I have spent almost the last 2 hours planning menu's for the week. A lot of prompts this week--made me sit down and write it out this week, grocery list included.
Inspiration: 1) I read an article by Dr. Oz this week from "O Magazine" and he said that some of the reasons we make bad food decisions is because we get stressed out/tired from making too many decisions. So, generally we start the day out eating well but by the time we have picked our clothes, our shoes, where to go, what to do, answers to kids all day we get tired of making choices and so we just eat whatever is the quickest, easiest thing in front of us 2) Again, deciding to go more whole foods necessitates more meal planning and 3) I get so discouraged calling Bjorn around 4 pm every day asking him what he wants for dinner (always trying to please! I'm done... for a little bit).
Anyway, I've been searching everywhere for good whole food recipes that I can plan for the week. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm trying to plan breakfast and lunch too! Steel cut oats is probably my go to breakfast. This recipe from Bethenny Frankel is one of my fave's (except I use dried cranberries instead of the blueberries).
Anyway, in my quest for recipes I had a friend message me and ask if I am following Word of Wisdom Living. I was not... but I am now! Very cool. Even cooler, the guy (not gal) that writes the blog is a retired father of 6 grandfather of 15! Bonus: he offers a weekly health challenge. We don't have to change our lifestyle all at once. This week's challenge? Create a menu and grocery list. Check.
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11 years ago
I read that WOW blog for awhile before I got pregnant with Lila...it made me feel healthy just reading. I, too, and interested in good, healthy meals. For the last few weeks, I've been meal planning and grocery shopping for the coming week every Saturday! I love it. It means I actually cook and that I don't call in for Chinese.
ReplyDeleteP.S. When you find/try a new (or old!) recipe, will you post it here?
ReplyDeletewhole foods (the market) has a recipe app. I haven't used it a ton, but you can put in things like gluten free, high fiber, vegetarian, sugar conscious on your searches and it will pull up all their recipes according to your requests. many of their recipes use free range meats and, of course, whole foods. Check it out and see what you think. I did buy some spelt and brown rice flour that i want to try in my "healthy" pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. If it works out ok then I'll post the recipe.
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