Nutrition

Last week’s blog I talked about the three macronutrients and the importance of them on the body. Touching basis off of that, the goal for this week’s blog is to educate that you are more than able to supply your body what it needs without a meal plan and on college budget.

One of the biggest factors college students have when it comes to eating correctly, is the time and the money. College students are lazy and don’t feel like cooking all the time. Hell, some don’t know how to cook at all. Or others just don’t have the money to go and get healthy food from the store. That’s a common stereotype of clean eating.

An easy way to make sure that you’re aren’t spending too much starts with where you shop. I commonly use Walmart because it’s cheap. If Kroger is your thing make sure to get a rewards card to save some of that extra money to use for gas. Another benefit Walmart has is they usually have a generic brand of something. For example, another way to save money is by buying a 5lb bag of frozen chicken instead of buying fresh chicken breasts that come in a pack of four. An alternative to this depending on the scenario is to buy the fresh chicken and or freeze it or meal prep it.

Similarly to the chicken, fresh produce can also be expensive. On top of that it goes bad if not cooked in a timely manner. An easy solution to this is to buy bags of frozen produce. For example I usually buy a bag of frozen broccoli and the thing will last much longer than if I just bought 2 heads of broccoli. All you have to do is throw it in the microwave for 4 minutes submerged in water and boom, fresh broccoli.

The other main issue many students have when it comes to eating clean is the time component. Let’s be realistic, no one has the time to cook every meal every day. Sometimes you don’t feel like cooking and that’s me a majority of the time. I would much prefer throwing something in the microwave for two minutes. Well, with meal prepping that’s possible.

Meal prepping became a huge trend recently due to rise in fitness popularity. Meal prepping is 70% of the body when it comes to accomplishing goals for the gym. Its much easier to do than you think.

Using the 5lb bag of frozen chicken that I got, I will usually thaw out four individual chicken breasts. For carbs I love rice, and eat rice with a good majority of my meals that I prep. I also throw in some of that frozen broccoli into the Tupperware, and boom. That’s a healthy inexpensive meal prep.

Let me know what your guy’s go to meal prep meal is?