Many people tell me they don’t have the time to cook healthy meals. I understand I used to say the same.  I believe, however, that cooking convenient and healthy nutritious meals is good for both the body and the soul. You feel fabulous knowing that your fridge is full of nutritious meals whenever you get hungry. There is no need to grab takeaway food or naughty food when you’re hungry!

Bearing that in mind, I have put some tips together on how to plan for healthy cooking conveniently and easily. I find if I do a bulk shop of pantry items at certain places, this helps enormously in the overall preparation. These tips work for me, I hope they work for you too. Please let me know if you have any more to share.  I would love to constantly add to this list.

Plan what you would like to cook each week at the beginning of the week. This way, you may be able to take advantage of organic and local markets and buy fresh fruit and vegetables in-season. I typically shop at our local organic markets each Saturday

Local Market Organic Shopping

Buy in-season organic fruit and vegetables from your local market where possible

• Organic greens – e.g. Asian greens, broccoli, asparagus, broccolini, bok choy etc to stir-fry or steam. Check out our Asian Green Recipe here
• Organic salad greens for salads and smoothies
• Root vegetables for soups, slow cooker recipes and  honey balsamic roasting
• Cabbage (great to buy organic but not necessary – check out our list here under dirty dozen tab) to make fermented vegetables for a healthy, natural probiotic
• Organic apples and fruit to eat as needed or add to overnight oats or bircher muesli 

Supermarket (or Harris Farm) shopping list

• Cold pressed or organic milk to make milk kefir (cold-pressed milk at Harris Farm)

• Wild caught salmon – great for omega 3 and to add to Rainbow Bowls (Woolworths)