Smart Tips for Easy Meal Planning and Prep

If you’re seeking tips for easy meal planning, this guide is the key. Get the steps to create a simple meal planning system for your busy family.

Is healthy eating important to you? Do you want to make homemade meals for your family but you’re stuck in a rut when it comes to meal planning?

Maybe this sounds familiar. You’re eating healthily for weeks at a time; then suddenly you find yourself back into poor eating habits.

You’re in a vicious cycle that never seems to end. You arrive home every day with the family asking you, “Mom, what’s for dinner?” and most nights it’s just easier to get fast food or takeout. You probably know that you need a plan for healthier eating but putting one together is easier said than done, right?

And maybe when you do get into a steady meal planning and preparation rhythm, eventually you become exhausted by the amount of time you’re spending planning, prepping, and cooking healthy meals. Many people like you feel that they just can’t develop a sustainable healthy eating plan that doesn’t leave them burnt out. If you’re tired of feeling like a hamster on a wheel when it comes to making healthy meals for your family, then you’ve landed in the right place.

I understand exactly where you are right now. I struggled with this exact problem for years. And although I love to cook and enjoy healthy meals with my family, the pressure of a demanding career and busy family life always seemed to leave meal planning low of my list of priorities.

 

You might identify with this yourself. You see, for most of us knowing we should eat healthily isn’t the problem; finding time to make it happen is what derails us. After a long, exhausting day at work, the idea of prepping meals isn’t the most appetizing.

In my case, I would get on a steady meal planning routine for a few weeks and have delicious and healthy meals prepped and cooked, but a few days of working overtime, traveling, or some other random occurrence would knock my healthy meal plan off course. I was literally exhausted from prepping and/or cooking what felt like every single day of the week.

But I was determined to crack the code on how to consistently cook healthy meals at home and develop routines that I could stick with. 

So, what did I do that finally worked?

When I attended school to study nutrition, I didn’t expect that most of what I learned would eventually be applied to my own life and with my own family.

I not only gained an entirely new set of knowledge on nutrition, but I also learned ways to make eating healthy more fun, less complicated, and easier. I’ve been enjoying success with these processes for years, and I’m now sharing these tips for easy meal planning with my readers.

In “Smart Tips for Easy Meal Planning and Prep” I not only put together a guide helping busy parents know what to eat, but I also outlined all of the steps in how to prep and cook healthy meals so feeding the family healthy meals doesn’t drain you.

This helpful meal planning guide has all of the steps that finally helped me. These easy steps for meal planning helped me to get organized in the kitchen, be focused when I grocery shop, know what the healthy food options are, and prep and cook delicious meals. And it teaches you how to save time and money, too!

It took me a while to get there, but I knew this was really important to me and my family. Being successful in creating healthy eating habits is more than just knowing what to eat or how to eat healthfully. It’s also about creating routines and systems to be consistent and provide a healthy eating lifestyle for our families and ourselves. 

Having a roadmap can really help to make the process of making healthy meals clear and actionable, so you can get on track… and stay on track.

 

Habits are formed by outlining a clear sequence of behaviors that can be easily followed over time.

I know this from my experience working in mental health for so many years. But I also know this from personal experience as a busy, working mother. It’s much easier to stay on track when you have it all laid out step-by-step, because as we know life can quickly get in the way. Using these proven tips for easy meal planning is a way to help you get back into good habits with food.

Having a plan sets you up to be successful!

From my experience, most people have good ideas about what’s healthy. The problem lies in being able to sort through all the details and come up with something you can actually use in daily life. So when it comes to healthy eating, you don’t just need to know what to eat. You need to know how to put it all together without it becoming so overwhelming.

You’ll be much more likely to stick with healthy eating when you have a plan. Repeating the same actions continuously lays the foundation for good habits to form. The routines become second nature, and you don’t have to “think” so hard about it anymore. These tips for easy meal planning are not rocket science. Again, knowledge isn’t the problem; following through is. The guide helps you learn to follow through with:

Planning out your family’s meals every week

Regular grocery shopping with a list, and knowing which foods to automatically grab when you go to the supermarket

Following a routine to quickly prep foods during the week

Keeping most of your meals and snacks on standby for all the hungry family members

By having an automatic set of routines, you can still feed your family healthy meals even when life’s unexpected events show up.

Mastering the basics is what will set you up for success.

People who have used the system outlined in the guide (including myself obviously) report amazing results. Those who use these tips for easy meal planning say that they are:

Making a total positive change with their food choices

Finally having routines they can follow to make eating healthy simple and achievable

Always knowing “what’s for dinner”

Being able to pack healthier lunches

Choosing better snacks

Saving loads of money on their grocery bill

And making tiny changes one after another can accumulate to greater things too, like improving your energy level, sleeping better at night, and having less emotional ups and downs (especially in kids).

Healthy eating doesn’t have to be hard.

My goal with this guide is to help my readers quickly kickstart new, healthy habits for them and their families. That’s why I’m always sharing resources like this guide, so you can be healthier and have tools to feel more organized and balanced.

I created “Smart Tips for Easy Meal Planning and Prep” because I know how a hectic, stressful lifestyle can lead to other poor habits like a poor diet, poor sleeping patterns, poor relationships, poor performance at work, you name it. Unfortunately, it’s a ripple effect.

But the opposite can be true for developing positive, healthy habits.

One change is sometimes all it takes to start the momentum towards a healthier lifestyle!

Even if you’re at the drive-thru so often that the server knows you by name – you’re not hopeless.

I’ve put together the simple steps you need to get started on the right track to healthier eating.

 

The 5 steps in the guide are the foundation for doing this. And it’s what most people never learn to focus on.

The guide has all the tips for easy meal planning. This is everything you need to get on the right track to better eating habits for yourself and your whole family.

And it’s totally FREE and my gift to anyone who joins my newsletter and becomes a part of the community.

Join the hundreds of parents who are using these steps to simplify meal planning, eat healthier, and get the family into better food habits. Sign up for the free guide here.