Meal planning makes it a lot easier to have healthy food for every meal of the day. However, meal planning can get difficult and may seem like a hassle sometimes. Here are tips to make meal planning easier!
Before you go to the grocery store, make a menu for the week and list out what items you need. When you get to the store, you can make sure to get all of the items that you need. Plan out healthy food when you’re planning your menu for the week. Keep some that are plant-based meals and make sure you’re getting all of the main nutrients in all of them. If you have items in your fridge, check the expiration dates on those and incorporate them into your meals. Remember the leftovers! You’re probably going to have leftovers after meals, and you can use those the next day and make a whole other meal with them.
Apart from the meal planning, actually making the food and preparing it can also be difficult. Freezing meats in smaller portions will help them cook faster. If they’re smaller, then it won’t take as much time to defrost them. If you can prepare food and freeze it beforehand, it’ll make it a lot easier. However, this isn’t possible with all food, but for the ones where you can cook and freeze it, that would make it much easier. Cook any meat in large batches. When you are preparing the meal, then you can put the meat together. This will reduce cooking time.
Happy Friday!
- Srujana Poluri