Tuna Melts

I remember when I started taking baby steps along my path to healthier eating

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I didn't have a clue how to do it and felt awkward admitting it out loud.

I felt like everybody belonged to a secret club that I had no idea how to join.

I'd hear them say things like:

“Yeah, last night I got home from work and was tired.  So I pulled this protein from the fridge, mixed it with these veggies, added a few other tasty things to go along with, and in less than twenty minutes my family was eating a healthy dinner.”

“I went to the grocery this week, bought everything we needed, came home did the prep, and now I don't have to worry about it all for the rest of the week.”

What?  Really?

I'm 40 (ish).  I'm smart.  I read books and work and generally do smart-people things, and I can't get this down?

Please .. So you know what I did?

I just started

I started asking a few people around me, like my mother, like a few of the women I admire at exercise class who I know feed their bodies well, and have for many years.

“In your every day, what do you eat?”

At first, it sounded strange, and people looked at me a bit like, “Huh?”

But as I started to build a small database of information, written with ink in my notebook, it all became so interesting to me that I quit caring about how the question sounded.

So I did what they did, and ate from the list of choices I'd compiled.  Pretty soon, my confidence started to grow.  When I went to the grocery, I started to have ideas for fridge and pantry staples that I could have on hand for meals when the day begged quick and easy.

Don't get me wrong; I'm nowhere near utopia as far as this whole thing goes.  But I do believe I'm getting better

And sometimes, that's about the best you can say.

So tonight, when the day was busy, and time to cook was short, I pulled together tuna melts, along with a bag of Trader Joe's veggies from the freezer.  Twenty minutes later, dinner was served.

She can be taught

Enjoy!

xoxo