We are down to one car now, hooray! This has been our goal for quite a while and now that kindergarten has started super-locally, we have very little need for 2 cars. Why all this talk about cars on a nutrition blog? Because now I can’t get to my favorite grocery store as easily anymore. Seems as though Manfred needs the car on the days I had planned to go shopping. Oh well, small price to pay.
Good thing the freezer is stocked and we have other foods available for nutritious meals and snacks. Yesterday and today, I’m winging it.
*Breakfast: Both days breakfast was eggs and whole wheat mini bagels that I keep around for breakfast emergencies (read: no whole wheat bread or regular bagels in the house-which qualifies as an emergency here).
*Lunch: yesterday was leftover pork loin and sautéed beet greens leftover from Sunday’s dinner and a baked sweet potato, which took all of 5 minutes to prepare in the microwave. Today I made a smoothie scaled to a meal portion using a half cup of fresh pineapple and half a banana, 2/3 cup plain greek yogurt and some unsweetened coconut flakes and chia seeds.
*Dinner last night was also leftovers as I didn’t want to cook anything (mostly because I didn’t want to clean up anything while helping Matteo with homework). He had some leftover pasta with red sauce and broccoli while I had some lentil soup I’d frozen previously and some leftover beets, also from Sunday’s dinner. Dinner tonight will likely be shrimp and bean fajitas and some sort of veggies and salad. I will have to see what’s in the crisper.
*Snacks have been healthful as well, with no real prep. Apple and peanut butter…hitting all macronutrient groups and minimally processed. Sometimes I have smoothies with ingredients in my freezer and scale that to be a snack or meal. Sometimes I will eat yogurt and fruit. Or a small handful of dried fruit and some nuts or seeds (~1 oz serving). Or a piece of dark chocolate and add some peanut butter to indulge a bit.
My point is that although we eat healthfully and use minimally processed ingredients, I’m not overcomplicating it or spending tons of time in the kitchen or the grocery store. Of course there are days that I do, I mean, food isn’t going to make itself. But if eating healthfully sounds hard and time consuming, consider stocking foods that can make a healthful meal or snack regularly and use it on the fly. There’s little need to buy processed foods for convenience when there are so many other options available that are probably already in your fridge or pantry.
