How to meal plan?
Sunday, September 30, 2018 12:30 PM
Stripfighter said in another thread:
“It's not the timing, nor the finances that makes eating well difficult, so much as the education.”
I am ashamed to admit that my diet could be a lot better. I’m not concerned with my weight, but I do want to have more energy in my day-to-day life and also prevent long-term health problems.
I’ve personally been trying to get better educated myself on this.
Background:
I’m a female who lives with roommates.
My roommate is pretty inconsistent in her habits (unlike me, who is pristine :p). So she will sometimes be relentless with cooking meals sometimes and then other times she doesn’t bother and eats fast food.
When she does make food, she wants to be appreciated for the effort. And I’m happy to do so by eating it. In the meantime though...
Personally, I hate grocery shopping. I have a bad habit of buying too many things that I can’t eat all at one time. It leads to a lot of waste :/
But I can’t help it. I have a giant love of variety in the things I eat. My relationship with food is like Papi Chulo with strippers. Another habit of mine is that I don’t eat too much at one time. I “snack” throughout the day usually.
What I have thought about doing to solve this:
1. Becoming very basic with what perishable ingredients I buy. I just try to satisfy my need for variety by owning lots of different kinds of seasonings in the smallest quantities I can get.
2. Batch cook and do a lot of freezing.
3. Try to figure out how to psychologically get over my need for variety. And just learn to enjoy the same damn 10 recipes of my choosing.
4. Throw in the towel and spend the money on a place like this: [view link]
Any thoughts on this?
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