Instead, set yourself up for success to reach your health goals, and do your brain and body a world of good while you're at it: A little advanced planning to fill your pantry and fridge with life-sustaining foods makes it easy to whip up a healthful meal or snack, or grab it on the go. Imagine having a salad bar in your fridge? Your kitchen becomes your very own enticing gourmet health food store.
Whether you are gluten-free, vegan, keto or any other dietary practice, the magic formula to stabilizing blood sugar, reducing cravings, losing weight, sustaining energy and feeling your best is: Fiber + Protein + Healthy Fat at each meal. I can't say this enough.
Practice Healthy Shortcuts
Stock the pantry with healthful, organic “convenience” foods so you can put a meal together quickly, without sacrificing nutrition. For example, wash, chop and store veggies in glass containers in the fridge for several days to have them on hand. Hard boil 6-12 eggs. Steam or roast sweet potatoes or fingerlings and keep in the fridge. Great basics to have on hand include:
- frozen organic veggies like spinach, cauliflower rice, and peas;
- pre-washed and packaged organic greens;
- fresh cukes, radishes, carrots, tomatoes and jicama to chop and store in glass containers for that week;
- fresh herbs;
- hard boiled organic, pastured eggs
- heat-and-eat organic quinoa and brown rice packs;
- canned organic lentils and chickpeas in BPA-free cans;
- canned wild-caught salmon or leftover protein from last night's dinner;
- almonds or other favorite nuts;
- olives;
- and sauerkraut to name a few.
Just whip up a jar of extra virgin olive oil, your favorite vinegar, a spoonful of mustard or tahini to emulsify, salt and pepper and you can have a healthy meal on the table in less than 20 minutes. Grab my Healthy Pantry List here for more shortcuts to have on hand.
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This beautiful salad took me less than 10 minutes to put together since my ingredients were ready and waiting for me.
Pre-blanched green beans, steamed fingerling potatoes, a box of washed arugula, hard-boiled eggs, leftover roasted wild salmon, tomatoes, and lots of fresh chopped herbs made for a very satisfying, blood-sugar balancing meal.