- Fruit, yogurt and nuts work great for snacks. No, they aren’t exciting, but who cares, it’s a snack to hold you over until your meal…and these things happen to taste good and be really good for you!
- You can always add fruit to your meal if you’re short on veggies or whole grains.
- Realize, that you are going to be buying way more produce. Are you going to need to go to the store more often or will you buy a mixture of frozen/canned/fresh to make sure you always have a stock of vegetables
- Your meals don’t have to be perfect. You are going to eat pizza and cheeseburgers sometimes. Maybe you can have a salad first or add more veggies onto your pizza.
- Do what you have to in order to make the vegetables pleasing to you. Do you need to add a little butter, seasonings, dressing or cheese? That’s OK, focus on the words “add a little”. Also, when you add a little fat to your veggies you absorb the fat soluble vitamins better and it also increases your feeling of satisfaction/fullness.
- Just eat the same thing. It’s OK if you don’t make a different gourmet dinner every night! I like to take pics of the my meal planning sheets and then just use the same one a few weeks later if I didn’t feel like doing meal planning on the weekend or if I just ran out of time (which happens a lot)!
- Confession - I don’t plan my breakfasts and lunches really. I tend to eat the same 3 or so breakfasts and the same 3 or so lunches, so this makes my morning routine pretty speedy. Someone said “variety is the spice of life” and maybe that’s true, but finding variety can sometimes be time-consuming!!! Keep it simple.