The Start of Something Better Most of us are being asked or taking the opportunity to work from home. Or spending more time there by avoiding unnecessary travel. Or your holiday has been cancelled meaning it has turned into a staycation in your own house!
Although these circumstances are not of our choosing. Change is never easy particularly when it is not being led by ourselves. The obvious advantages are that we are saving time travelling and can be more flexible with our day. Possibly be more efficient too and get our allocated work done quicker. In terms of what we eat this is potentially a massive change. I have noticed that most people are rushing to work fuelling up on coffee and sweet snacks. That is no longer the case so it’s a chance to replace that habit. This change is also long enough to create a new habit which takes 3 days to get it started. At last a healthy breakfast is
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a possibility. This could range from a light option of fresh fruit and seeds, porridge with toppings, soaked muesli or a more exotic ayurvedic kitcheri (cooked lentils with rice). Plus fresh fruit and vegetable juices instead of carton ones. A while back I developed our magic meal plan. This was originally for nurses on shift work. We realised that with 12 hour rotating shifts. It meant that most nurses had no chance to cook properly from scratch. This is when we came up with the idea of using a slow cooker or crock pot. The idea being that you can load it up whenever you get home. Sleep and rest then a wonderful one pot meal is ready when you wake up. Then you can take it to work with you in a thermos
instead of relying on takeaways and sweet snacks. Now we have realised it’s a great plan even if you are at home all day. If you load it up at breakfast you can have a hearty stew that is ready for lunch. It runs off basic ingredients which is great too if you are trying to minimise contact and a chance to use up lots of packets in your cupboards . Healthy things like lentils, rice dried beans which go a long way and bulk up as you cook them. One hundred grams of lentils for instance bulks up to three hundred when cooked. The main other ingredients are basic veg which go a long way too. Also you can be flexible which ones you use. The great thing about this is that as well as having a healthy breakfast your lunch is chugging away happily all morning.
