Convenient Healthy Eating...

[Raven's Nest]

So in an entirely non-new years related pledge to eat healthily from now on, I set about on my quest to banish the wicked ways of my gluttoneous past and embrace a new, unfamiliar and somewhat respectable method of nourishing my cells.

Gone are the pizzas, cola, cake and other assorted wonderful things. In are the salads, the clementines and the over-priced bottled water.

Now this is all wonderful and good but... Where the hell can you get a decent meal around here?

As my daily schedule is somewhat hectic and my food preperation skills somewhat useless, I am having to rely on store bought food to get my lunch/dinner with. To my dismay, I found that trying to procure a hot healthy and balanced meal whilst out and about these days seems to be an unrewarding and fruitless task... [sub] although I did actually find fruit[/sub]

I'm not on a silly fad diet plan nor am I culinarily inclined but I am at least knowledgeable enough about nutrition to realise a huge whopping gap in the healthy eating market is right in front of us!

Why are there no healthy fast food places around? Where are the Pasta2Go's or the Salad King's? Why does the only widely available sandwich bar only sell £1's worth of fillings in a bed of cardboard paper for £7?

So tell me mighty escapians, If you have found success in finding the secret to maintaining a healthy diet whilst on the go, please, for the love of tofu, share it with me...

PS... My captcha was Reghly für.... What the hell man? I don't have a ü key! I had to google über so I could copy and paste a fricken ü into the damn box!

 

[XT inc]

You can't really do it, healthy eating has work and expenses involved. Through some back assward logic healthy eating costs 3 times as much as junk food. Just call it exercise I guess, plundering in a kitchen over a hot stove preparing meals for the week.

its like that old fast v good v cheap triangle. If you want your food fast and cheap it won't be good, You want It Cheap and good it won't be fast and if you want it fast and good, you better believe it won't be cheap. So get to work, learn to cook, and thats about it.

Side note this site like most captchas has one real word and one fake work the real one is typically the longest spellable word and the other ones fluff you could have typed in reghly hdgfgf for all captcha cares.

 

[badgersprite]

Eat food you like in a healthy, well proportioned way. If you like chicken, cook it in a lean way, without any kind of oil, and eat it as part of a salad instead of with potatoes and gravy or something, just as an example. Be sure to eat breakfast so you don't get hungry and snack later. Even just having a banana or eggs in the morning can help.

Also, this may sound weird, but it made a big difference to me when I cut out cheese. oO I don't even know why, but I lost weight eating pretty much the same diet I always had just without cheese...

 

[Raven's Nest]

Eat food you like in a healthy, well proportioned way. If you like chicken, cook it in a lean way, without any kind of oil, and eat it as part of a salad instead of with potatoes and gravy or something, just as an example. Be sure to eat breakfast so you don't get hungry and snack later. Even just having a banana or eggs in the morning can help.

Also, this may sound weird, but it made a big difference to me when I cut out cheese. oO I don't even know why, but I lost weight eating pretty much the same diet I always had just without cheese...

Thanks for the advice but I do know how to eat healthily, I'm trying to find out if anyone knows how to do so relatively cheaply and on the go. Such as when I'm running late to college and need to pick something up on the way, Or when I start work at 5pm and work through till 12.

It's not always practical to stand and cook all my meals in advance if you get what I mean now?

its like that old fast v good v cheap triangle. If you want your food fast and cheap it won't be good, You want It Cheap and good it won't be fast and if you want it fast and good, you better believe it won't be cheap. So get to work, learn to cook, and thats about it.

Yeah you know it... Although the guy who dares to break this triangle by providing healthy meals cheap and fast will be a rich, rich man...

 

[Dags90]

Cook things in batches and reheat as needed, that's what my dad does anyway. He cooks a fair amount of his food and portions it out on Sundays, then freezes/refrigerates it. Or eat things cold. I know when I have night classes, I make some pasta salad (cooked pasta, salad dressing, olives, chick peas, whatever you like) before hand so I could just come home and eat.