Eating healthy, in a rush

People are always saying that the reason they eat fast food, or order takeout, or heat up processed food out of a box, is that they don't have time to eat properly. When you embark on something like the Candida Diet, you have to factor it in to everything you're doing - you don't suddenly have more hours in your day to eat right. A major component of the challenge is planning your meals.

Today, I had a dinner planned but I forgot to take the meat out of the freezer in the morning, and I had an event to be at by 7.30 so I needed something that could be cooked quickly. Often, it is times like these when I turn to take out or picking something up because I am too exhausted to face the grocery store - or, I make something out of what I have in my cupboards and fridge already. Often, I make eggs - which is actually a pretty healthy and quick solution, but not one I could use today, as I'd already had eggs for breakfast.

In the end, I bought a piece of haddock at the grocery store and cooked the green beans I already had in my fridge. Fish is super easy - all I do is put a piece of foil down on a cookie sheet (which makes clean up really easy), place the fish on the foil, put olive oil or butter (just a bit), salt and pepper. Put it under the broiler in the oven until it flakes apart easily under a fork - after you do it a few times you will be able to tell by looking at it. It takes 5-10 minutes for white fish - probably a bit longer for oily fish, which tends to be cut more thickly.

Anyway, this dinner took me 15 minutes to make, total - proving that there is no excuse for fast food.