Two of the biggest obstacles to eating healthy meals during the week are time and effort. How often do we come home tired from a long day at work and end up eating pre-packaged, easy to cook foods or take-out fast food?
This slideshow offers seven simple meal planning tips that will help you eat well during the busy work week.
2. Make time to find
recipes
Websites
Cookbooks
1
Magazines
Your favorite cooking shows
3. Make sure you have
the ingredients
you’ll need
Check your
pantry & fridge
Stock up on
staples
Read your recipes
2
4. Use a calendar or
app to plan meals
• Plan To Eat *
• Paper calendar
• Evernote
3
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6. Cook ahead of time
Beans
Pasta
Rice
5
Sauces
Mashed
Potatoes
7. organize your
refrigerator
Clean it out
weekly
Label
containers
Use see-through
storage
6
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brixton/
8. Make meal planning
fun!
Get the kids
involved
Play your favorite
music while you
prep
Try a new dish
once a week
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9. For more information:
Website - www.vegetarianzen.com
Vegetarian Zen podcast on iTunes / Stitcher
Facebook - VegetarianZen
Twitter - @VegetarianZen
Thank you!
Notes de l'éditeur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/echoeve/
SLIDE BACKGROUND IMAGE: recipe card
SLIDE BACKGROUND IMAGE: choose one of the fruit/veggie stock photos in dropbox
SLIDE BACKGROUND IMAGE: organized refrigerator shelves (if you can’t find something like this, see if you can come up with something else that fits the theme of this tip)