Its so important to make things easy when it comes to cooking at home. It can get overwhelming to plan recipes when you want to lose weight or keep it off. The past couple of weeks I’ve been talking with my clients about just this thing so lets get right into it!
First off, if we don’t have healthy food in our house, we’ll eat poorly. Then we don’t reach our goals.
Second, we are so busy that we don’t have a lot of time to plan recipes, shop and cook, and work!
So, how can we make it faster and easier?
Here are 4 ideas to get you started and on your way to fat loss and tasty meals. I’m going to assume you have a regular breakfast, snack and lunch already in place, here I am focusing on dinners.
1) cook double recipes (use leftovers either for lunch OR dinner the next day, I prefer dinner because its a big time saver)
2) Cook 3 nights a week. Plan the nights when you have time to cook (I cook Sunday, Tuesday and Friday) You might ask what about the other 4 nights? Friday’s meal has leftovers for Saturday dinner, Sunday has leftovers for Monday, Tuesday has leftovers for Wednesday, and Thursday night is a 10% meal, either sandwiches at home or we eat out.
3) Plan out a 1 or 2 week template or recipes and repeat for the month. For example… Sunday’s = Spaghetti Squash with Broiled Shrimp and Pesto, Tuesday’s = Sautéed Kielbasa with onions, apples and sauerkraut, Friday’s = Chili in the crock pot. If you get bored easily, plan a 2 week template and repeat, that means you’ll need 6 recipes if you cook 3 nights each week.
4) Make your template grocery list for the 3 recipes you need for the week, add your staples for breakfast, snacks, and lunch to the list and get shopping!
Hope this helps, let me know how it works for you!
–Sarah 🙂