Lose weight: cook your own healthy meals

When you eat healthy meals, you’ll lose weight, and healthy meals start in your own kitchen.

No time to cook? Cooking takes less time than you think.

All it takes is a little time: the time to shop for healthy ingredients, and the time to cook healthy meals for yourself and your family.

Since shopping for ingredients won’t take you any longer than shopping for frozen meals or fast food, you just need to factor the time to cook meals into your day. Grilling fish or a steak takes just minutes, and as the meat grills, you can prepare a salad.

From go to whoa, preparing a meal when you come home from work shouldn’t take longer than half an hour, especially if you do some cooking on the weekends.

Time-saving cooking ideas

* Cook a roast on the weekend; you can take slices of roast beef or pork with you for lunch during the week;

* If you’ve got room in your oven, roast a chicken at the same time. If not, pop a chicken into the oven as soon as the roast comes out;

* Invest in a slow cooker. Place the ingredients into the cooker before you leave for work, and you’ll have a meal ready for you when you come home. If you double the ingredients, you can freeze the rest for a cooked meal next week.

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