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<b>4</b>. Do the weekly shopping for missing ingredients and staples to re-stock the provisions.
The grocery list should include vegetables; fruits; whole grains; healthy oils; and healthy proteins like nuts/seeds, beans, fish, and chicken, along with yogurt or milk.
Some especially healthy foods are: almonds, buckwheat, chia seeds, flax, oatmeal, peanuts, walnuts.
<b>5</b>. Do whatever you can to prepare meals or servings ahead of time.
Soup, chillies and stews are easy to cook in large quantities. You can easily double or triple recipes. They keep well for several months in the freezer in serving-size, microwave containers. Many are complete meals in themselves. Others pair up nicely with a side salad or simple starches like low-fat corn bread, brown rice, homemade fries or even baked chipsdish.
Another idea is to have a container for each day of the week in which you can pre-assemble the dry items needed for a day.