Healthy Eating and Organising Your Meals
@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
September 6, 2010 11:54am CST
It’s difficult to keep healthy meals going when your partner works hard and you happen to be physically disabled. I need to get good nutritious food inside me to try and improve my health, but we seem to rely almost wholly on ready meals from the supermarket and that’s something I want to change.
I was talking to my partner and came up with the idea that we make the first weekend or something, a cooking weekend, using recipes for food (very simple as I'm not a cook!) that we can freeze down in individual portions for quick use in the evenings after my partner comes home from work.
The obvious ideas are vegetable soups (nicer now that the cold weather has started) and casseroles, but it would be nice to have a few more ideas and tips. I think it’s against Mylot rules to post recipes, so please be careful not to post anything that will get your comment deleted!
How do you prepare nutritious meals with little time and energy to spare?
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@macdingolinger (10386)
• United States
6 Sep 10
Soups and all as you mentioned work real well. I think you'll find that besides the health benefits you'll even have financial benefit! It should be a lot cheaper to cook it all yourself. I had a friend who cooked one weekend like that. They both worked and it was a lot easier than cooking every night after coming in from work. All I know is she did a lot of casseroles!
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@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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7 Sep 10
That's the plan! Whether we can organise ourselves for it is another matter. We're both terribly scattered but we're trying to improve so I can get my health better and we can get ready for babies. That's seeming at least couple years off though. 
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@macdingolinger (10386)
• United States
7 Sep 10
Well, since you admit some lack of organizational skills, you can both work together to achieve your goals! It's like a built-in encouragement panel!
And setting goals is the way to begin. Set small, reachable ones that you can easily achieve. And make sure they are part of getting you to the bigger goals. You'll do fine!
And setting goals is the way to begin. Set small, reachable ones that you can easily achieve. And make sure they are part of getting you to the bigger goals. You'll do fine!1 person likes this
@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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7 Sep 10
We've got a noticeboard for brightly coloured "to-do" post-its and I'm honing my nagging skills. 
It's baby steps forward. Hopefully literally soon!
Thank you for the encouragement. 
It's baby steps forward. Hopefully literally soon!
Thank you for the encouragement. 
@ivo_shkafov (399)
• Bulgaria
7 Sep 10
I'm not eating healthy,not even trying to,but nowadays,whatever you eat,it's bad for your health.Everything has stabilizers,and other bad stuff,so I suposse even if you're trying to,you're not suceeding at most.The lifestyle of the big city makes people eat not healthy,because at work they can eat only at their lunch break,they haven't got time to look at what's healthy,and what's not,so they just a get a hot dog or something :)
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@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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7 Sep 10
I know where you're coming from. It's like every day scientists are saying something else is bad for you or causes cancer etc. Nothing is safe! 
@ivo_shkafov (399)
• Bulgaria
8 Sep 10
Yeah,so no matter how hard you try to eat healthy,you eat bad,they even discovered that fruit sugar is bad for you,c'mon man!
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
7 Sep 10
You can freeze almost anything once it's cooked. What about cooking a large roast, then slicing off meal sized portions, maybe along with some gravy (even if it's out of a can or package) and freezing it? Add frozen vegetables from the store which cook quickly if they're plain and that's all you'd need for a meal.
Your idea of cooking over a weekend is like once a month cooking, called OAMC. Look it up on the internet and you should find tons of ideas.
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@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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7 Sep 10
I do love a roast. Sounds good.
I looked up OAMC. The first result was Oregon Adventists Men's Chorus. I'm guessing that's not right.
I found several other links that look promising though. Thanks for the tip!
I found several other links that look promising though. Thanks for the tip! 
@bounce58 (17385)
• Canada
7 Sep 10
There was a time that we came up with this solution too! To make weekends a cooking time so we could prepare meals in large quantities. And then we could just portion off some in some plastic containeres and put them in the freezer. Not only to make sure that we get healthy food, but also to make meal times quick and easy during the week. It worked for a few months until we wanted more and more family time during weekends. I found that it took so much of our time during weekends that we didn't have time to do anything more.
I hope you are successful in your plan and don't have the same problem as us!
@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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7 Sep 10
We don't have kids at the moment, but we're trying to become healthier and more organised so that we can have them.
How did you organise how big a portion to freeze? Is it guesswork mainly?
Thanks for your response BTW!
@priyayogi (222)
• India
7 Sep 10
healthy eating is very important in our life.because we should have strength to work in our nature.so they need energy to work some organizations or some places.so we eat healthy foods.we take more vegetables and fruits in our food.it is very best.
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@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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9 Sep 10
Those are the rules I'm trying to integrate into my every day life. 
@winstonbaltazar (355)
• Philippines
7 Sep 10
Hi our family used to value nutritious food intake. We started from a book that is authored by Paul C. Bragg. Search it on the web and from him you'll learn a lot about food and how to take healthy longer and physically active even at age we don't see elderly jog or walk miles.
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@casabuena (64)
• Philippines
7 Sep 10
i think i have answer to your question, i can even recommend a product engineered to your kind of need. Nutritious, easy to prepare, convenient, affordable. but i don't think i can do that here.... PM me.
@vediccollection (4)
• India
7 Sep 10
Healthy eating is really good for healthy body & glowing skin.
