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The lives of busy mommies are crazy and hectic. often we need a little help and encouragement to stay organized and get through the day with as little anxiety as possible. here at the healthy mommies magazine we are dedicated to educating busy mommies on how to make basic lifestyle changes to take care of their whole self, mind, body and spirit. As parents we are our children’s first teachers. They learn by our example, as a result if we are going to raise a healthier generation we need to put ourselves first. Therefore, we have put together a collaborative post from our top expert contributing mommies to help you stay organized and sane while managing your busy life. We want to help you. below is our “Ultimate guide for busy Moms.”
Simple meal planning ideas for busy Moms
by: Cascia Talbert – founder of the healthy mommies Magazine
It’s 2016 and families are busier than ever. even though we wake up early we still rush to get the kids ready for school in the morning and ourselves ready for work or our daily tasks. The day flies by and before we know it, it’s time to pick the kids up from school, and hurry off to extra curricular activities. When we get home we still have to eat and feed our kids before bed time. It’s no surprise that fast food, quick dinners, and frozen microwave meals are so popular for Americans. We just do not have the time to cook and prepare healthy meals.
But, there is hope. There is a way to fit in healthy meals into our busy lives. I am going to share my secrets to how I help my family of seven eat healthier while still maintaining our hectic lifestyle. If we can do it, you can too.
The first idea is plan your meals out ahead of time.
Meal planning done ideal will save you time, money and keep you and your family on track to eating healthy.
Materials You will need for successful meal Planning:
Calendar or meal planning app (I use both, my favorite meal planning app is Food Planner, complimentary on the app store and Google Play)
pen dry erase board and dry erase marker, recipes, cook books, Notepad to write grocery lists, or you can use the built-in grocery list from the Food Planner app
4″ x 6″ Line Ruled White Index Cards Index Card file Box for 4″ x 6″ cards
Alpha Self-Tab Card Guides 4″ x 6″
Some of my favorite places to find healthy recipes online are:
• CookingLight.com
• AllRecipes.com
• FoodNetwork.com
• EatingWell.com
A few of my favorite healthy cookbooks are:
• The big book of Recipes for Babies, toddlers & children (suitable for families with children 3 and under)
• natural Superfoods: 150 Nutrient-packed Recipes for complete Health, Vitality and Healing
• The Soupmaker’s Kitchen: how to save Your Scraps, Prepare a Stock, and Craft the best Pot of Soup
• The Passionate Vegetable
• serve it Up, A Parent’s guide to Kid-Friendly portions (suitable for families with children ages 3-10)
• Appetite for Life, The Thumbs-Up, No-Yucks guide to getting Your kid to Be a great Eater, by Stacey Antine (suitable for families with children ages 3-12)
• smart eating Made Simple
Once you have all of your materials you need to decide how far ahead you wish to plan your meals and which meals you need to plan. For some people, planning a week in development is enough, others may wish to plan meals for a whole month. If your children eat breakfast at school or daycare, you might not have to plan breakfasts. If you like to serve healthy breakfasts for your family, then you may wish to add breakfast recipes to your meal plan. families with small children 3 and under must plan healthy snacks for their kids. In buy to stop your family from wasting too much food make sure you set aside at least one night for leftovers. I like to serve leftovers on nights that I don’t have time to cook.
After you decide how far ahead you would like to plan your meals you can go through your recipes and pick out family favorites and new and healthy recipes you would like to try. Some breakfast ideas are, whole grain pancakes with turkey sausage and eggs, steel-cut oatmeal topped with cinnamon and chopped apples, fruit smoothies, Greek yogurt topped with fresh fruit and granola. For lunch you may wish to try a healthy soup recipe with home-made whole grain bread, sub sandwiches or a healthy salad. family dinners must include a lean protein, fresh vegetable or salad and a whole grain. Asigurați-vă căyou mark your recipes with bookmarks, or print out your online recipes for easy access when it is time to prepare your meals.
Write down your meals in your calendar and or your meal planning app. The Food Planner app also allows you to plug-in your recipes and includes a grocery shopping list.
