If you’re working hard towards a health or fitness goal then eating accounts for 80% of your results. You need to be organised otherwise it’s too easy to get busy with life, get hungry and reach for anything in a hurry.
Planning and preparation will keep you on track and is the key for your success!
You want to try your best to have a fridge full of fresh wholesome foods over packaged, like I’ve pictured below after a trip to the farmers markets. Then it helps to take it one step further and have some foods cooked, chopped, grated, sliced in containers ready to quickly throw together in a salad or snack on.
Some things we do in our household to have ready in the fridge are:
– Various containers full of prepared fruits and veg eg: grated carrot, chopped capsicum, mushrooms, shallots, radish, pineapple, watermelon etc
– Container full of hard boiled eggs
– Cook up trays of chopped sweet potato, pumpkin, cool and put in containers
– Wrap some whole beetroot in alfoil with drizzle of oil and season with herbsalt, cook, cool and refrigerate. Then peel the skin off when ready to chop and toss through salad
– Make a dressing in a jar – macadamia oil, lemon, balsamic vinegar, (sometimes add honey & wholegrain mustard in place of vinegar)
– Wash silverbeet, remove end of stalk and place in long tuperware fridgesmart. Chop my broccoli and place in fridgesmart also (they have the vents and rigid bottom to keep veg fresh)
– Protein shelf in my fridge with cooked chicken, salmon fillets, steak, chicken rissoles. Basically whenever we cook up meats for dinner I ALWAYS cook extra and put in tupperware in fridge for next day or 2 to chop up and mix through lunch or simply snack on
– We have a water filter and loads of tupperware drink bottles filled in the fridge ready to grab on the run
– Freeze whole punnets of blueberries (beautiful to snack on), chop fresh fruit and keep in containers in freezer ready for smoothies – banana’s, pineapple, mango
– Every Sunday arv/evening we bake a treat for the kids lunchboxes like muffins, biscuits, oat slice. Now Rylee is getting a bit older she does this for me which is awesome.
Do you have any idea how easy this makes healthy meals when you’re short on time after work or school activities!!!! You can quite easily throw together a salad and cook up some protein in 10 mins…the same time it would take you to drive to takeway, order pay and drive home.
Yes I understand it takes time out to do the work involved prepping. It can feel like a chore at first but it only takes 30 days for it to become a habit and part of your lifestyle. So why not give it a try for a month?
In our household we make a choice to prioritise food prep over watching the tv. You just have to ask yourself, what’s more important?
People make the time to do the things they value. If you value your health, nourishing your body and having energy then you simply must make the time to get organised. Block out some time in your diary.
Besides, the time it takes prepping will be returned to you in an abundance of good health and more energy to get more out of your days.
It’s worth the time. Your health is worth the investment.
Lisa x
