We're looking for reader tips on making home cooking easier, healthier, less time-consuming and less expensive.

Do you have great ideas for making quick to-go lunches for yourself or your family? What about tips for bulk buying or making your own replacements for foods that people typically purchase pre-made and pre-packaged? Ideas for efficient family meal planning? Quick and easy healthy recipes? Bring it on! Just post your ideas to the comments section below.

Do you have clever tricks, ideas and recipes for fixing meals with less meat? Do you use meat as a side dish or condiment? Perhaps you eat several meatless meals each week, and then use a little meat here and there to round out the textures, flavors and nutrition of your overall diet.

For some people, learning to cook with less meat is part of an intentional transition to a vegetarian diet. For others, it can be a way to stretch food dollars or simply to up the ante of grains, beans and other hearty stars of the dinner table.

Whatever your motivation, if you have insight into the almost-meatless kitchen, please share your recipes and ideas with each other in the comments section below.