Spring is a time of renewal. Why not review your daily eating habits and see if there are any healthy, minor changes that can assist your body in this? What does that mean? It doesn’t necessarily mean adopting a drastic new diet that will be difficult to maintain.
I receive lots of questions about my daily eating habits. Often what I show you on this blog is about dinner because it is the meal that my husband and I enjoy most at the end of the day and I assume it’s when most families are able to sit down together. I believe that practice in itself is a healthy habit. What about you?
What does breakfast and lunch look like? Breakfast is usually on autopilot for us. We don’t work physically demanding jobs, so we don’t require a hearty, stick to your ribs type breakfast. About once a week we have eggs and even less frequently something like pancakes or french toast. Most mornings we start off with a fresh vegetable/fruit smoothie with raw nuts or yogurt in it for protein/healthy fat. (There’s one way to eat more vegetables even if you don’t like them.) A few times a week we eat oatmeal topped with fresh fruit and raw nuts instead.
Lunch and Dinner
Our choice of breakfast dictates what might be for lunch. If we had a vegetable/fruit smoothie, we are ready for a heartier lunch that might consist of some type of reinvented leftovers from dinner the night before or a sandwich. If we had oatmeal for breakfast, we might have a salad with beans or a soup of some kind instead.
Dinner depends on those other meals too. Did we eat relatively light all day? Then we might have a steak or roasted chicken for dinner. Did we have a big plate of pasta or a corned beef sandwich for lunch? Then we might want something quite a bit lighter, such as lean fish and some vegetables.
Learn How to Quickly Poach Fish That’s Delicious for a simple, lean meal everyone will love. And yes, we drink wine and sometimes we snack on chips or nuts too. I don’t believe in extremely restrictive diets. What about so-called superfoods? I don’t believe in touting one particular food as such. I prefer finding a healthy balance in eating a variety of foods, including lots of fresh vegetables. Listen to your body and find out what works for you.
Does your meal preparation throughout the day relate to what else you have eaten? How about the next day? If we had a lean dinner like the one pictured above, once in a blue moon I might be ready for some sausage in the morning. If we had a steak and onion rings for dinner, I am probably more inclined towards a veggie smoothie for breakfast. It’s all part of what I call intuitive cooking and the reason why I don’t follow recipes. Is my no-plan meal plan working for you or do you have your own system?