Meal Planning: Helping You Eat Well (Instant Download)

What is meal planning?

Meal planning is not just about deciding what to eat one week at a time. It’s sooo much more than that. It can help organize your life (saving you time) and it can cut down on the amount of money you need to splash out at the supermarket.

Win, win!

A meal plan breaks down what you are going to eat for the amount of time you plan for.

So, say for your family you want to eat three times a day for 7 days a week. You would therefore plan for 7 breakfasts, lunches and dinners with enough to go around everyone.

Benefits of meal planning…

Here are just a few of the benefits of creating a meal plan:

1. You can make sure you don’t have to be doing everything last minute in the kitchen, therefore saving you time.
2. Everyone will know what they’ll be having for breakfast, lunch and dinner each day, which should hopefully lead to fewer squabbles, especially if you get everyone involved in picking some family favorite meals.
3. By knowing what you’re going to shop for in advance you can better plan your budget as know what you’ll need to spend (or if you need to adapt your meal plan to spend less).
4. You will have less food waste and you’ll be able to make sure you buy and use what you’ll actually need.

Create a basic meal plan

There aren’t many steps to make sure you can get your meal plan off the ground:

1. First off need a meal plan template.
2. Then, work out what’s going on with your week. Do you all need lunches or do the kids get free school meals? Will you be working late one night? Are you out at a friend’s one evening so don’t need to cook? Are you planning a day trip so need to have a different kind of picnic lunch prepared, or will you eat out?
3. Once you know the comings and goings of who’ll be eating it’s then time to start making meal plans. For breakfast, you may have one, two or three different options; toast, cereal, oats, eggs etc. Lunches may work out quite similar from day to day, but meals for dinners usually have more variety.
4. When you know what you’re having day to day, simply write a list of all the ingredients you’ll need to buy so you can cook to your plan. Make sure to cost it out as you go to make sure you stay within your budget.

That is simply all meal planning is!

Content By: Naomi Willis

GET YOUR PRINTABLE WEEKLY MEAL PLANNER HERE

Get new Earthy Realist content delivered directly to your inbox.

Advertisement

How To Tell That You Have Grown In The Past Year

Personal development  involves the evolution and improvement of the person. Self growth as it is often called, is a lifelong process. Understanding this part of yourself is a way for you to evaluate who you are and how to increase your perspective. A method of getting the best out of your potential.

The emotional state that a person devises about them self goes hand in hand with success in living, and thriving. As this transformational journey is recognized, you feel good knowing that you are improving to be your best self.

Finances Have Changed For The Better – You may not have become a millionaire in the past year (congrats if you did), but getting a hold of your finances and credit is an excellent sign of progression. Paying off a collections item(s), paying down, or off a credit card, putting more into your savings, or learning about different currencies (bitcoin, etc.) are all GREAT.

Health Has Improved – You lost weight, or gained healthy weight. Added outdoor (or indoor) workouts, started going to the gym weekly or when you can, or started attending a yoga class, shows that you care about your body and mind.

Personal development involves the evolution and improvement of the person.

Relationships Have Better Communication – It takes two to tango. At times we fault the other person without hearing them out or by being defensive. Pride may keep us from admitting our faults or emotions. Honestly when a family member, friend, employer, or coworker tells you how they feel and it at first upsets you, engage in listening. Hear the person out and respond without emotion, if you are in a calm state begin the conversation with keeping it constructive in mind. If this is not a good time to talk, explain that you will get back to them, unless the matter is urgent.

Its ok to admit your opinion as well as what you feel you could have done differently to have prevented this encounter (if anything). Try not to forget to listen actively. Over time you will notice yourself being calmer and having less disagreements with people.

Understanding this part of yourself is a way for you to evaluate who you are and how to increase you perspective.

Confidence Has Increased – Feeling good about yourself allows you to walk with your head high, being proud of who you are.  An individual’s self-worth supports how one responds to society, also their achievements in life. Non-verbal statements such as body language is observed by other people as a visible sign of if it would be ok to start up a conversation or not with someone. And many other thoughts from them based on how you display how you naturally carry yourself. Taking into mind that things such as sitting up straight not only is wholesome for your health but correspondingly is attractive.

Article By Kadesh Carter

Have you noticed any of these things about yourself? How have you changed? How are you looking to grow in 2020?

Comment / Subscribe below – Thank you.