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How to eat healthy without cooking
Hi I'm a 25/f, and I have a super busy life working and taking care of my one year old. My job is very later back so I'm not as active as I'd like to be, and my diet is extremely bad. I would love to make healthy meals at home, however my living situation makes that extremely difficult. My place doesn't have a kitchen, and the only way to make anything is to buy premade, or microwave it... I feel like surviving off microwave meals would be the death of me. What could I do to make this easier on me?
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One thing you should do that will greatly help is to book an appointment with your doctor about your diet. Have him/her refer you to a dietition who will know your situation and why the diet is awful. That person can help make a diet plan with you that will fit your lifestyle. They can monitor your weight and any other medical situation that is contributing.
Another thing you should do on top is look for parks and rec and or cheap courses on cooking that will teach you what you need to know to use a micowave to make wholesome dishes. There's bound to be recipe books or even stuff on the Internet too in terms of recipes you can do using the equipment and stuff you have on hand.
It's hard and I have the same issue because I'm always downtown to avoid fast-food. My advice is to avoid the usual haunts and not eat there. Pack a sandwhich with veggies and start training yourself not to eat in these places.
Try to find a soup, salad, sandwich joint or even Panera Bread but some meals they serve have more calories than others. If you look at menus for restaurants and can figure out the correct calories you'll do better when you can't be at home.
Also, do yourself an enormous favor at start drinking water, tea, milk or coffee. Don't drink anything with sugar in it whatsoever. When you switch to water you can buy tiny droplets or use lemon and squirt it in the water to ween yourself off pop. That will make an enormous difference as would not eating cookies, chocolate or sugar in general.
If you are really concerned ask your doctor to do all the tests you need to for ruling out diabetes because if you have a horrid diet and it's been a long term thing you could wind up in trouble there. You want your creatinine level to be right.
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I am sure you over looked this when you wrote but you were concerned over your health meal wise but said nothing of your child. Many kids do not eat baby foods at this point anymore and want to eat what they see parents and other adults eating whether they have any teeth or not. So please keep the little one in mind when I talk about one pot meals. You can get a small one plate burner you plug in to electricity and it heats and cooks the same as one burner on a stove top. We are living in our Sprinter van and have a Microwave but have yet to build the counter that will hold one hot plate built in and a sink. So, we will be in the same position as you equipment wise. You will at least have a bathroom sink to clean the pot. I would suggest as we do to use paper plates and bowls to cut down on cleaning needs. We will wait til a container isn't hot and use a paper towel to wipe out most the food crap scraps and sauce out of it, then rinse with soap. I looked up on line 'healthy one pot meals and there are quite a few sites so you can go looking later but heres one site: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
I've read articles from eating well before so I guessed this might help. Anything you cook for yourself, you can mash up a bit for the child. Real food tastes way better than baby food. Have you ever tried most of them? YUck...no wonder many kids spit it back out. LOL anyways, I hope this will help you food wise. IF you're busy and not at an active job, the best thing you can do is try to get in some walking. If you don't own a stroller, check with friends and at work to see if someone has one to donate or sell cheap. Then make sure you take your one year old on a few walks a week. You would have to schedule it in since you have alot on your plate. Sorry, didnt mean the pun. So lets say that every Tuesday and Thursday you carve out one hour to go for a walk. If the weather isn't cooperating, no problem, just go to the nearest indoor mall and walk around. At work if there are elevators and stairs, choose the stairs on purpose when you need to get to your floor or climb how ever many flights you can and then take elevator the rest. If you have an hour lunch, spend even 10 minutes going up and down a flight of stairs. Perhaps Our local one had a childcare center so parents could exercise. I don't know about in other states but some fitness chains can be very affordable. We are on a very limited income and are able to afford a fitness center which is where we also thake showers. I know the one we use is across country so you can start by checking them out in your area, Planet Fitness. Do the research with others because if they are close to where your child goes for daycare, its one more stop before home to do whatever you can, treadmill for a gentle or fast walk, bicycle, and people often do just that only for a half hour.
ANy little bit will help.
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