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How to eat healthy foods when you’re crazy-busy and/or traveling. http://rachelrofe.com/how-to-eat-well-when-youre-crazy-busy-andor-traveling
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How To Eat Healthy Foods When You’re
Crazy-Busy Or Traveling
“I mean the changes in how much energy I feel, like when I eat
healthy I feel really, really energetic, I feel happy, I feel way better
at handling things that life throws at me, and my vibrancy way
higher, my creativity, just everything. Like, life is so much better
when I'm eating healthier.”
This episode is to give you some ideas on how you
can incorporate healthy eating in a way that
feels easy and works with a busy schedule.
I travel a lot and so I need
to have practical things
that I can do while
traveling and I know a lot
of us are working all the
time, so I'm just going to
give you some really great
ideas, I think, for just
making this simple and
tangible and practical.
So a lot of us when we get hungry, our blood sugar starts to drop and
then when we are in that state of being hungry, then forget about it,
like we're just looking for a quick fix, anything to feel better and
you're going to usually be drawn, just scientifically, to the things that
are the fattiest.
So some ideas for portable snacks that you can take are little
baggies of almonds and different nuts; you could do like carrots
and peanut butter in Tupperware; grass fed beef jerky; Lara Bars,
they're 100% raw bars; packets of nut butters; trail mix; fruits are
also really good to get your blood sugar back up if you want to
keep an orange or an apple.
It's always nearby you're going to make sure to drink it. So I like
to have some in my car, when I work, always near me, obviously
when I work out, but it's in my purse. It's very rare that you see
me without water really close by, because I just know the more
hydrated the better I feel. So that's definitely something that's
really helpful.
Also I would recommend making a smoothie in the mornings
because it's really quick to make smoothies and when you have a
smoothie you get in really great nutrients first thing in the
morning, then at least if you mess up the rest of the day, at least
you know you've gotten in some nutrients then.
And there's all kind of things on
Pinterest if you do a search for
simple recipes. If you go to
pinterest.com/ginny G-I-N-N-Y M
as in Michael Johnson, she is my
nutritionist. She's amazing. She
has a bunch of Pinterest boards
on different things that you can
create, that you can make for
food that are pretty simple to
make. She will readily tell you
she's a lazy cook, so she's really
helpful.
And why I really like cooking is because it helps you be 100% sure
that the ingredients in everything that you make are healthy. You
know when we eat out, we don't know what's being put in the
food.
“I did a 30 day challenge where I was sugar, gluten and dairy free
and when I would ask waitresses about what's in certain foods that
look like they should not have these different things in them, it
was crazy to see how often like I'd get grilled chicken and it would
have gluten in it, or so many things have sugar in it. And it's really
ridiculous actually, so the thing about cooking is this way you have
100% control. You know what's going on in your diet.”
So like vegetables for example, if you basically take any vegetable,
so like the ones that I use a lot are like Brussels sprouts,
cauliflower, broccoli, squash, sweet potato etc. If you just take
them, mix them with some olive oil, salt, pepper, pop them in the
oven for like an hour, to an hour and 10, 350 degrees, boom,
delicious. They're super, super good.
If you eat meat, look for crock pot recipes. I mean you can just
take a minute in the morning, throw some stuff in the crock pot,
hit start and then leave and then come back to really delicious
food.
You can also just create bags of vegetables that you can throw in
with whatever you're cooking, so if you have like little Ziploc
baggies of onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, different vegetables,
if you can just, boom, throw them in, then it saves you a lot of time
from having to go and chop them later because I get that a lot of
the reason people don't like cooking is it takes a lot of time.
You can also go to youbars.com and those are basically customized
nutrition bars, so you can go and pick different bases. Like, they
have like a cookie dough kind of base which isn't really cookie
dough, it's like dates and cashew butter and some other stuff I'm
not remembering all now, but it's just nutrition bars that are
exactly customized to your needs, so that's another way that you
can switch it up.
You also might consider hiring a chef, and I know that a lot of
people when I say "chef" think that it's really going to be
expensive, but I've gotten chefs for like $10 an hours. It really
doesn't have to be that expensive. I think the thing is people hear
the word "chef" and so that word alone like commands kind of a
higher price, I guess.
Another thing is I go to Burning Man and one of the things we do
in my camp is we have these things called food pods and so
basically there are several people and everybody is responsible for
just one meal, so let's say Burning Man is seven days, there's 14
people to a pod and we all eat, we eat breakfast and dinner. It's
really hot there so we don't eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.
So a couple different tips, one thing, take oatmeal, the packets of
oatmeal with you because you can use the coffee maker and then
just add the hot water from the coffee maker into the oatmeal and
then, boom, you have a breakfast. You don't have to pay the $30 for
breakfast that you don't know what all the ingredients are anyway,
so that's really helpful.
When you're at restaurants, just chose, if you eat meat and fish,
chose the items that are steamed, broiled, baked, grilled, poached,
roasted, those usually have less other ingredients than other
things. As I said before with my friend who eats the eggs and had
all those problems, I always ask for real cracked fresh eggs, so
even the nicest restaurants will use that crappy egg substitute.
There's those organic meats from Applegate so sometimes I'll get
the salami or the chicken slices. If you eat bread, you can get that
or Ezekiel Bread and just remember whenever you go to the
grocery store, just grab some of the utensils and a lot of them
provide them or you can even pack utensils with you, if you know
you're going to do this, no problem.
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