Planning and Dining Out
http://www.healthination.com/kitchen-tips/ cooking-tips/cooking-beans-tip/ I often hear from patients planning, shopping and cooking is too time consuming. I also get the excuse that eating healthy is too expensive. Instead, many choose to go out, grab food and bring it home, or purchase already processed unhealthy frozen meals from the grocery store. Plan As you'd expect from a dietitian, I truly believe eating healthy can actually save both time and money. Its all in the planning. By taking an hour or so to plan a weeks worth of meals, you'll save several hours of shopping and prep. I begin by looking through recipes I've saved online and through some of my favorite cookbooks. You can search specifically for recipes that have 5 ingredients or less, or that only take 30 minutes to prepare. By searching for specific qualities in a recipe, you can cut cost and time. A quick Google search for “5 ingredient recipes” came back with thousands of hits. The first two we...