songwriting skills are a tad better than my sad attempt at weaving Wiggle magic. That reminds me ... Hot potato, hot potato.
40. Read this book regularly
You will be amazed at how effective healthy marketing is and you will be even more surprised at how quickly you’ll forget this information. So I highly recommend reading this section of the book regularly. Your whole family will benefit from the light-hearted fun you bring into your home when you use healthy marketing, so it is worth re-reading this book to find new, creative ideas.
Of course, life is not all fun and games: you will have to continue being the grown-up who dishes out suitable punishments when your child misbehaves. You will have to make new rules when required. You will need to organise your family so you can all leave the house on time for school or work. You’ll no doubt cook and clean and tell your child to do chores and help out. But in amongst all the busyness, remember to talk to your child about the fun stuff in their life at least once a day. Then link their goals to eating vegies, fish, wholegrains, fruit and all things healthy. Once you have finished reading this book, read it again for new inspirations.
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How to make healthy cooking happen
It’s time to cook dinner but your two-year-old is clinging to your leg like a koala in a grass fire. ‘Let’s go swimming,’ they cry as you grab the frozen peas from the freezer. ‘I’m boooored, Mummy,’ they wail as you cut open the packet of pasta. They block your path to the stove and say ‘Play with me now!’ Kids just don’t understand the concept of cooking or the necessity of you being in the kitchen each evening. They think ‘fun’ is on the menu and now is the time to have it. And they’re probably right.
But being an adult, you know that you cannot survive on fun alone, you need to eat too, at least three times a day, which can be quite time consuming if you don’t get savvy. However, what if you arrived home after work and half of tonight’s dinner was already prepared? Or the shopping was done and you knew you could whip up a healthy meal without your child clawing at your left leg? Well you can. Here are six time-saving tips that will help make healthy cooking happen:
1. Be shopping savvy
‘How do I get organised so I know what to cook and when?’
If you stand in front of the fridge for just two minutes, three times a day while figuring out what to cook for the family, you’re wasting 36.5 hours every year. And if you also make two trips to the shops each week instead of one, you squander approximately 39 hours each year. Now if you live to 65 that’s more than five months of your adult life wasted on unorganised food preparation!
And it could be costing you a bundle at the checkout. Have you noticed how often you throw out wasted food? The packets of out-of-date flour in the back of your pantry and the rotting vegies in the bottom of your fridge? And did you lose inspiration to use the final three-quarters of that bunch of silver beet or did you plan to leave it festering on the middle shelf?
The solution? Be shopping savvy. Have a weekly meal plan and stick to it and you will save cash and time. Just a couple of minutes planning and one trip to the grocery store each week makes you shopping savvy and it is the key to restoring balance to your life.
You can be shopping savvy by following the weekly menus in Chapter 7 and using the corresponding shopping lists starting (which can be printed out online for extra convenience). Try them—you’ll never have to stress about meal planning again.
2. Become a p.m. planner
‘I don’t have much time in the morning so how do I prepare my child’s lunch box quickly?’
For a smooth and struggle-free morning, do some p.m. planning and prepare some lunch box items the night before:
• Pop non-perishable food items straight into the lunch box. Anything that will not go soggy or spoil can go into your child’s lunch box the
40. Read this book regularly
You will be amazed at how effective healthy marketing is and you will be even more surprised at how quickly you’ll forget this information. So I highly recommend reading this section of the book regularly. Your whole family will benefit from the light-hearted fun you bring into your home when you use healthy marketing, so it is worth re-reading this book to find new, creative ideas.
Of course, life is not all fun and games: you will have to continue being the grown-up who dishes out suitable punishments when your child misbehaves. You will have to make new rules when required. You will need to organise your family so you can all leave the house on time for school or work. You’ll no doubt cook and clean and tell your child to do chores and help out. But in amongst all the busyness, remember to talk to your child about the fun stuff in their life at least once a day. Then link their goals to eating vegies, fish, wholegrains, fruit and all things healthy. Once you have finished reading this book, read it again for new inspirations.
4
How to make healthy cooking happen
It’s time to cook dinner but your two-year-old is clinging to your leg like a koala in a grass fire. ‘Let’s go swimming,’ they cry as you grab the frozen peas from the freezer. ‘I’m boooored, Mummy,’ they wail as you cut open the packet of pasta. They block your path to the stove and say ‘Play with me now!’ Kids just don’t understand the concept of cooking or the necessity of you being in the kitchen each evening. They think ‘fun’ is on the menu and now is the time to have it. And they’re probably right.
But being an adult, you know that you cannot survive on fun alone, you need to eat too, at least three times a day, which can be quite time consuming if you don’t get savvy. However, what if you arrived home after work and half of tonight’s dinner was already prepared? Or the shopping was done and you knew you could whip up a healthy meal without your child clawing at your left leg? Well you can. Here are six time-saving tips that will help make healthy cooking happen:
1. Be shopping savvy
‘How do I get organised so I know what to cook and when?’
If you stand in front of the fridge for just two minutes, three times a day while figuring out what to cook for the family, you’re wasting 36.5 hours every year. And if you also make two trips to the shops each week instead of one, you squander approximately 39 hours each year. Now if you live to 65 that’s more than five months of your adult life wasted on unorganised food preparation!
And it could be costing you a bundle at the checkout. Have you noticed how often you throw out wasted food? The packets of out-of-date flour in the back of your pantry and the rotting vegies in the bottom of your fridge? And did you lose inspiration to use the final three-quarters of that bunch of silver beet or did you plan to leave it festering on the middle shelf?
The solution? Be shopping savvy. Have a weekly meal plan and stick to it and you will save cash and time. Just a couple of minutes planning and one trip to the grocery store each week makes you shopping savvy and it is the key to restoring balance to your life.
You can be shopping savvy by following the weekly menus in Chapter 7 and using the corresponding shopping lists starting (which can be printed out online for extra convenience). Try them—you’ll never have to stress about meal planning again.
2. Become a p.m. planner
‘I don’t have much time in the morning so how do I prepare my child’s lunch box quickly?’
For a smooth and struggle-free morning, do some p.m. planning and prepare some lunch box items the night before:
• Pop non-perishable food items straight into the lunch box. Anything that will not go soggy or spoil can go into your child’s lunch box the
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