Hello everyone!
I am very excited for today’s video because besides being a very requested subject I have
partnered with Sadia over at Pickuplimes to deliver you two videos that will help you
get healthy and eat well during your years in school and university.
In this video I will be talking about general tips on how to manage your time in order to
shop for groceries, meal prep, pack your lunch and overall making healthy eating a priority
and Sadia will present you with some recipes for study snacks and general healthy ingredients
that you should incorporate into your life.
I will link her video down below, so you can get started with your healthy eating habits.
For me, good time management is crucial to get to eat healthy every day if you are not
living with anyone else and have to take care of your own meals.
Every friday, I do some brainstorming for recipes for the next week.
I try to mix things up and create a routine where some of my meals can be completely cooked
during my meal prep and others are cooked on the spot.
This allows me the freedom to be able to cook during the week, which is something that I
really enjoy, but also still be able to eat something healthy on those lazy days.
By establishing all of the recipes, including breakfast and snacks, that I want to be cooking
next week, I am able to create a thorough list of ingredients.
I have a very strict grocery shopping schedule – I order most of my groceries online and
all of my food for the entire week arrives at my doorstep every Sunday night.
Shopping for groceries online also allowed me for something else: I stopped buying things
because of my cravings since when shopping online I search for the things I need, and
I am not driven for the packaging and the things I see in the shopping aisle.
That allows for a quick shopping trip and also allows me to narrow down the scope of
things I need and am actually going to consume.
On the other hand, I end up saving a lot of money.
If I have a very specific budget for groceries to respect each week, shopping online makes
it way easier to respect it, as I am constantly seeing the total amount of money I am going
to pay for the items I’ve added to my shopping cart and won’t end up surprised during checkout.
If I pass the limit I set out to myself I can always go back and remove things from
the cart and even search for cheaper alternatives just by filtering the results and ordering
items by price.
Overall, I recommend everyone to get into online grocery shopping if you lack the time
and have the service available.
In case you can’t compromise to that system, try to schedule a very strict
After I know when my groceries will be delivered I schedule a block of time in my calendar
each week to do some meal prepping and this usually happens either Sunday night or Monday
morning.
For meal prepping, I usually do a batch of guacamole, baked sweet potatoes, tomato sauce
and some chili or curry every week.
Those are staples that are almost consistently on my fridge and then I mix things up and
do some occasional cooking.
You have a lot of freedom with salads and rice bowls, for instance, where you can combine
tons of different ingredients and leftovers from your fridge.
I usually make sure that I have a couple of staple ingredients to prep my salads each
week, like fresh spinach leaves, cherry tomatoes and parlsey and then I build up from there
according to what I have around in my fridge.
Although I am lucky enough to be able to lunch at home during most days of the week, I sometimes
have the need to quickly grab something to eat in my lunchbreak between classes.
In those days I either pick something up from my meal prepping and pack it in airtight containers
or cook two portions of dinner the night before and pack one of those portions to take with
me to university the day after.
Sometimes I also create my own salad or rice bowls with some leftovers.
I have created a companion blog post that you can check out with more details on this
subject.
I will link the types of container I’m using, how I pack for lunch, a few more details on
meal prepping and grocery shopping an so on.
You can find all of that down below as well as a link to Sadia’s video.
I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s video and I will see you next week.
Bye!