The first step in meal planning is to make sure to PLAN AROUND YOUR PROTEIN.
There are two clear reasons for this:
1. As runners, getting enough protein (60-90 grams per day roughly depending on your weigh) is essential to being fit and fast and recovering well.
2. One of the huge benefits to meal planning is a financial one. Planning your meals around which protein is on sale at the supermarket is the best way to make your meal planning save money for you.
This week?
Buy what´s on sale, and freeze the rest.
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Showing posts with label meal planning. Show all posts
Meal Planning really does work for runners.
How Can You Do Step by Step Meal Planning?
Here's How:
1. Get a calendar - mark blank slots for three meals a day and 2 snacks - one morning snack and one evening snack.
2. Make a list of the most powerful, vitamin-filled, fueling foods that you can think of. Foods that really get you out the door for your run. Check out our superfood list to get your brain thinking!
3. Combine these foods into as many variations of meals and snacks that you can think of.
4. Decide how many meals per week you aim to eat outside of your home. I.E. meals that you will NOT prepare your your own.
5. Begin to plot the meals and snacks you plan to make at home on the next two weeks of your calendar. (Leave blank the estimated meals and snacks you plan on eating out).
Now you have a meal plan.
Tomorrow - you can begin buying the foods to stock your refrigerator for the next two weeks!
How Can You Do Step by Step Meal Planning?
Here's How:
1. Get a calendar - mark blank slots for three meals a day and 2 snacks - one morning snack and one evening snack.
2. Make a list of the most powerful, vitamin-filled, fueling foods that you can think of. Foods that really get you out the door for your run. Check out our superfood list to get your brain thinking!
3. Combine these foods into as many variations of meals and snacks that you can think of.
4. Decide how many meals per week you aim to eat outside of your home. I.E. meals that you will NOT prepare your your own.
5. Begin to plot the meals and snacks you plan to make at home on the next two weeks of your calendar. (Leave blank the estimated meals and snacks you plan on eating out).
Now you have a meal plan.
Tomorrow - you can begin buying the foods to stock your refrigerator for the next two weeks!
