Always On the Go? Try These Healthy Quick Meals Today

You may have heard the saying, "abs are made in the kitchen". While I agree with this statement to an extent, I advocate balance– particularly the importance of balancing food with exercise. From my experience, only focusing on your diet won't get you feeling your strongest; nonetheless, it's certainly essential to incorporate diet with physical exercise. Hence, I've learned that noticing a difference in how you physically look and feel does start in the kitchen. 

If you're like me and want to listen to your body when its hungry rather than dieting or cutting out certain foods, read below where I share my favourite healthy, quick meals that I enjoy and that fuel my body. 

Breakfast

Healthy Breakfast Tacos

These tacos are super flavourful, fresh, and filled with veggies to start the day! The yellow tomato salsa can be pre-made the night before to save time in the morning– although it only takes minutes to make anyways.

Homemade Granola

This recipe only requires four ingredients. Mix them together, bake in the oven for 30 minutes, and you have granola to last you days!

Lunch

Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Salad

This meal only takes 10 minutes to prep, and is so flavourful! If you are vegetarian but still want some protein, just swap out the chicken with hard boiled eggs!

Slow Cooker Tuscan Sausage & Kale Soup

Soups are great options for school or work, and are the perfect lunch on cooler days. This soup is thicker too, so it's more filling than you'd expect!

Dinner

Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad

Buffalo flavoured anything makes every meal better. This quick and easy spiced-up dinner is also a perfect meal prep recipe.

Chilli Stuffed Peppers

Peppers are the perfect carb-swap out, and can be stuffed with nearly any filling. There are tons of stuffed pepper variations, but this one's simplicity puts it at the top of my list.

Why Should You Make Healthy Food Choices?

Here are my top three reasons everyone should be making healthy food choices:

• Food choices can affect our mental health, and a diet rich in vitamins correlates to a lower risk for mental health disorders
  
• Healthy diets can prevent against diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer
• High-quality diets along with portion-control can help you reach and sustain a healthy weight

Must-Follow Instagram Food Pages

We all need to get a little bit of inspiration from somewhere. When I don’t know what to make or am feeling lazy, here are some of my go-to foodie Instagram pages:

1. @healthfullyfoods

2. @thealmondeater

3. @fithealthyrecipes

4. @walderwellness

5. @allthehealthythings

The Bottom Line

Whether you’re just beginning your health journey or are looking for quick and healthy meals to try, I encourage you to follow a diet that promotes balanced eating and to avoid fad diets that have various restrictions. Those trendy diets are short-lived and unsustainable in the long run. 

That’s why you should try the meals I mentioned– there’s no restrictions, but they’re quick, fresh, and contain ingredients from every food group. 

Be sure to check out my Recipes Page, where I frequently upload healthy, easy to prepare meals that I’ve fallen in love with! If you have any recipes you recommend, please reach out to me and let me know, as I’m always looking for delicious new recipes to try! 

Happy Eating!

P.S. I know getting into a healthy routine can be overwhelming, so just try your best and start slow. If ever you are craving ice cream, cookies, or your favourite salty snack, eat it (without feeling guilty)!