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Be Prepared, Cravings, Diet, Groceries, Health, Meal Plan, Meal Prep, Weight Loss
We haven’t done a grocery shop in over a week. This means that things are running low. We’ve stopped at the corner store for milk, eggs and bread so I’ve been able to make hard boiled eggs for the week. And, I had some iceberg lettuce from our last shop, but that’s it.
When the fridge gets low on my “regular” meal/food items, disaster ensues.
This is when I start going to Tim Horton’s for breakfast sandwiches, a meal combo (of course) and since I hate the hashbrowns there it also means a donut. I could get the sandwich and the drink separately, but I’m always plagued with the idea that I’m wasting money that way. However, I think I’m going to do it the next time I cave and go to Tim Horton’s for breakfast. It may not be as economically savvy, but I don’t often even want the donut, I just get it because that’s what you do.
Other things that happen with the fridge is lacking my regular bounty of fruit, veg, smoothies and protein: we order dinner in (pizza, chicken, thai, indian), eat lunch out (Subway), eat more toast, more cereal, more chocolate, more snacks.
I’ve been realizing, lately, that I really enjoy having, basically, the same thing every morning. I’m happy with 1-2 pieces of toast, 1-2 hard-boiled eggs, water and a mocha. Ideally, I would have a diet soda as well, but I still would like to, one day, kick that habit.
This got me thinking about whether, or not, I’d be able to have set breakfast and lunch 7 days/week.
For lunch I have been enjoying salad with chicken or turkey and creamy poppyseed dressing.
I’d like to have 1 green smoothie/day as well, but fitting it into my day is a bit more tricky.
So, I’ve been contemplating trying water/coffee/green smoothie for breakfast, salad for lunch and eggs and toast for dinner (I always crave toast the most at the end of the day).
But, groceries are important or else, none of this is possible.
I’m going to aim to get groceries tonight after work and then I might do a trial run for the rest of the week of following this meal plan. If I had that set and then worked-out a few snacks around the edges, this could work for me.
But, first of all, groceries.
I must get groceries.
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Is it better to figure out what meals you want to make and then go grocery shopping? I always find myself grocery shopping, then trying to figure out what to make with what I have just bought. LOL
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Hello!
I’m really horrendous at meal planning. Truthfully, I don’t really need a lot of variety, I think. This is something I’m just experimenting with now. I found I was more than happy having 2 hard boiled eggs, 2 pieces of toast, coffee and water 5 days/wk. I also seemed happy with a salad 5 days/week. So, I am thinking that, maybe, I can actually be happy having smoothie/coffee/water 6-7 days/wk for breakfast, salad 6-7 days/wk for lunch and 2 hd boiled eggs w 2 pc toast and tea 6-7 days/wk for dinner. I know I will need to have some flexibility, esp. on weekends. But, weekends and evenings are where everything always goes off the rails for me, so I’m trying to solve that problem first. I know some people swear by the fact you figure out what meals you want and then go shopping. But, it has never worked for me. I just hate being that “organized” about it all. It’s weird. I always feel trapped, like I lose all my freedom when I try to do that. Which, I know, must sound completely irrational given that I’ve just expressed that I want to eat the same things, etc. every day. I think meal planning, etc. stresses me out and puts the focus so much on what I am and am not allowed to eat. Whereas, just saying “this is what I’m having every day for breakfast” takes all the planning, guess work, etc. out of it. It frees me up to not have to think about food so much, and just enjoy my life.
At least, that’s my theory.
We’ll see how it all pans-out!
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