Takeaway points: Planning ahead helps to manage costs and energy levels. If you are an office-bound carer, plan ahead of the takeouts for healthier family meals. If you are a family carer that works from home, a support group helps cultivate the habit of making weekly menu plans. I wanted to write about preparing budget fast meals but realised I had not yet counted the costs of each ingredient of my recommended meals hence not sure if the recommended meal is ‘budget’ or not..haha so…must do homework first then I share 🙂 This blog entry is about how I started menu planning recently, more regularly, and am very glad I kept at it because now after 4 weeks I am beginning to see the benefits. I attended a workshop on health at a non-profit organisation recently. At the Health workshop, the participants had to plan a healthy menu based on our food vision chart (pic below) – this meant that we needed to consider the kind of food we ‘saw’ ourselves eating many years down the road. ...
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