by Erin Walsh

Three meals a day times seven days a week equals... a whole lot of time in the kitchen. And when "cook" is only one of your innumerable job titles, that time is at a premium.

Read on as iVillagers share their clever tips for shaving precious minutes off the clock, and get ready to start spending less time on meal prep and cleanup, and more time enjoying the fruits of your labor—or at least moving on to your next role as homework helper/confidant/loving partner/chauffeur/laundress/cheering section.

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