Tuesday's Tip - Planning Ahead

Establishing a meal prepping routine takes some getting used to. Once you do establish that routine the time it takes for meal prepping gets shorter and shorter as you develop tricks, habits and shortcuts of your own. You come to rely on meal prepping for your day to day life as it reduces the stress of the week ahead.

Now what happens when this routine gets disrupted? Whenever my routine got disrupted,for example if we went away for a weekend, I'd feel so discombobulated. We'd get back home late Sunday night and have to be back at work early Monday morning so there's no time to go grocery shopping. What do we eat? Is it going to be healthy? When are we going to eat? These questions would run through my mind starting Monday morning until I picked up the kids from school. This repeated itself every day of the week. It's also very easy to fall back into old habits when you disrupt your routine. One week you can't do it then the next week you say we'll go out for dinner again and so on and so forth.


So what do you do? How do you avoid these pitfalls? You plan ahead! How? During your regular meal prep session double up on one of your meals and freeze half. Little by little you develop a stockpile of food in your freezer for those weeks where prepping ahead is not possible. Then you don't have to worry about having to run to the grocery store after being away for a whole week and your healthy food is going to be waiting for you in the freezer. Your menu will be ready and your family will be fed and happy!