Before my husband’s immigration finally came through, my way of going about my Diet was to pre-make a large assortment of foods, predominantly soups, and toss it all into the freezer to be eaten at a later date.

This worked absolutely perfectly for me. I was able to enter in all the ingredients into recipes on MyFitnessPal ahead of time, and when it came time to eat, I’d just pick a Meal, toss it into the microwave and I was good to go.

When my husband came home, it wasn’t quite so easy to get away with this. My little lazy (and I will admit, it was quite lazy) method of managing my meals wasn’t exactly going to continue to fly. First off, husband has a super metabolism and realistically needs to consume more calories than I do. Secondly, he wants to gain weight, not lose it like I do. But why would he want to gain weight??? Because he is super skinny. Not unhealthy skinny, but skinny enough that he’d like to put on some weight. Therefore, he was going to need to be able to eat foods that were a little on the higher calorie side of things than I do.

So when he returned to Canada, I was faced with the predicament of trying to figure out how to cook for one person who wanted to gain weight and one who wanted to lose weight and preferably all in one meal.

And then I got pregnant! All bets were off and I could eat pretty much whatever I wanted so long as it wasn’t a super unhealthy meal! Realistically, this meant that we ate like normal people, reintroducing carbs like potatoes and rice back into my diet. I know how to cook regular, non-dietary restrictive meals with ease and it took a lot of stress off my shoulders not to have to figure out a greater selection of meals. Did I mention that my husband isn’t as big as eating the same five or six meals on repeat like I did for about six months? Not even a little interested in doing so.

Now that I’ve had my son, I’m trying to get back onto the wagon and get my diet and exercise routine back on track. This means that I need to actually put in the effort to think of meals that fall into our specific dietary requirements that doesn’t end up with me cooking multiple different meals. I barely have time to figure out one meal a day some days.

I’ve more or less gotten my breakfasts and lunches all figured out. I made a huge amount of the Garden Vegetable Soup not that long ago and I have it all portioned out in my freezer. I’ve been eating one of those a day with a sprinkling with cheese for about a week now and my breakfasts are usually an easy scrambled eggs and coffee (cooked at 30 second intervals between stirring the eggs you can actually make scrambled eggs pretty quickly in the microwave!)

Right now, I’m trying to find the easiest way to make faux-mashed potatoes. My husband absolutely loves mashed potatoes and they work really well as a side for a lot of the dishes that I make. I generally use cauliflower as a stand in for where I would otherwise use potatoes, but being one of my husbands favourite dishes, I’m trying to find the best manner in which to prepare them so that he enjoys the cauliflower version just as much.

I’m hoping that within the next couple of weeks I’ll have managed to get my brain on straight enough to start preparing all of our meals as no-low carb alternatives so that I can completely jump back on board my diet and start getting these pounds to drop themselves off again.