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May 26, 2020 By Karen Durbin Leave a Comment

Food Fatigue–4 Easy Ways to Fight It

Food Fatigue

You may be wondering what the heck food fatigue even is…

Do ever get to a point when you just get tired of the food you eat?

Maybe you have been eating healthy for a couple of weeks, and then all of a sudden you just don’t want to eat that food any more. You know you SHOULD eat, but you just can’t bring yourself to do it.

Nothing sounds good any more.

That’s food fatigue.

Sometimes food fatigue happens when you have been eating not-so-good-for-you-stuff too. You just get sick of eating the same things over and over again.

Food fatigue has happened to me recently while doing a round of Whole30.

The first week was exciting and I enjoyed making all the eggs and chicken and sweet potatoes.

But now that I am starting week 3, I find myself not really wanting to eat because–well, because it’s getting boring.

So, what do you do when that happens? You change it up!

4 Tips To Fight Food Fatigue

1) Try some new recipes.

I love using Pinterest as a free resource to find new and interesting meals to make. To help you get started,  we found these 3 recipes that sound tasty & interesting!

Sheet Pan Taco Chicken Fingers
Sloppy Joe Bowls
Sticky Asian Meatballs

2) Grab the cookbooks

Pull out an underused cookbook and try some long-forgotten recipes. Or maybe even order yourself a new cookbook to explore.

Early in my healthy eating journey, I LOVED the Hungry Girl cookbooks, and this one published in 2019 looks super interesting: Hungry Girl Simply 6: All Natural Recipes With 6 Ingredients or Less.
Hungry Girl Simply 6 cookbook to banish food fatigue
And the Nom Nom Paleo Cookbooks are always a great choice: Nom Nom Paleo: Food for Humans & Ready or Not!: 150+ Make-Ahead, Make-Over, and Make-Now Recipes 
Nom Nom Paleo cookbook Nom Nom Ready or Not
3) Try something you’ve never eaten before.

Eating the same ingredients over and over–like beef and/or chicken–can certainly lead to food fatigue. Increase your repertoire by trying salmon or cod. This Everything Bagel Salmon sounds delicious!

Or what about cooking eggplant? Perhaps your family might enjoy Eggplant Parmesan.

Even making just one new meal can help you make food fatigue a thing of the past.

4) Use Prepped Girl.

We have a new lunch menu each week and regularly introduce new meals to the menu.

Having delicious, healthy meals prepared for you can help alleviate some of your food fatigue, plus give you back the time you were spending in the kitchen.

There is no minimum order amount, so you can order as many meals that you need to shake up your current boring meal plan.

You can check out this week’s menu HERE and order yourself some fatigue busting meals to be delivered to your door Sunday morning.

Quarantine certainly made it hard for us to find a variety of foods to eat, especially for those of us who enjoy eating out regularly, but food fatigue can happen even when we have lots of options on our plates. Having some quick, simple tips to bust through food fatigue when it hits can save your healthy meal plan from derailing.

We would love to hear from you!!

If you find success using any of these tips, please leave us a comment!! Or email us at hello@preppedgirl.com.

Or if you have a great tip for fighting food fatigue, tell us!! We love learning new ways to tackle our food issues.

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March 26, 2020 By Karen Durbin Leave a Comment

Easy Weeknight Meals for Your Family

5 Easy Weeknight Meals

Since when did feeding our families weeknight meals become so tough?

It seems like in a blink of an eye we went from freely moving about, hitting up the grocery store whenever we needed to, and never doubting the things we need the most–like toilet paper and ground beef–would always be readily available.

Need For Easy Meals

In the grocery store several weeks ago, I saw the hoarding begin.

People were loading their carts with boxes of ramen noodles, cases of chicken noodle soup, lots of soda and chips, and many rolls of toilet paper.

I get it.

That stuff lasts. The expiration date is forever far away unlike the fresh products. And, if we are going to be stuck in our homes with no way to get more food, we NEED stuff that lasts.

But I could barely resist the urge to stand on something tall and yell, “Hey people!! None of that stuff you are buying is going to help you fight off the flu!!”

Even today, several weeks after the onset of our social distancing, I can still find the produce aisle stuffed full everything nutritious, while the boxed goods/ramen noodles/canned soups aisles are like ghost towns.

(Speaking of ghost towns, have you ever wondered what it must have been like for the last person to leave the town?? No? Just me? lol)

But, if you aren’t used to cooking so much, you might not know exactly what weeknight meals to make.

Or, if the ideas had the first week and maybe even the second week have run their course…

You might need help.

We have a super useable resource for you for just $1.99!

