Need easy healthy food ideas

When I feel really lousy like I do now, I'm too tired to prepare healthy meals. Can you share your ideas for clean eating when you barely have the energy to get off the couch? I am supposed to be gluten and sugar free.

Celery with almond butter, bake a chicken and eat off of it, avocados, carrot sticks, hummus, sauerkraut and organic turkey dogs, make soups and eat off of them for a couple of days. I love dill pickles, kombucha, teas, seafood strips, turkey jerky, all vegetables. And did I mention soups?? LOL! Bake a butternut squash and roast a whole bulb of garlic - put it all in the vitamix or blender and add some broth to thin it out. Yummmm

When I was really feeling bad I hit the health food deli and stocked up. That way I didn't feel bad about what my husband was eating. I am the cook in our house and that was how I felt bad, was by not cooking for him. I could stand to lose some weight, but not him.

I love winter because soups are so "in." If you need a recipe for any soup, email me and I probably have made one. Where I live you don't go by recipes often because it is so far from the store, you cook with what you have and you become very inventive.

~Annette

I have been doing split pea soup, where you basically cook just the peas for an hour in boiling water, then add broth, carrots, celery, onion, and lots of garlic. Then season to taste. I cook this in large batches in a stock pot, then just heat up on days I don't feel like cooking. It's cheap, easy, and tastes awesome in my opinion. Also, eating lots of it doesn't set off my heart pounding like when eating lots of carbs.

I've been finding it really easy to make chopped salads. Just take whatever you have for veggies and fruit and chop it all up, put it on a platter and drizzle with olive oil and cider vinegar or balsamic.

Got some chicken or beef, chop that too. Bacon never hurts anything, either.

Making a tossed salad always seemed to be too putzy but just whacking everything up with a chef knife is so stinking easy.

Look into bone broth, too. Super nourishing and delicious and it's pretty easy to do. Some people keep a crock pot of continual bone broth going and eat it every day.

Summersun you made me hungry!!

For any westcoasters - chickpeas are garbanzo beans. LOL!!