Lets make your life easier with Meal Prep!
When I’m working with my Health Coaching clients, teaching them how to create a practical meal plan that encompasses the whole family is one of the first things I cover. Meal planning and prep is the number one strategy that I recommend for long-term healthy eating success.
In this programme, you will learn how to:
📅 Establish a meal planning and prep schedule that fits seamlessly into your busy life, and create a personalised nutrition plan that allows for consistency in your daily meals. Good organisation is the key and can be learned.
🕒 Utilize supplied meal planning resources to streamline the planning process and ensure that nutritious meals are always within reach, even on hectic days.
🥗 Practice batch cooking and meal prep techniques to minimize last-minute decisions and ensure that nutritious meals are always at your fingertips.
As a result, you are going to save time in the kitchen, save money at the supermarket and you’ll be able to nourish your body with balanced meals that support your energy levels and enhance everyone’s overall well-being at home!
Meal prep gives you the chance to take stress and ‘hangry’ emotions out of your food choices. When you’re tired and hungry, you are more likely to choose high-calorie fatty or sugary foods because your body wants a lot of energy quickly, Wouldn’t it be nice to pull something healthy out of the fridge to heat up and enjoy?
However, for some, the thought of meal prep — all the planning, organizing, chopping and storing — triggers a jolt of stress to the system. But preparing healthy meals ahead of time really doesn’t have to be a hassle. In fact, meal prep can be easy, as long as you take the right approach.
Working while ensuring that the household stays together in one piece, putting a wholesome, nutritious, tasty meal that the kids will eat and us adults enjoy somewhat of a challenge. Meal prep gets nutritious meals on the table fast when hungry mouths are grumbling for supper!
The Benefits of Meal Pprep!
Meal planning helps to minimise stress
Do you plan what you are cooking on the day? Is this you? Do you only think about what you’re going to whip up for dinner at 4pm, only to find you don’t have any of the ingredients or the vegetables you bought a couple of days ago are now wilted…
A meal planner, stuck on your fridge or pantry with each of the meals outlined for each day of the week means that you no longer need to wonder “what am I going to make for dinner”. You’ve already done the thinking and know in advance. And because you’ve written your shopping list from your meal plan you have the right ingredients available No more popping out to the shops to collect more ingredients. No more overspending because you buy everything on a whim at the supermarket. No more ‘chef’s block’ at 6pm because you have no idea what you can cook the family to eat. It’s all been organised and planned and all you have to do is cook and serve.
Meal planning helps you serve healthier meals
The times when my family get’s takeaway or some sort of convenience food are the times when I’m disorganised and there’s no planner on the fridge telling me what to do. After a long day chasing after toddlers, picking up toys, working, picking up toys, running, picking up toys, doing the washing, picking up toys, seeing clients, picking up toys… (you get the picture) – I’m usually too exhausted to think up something good and get it on the table. A meal plan gives me the tools I need to serve healthy meals to my family every night no matter how busy I am. Each of the meals that I plan have had plenty of thought to ensure they’re healthy and nutritious, the ingredients are ready and waiting for me and dinner is ready in no time at all.
Did you know it actually takes longer to get in the car, drive to a fast food outlet, order and pay for your food and bring it home to eat? You could steam some vegetables and grill some lean fish fillets in less than 15 minutes! But this is only possible if you’ve planned to have this ready and bought the ingredients in advance.
Meal planning helps you stick to a budget
Meal planning saves me so much money, it really does. When I create my meal plan I always check my fridge and pantry for leftover ingredients particularly fresh produce to ensure that it’s eaten before it’s use-by-date and nothing goes to waste.
A meal plan also helps you write a comprehensive shopping list and if you estimate correctly you should only have to go to the supermarket once a week. The more visits you make to the supermarket the more money and time you will spend. A list will ensure you only buy what you need, see how much you will save! €10 a week is €520 per year! Imagine how useful that would be come Christmas!
Meal planning takes a little time but it’s worth the investment.
Writing a comprehensive, detailed meal plan that successfully feeds your family and helps you shop smart on a budget will take a little more time when you are developing your own system which suits your family. The first time you may have to set aside a good hour to go through some recipe books, have a good rummage through your cupboards and fridge and write out a meal plan and shopping list that will empower you to put healthy, nutritious meals in front of your family every night of the week, even amongst the chaos.
The good news is, the more you do it, the faster it becomes, the less stressed you’ll feel and the more money you’ll save each week! This time spent on planning and preparation will repay you in dividends of time during the week when you’re really busy playing the role of taxi driver, hair stylist, cleaner and chef!
Here’s Everything You’re Getting:
🥗 Thinking about what to make every night is draining. With this you will have a fast and effective meal prep system so you know exactly what you are going to cook each day? Giving you more time to RELAX after bedtime!
🥗 A step-by-step process for taking inventory of what’s in your fridge, freezer and pantry and determining what needs cooked first so you don’t waste any food.
🥗 Grocery shopping strategies so you can breeze through the weekly shop knowing EXACTLY what you need (with more money left in your pocket). Consumers spend 40% more on impulse purchases when they shop without a plan.
🥗 You are done with making separate meals for your kids. Children who are exposed to the foods in the right way, do better with eating. This programme will show you how to plan meals when you have a selective eater.
🥗 Improve Everyone’s Health with yummy, easy, whole food meal options that your family will enjoy too! Families tend to stick to the same handful of dishes which limits their nutritional variety and adventurous palates. You won’t have to worry your family isn’t getting enough variety anymore.
🥗 Meal prep time-saving tips. Become a food prepping ninja with these success tips for batching, prepping ahead, and getting other people to help you in the kitchen.
Who Am I to Teach You Meal Prep?
I’m Emma, the founder of Vitality Pilates & Wellness with over 15+ years experience in personal training, wholefood nutrition, meal planning and wellness coaching. I began wellness coaching in 2015 because I hated seeing my Pilates clients working hard but not seeing results which equalled their effort.
Meal planning is a particularly brilliant for working mums. For years, I also struggled to juggle meal prep with my busy schedule, feeling overwhelmed by the demands of work, family, and daily life. I like to make sure my children are getting nutritious meals and as I’m getting older, I need those nutritious meals too.
Then I began experimenting with meal prep, I’ve come to rely on it as one of my biggest time and energy savers, not to mention a sanity saver. It gets me through the week with less of that mental load. Meal planning just makes my life so much easier.
Now I am enjoying regular nutritious meals with my family, maintaining a healthy weight effortlessly and I want to help you do the same.
I created this programme to help other busy women take the chaos out of mealtime and effortlessly feed their families (and themselves) nutritious meals day in day out.
I’m confident that this programme will finally help you take back control of your schedule, efficiently get nutritious meals on your table and teach your children how to do this for themselves with your example.
Are you ready to learn HOW to Meal Prep?
If you’re like most of my coaching clients, you’re done with takeaways, thrown together meals, and feeling guilty about neglecting your nutrition.
If you would like to Learn How to Plan Healthy Meals Quickly and Easily… then I invite you to join my coaching programme.