Quote From: marcia52The neat thing I've just recently learned about meal planning is that is just a tool that I don't need to be so anal about as I get better at it.
TASTE OF HOME has a magazine that has nothing but healthy recipes in it. One of the support members gets it and always makes 1-2 new dishes out of it.
Right now, I'm collecting recipes and I figure that if I get 21 dinners ... then I can rotate thru them. I got that suggestion from one of my magazine .. I tend to forget what I can make .. I'm writing them down on index cards .. I want to separate them by the type of meat ... Like I've found out that my grocery stores actually have a pattern when it comes to selling their meats.
Like always .. the end of the month they sell chicken breast real cheap. They sell pork loin cheap 1x a month as well. I can buy the chicken breast and can figure out what meals I want to make and how I want to fix them -- write it down.
I'm thinking of numbering the index cards & my list so I can remember to look at it
I guess if you have to cook all the time .. it does seem like work. I'm just relearning to cook ...LONG STORY THERE ... any way, it's coming along rather okay.
It's all about figuring out what meals are healthy and then remembering they are there ... isn't that nuts. However, it's not a habit ... I'm just now practicing it so it can become one that I want to fit.
With the weather turning colder ... you could make it a goal to start looking at your recipes, magazines, etc. for recipes for grilling -- isn't that how you cook when you go camping? And take your recipes and make them healthier. Like using low fat dairy instead of plain old milk.
Then when you go camping next year, you can take your new healthier recipes camping with you. Would that be a good idea?
See, I don't have a big problem when it comes to eating healthy. And I don't need to loose more weight(I was 180 down to 120) and I have lots of muscle defifnition. My big problem is when it comes to making the food I alway's seem to be making the same thing over and over again!
And I don't like to eat food that has already be prepared and then frozen. I like my food fresh. I eat no processed food, all whole grain (everything), lots of veggies and fruits, soya products, organic as much as possible.
See, I went totaly freaky for a while when it came down to food, I would count all the calories that I would ingest (enven my gum of 5 cal!) I went down to 115 and I looked like one of those models on fitnesse mags, but I could'nt keep that up it was lots of hard work and lots of planning. I gain weight just by looking at food, I have to be very carful of what I eat. And the simpler it is, the better.
If their is to many ingredients in the recepie, I hate it, it has to be simple and fast. Guess i want my cake and eat it to!
I congratulate you by what you are doing when it comes to meal planning, I know I wouldn't be able to do all of that. index cards and all, let me know how it works for you and if you find it easy or complicated.