Easy Weeknight Meals

Easy Weeknight Meals
5 Family-friendly weeknight meals you can make for your family for less than $60.

eBook Contents:

This downloadable eBook of weeknight meals contains:

  • 5 easy meals you can make this week for your family
  • printable grocery shopping list
  • meal prepping tips

Weeknight Meals included are:

Easy Weeknight Meal
Turkey Taco Bowl
Easy Weeknight Meal
Garlicky Shrimp
Easy Weeknight Meal
Crispy Chicken Thighs
Paleo Italian Meatballs in Marinara Sauce
Easy Weeknight Meal
Wendy’s-style Chili

These weeknight meals have been family favorites for us, and we are pretty sure your family will love them too!

You can get your copy HERE.

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June 16, 2019 By Karen Durbin Leave a Comment

What’s on the menu

Next delivery date is Sunday, June 23rd.

As I am writing this, it is a dreary, stormy day. I don’t know about you, but these “summer” days don’t really feel so summery. I can’t wait for the warm temps and the steady sunshine. I would rather be seeking out shelter from the sun rather than from all this rain.

But, despite the dreary weather, we have some YUMMY meals on the menu this week (buuutttt…..we do say that every week!! lol!).

Too many people believe that in order to eat healthy they have to give up food that tastes great.

We believe the exact opposite.

When you eat REAL, WHOLESOME food, food tastes DELICIOUS! The trick is using healthy fats and flavorful spices and quality meats.

Here are a few of our favorites on the menu this week!

Barbeque Chicken Spaghetti Squash

Barbeque Chicken Spaghetti Squash

If you are looking for a Whole30 compliant, Paleo, Gluten & Dairy free meal with LOTS of protein, this is the meal for you!

This meal is hearty and healthy and packed full with flavor!

The BBQ sauce is made from scratch and is sweetened with medjool dates.

It also packs a powerful nutritional punch with 44g of protein and it’s served on top of low-carb spaghetti squash!

The BBQ sauce comes on the side so you can add a little or a lot!

Whole30 | Paleo | Gluten/Dairy Free

Turkey Taco Bowl

Turkey Taco Bowl

An awesomely delicious and nutritious way to enjoy your tacos without unnecessary carbs!

Grain free, paleo, and Whole30 approved.

On a bed of Spanish cauliflower rice, this dish serves up a hearty dose of flavor and good-for-your body nutrition that is sure to keep your energy flowing all afternoon long!

Especially with the 24g of protein!

Banana Egg Breakfast Bowl

Banana Egg Breakfast Bowl

Traditional breakfast foods like boxed cereals leave us feeling hungry just a few hours later.

This Banana Egg Breakfast Bowl has an oatmeal-like texture, topped off with almond butter, coconut, and apples and lots of cinnamon.

Your belly and your sweet tooth will be satisfied with this meal!

And more!!!

Check out this week’s full menu at Prepped Girl and order yourself some healthy meals for next week!!!

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July 5, 2018 By Karen Durbin Leave a Comment

Turmeric: The Natural Inflammation Fighter

Turmeric.

If you have ever eaten curry, you can thank turmeric for it’s yellow color.

But did you know that turmeric is actually quite good for you because it contains compounds with medicinal properties?

Yep!

Turmeric contains curcumin, a substance shown to have powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.

It seems that our modern society is plagued with chronic inflammation. And it seems that we just generally accept aches and pains to come with aging. But research is showing that those “signs” of aging are symptoms of chronic inflammation rather than symptoms of getting older.

According to healthline.com:

**Curcumin, according to some research, can inhibit many molecules known to play major roles in inflammation.

**Curcumin has powerful antioxidant effects. It neutralizes free radicals on its own, then stimulates the body’s own antioxidant enzymes.

**Curcumin boosts levels of the brain hormone BDNF, which increases the growth of new neurons and fights various degenerative processes in the brain.

**Curcumin has beneficial effects on several factors known to play a role in heart disease. It improves the function of the endothelium and is a potent anti-inflammatory agent and antioxidant.

**Curcumin leads to several changes on the molecular level that may help prevent and perhaps even treat cancer.

**Curcumin can cross the blood-brain barrier and has been shown to lead to various improvements in the pathological process of Alzheimer’s disease.

**Arthritis is a common disorder characterized by joint inflammation. Many studies show that curcumin can help treat symptoms of arthritis and is in some cases more effective than anti-inflammatory drugs.

**A study in 60 depressed patients showed that curcumin was as effective as prozac in alleviating the symptoms of depression.

(check out healthline.com to see the sources of their research/information)

Here is a recipe we found on 40 Aprons for an Iced Golden Milk Turmeric Latte that we found (because we have tried this recipe!!) to be refreshing and delicious!!!

