If you’re like many people, you may be planning to improve your diet in 2018. One of the most effective ways to make sure we are eating healthily at our house, is to make a meal plan. It works for three reasons:
It lets us see the big picture and identify patterns (such as eating too many bad fats, or dividing dishes into extra large portions instead of making less). We get to think about seasonality and what’s available in stores, which some meal plans miss, especially if they are formulated in warm weather climates where salad greens and other vegetables are readily available year-round. It also lets us be mindful of what we have on hand, so we can use it and not waste it.
I’ve decided to share my January meal plan with you, so you can adapt it with some of your own favourites. Many of the food items are from websites, so I’ve put the links in also. Enjoy! Stay tuned for additional weeks…
January 1st
Breakfast – Banana Kale Smoothie
Lunch – Apple Kale Salad
Dinner – EatingWell Vegetarian Spinach Enchiladas
January 2nd
Breakfast – Apple Nut Oatmeal
Lunch – Homemade Turkey Soup with 1 slice bread and 5ml butter
Dinner – Eating Well Baked Tofu Stir Fry with Cabbage and Shiitakes
January 3rd
Breakfast – Carrot Cake Smoothie
Lunch – EatingWell Vegetarian Taco Salad
Dinner – Eating Well Spaghetti Squash Lasagna with Broccolini
January 4th
Breakfast – Apple Nut Oatmeal
Lunch – Homemade Turkey Soup with 1 slice bread and 5ml butter
Dinner – Eating Well Curried Pork Chops with Roasted Apples and Leeks
January 5th
Breakfast – Beet Kale Smoothie
Lunch – EatingWell Stetson Chopped Salad
Dinner – EatingWell Kale and Gruyere Panini
January 6th
Breakfast – Poached Egg Avocado Toast
Lunch – Homemade Turkey Soup with 1 slice bread and 5ml butter
Dinner – Men’s Health Salmon Hobo Packets
January 7th
Breakfast – Granola with Banana
Lunch – EatingWell Tomato Basil Zoodle Salad
Dinner – Jamie Oliver Sicilian Spaghetti Alla Norma
My smoothies follow a recipe something like this, for two:
Two beets, or a carrot, or a handful of kale
5ml cinnamon or grated ginger
60ml nuts or seeds
A banana or 250ml of berries or for carrot cake smoothie, pineapple
750ml unsweetened low-sodium non GMO soy milk (try Natur-A, they are all Canadian and the best plant milk I have tried).
Stay tuned for additional weeks, and please share widely. Thanks to all of you who have visited my site, and wishing you a healthy, happy 2018.
Wherever you’re headed, the only way to get there is to move forward. If you have a dream, a goal, or a plan, you can’t get there by going back in time. Oh, you can revisit the past. You can consider what you’ve learned and incorporate that into your wayfinding plan. You can understand if you’ve had patterns of behaviour that have been holding you back. Getting stuck or weighed down by your mistakes, though? That’s no use to you at all.