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Life’s Too Short for Dishes! 3 Easy One Plate Solutions
Life’s Too Short for Dishes: 3 Easy One Plate Solutions
Do you Despise, Abhor, Loathe, Resent and Detest doing the Dishes? I do!
I love the ocean, so that’s a surprising amount of negative words to describe a water sport. Dishes can be meditative and relaxing, but let’s face it; they are enough to create an excuse to eat sub optimal choices. Haven’t you ever said, “Let’s go out because I don’t want to deal with the cleanup”? I have!
Life is short!
There are so many complicated healthy cooking classes and books out there, I have participated and read a zillion of them. I wrote my books because the world makes you think it’s expensive and impossible. I’m telling you it’s possible to eat delicious and healthy without spending 40 hours a week on dishes (or your entire paycheck on groceries). My time is more valuable than that. I know that yours is too.
Dirty dishes are the exhausting mess for everyone after enjoying a meal, which absolutely increases my resistance to the task.
With a sink full of dishes, have you ever tossed them out? You know you have. I know I have. (Relax Green police, I only own hybrids, I did not toss out the dishes anytime recently 🙂
I beach camp often, and if you think doing dishes with a nice Kohler faucet with a sprayer and KitchenAid dishwasher is wearing, try filling buckets, dragging them to your campsite, washing with cold water, rinsing with the other bucket of water you schlepped from the coastline that you carried. Enough!
When I studied to become a chef, I knew right away that all of that fancy schmancy prep work was not for me. I wanted efficiency, not a second career as a chef, and I certainly was not domestic. I knew that clean delicious food that I could prepare in one stainless pot, one pretty plate or one easy to wash blender, was entirely possible.
Delicious fast clean food to nourish and fuel my work ethic, my workout, and to maintain my weight loss while remaining a food snob.
When I was losing my weight, I was troubled by complicated recipes or a life doomed to eating only carrot sticks and no middle ground. I had to document and share with the world honest healthy fast food that was delicious.
Recognize that you might be eating out more just because you don’t want to do dishes. I get it, I do. Remember that most of those restaurants are full of GMO and are not organic at all:
What if you only used ONE PLATE?
1. Use One Blender
Here is an example of a one plate meal, Gazpacho. In this case it’s one blender to prep and one bowl (Or if nobody is looking you can eat it right from the blender )
http://www.engineeringwellness.com/sexy-salad/gazpacho
Join the resistance by learning the recipes that I have created, written and curated for you from my books.
ONE PLATE, ONE LOVE!
My first book illustrates recipes that are one plate. With one plate and a paring knife you can get busy with some honest fast food. For example, on a road trip at a rest stop, I can prep them on one plate sitting in the passenger seat of my car. Easy-Peasy!
2. Use One Bag
Sexy Salads is another simple creation that will upgrade your experience without creating more unnecessary work, like dishes. “Salad in a Bag” is a section of Sexy Salads, that will teach you exactly that. Make your salad per my instructions in the book, and you can make your salad, toss your salad and take it with you on a bike or hike! You are encouraged to wash and reuse and the bag if you’d like, I do. No big deal.
3. Use the Food Processor
Shreddies, is the term I have used in both of my books to describe shredded vegetables that are prepared in advance. It’s food processor preparation that illustrates correct sequencing to make sure you that you only have to wash the processor ONCE. When I teach Meal Management (“Hello Monday”) as a private clinic in a client’s kitchen, together we create a cascading order of operations to make sure we can use the stove, oven, blender, and of course cutting board, and yield enough healthy food for the week in less than 1.5 hours, yet minimize DIRTY DISHES.
I do enjoy looking at this little frog-sponge-holder-thingie when I’m trapped sinkside. “Ribbit!”
Join the anti-dirty dish resistance!
The less time on dishes the more time to exercise and enjoy life. You CAN prepare healthy and delicious meals without doing things the 1950’s television food show way.
Keep it simple. If you want a guide, there are recipes here on Engineering Wellness (search for recipe), and here’s the link to my books on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Michele-the-Trainer/e/B0075W9PJI/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1
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