Once you have all your meals planned out, go through the ingredients in your recipes, check out your inventory, and make your grocery list. Some items can be purchased in bulk from a wholesale store and portioned out for several recipes to save you time and money. These may include, meats, seasonings, whole grains, nuts and seeds. other items such as dairy, and produce will need to be purchased once a week at smaller grocery stores or your local farmer’s market.
If your children are old enough to read you can display a dry erase board in your kitchen with all your meals written on it for the week. If they have a favorite breakfast you may wish to serve it on the same day every week.
When you try a new recipe and your family likes it or you have some family favorites, write them down on your index cards and file them into your index card box for easy reference.
Tips for nights When you Don’t have Time to Cook
• cook up your protein a head of time and chop it up to top already prepared salads, or add to sandwiches and wraps. store in your refrigerator in a plastic container. This will keep for about a week.
• Make your own whole grain bread dough and freeze for later use.
• cook up grains like, brown and wild rice and beans a head of time and store in your refrigerator for later use. These will also keep for about a week.
• Prepare casseroles and lasagna recipes ahead of time and store them in your freezer. Make sure you label them with baking instructions.
• try new slow cooker recipes. You’ll be shocked to find out how lots of different kinds of meals can be prepared in your slow cooker, lots of of them are healthy too.
• Freeze soups to heat up later.
You can download this complete meal planning guide in PDF along with Talbert family favorite recipes for complimentary here: basic meal planning ideas for busy Families.
7 steps to a better Night’s Sleep
Everyone knows a night of tossing and turning makes you irritable and foggy, but skimping on sleep over time can wreak havoc on your body, too: It’s been linked with heart disease, memory impairment, weight gain, even premature wrinkles. For a better night’s sleep, follow these basic tips.
1. Reset your internal clock. Most adults need seven to nine hours of sack time per night. If you can’t fall asleep early enough to hit that goal, tuck in 15 minutes sooner every week until you do. Your body will adapt.
2. create a pre-bedtime ritual and stick to it. It can be as basic as massaging cream into your hands each night or writing a few lines in your journal. The point is to train your brain to recognize the signs that it’s time to wind down.
3. Don’t hype up your brain. Stimulating TV, books, or computer games get your mind racing, and that can make it harder to fall asleep. Ditto for job-related stuff; don’t work ideal up to bedtime.
4. Make your bedroom a sleep oasis. Keep your space tidy and enjoyable, with gentle lighting and a good mattress. and of course, be sure your bedding and jammies are super-soft and sweet smelling—launder them with fabric softener and scent-boosters in a layered scent, such as lavender and vanilla, you find soothing.
Beneficiile conexe pentru sănătate ale rădăcinii de licorice
5. Sidetrack your worries. Organize the next morning’s essentials before you hit the sack: pack school snacks and put out the kids’ outfits (or your own). write a to-do list for any tasks that invade your thoughts and hide the list in another room so you don’t see it and ruminate.
6. limit alcohol. A nightcap might kick back you, but it’ll have the reverse effect a couple of hours later, as alcohol disrupts sleep and causes wake-ups as it’s metabolized. (Similarly, individuals sensitive to caffeine must abstain four to six hours before bedtime.)
7. switch off the night-light. Sleep scientists recommend sleeping in a room that’s slightly cool and as dark as possible. Both signal the brain that it’s sleepy time.
How to Make a lot more Time for Prayer
By Rosie Moore
As mommies and wives we often ask ourselves how we can make a lot more time to spend with family, exercising, working, cooking, cleaning, laundry, school activities and the list goes on. We have lost some of the time that we used to spend at the dinner tables asking how our kids or our spouse’s day went because we are so busy that dinner is often on the road in-between activities. then one day something happens, a child is sick or a parent is sick and we ask someone to pray for our loved one. once that loved one gets well, we realize at that moment that all the things of this world don’t indicate as much if they are not in it with us. We start to realize that we need prayer in our life.
