Healthy Meals for Busy People

You found your way to this post because you’re motivated to feed you and your family healthy food but in amongst the craziness of life, you’re finding it difficult to actually put it into practice. We so understand! That’s why we collated all of our best advice into this handy summary!

Keep reading! There is PLENTY of simple, fresh and balanced tips to help you eat well, feel great and feed the family, all while keeping on top of everything else you have to do in life!

Staying organised

A healthy eater is an organised one. No doubt about it. You simply cannot eat well without some kind of forethought. Now before you switch off and think: “Meal planning is not for me”, stay with me. You don’t have to plan everything to the letter. However, having a basic idea of what you plan to eat each day means you can have the right foods available, avoiding those last minute dashes for takeaway or convenience food.

The benefits of meal planning far outweighs the initial time investment in writing out a small plan. You can download a free template below but you can also jot it into the notes section on your phone, in a small notepad in your handbag or if you love excel create your self an epic spreadsheet.

Why not start by picking one of your meals, like dinner? Knowing what’s for dinner and having the ingredients ready to go will do wonders for making the week go smoothly, especially when you’ve got lots on in the evenings. Here are 6 easy steps for planning dinner.

One of the main barriers to healthy eating in Australia is a lack of time. One of our dietitians, a busy mum of three, put together this great post with 5 solutions for when you don’t have time to cook for the family. We’ve also got a STACK more resources in our Nutrition Education Portal!

Weekly Meal Planner Template (1139 downloads)

Creating easy healthy meals

Sometimes it’s difficult to create easy, healthy meals when your expectations of what a healthy meal should look like is a little skewed! Social media can put a lot of pressure on us to create these perfect looking meals and many recipe books we purchase can be full of weird, hard to find ingredients or contain recipes that takes hours to pull together!

Not at The Healthy Eating Hub! We pride ourselves on helping you pull together healthy meals that are easy and delicious, not too mention.

Once you learn how to build a healthy, filling salad or easy ways to add flavour without adding kilojoules, the skies the limit with the kind of meals you can throw together on a busy evening.

Here are some of our easy meals perfect for a busy lifestyle:

Steamed Vegetables with Ginger Soy Dressing

Serve with chicken breast, fish or pan-fired tofu for a delicious nutrient rich dinner that take 10 minutes to cook! Add brown rice or noodles for a carbohydrate boost!

Recipe here.

Sesame Crusted Salmon

A very easy meal to make and one that’s bursting with flavour from a simple dressing that will transform any salad or vegetable combo. Oh and not to mention crusting a fresh salmon fillet in sesame seeds is the best!

Recipe here.

Cashew Crusted Chicken Salad

We all like chicken nuggets! And these will be the BEST chicken nuggets you’ve ever tasted! Seriously! Combined with the honey mustard dressing your kids (and you) will be asking for more!

Recipe here.

Green Chicken Curry

How good is curry? We love it! We also did a few tweaks to up the nutrition, decrease the fat and still keep ALL the flavour! Trust us, you’re going to like this one!

Recipe here.

Burgers

Everyone loves a good hamburger. We’ve got the down low on how to make it healthy! And delicious!

Recipe here.

Tips for healthy eating on the go!

There are times when you’re not as organised as you’d like to be and you feel powerless to make a good choice. Part of making healthy food choices easy is taking the time to set yourself up for success. This is about creating an environment that makes healthy food readily available and easy to choose. It’s always hard to make a healthy choice when there isn’t actually healthy food available to you! Not even the most motivated people can among those situations every time!

Keeping your pantry stocked with healthy food is one way you can do this, so is having some convenient supermarket ideas that you can run in and grab when you don’t have any food left in the house! Try this one:

1. Purchase the 4 items displayed below.
2. Place the tenderloins on a baking tray lined with paper, sprinkle with chicken salt or other spice and bake in a hot oven for 10 minutes. Flip over at the half-way.
3. Meanwhile, heat the rice in the microwave and toss the coleslaw in aioli.
4. Serve your plate with 2-3 tenderloins, 3/4 cup rice and half a plate of coleslaw! Yum!