Cooking at home is not only a way to save costs, but also a way to take care of your health and connect with yourself. However, with a busy schedule and the convenience of outdoor dining services, maintaining this habit becomes a challenge for many people. To help you form your cooking routine, try applying the 3 tips below.
According to Sarah Adler, an integrated nutritionist and author of the book Simply Real Eating, currently working at the Holistic Institute of Health and Nutrition in California (USA), the most important thing to work hard to cook is to create a favorable environment for cooking to become easier, easier and more enjoyable.
Simplifying the menu, but still getting enough nutrients
One of the reasons why many people are afraid to go into the kitchen is because they think about elaborate and complicated cooking. But according to Adler, simplicity is the key to maintaining habits.
You dont need every meal to be a culinary performance. Start with dishes you know how to cook, can rotate the ingredients. A bowl of rice with stir-fried vegetables, boiled eggs and delicious sauce was a complete meal, Adler shared.
The advice is to choose 4-5 simple dishes that suit your taste and can flexibly change the ingredients per week.
Prepare food for the weekend
Meal prep (pre-preparation) is no longer a new tip, but its effectiveness is still extremely high. Washing, processing vegetables, marinating fish meat, or cooking basic dishes such as rice, beans, boiled eggs... on the weekend will help you save a significant amount of time during the week.
Turning cooking into time to take care of yourself
Cooking should not be a task, but a moment of quiet you give yourself. Adler recommends turning each time you enter the kitchen into a pleasant experience: turning on your favorite music, opening windows, burning incense or simply cooking silently as a form of meditation. When you consider cooking as a self-care ritual, you will no longer want to miss it, she emphasized.
