Purely Nourished

One of the most impor­tant things you can do for your health is pre­pare your own meals and snacks for a busy day. Plenty of us go to work and school with­out think­ing about where our next meal will come from. Unfor­tu­nately, meal choices away from the home tend to be costly and nutri­ent poor. Learn to pack your­self healthy meals and snacks for the day, pay­ing close atten­tion to how long you will be away from your kitchen. You will quickly notice a dif­fer­ence in both energy and the money you save.

Prepar­ing your own meals will:

a. Keep you from going hun­gry all day and bing­ing once you arrive home famished.

b. Give you knowl­edge of the ingre­di­ents included in your meal.

c. Allow you to have what you crave and enjoy it at your fin­ger tips.

d. Save time. You will save the extra time it would have taken you to drive to the super mar­ket or local cafe to get a quick bite to eat. Isn’t it true, more times than not, you leave work for a quick meal and you end up bring­ing it back with only a few min­utes to spare before your back on the clock. You barely have a sec­ond to breathe, let alone gulp down a few bites of your meal before your back in the sad­dle, work­ing like a busy lit­tle bee! Not only is eat­ing in such a hur­ried man­ner not enjoy­able, its not good for your diges­tive system.

Peo­ple who eat on-the-go tend to have a greater inci­dence of diges­tive prob­lems. Take fif­teen to twenty min­utes to slow down and taste your food. When you pack your food you save time, money, energy, and your pre­cious health.

Some tips to get you on track to prepar­ing and tak­ing your meals with you:

• Invest in Tup­per­ware, a lunch­box, and a water bottle
• Buy items in bulk, such as nuts, fruits, and seeds; Make sin­gle size por­tions to use as snacks through­out the day.
• Pre­pare an extra serv­ing of the meal you make for din­ner and use it as your lunch for the next day; Use sim­ple spices or sauces to change it up.
• Fill and refill your water bot­tle all day; Drink­ing water will flush your body of tox­ins, keep you ener­gized, and stop you from crav­ing sweets and crunchy snacks. Most peo­ple feel hun­gry when really all they are crav­ing is a big, cold glass of water. Thirst dis­guises itself well as food crav­ings. Always drink water when you feel that you are hav­ing a weird crav­ing for food, more times than not it is because you are thirsty.