It is not enough to jusMergeți la biserică în fiecare duminică și rugați -vă acolo o dată pe săptămână sau pentru masa noastră. Ne dăm seama că avem nevoie de Dumnezeu în viața noastră zilnic tot timpul. Dar cum putem face timp pentru rugăciune atunci când suntem deja atât de atinși? Unul dintre lucrurile pe care le fac mereu în viața mea de rugăciune zilnică este citirea unei devotament zilnic. Îmi încep ziua înainte să mă ridic din pat și să -mi citesc devotamentul zilnic și apoi să mă rog ideal după aceea, în liniștea dimineții, în timp ce copiii și soțul meu încă dorm. Adesea, soțul meu se plimbă pe câinele de companie și va sta și el afară pe puntea noastră din spate și își va face devotamentul și se va ruga în acel moment. Constatăm că începând ziua noastră cu Dumnezeu înainte de a începe agitația zilei, ne oferă timpul să ne rugăm și să dăm primele momente ale zilei lui Dumnezeu, astfel încât ziua noastră să poată fi binecuvântată.
Dacă sunteți o persoană de noapte, atunci rutina de dimineață poate să nu funcționeze pentru dvs., deoarece necesită trezirea mai devreme pentru a permite acest timp liniștit între tine și Dumnezeu să se roage. Noaptea este puțin diferit, va indica așteptarea până când toată lumea se va culca și puteți avea momentele tale singure înainte de culcare pentru a citi devotamentul și a se ruga. Adesea este greu să rămâi treaz și să te rogi înainte de culcare, dar dacă ești capabil să rămâi treaz și să profiți de el, atunci fă -o absolut. Rugăciunea este un moment special pentru a vă conecta și a fi reîmprospătat. Ori de câte ori funcționează pentru tine, fie că dimineața sau târziu noaptea profită de ea, deoarece toți avem nevoie de rugăciune în viața noastră.
6 idei pentru economisire la magazinul alimentar
Mami ocupați încearcă întotdeauna să găsească modalități de a economisi bani
Economisirea de bani este ceva ce ne place cu toții să facem. Indiferent dacă folosește un voucher sau pur și simplu obținem ceva pe autorizare, există un tip de emoție pe care îl obținem de la a ști că am salvat un buck. Având în vedere că cu toții trebuie să obținem alimente, acesta este un lucru pe care toți ne putem permite să economisim câțiva dolari. Iată câteva idei pe care le puteți folosi de fiecare dată când faceți magazin alimentar pentru a ajuta la ușurarea încărcăturii pe portofel.
1) Aveți întotdeauna un plan. Nu sugerez niciodată ca niciun individ să intre într -un magazin alimentar fără un plan. Știind ce veți obține ajută la distrageri la minimum. O listă este o idee excelentă pentru a ține pasul cu cheltuielile estimate pentru călătoria dvs., precum și modul în care o mulțime din fiecare articol intenționați să cumpărați. Mai puțin timp petrecut în magazin = mai puțini bani cheltuiți!
2) Nu cumpărați niciodată foame. Aceasta este o recomandări clasice care încă poartă un sens deosebit. Împreună cu un plan, cumpărăturile pe o burtă completă vă pot minimiza îndemnurile pentru a obține lucrurile nu pe lista dvs. și, ca urmare, vă economisiți să vă cheltuiți în plus. Obțineți o gustare la ieșirea la ușa magazinului alimentar. Acesta este un mod grozav de a obține ceva în burtă fără a fi nevoie să mănânci o masă întreagă.
3) Verificați circulația magazinului pentru vânzări. Înainte de a ieși pe ușă pentru marea dvs. călătorie de cumpărături, luați un moment pentru a privi circulația magazinului pentru acea săptămână. Eu personal nu cumpăr niciodată nimic care nu este la vânzare. Una dintre filozofiile mele este, de fapt, dacă nu este la vânzare, nu am nevoie de ea. If you need something that is not on sale that week, there is a chance that within the coming weeks it could go on sale. keeping an on your stores sale cycle, you’ll start to notice a pattern of what they will have a sale each week. For example, at my Publix something that’s on sale every 3 or 4 weeks is I Can’t believe It’s Not Butter Spray. I know it will be on sale so I never get it unless it is.
4) use COUPONS! There is a common myth among some people that getting a store brand is more affordable than getting the name brand with a coupon. This is simply just not the case. often times, you can combine your vouchers with a sale to get major savings on the brand name items. as a result you can snag the brands for even less than you’d pay for a store brand.
5) Don’t be brand loyal. One thing that I learned early on was to break away from my brand loyalties. If you really want to save the most money, you’ll need to try new things t
