Make it Easier for Yourself!

We all have that sort of day where cooking is hard, and that day for me was yesterday.

As a meal planning coach I preach the art of cooking and planning ahead, and so it happened to work out in our favour last night, and I wanted to share a couple of tips to help make sure it works out most of the time for you too. Because it's unrealistic to assume that we will always feel like cooking. Am I right?

Convenience will always win over intention. We can have the best intentions ever but still find it hard to make them happen when we're *that* exhausted. Here are a couple of food rules I live by:

• Freeze cooked proteins in meal-sized bags. Sliced meats become stir fry, sandwiches, soup, salads, wraps, and so on. Frozen beans can translate to meatless chilis, soups, casseroles, burritos, bean bowls, and so on.
• Keep enough useful items in your pantry that you can throw something together in under 15 minutes that makes a meal but doesn't take a lot of effort.

It's the little things that slip us up when we try to stay on top of meal planning and eating at home. It doesn't take long for actions to become habits, and when we start making take-out or fast food the default choice, that begins to creep into other meals besides our exhausted ones, and that's when our nutritional balance begins to suffer.

Consider what you can do to make life easier for yourself tomorrow, and start doing it. One baby step at a time will completely change your life.

Have a great day, friends!
Stacy
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