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August 25, 2007
Plan a week's worth of dinners
Challenge Yourself for: 2 days
Incorporating natural foods into your daily meals takes some effort and thought. That’s why it’s a great idea to plan ahead. When you know what you’re eating every night, you can have grocery lists ready for shopping trips. And, you can stock foods in your pantry for every meal on your menu.
This weekend, spend some time planning an entire week’s worth of groceries/meals. This exercise might prove so helpful that you’ll want to do it every week.
(We’ve given you 2 days for this Challenge. When you log your progress, you only need to log as many – or as few – days as you think are applicable.)
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8 comments
I love the Go Lean Crunch mixed with Yogurt and if possible berries. It’s good for my body and my diabetis. I’m trying to add more natural products and less artificial ingredients to food.
I look for natural and organic foods to stock at home and to use as everyday ingredients, I prefer to make my own protein bars, granola bars and cereal but i do keep packaged products for the grandkids and keep some for myself when I am not able to make my own, I have diabetes and cancer and hope to instill nutritional habits to my children, grandchildren and friends.
I’m trying to be frugal AND healthy, which is pretty darn hard these days. I don’t want to sacrifice nutrition for cost. Like Born2camp45 said, knowing we are instilling habits in our children and grandchildren that could help them live healthier, longer lives is a great incentive!
I try and plan healthy meals for many of my my main meals but always seem to have a hard time with the snack attacks. I find this is where I need to prepare in advance.
I found a web site with meal plans for many cusines. I chose healthy heart. The weekly plans have the best shopping lists I can just take to the nat’l food store and shop away without having to spend time creating a list. subsitutions are much easier that way. they have low-carb menus and kosher menus suggestions. It costs a little, but has really opened my eys on how to cook tasty meals without the fat and sugar amounts I used to use. It’s savingdinner.com.
I did this, I planned out my meal for the next week along with a friends that is started to work out with me. right down to the snack. it help with the gro. buying also.
Planning out the week’s meals is the only thing that keeps me sane at this point – grad school is a BEAST! I love coming home and knowing exactly what I am going to eat, as opposed to opening the cupboards and refrigerator 20x (all the time wasting energy) before deciding on a turkey sandwich or an omelet…
Meal planning for the next week starts on Wednesday at our house. I start with the staples that I may need to restock, and then check the fliers that come on Thursday for ideas and sale items. I then decide what I want to cook for the next week and write out the list accordingly. This was the only way to keep my sanity at the store when the kids were little, and it stuck.