EP 30: Meal Planning For People Who Don’t Like to Cook with LA Wade

2020-10-26

Too busy to meal plan? Or maybe meal planning feel like torture... It doesn’t have to be! This week on the Mind Your Body show LA Wade, host of Cocktales with LA joined me in the kitchen to whip up 2 delicious plant-based recipes - Sesame Tofu Quinoa Bowl and Portobello Mushroom Fajitas. Hate meal prepping like LA or need some tips on how to do it consistently? Tune into this week's episode “Meal Planning for People Who Hate to Meal Prep"! Here’s a sneak peek of what’s in this episode: [9:18] Food is health. Investing in your heal...

Too busy to meal plan? Or maybe meal planning feel like torture...

It doesn’t have to be! This week on the Mind Your Body show LA Wade, host of Cocktales with LA joined me in the kitchen to whip up 2 delicious plant-based recipes - Sesame Tofu Quinoa Bowl and Portobello Mushroom Fajitas.

Hate meal prepping like LA or need some tips on how to do it consistently?

Tune into this week's episode “Meal Planning for People Who Hate to Meal Prep"!

Here’s a sneak peek of what’s in this episode:

[9:18] Food is health. Investing in your health, making delicious food, it really does fill your body. It helps you do all your different projects.
[10:25] How can I expect those foods to give me energy when those foods didn't have energy themselves.
[13:00] I like Quinoa because it's a gluten-free grain, it's high in protein and high in fiber. Fiber is a nutrition that a lot of people are deficient in.
[13:20] It really helps to balance your blood sugar and protein.
[15:23] When it comes to meal planning, I like to make sure I have a few key staples in my kitchen at all times. It makes it easier for me to throw together a meal more quickly.
[15:47] I'll set aside time to sit down and plan out what I want to eat next week.
[16:18] Say for example you only have red pepper, broccoli, black beans recipe you can just google those words and a bunch of things will come up.
[16:35] You’re spending less money at the grocery store and less food waste overall.
[17:21] If you don’t put it in your calendar, it does not happen.
[18:35] If you’re really short on time, forget about the recipes. What you can make sure of instead is that you have a protein, a veggie, a side, and a salad.
[19:51] Say we have four pieces of salmon, and two kinds of seasoning. So you season two salmons with one seasoning, and the other two salmons with the other seasoning.
[21:57] Make it fun, fast and flavorful.
[22:58] Have different theme nights. One night could be Italian, another could be Mexican, another night could be pizza night, or seafood night.
[23:58] Time is really of the essence. If I have something that’s pre-arranged, then it cuts the time it needs to make it, I am more likely going to do more cooking.
[24:48] When you have an instant pot, you literally have to throw your ingredients into the instant pot and you can walk away.
[25:31] Sesame oil is another staple that I love having on hand because it just adds a lot of flavor to dishes.
[28:51] Ginger also has a lot of great benefits for the brain itself because it helps increase the blood flow to the brain.
[29:41] When your gut health is poor, that means you’re probably going to have higher risk for depression, anxiety, be irritable, and have bad moods.
[33:53] Your Why is going to keep you going throughout your day.
[36:50] You are the sum of your habits. It’s not about eating perfectly. It’s about making the choices that will benefit your body, most of the time.
[38:17] Use your food as gratitude.