04/30/2026
FACT!!
The results you want WILL take time and intention ‼️
🛒I used to go to the grocery store 3x every week … each time took about 45 min out of my life!
🤷🏻♀️Nearly every busy woman over 40 trying to feed herself and her family a healthy diet can probably relate.
I’d go to the store and have no actual plan of the meals I was going to make that week.
Not only would I spend way more time than I needed to but I’d spend more money, buy things ( Read: treats) that didn’t serve my goals and spend more money ( on foods that would eventually go bad because it sounded good but I didn’t have a plan for them )
What changed? I started taking just a few minutes each Saturday to map out a plan for the week ahead. That is literally all it takes… just a few minutes
Then I shop on Sunday while I’m already out and about after church
Here’s what I focus on now:
✅ Keeping a short list of staple foods I buy every time
✅ looking at the week ahead to determine which days will be too busy for cooking are preparing a meal - that’s when I plan on leftovers, pulling something out of the freezer, pawning the cooking off on my husband or finding a good crockpot meal ( go follow me on Pinterest for some good ideas)
✅ planning for snacks and sweet treat dupes when a hankering hits
✅ looking at one meal of the day at a time and choosing what to have as well as what to put on repeat
✅Getting used to eating the same or similar things each week ( for example, we ( meaning my man) always grill something in bulk on Sundays to be sure we have extra for lunches,
we always have fish in Mondays, I always make a huge salad on Sundays so I can nosh on it for lunches throughout the week…)
✅I order staple in Amazon to make sure I don’t run out and I save myself time at the grocery store ( see my link in bio for my go to Amazon pantry staples) https://geni.us/JqbTO link tree https://linktr.ee/missibalison
Not only has it made shopping easier, I’m saving a ton of time every week.
I can use that extra hour and a half to prep some healthy meals which will get me closer to my goals
Now I’m in and out in 30 mins with a ca