Some people adore cooking. They love being in the kitchen, they enjoy creating new and exciting foods or whipping up some old family favorites. It’s a passion, something they find relaxing and something to look forward to. At the other end of the scale are the people who hate cooking. They don’t like the time it takes or the mess it makes. They never seem to be able to make food interesting, and they would really rather be doing pretty much anything else.
If you fall into the latter category, you might also have fallen into some bad eating habits, choosing takeout and microwave meals or processed food instead of eating natural, healthy foods that are much better for you. If this is the case, don’t worry; it’s a habit you can get out of because it’s possible to eat healthily even if you hate cooking. Read on to find out more.
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Choose Convenience Foods
Convenience foods should not be confused with processed foods and ready meals which, as we’ve noted, should be avoided if at all possible. Convenience foods are those that are natural and healthy but have been packaged or prepared in such a way that makes it easy for people to cook them and enjoy them. After all, if healthy foods are as easy to prepare and enjoy as processed foods are, it’s an easy choice to make – and that’s what is now starting to happen.
When you go to the grocery store, take a look at the possibilities open to you. You’ll find freshly frozen vegetables, for example, which are prep-prepared and have been frozen sooner after harvesting to ensure they keep all their nutrients. You’ll find pouches of rice that can be microwaved (choose the brown rice to add healthiness). You’ll find bagged salads. Just make sure you check the labels to ensure the food really is healthy and you can switch out your bad processed foods for easy to cook healthy foods, and your time in the kitchen won’t have changed.
Batch Cook And Freeze
Even if you hate cooking you can’t live on takeout and microwave meals forever; you’ll become sick if you do, and you will often develop weight issues even if you exercise. Therefore, you’ll have to do some cooking. However, if you can reduce that cooking down to one or two days a month rather than having to do it every day, wouldn’t that be a better solution?
It’s possible when you batch cook. Start by bulk buying lovely, healthy, natural foods such as lamb from Superior Farms and vegetables from a farmer’s market. That way you know you have the best ingredients possible. Then spend a weekend each month just cooking. Cook a variety of dishes using the fresh, healthy ingredients you have, and then freeze them when you’re done. If you cook enough, you won’t have to do any more cooking for the rest of the month, and you’ll always have access to plenty of healthy food. It should work out cheaper too.
Snack Raw
Even if you’re eating healthy food for your main meals, your snacks might be undoing your good work, and cookies and chips and other easy-to-eat foods are just not going to help you. Instead, if you feel peckish between meals, eat raw foods instead. That means eating a fruit or raw vegetables or even some yogurt. There are plenty of foods available that don’t require any preparation and that would be ideal to bridge the gap between meals.
