Does your plate look like the one above? It can be challenging at times to meet the dietary recommendations for the 5 food groups. Our meals are often in-balanced and over-portioned due to our lack of knowledge, time, or effort in preparing the meal. Meal planning is a great tool to help you make healthy meals, use appropriate portion sizes, and help you meet your health and wellness goals (as well as a budget!). Choosemyplate.gov has some excellent resources in helping you get started with meal planning. They also have menus to give you some ideas on what a week’s meals should look like. Go visit: https://www.choosemyplate.gov/budget for more information and tips and direction on how to get started! I recommend doing weekly meal planning and if possible incorporate some batch cooking into that to help you save time and efforts on those week nights that you’re short on time and energy! If you’d like individual help with this, please contact me…more than happy to help get you started with improving your nutrition!
-Kelsey
