen patties onto a pan then into the oven to cook right from frozen.

It costs about 10 dollars to make up 16 burgers, you know exactly what goes into your burger, there isn't a lot of extra salt or fat, its quicker to make then you might think. and taste better then those sawdusty burgers.