If taking your family out to eat seems like a time-saver, think again. Unless you typically prepare complicated, multi-course meals, you will actually save time – not to mention save money – by feeding your family at home. In addition to quick and simple recipes, you can make cooking at home quick and convenient with these top 10 cooking secrets courtesy of G. Garvin, host of TV One’s Turn Up The Heat with G. Garvin.

G. Garvin’s philosophy on life and cooking is beautiful simplicity. “Between jobs and responsibilities, we don’t make enough time for the people who are most important to us. And we don’t make enough time to sit down to dinner with the whole family,” Garvin says. Garvin’s cookbook Make it Super Simple is an invaluable collection of delicious, easy to fix recipes designed to get people reconnected to their loved ones and sit-down homemade meals. Here are his top 10 super simple cooking secrets.

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