5 Tips to Make Healthy Cooking Easy

5 tips to help you make the Healthy Change Challenge #2 a permanent change.

1. Meal Prep

Do some weekend meal prep for the week/month ahead (this is HUGE, especially for working women and men). Do as much meal prep on the weekends as possible. Take some time toward the end of your week to plan out your meals for the next week and get the recipes together. Make your grocery list and gather your supplies either Friday night or Saturday morning. Enlist help for chopping and prepping. Prepare meals and re-heat when you are ready to eat. If you are planning out for the week, refrigerate meals together in an airtight container. If you are ambitious and are planning for the month, freeze meals in Tupperware or gallon sized ziplock bags. Pinch of Yum has a great collection of tasty freezer meals that are healthy too: Click here for tasty freezer meals.

2. Sheet Pan Recipes

Find loads of sheet pan recipes. Fill a binder with those things! Fill a Pinterest board. Just make sure you have loads of these types of recipes on hand. They are quick in the prep and the clean-up. Here is a link to a great one: Salmon Sheet Pan

3. Pre-Cut Vegetables

Buy pre-cut veggies. You can find loads of pre-cut veggies in the produce aisle. I even started to buy pre-peeled garlic recently and it was a game changer. Pre-cut veggies save an enormous amount of time when doing the prep work.

4. Slow Cooker

Make slow cooker meals. Invest in a great slow cooker, prep the meal the night before (or on the weekend), fill the slow cooker in the morning before work, and you’ll have a fantastic (and hot) dinner waiting for you when you get home. Here is a great link to 30 days worth of Whole30 slow cooker freezer meals : The Family Freezer Ultimate Whole30 Slow Cooker Freezer Meal Plan.

5. Instant Pot

If you don’t want to use a slow cooker, use an Instant Pot to cook meals in less than half the time. All I can say is that people LOVE their Instant Pots and there are loads of recipes and cookbooks out there devoted to the to this time saving appliance. They make cooking a delicious meal fast and easy. Cooking Light has a fantastic batch of healthy Instant Pot recipes that can make cooking at home a breeze : Cooking Light Healthy Instant Pot Recipes.

BONUS

Leftovers. Make big batches of meals and have leftovers planned throughout the week. We always have leftovers for lunch but sometimes I will double a recipe and save the leftovers in the fridge for later on in the week or freeze them for later in the month. If you get into this habit, you’ll have quite a stash built up in no time!

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