How To Make Healthy Meal Planning Easy
Keep your weeks simple and learn the easiest way to tackle healthy meal planning! None of us have time to spend four hours in the kitchen meal prepping on a Sunday morning (hello, kids!). Instead, use these tips to create a plan to make healthy eating simple, stress-free and PRACTICAL throughout the week.

* Introduction (00:50)
* From Unhealthy Runner To Healthy Fit Mom
* The 5 main steps to healthy meal planning (9:10)
* Look ahead at your schedule (10:27)
* Plan your hardest meal first (12:43)
* Helpful Superfoods For Busy Moms
* Organizing your snacks (16:56)
* Updating your recipe list (22:26)
* Making a grocery list (24:00)
* Healthy meal planning for families and other tips (25:49)
* Wrap Up and advice for healthy meal planning (29:34)
* Mentioned In The Podcast
* Connect With Brooke

Welcome to the Fit as a Mama Bear podcast. I’m Shelby, a certified strength coach, nutrition coach, mama to two, and all-around health nut. This show is about a little bit of everything healthy, fit and natural related.
So if you’re striving to smash goals, eat better, feel better, and enjoy the occasional mom rant, this is the place for you.
You’re listening in to episode 21 today, where I’m chatting to Brooke. Brooke is a holistic health coach and personal trainer at wreckingroutine.com and as a public school teacher for 11 years and a mom of soon to be three, Brooke knows firsthand how difficult it is to eat well.
Hello everyone.
So thanks for listening to today’s episode. I’m pretty sure it’s one all of us need, because today we’re chatting about healthy meal planning and how to make it easy.
 
Introduction (00:50)
So let’s be honest, no one actually wants to spend three hours each Sunday in the kitchen ignoring their kids so that they can bulk cook meatloaf and casserole for the week. Seriously, no one.
But unfortunately, many of us then swing the other way, ignoring the kitchen altogether and walking into the week unprepared. Without a plan or any prep done, we grab whatever we can and often is not the healthiest option. So let’s change that.
With me here today is Brooke Stluka.
Brooke is a holistic health coach and personal trainer at wreckingroutine.com and as a public school teacher for 11 years and mom of soon to be three, she knows firsthand how difficult it is to eat well and move your body consistently when schedules pull you in a hundred different directions.
Specializing in weight loss and run coaching, Brooke teaches the seven habits you need to master in order to lose weight and keep it off for good. So welcome to the podcast Brooke!
Thank you. Thanks for having me today.
Oh, I’m excited! Before we get into the topic at hand, why don’t you give us a bit of a background, tell us about yourself and how you came to be where you are now.
Great.  So I started as a collegiate runner.  I ran track, cross country and high jumped and then I was sent off into the world to go be an adult. That is when I really struggled.
 
From Unhealthy Runner To Healthy Fit ...