Iced Golden Milk Turmeric Latte

Ingredients–Serves 2

  • 1 1/2 cups coconut milk from carton vanilla or plain is fine
  • 1 1/2 cups unsweetened plain almond milk
  • 3 Tbsp. maple syrup divided if you’d prefer an “ombré” look
  • 1 1/2 tsp. ground turmeric
  • 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp. ground ginger
  • Pinch ground black pepper
  • Pinch ground cardamom
  • 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Pour over ice and enjoy!
  2. If you’d like to pour the “golden milk” part over plain milk, like in my photos, combine the almond milk with 1/2 tablespoon maple syrup and stir well. Pour over two glasses filled with ice. In a cocktail shake, combine the coconut milk, all the spices, 2 1/2 tablespoons maple syrup, and plenty of ice. Shake well and pour over cups filled with ice and sweetened almond milk. Enjoy!

If you give this recipe a try, stop by our Facebook page and tell us what you think!!!

Oh, and leave Cheryl at 40 Aprons some love!

Looking for an easy way to fit healthy eating into your busy lifestyle? We can help! We make healthy breakfasts and lunches and deliver them to your door Sunday morning. All the meals are made with wholesome ingredients and are prepped and portioned in BPA-free, microwave safe containers. All you have to do each day, is decide which meal you are going to eat, grab it, and GO!!

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February 21, 2018 By Karen Durbin Leave a Comment

How to RE-MOTIVATE yourself to stick to your goals!

re-motivate yourself

The need to re-motivate yourself

Do you need to re-motivate yourself? Let’s see if this sounds familiar…

It’s New Year’s Day…the start of a BRAND NEW year…a blank slate…and you are oh-so-excited to make THIS year YOUR year. You set some goals…probably some health and fitness goals like losing weight and getting in shape. You tell yourself that nothing is going to stop you this time. This time you mean it.

You start off strong…eating right and getting in some exercise…and you’re still pretty excited.

But then the end of January rolls around and the weather is pretty yucky and life just keeps happening. Perhaps you even got sick or suffered from a cold or your family has been sick and you missed some workouts and ran out of time to prep your meals.

And now it’s February and all that excitement from 50 something days ago has waned. You find yourself still wanting to achieve those same goals, but you are way less motivated to do so.

Sound familiar? Yeah, we thought so. But how do we re-motivate ourselves to get back on track? We have 4 easy tips to help you reignite that fire.

4 Ways to Re-Motivate Yourself

1.Start small. Let’s say your ultimate goal is to lose 20 or more pounds.  Although a great goal to have, it may seem daunting right now. Instead of shooting for 20 pounds, how about shooting for 10 or even 5 or maybe even just 1 pound in the next week. Breaking a larger goal down into smaller goals sets us up for success. We feel more accomplished when we can check items off of our to-do list. Imagine how great it would feel if each week you checked off “Lose 1 pound”. In less than 5 months, you will have achieved your goal of losing 20 pounds…just in time for summer!

2. Reward yourself. All too often we punish ourselves for not doing something. We won’t buy ourselves that new outfit or those new shoes or go to that nice restaurant because we haven’t lost the weight we wanted to lose. But punishing ourselves doesn’t exactly make us feel very good (remember how you used to feel when your parents would ground you or you got those detentions in school?), and we aren’t exactly motivated to do ANYTHING if we don’t feel so good. Instead of punishing yourself, REWARD yourself. Did you follow your meal plan all week? How about a manicure or a new lipstick? Did you workout like you said you would this week? How about a new book to read or some new running socks? Your rewards don’t even have to cost money. How about rewarding yourself with 30 minutes of alone time at the park? You will feel more motivated to reach your goals when you have something to work toward…something tangible that is not food related (or related to the scale).

3. Get accountability. The more other people know about your goal, the more accountable you will feel. If you know that people are going to be “watching,” you will more likely stick to your plan. Join a Facebook group or share your journey on social media. Get a coach or join a workout club or hire a trainer. The more visible you make your goal, the more likely you won’t drop it. Plus, it helps to have the encouragement of others working on their health and fitness too. You can share struggles and successes and tips.

4. Outsource tasks. Research shows that food is 80-90% your results when losing weight or shaping up, and for people who have meal prepped before, food can feel like it sucks up 80-90% of your time. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can hire a meal prep service like Prepped Girl to help you keep your health and fitness goals on track. Prepped Girl makes all of their meals from wholesome, nutritious ingredients and delivers them to your door Sunday morning. That way, you don’t have to spend all your precious free time in the grocery store and the kitchen prepping your food, but you will still be good to go come the start of your work week. You can also outsource household chores (like hiring a house cleaner) to free up some time so you CAN get to the gym or go for that run.

 

Achieving your health and fitness CAN be doable if you find the right ways to re-motivate yourself!

 

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