- Buy fresh produce from a farmers market once or twice a week.
- Plan your meals once a week for the coming week.
- Write a list of the ingredients you will need and shop for these items, nothing else.
- Make your lunch and your kid’s lunches the night before and store in an airtight container.
- Mix up homemade salad dressing and have some in a jar in the fridge.
- Make a large bowl of salad twice a week. Use this salad mix for dinners and lunches.
- Once a week have a prep day and chop up vegetables and salad ingredients and make snack foods.
- Cook more than you need for one meal and keep the remaining food in the fridge for lunch the next day or another meal.
- Carry a little container of nuts, fruit, boiled eggs or meat patties to make sure you always have a healthy snack with you if you need it.
- Eat on small plates.
- Drink water 20-30 minutes before every meal. A lot of hunger is dehydration.
- Eat vegetables with every meal.
Always plan and be prepared. It may seem like a lot of work, but you will find its actually quicker in the long run. Its much quicker if you have food prepped for the week and know what you are cooking. You then don’t get the 5pm “what should I make for dinner panic?’ and resort to takeaways, which are never as quick as you would have liked.
So be prepared and plan to succeed…… check out my Fit Tip in the Online Gym on this here
