Anybody who knows me will not be surprised that my favorite technique for good nutrition is planning ahead, since it’s my favorite technique for almost everything. There are some particularly good reasons to use planning for nutrition, however.
One is that hungry people make less good decisions. If I plan my meals and have healthy choices on hand, I’m a lot less likely to choose ice cream for dinner. (It’s a sad reality that once we become grown-ups and can have whatever we want for dinner, we also know that ice cream is not the best choice. Even when we are stressed out.)
Another is that we can incorporate more variety. When we buy a bunch of different vegetables with an actual plan for using them, it’s a lot easier to “eat the rainbow.” We can experiment, maybe one night a week, with a new recipe or even a new cuisine. (You know that experimenting is one of my other favorite techniques!)
Meal planning is not rocket science. It’s definitely a skill, and skills can be acquired. I’ve been doing it for a long time, so it’s easy and obvious to me, but when I started out, I sometimes planned too much food and sometimes too little. Nobody died, I learned, and my family eats better than if I just opened the fridge every day and had to figure out what to feed them in the moment.
Try it and see how it works for you!
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