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Originally Posted by SillyFilly17
Anyone else have a step wise plan of attack?
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This is one of my challenges too. Just seems easier so often...and I tell myself faster although I'm not sure that's true. Here's a few things I've had success with:
1. Try to figure out 2-3 fast 'pantry' meals that you can have on hand all the time and pull together quickly. One of mine is some salmon burgers I get at Costco in the freezer. I keep those little thin buns in the freezer, sweet potato fries and frozen veggies. That meal can literally be hitting my tongue in about 25 min from when I walk in the door and 20 min of that was unsupervised baking time so I change and whatnot while it bakes. Another online healthy eating buddy used to keep pasta, frozen shrimp and I'm sure she also added some veggies to her dish and she could whip that up.
2. I don't know how many you are feeding but I'm single so I have a lot of success with planned leftovers if they are things I actually like leftover. I'm not a huge leftover fan so it has to be the right things but you can find them.
3. Planning is really where it's at for me. Whether I'm REALLY on my game and consistently planning/shopping for the week or even if all I do is sit down the evening before and decide what I'm going to eat, I have pretty good luck following that through. If I have no plan, the drive through gets really easy.
4. The easiest meal for me to get a handle on was breakfast so I got it together to take or eat a proper breakfast almost always. To this day, it's one of the habits that has stuck for the most part. Find 2-3 if you need variety but if you are a same breakfast every day person, figure it out and make that happen.
5. Oh, and if you eat out, try the idea of making a good, better or best choice. For instance, probably a fairly simple salad is the best choice but maybe you have a grilled chicken sandwich w/a salad side instead of fries for a better choice or maybe you get the fries but you still picked the grilled chicken over fried as a good choice. Those little steps do matter and count. I also make myself read the salad section even though it is not usually what I will choose. I used to not even read it so I figure at least I give it a thought. I'm not a big salad fan but now and again I'll go for it.
HTH!
Peg