Meet Amari Cheffer MS, RD, LDN
I learned a lot from you and appreciate the things you shared with me. I'm slowly, but surely making changes and I'm really enjoying it!
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Meal Planning 101 – Recap
So here we are again, a whole week gone by. Sometimes half of the frustration of meal planning is that things throughout the week may not always go as planned. No matter how well you plan for yourself, there is always a wrench or two thrown into the equation, that’s life. Check out my weekly meal planning goals here. That being said, here is how my week panned out: Monday – We had Vegetable Quinoa Soup with Garlic Crostini. Will wanted a grilled sandwich to go with his soup so I used some leftover bread, mozzarella cheese, bacon, and...
read moreCan you Identify These Foods?
Many of the foods sold on supermarket shelves today have unrecognizable ingredients. These items no longer resemble real food, but rather science experiments. Based on the ingredient list, can you identify these foods? Corn syrup, enriched flour, water, sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and/or animal shortening (contains one or more of: canola oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, beef fat), eggs. Contains 2% or less of: modified food starch, whey, salt, leavening (baking soda, monocalcium phosphates, sodium acid...
read moreVegetable Quinoa Winter Soup
After a long night at crossfit I enjoyed some well deserved Vegetable Quinoa Winter Soup with Garlic Crostini for dinner! All I had to do was heat up the soup and bake the crostini for 5 minutes and dinner was served. My day of meal preparation is already paying off! First things first though. Today’s crossfit WOD (for time): 30 air squats 15 front squats (55 – Rx was 65) 30 kettle bell swings (30 – Rx) 15 sumo deadlift high-pulls (55 – Rx was 65) 30 box jumps 15 push press (55 – Rx was 65) 400 meter row I finished in...
read moreMeal Planning 101 – Preparation Day
To continue my Meal Planning 101 series, today was preparation day! Today was my day off work meaning it was the perfect opportunity to prep my food for the week. Yesterday I shared my 12 easy steps to meal planning. One of the most important steps to successful healthy meal planning is to determine steps in your recipes that you can do ahead of time and plan a day to prep food on your day off. Some of the benefits of completing cooking prep work in advance include: Minimize the number of dirty dishes. As long as you are doing all the work at...
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