Bite-Size Bulk Cooking
Be Prepared For Your Next Meal Before It’s Time To Eat | 3 Ways
Share|Define Your Prep Style To me, the term ‘bulk cooking’ is synonymous with a wide variety of terms including ‘make-a-head meals’, ‘once-a-month-cooking’, or even just simply ‘doubling a recipe’. The quantity you make and the frequency that you cook should be individualized to match your lifestyle. When I use the word ‘bulk’, you use your words. What’s important is defining a style of prep and cooking that allows you to (almost) always be prepared for your next meal before it’s time to eat. I previously shared my approach to making a meal plan (step 1 to nutrient-dense diet success), and now...
Read MoreHow to Meal Plan – Part 2: The Plate
Share|How to Create a Balanced, Produce-Based Meal I hope many of you have started meal planning since my first post: How to Meal Plan – Part 1: The Plan. And now that you are more comfortable thinking through which types of meals you would like to have, utilizing ingredients already on-hand, and scheduling when to shop and prep, you are ready to take it to the next level – how to create a balanced, produce-based meal. Real to Ideal – Different Days Need Different Ways Method 1: The Minimum – Doable Everyday Use a small plate (4-6″) to automatically decrease portion sizes Eat at least 2 serving of produce at each meal Eat something...
Read MoreHow to Meal Plan – Part 1: The Plan
Share|Befriend Meal Planning – It Will Love You Back In my opinion, the most important 20 minutes you can give your health each week is to learn how to meal plan. Whether you do it for 7-days at a time or 1-day at a time – always be prepared for your next meal before it’s time to eat. The next most important investment is to allocate at least 2 hours each week + 20 minutes each day to finding out how to implement that plan. Until you find out how to fit this into your schedule – take that time back from gym time if you have to. You will not obtain the health results and weight loss goals you are looking for from working out if you...
Read MoreDoable Bulk Cooking – 2 Recipes, 16 Meals: Ready for Monday!
Share| Be Prepared for Your Next Meal Before It’s Time to Eat (I will repeat this often) In my last post I committed to making just two recipes this weekend – bite-sized, doable bulk cooking. And so I did. Last night, despite feeling like making popcorn and watching a movie, I went into the kitchen and started to cook. Within 10 minutes I had the music turned up a little louder and a renewed sense of control over my diet. I was determined to avoid last week – one that I didn’t plan for and paid the consequences of by Friday night. Here’s what happens when I don’t do meal planning and bulk cooking: Meals become too...
Read MoreA Secret to Diet Success: Bite-Sized, Doable Meal Planning
Share|Be Prepared for Your Next Meal Before It’s Time to Eat If you are ready, really ready, to make dietary changes that work this time – you are going to have to befriend meal planning. It is an unrealistic expectation to put on yourself to think that at the end of a long, time-starved, day you are going to spend 20 minutes first cleaning vegetables, then 20 minutes chopping and preparing them, then 30 minutes cooking them…and this assumes you already knew which recipe you were going to make, which you probably didn’t until you got in the car and were driving home- oh, and that wasn’t a pleasant drive since your first two...
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