Meal planning and easy Food ideas
Summary
Find foods that are easy to prepare and meet your budget that can be stored or conveniently purchased
For non-perishable items, consider subscription services (e.g. Amazon) so have a regular supply of the product without doing anything
If you have other good ideas of healthy, easy, and affordable foods let us know!
Details
Breakfast ideas
Pre-made overnight oats by Holos
You can also make your own with by purchasing oats and plant-based protein powder (e.g. Vegan blend from URAAW) then flavour as you like with spices and fruit
Oatmeal (unflavoured) then add your own fruit and spices in
Frozen fruit (e.g. Walmart list)
Egg white (you can cook these in the microwave easily)
Low sugar, low-fat yogurt-based (including non-diary types of yogurt) breakfast (add spices, nuts, seeds, fruit)
Lunch and Dinner
Snacks
Oven-roasted legumes from three farmers (or make your own)
Roasted edamame (Amazon list), or fresh edamame
Healthy Foods Checklist
| Food Type | Healthy Food Items to Buy |
|---|---|
| Fruits | Apples |
| Bananas | |
| Vegetables | Spinach |
| Broccoli |
Selected Foods:
Breakfast
Natures path oatmeal with water or soy milk, blueberries, and flax meal
Amy’s tofu scramble with blueberries and flax meal
Natures path cereal, optimum, breakfast with soy milk. Flax meal and strawberries.
Amy’s breakfast burrito
Kind raspberry granola with soy milk and blackberries
Arrowhead smelt flakes with soy milk flax meal and strawberries.
Lunch/Dinner
Leafy greens with carrots and green peas and salad dressing. Amy’s quarter pound veggie burger on a whole-grain bun.
Broccoli, slaw, spaghetti Italiano with leafy greens.
Amy’s lentil vegetable soup with greens and Dave’s whole-grain and seed bread. And orange.
Amy’s light in the in quinoa and block been with butternut squash chard.
Amy’s low fat black bean chili.
Amy’s meatless veggie meatballs with whole-grain pasta, Classico pasta sauce with basil and leafy greens.
Uncle Ben, whole green medley with brown and wild rice.
Sweet earth burrito.
Amy’s organic minestrone soup.
Amy’s roasted vegetable pizza.
Garbanzo beans and broccoli slaw.
Kashi sweet potato quinoa bowl.
A side of quinoa as well as broccoli slaw grape tomatoes.
Tasty bite Indian Jed pour lentils.
Snacks
Fuji apple
Baby carrots with black bean dip
Whole-grain wasa cracker
Dry roasted edamame
Lundberg brown rice cake