| The same question "What's for dinner?" | | | | meal for the week. I am not very organized and I |
| This week you have just started a new | | | | never really know what I am going to be in a |
| commitment to yourself that you are going to | | | | mood to eat so planning the menu for the entire |
| eat better and start exercising and you've just | | | | week is difficult for me. If you are like me here |
| gotten off work after a seemingly endless day. | | | | are a few things that I have found helpful in |
| It's been hectic and you still have a million things | | | | answering the "What's for diner?" question in a |
| to do; pick up the kids, walk the dog, get your | | | | more healthy way. |
| work out in, go to some recital or game, or do | | | | Find some recipes that you can make for dinner |
| your laundry. You know, the never ending list of | | | | in 30 minutes or less. There are loads of healthy |
| "should do's" or "gotta get done's" that make it | | | | dinner ideas on the web. Keep the basic |
| seem as if there is just not enough time in a day. | | | | ingredients for simple, fast recipes stocked in your |
| You have been so good all week and hate to | | | | kitchen. You need to take the time to plan and |
| blow it. On this particularly never ending day you | | | | shop. This doesn't have to be a huge undertaking |
| are trying to be good but it is hard. The last thing | | | | but remember you are also trying to create |
| you want to do is try to find some time to go | | | | healthier eating habits so some changes have to |
| shopping and make a healthy dinner! It is ever so | | | | be made. Make extra portions that can be frozen |
| tempting to skip your workout and run through a | | | | or refrigerated and reheated or cooked later. For |
| fast food joint just to make your day just a little | | | | example, if you are making a meatloaf or a |
| be faster and easier. After all you have had a | | | | casserole on the weekend, double the recipe and |
| hard day and deserve a break, right? However, | | | | freeze half. Make an extra big salad keeping the |
| you know that you'd feel better sticking to your | | | | extra for later in the week. Pre-cook chicken |
| promise to yourself and your family to eat | | | | breast that can be chopped and added to the |
| healthier. So what do you do? | | | | salad or can be used a quick wrap or sandwich. |
| If you are like me you probably end up at a sub | | | | Have quick healthy snacks on hand that you can |
| sandwich shop ordering some chicken bacon ranch | | | | grab and take with you; fruit, cheese sticks, nuts, |
| sandwich, justifying to yourself "It is not total junk | | | | veggie sticks, cooked chicken or turkey breast, |
| food, it's not fried and I got the baked chips." | | | | protein bars, etc. This will allow you to not be as |
| Then to compensate you add another 15 minutes | | | | hungry until you return home and get something |
| to your power walk out of the time you saved | | | | healthy. These are a few things that have helped |
| from not making dinner. Yea, you know who you | | | | me eat healthier and has helped to keep me from |
| are. That is ok. We all do it. It is my goal to | | | | the fast food drive thrus and I am the least |
| reduce the amount of times a week I do this. So | | | | organized domestic engineer on the planet. |
| how does one keep from being in this situation? | | | | Serious Nutrition Answers |
| Prepare. | | | | I am no expert, just a working mother and wife |
| Preparing for "What's for Dinner?" | | | | with more things to do than time to do them. |
| I am not a person who likes to pre-plan every | | | | |