Grilling Shortcuts From Mr. Food

By Michelle Sabadasz

Grilling Shortcuts From Mr. Food

July 8, 2010 Updated Jul 1, 2012 at 10:34 AM EDT

( MrFood.com) It's grocery shopping list time, and if we're wishing we could add some pizzazz to our grill-fest at any time, but our work-week has us too tied up to make a "from-scratch" fuss, we can still be kitchen heroes.

How? Our markets are loaded with shortcut helpers, and sometimes we just need a little reminder to pick them up.

And sure, any brands are fine:

We've all seen seasoning rubs that are simply combos of just the right herbs and spices. We simply apply them to our food then throw them on the grill and our meals taste like we labored over them.only we know we didn't!

Don't forget the loads of varieties of bottled marinades and packets of dry marinade mixes that we just add water to. All the work's been done for us, and many of them do the trick in only 30 minutes!

For last-minute entertaining, this shortcut is great for easy cleanup: Marinate in a resealable plastic storage bag that can simply be tossed out when you're done! Your food's ready to go from the fridge to the grill.

If we put some of these timesavers on our shopping list, we get the tasty credit! They'll never know how we got to the goal of...

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