Spend any time on Instagram these days following folks in the Primal, paleo, keto, and other health and wellness arenas where thinking about food is a big part of the game, and you might get the idea that to eat well you’re going to spend hours in the kitchen prepping elaborate meals every day.
In reality nothing could be further from the truth.
One of the reasons we love eating a primal-aligned food plan is that, on most days, meal planning is simple, intuitive, damned tasty, efficient, and almost always a pleasure.
Oh sure, there will be days when you invest more time and effort in crafting an elaborate kitchen masterpiece worthy of the Instagram masters, but for the day in and day out routine, eating – and cooking – healthy food just doesn’t have to be that complicated.
The image to the right is a great example, these blackened mahi tacos (frozen mahi fillets from Costco) over our house guacamole in romaine leaves were fridge to plate in under twenty minutes; my wife was even traveling in Vermont last week when I made these and not available to serve as sous chef.
You’ve no doubt seen the bacronym KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid, which was a favorite of a mentor and business partner of mine back in Salt Lake City years ago (he was also know to wax eloquently on Occam’s razor as well – simpler solutions are more likely to be correct than complex ones).
In particular if you’re new to the Primal/paleo/Whole30/keto game, don’t get distracted by the elaborate food preps you see trotted by every day on social media. Keep it simple, keep it practical, keep it intuitive, and have fun with your food plan.
