Meal Plans

I try to fill up on fruit and veges throughout the day.  Atm I'm also keeping track of calories but more out of interest than serious calorie counting.

I have a bowl of cereal and a piece of fruit for breakfast every morning.  Morning tea is more fruit. 

Lunch is where I'm failing because I work until 1pm without a lunch break, get my son at about 1:15pm and travel home with him then only have a short time before I need to pick up my daughter from kindy so I don't get much time to eat (let alone prepare) a healthy meal.  I either grab something quick and easy or skip it altogether - not good either way.  I've started trying to eat a more substantial meal at morning tea and then having a snack at about 12:30pm which works well.  The only trouble is finding something I can keep in my draw at work that's healthy, filling, quick and gluten free.

Afternoon tea is often corn thins or popcorn, sometimes yoghurt and more fruit and dinner is usually a portion of meat, tonnes of veges and a portion of carbs (gluten free pasta, rice or potato).

I drink heaps of water and don't even have juice or fizzy in the house.

I have got out of my planned meals & now eat stuff I shouldn't.

I do lunch boxes for the 2 at school, lunch for DH & when I don't he will buy his lunch...which is not always a good thing. DS3 starts morning kindy soon so he will take a lunch box 2x a week.

I need to sort out meals I like & will eat & stick to them. Sometimes I feel in such a rush or forget then I will pick & eat more than I planed.

I have gone back to buying fizz (diet coke) fdor me & DH & snack stuff for the kids but end up eating them. Need to get back on track & the kids don't need that stuff either...old habits are hard to break sometimes..

My Mum just gave me a whole lot of old copies of The NZ Healthy Eating Guide magazine, and I have been following their weekly meal plans. I have found them fantastic, especially the recipes for dinner as they are generally pretty straight forward but really really tasty.
Normally for brekkie we will have either muesli & banana or a couple of weetbix and one slice of grainy toast or a banana berry smoothie or poached eggs on grainy toast. Mid morning snack - small handful of nuts and piece of fruit. Lunch - filled pita with tuna and salad or a low fat potato salad, or pasta salad. Afternoon snack - piece of homemade fruit slice and pottle of yoghurt. Examples of dinner have been lamb with chickpea tabouli, fragrant poached chicken on rice with green beans, chicken meatballs with tomato risoni. Yummo!

I don't meal plan as such but we have a fair idea of what we are going to eat during the day. I have an egg on toast every week day morning and a sandwich or salad for lunch with tuna usually. If I don't make the salad then I either get an over priced wrap from the cafe at work or go into town and get sushi. Dinner is usually made in a rush as we don't get home for work/daycare/afterschool care till 6pm most nights so if we havne't been organised the night before it is a rush job to make something. We have takeaways 1 night a week.

Hi Jazzy,  I usually have the same thing for breaky during the week, so porriage with sliced almonds and a drizzle of either honey or maple syrup. 

Lunch will be either ham and salad wrapped in mountain bread or chop chop chicken with brown rice & mixed veg. 

Dinners are also pretty much the same but lately I've been making salads to accompany our main meal so that I have less of the other foods on my plate.

Snacks will be either a museli bar or salada crackers with some colby cheese & tomato on top or a cup of soup with salada crackers.  I also have a problem with eating the left overs from my Son's lunch, which I need to stop doing. 

I've also just started calorie counting online so that I can get a general idea of how much I'm eating and to try to make sure I get the calories-in and calories-burnt balance right.  Have just started so we'll see how that goes