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Heather: Hey guys, this is Heather from healthyeatingstartshere.com. Today I want to talk to you all about time
efficiency and I’ve got a lot to say about it, but in the interest of saving time, I
am going to try to keep the video short. So if I get talking really, really quickly, don’t
get mad at me. It’s just because I am trying to get all the information out to you.
Okay, I know it’s hard to find time to cook. We are all busy; cooking sometimes gets pushed
down the priority list but it’s really important to do it and you can find some really simply
ways to make it faster and make it easier. Whenever I film recipes for you guys, I try
to keep that in mind, keeping things time-efficient.
I’ve been getting better and better overtime because this is just how I cook and I hope
you guys have noticed and I hope that you found the same thing in your cooking that
when you get familiar and do the same things over and over, you can get a lot more efficient
and productive with your time in the kitchen. Most of my meals take 30 minutes or less to
cook and that’s true of the recipes that I post online and also of the cooking classes
that I am going to be launching very soon.
They have recipes in there and I tend to blog a lot because I am talking about nutrition
and cooking processes in general, but all of the recipes should take less than 30 minutes
for you to put together and that’s really how I cook for myself. So that’s what I
like to share with you guys.
I don’t like to spend too long in the kitchen. I really have a lot of fun filming recipes
for you and taking up stuff to share, but personally, I don’t hang out in the kitchen
all the time.
Now there are a ton of things you can do to save time and I share a lot of them in those
online cooking classes that I mentioned, but I have three tips for you today that can help
you get started and just save time on those days when you really have absolutely no time
at all to put a meal together.
And I am going to show you a recipe that you can put together really, really quickly; a
chickpea, red pepper salad with some yummy dressing. Anyway, so my three tips are number
1, you can use canned beans. Nutritionally they are very, very similar to using dried
beans. There is only minimal difference. So don’t feel bad about it at all. It’s way
better than even processed foods. So go for canned beans.
You can also use frozen produce; frozen veggies, frozen fruits. Fresh is always better but
I would rather you eat vegetables than not eat vegetables. So if eating frozen ones is
what it’s going to take to get you to eat them, then do it and some of them are better
than others. So go for the whole ones. I am not talking about those little carrot cubes,
those don’t have many nutrients left in them, but if you can find some big florets
of broccoli or cauliflower or some frozen spinach that’s still whole and minimally
cooked before it’s frozen, then go ahead and use those things; frozen peas, frozen
Edamame beans, those are all awesome things to use and again, they are getting the vegetables
into you diet, that’s what’s important.
And then you can, I mean getting fresh is always better but if you are just getting
started, you can go for the frozen. And then the third tip is a food processor. Now I am
not a huge fan of buying stuff, but this baby can save you so much time and it doesn’t
have to be a fancy one, like look at this. This is probably the oldest food processor
in existence today, but it works and that’s what counts.
So what we are going to do is make a super-fast recipe. It’s going to be a cauliflower salad,
mixed with some cinnamon and some lime and actually we are going to do lemon because
I don’t have any limes left. There we go. Okay and what we are going to do is I am going
to time myself to see how long it takes to put this together which I never do. I barely
look at the clock. So this will be interesting for me as well.
Okay, ready, set, go! Okay, we are going to start with some fresh herbs. I am going to
get some fresh parsley. You can also use cilantro and I am sorry that I am not on screen anymore.
I am just getting it out of a corner. Okay, I am going to throw that in the food processor
along with some cauliflower and red pepper. Jesus! Feel like I am running race or something.
Okay, grab some cauliflower and some red pepper, give it a rinse. Throw it in the food processor;
you can chop it a little bit so that it’s not as big chunks if you want and okay. Now I am going to pulse it. Pulsing
is when you turn it on; you don’t leave it on, like so, because I don’t want like
a big mush, I just want some chunks. There we go.
Check it out that looks great. Now I am going to get some chickpeas. Nope, they are white
beans but that’s okay. You know what, it doesn’t really matter what kind of beans
they are. There is going to be beans. I am taking the lid off and I am going to drain
them. How I drain them, I stick my hand on top and I dump it.
You can get a strainer out if you want, but you know what, it takes a little bit of time
to get the strainer and then you got to wash it after, whereas my hand, I am going to just
rinse it off. There we go, beans in the thing, get in there; this is when your hand comes
in handy straight from the bottom of the can.
Rinse the hand off. Fantastic! I’ll get a fork out because that’s when I am going
to eat this with. Again, you use something else to stir it, that’s great, but you got
to wash it after. You stir it before you are going to eat it with. Hey! You’ve just saved
a little bit of time washing it.
Okay, some lemon, I’ve got a lemon over here. I am going to cut it in half and I am
going to squeeze some juice on here. If you don’t have a fresh lemon, you can just go
ahead and use some lemon juice out of a jar. Just a little squirt will do it; I am going
a little crazy on the lemon because I love lemon.
Then some spices, I am going to get some cinnamon, a little bit of chili powder, a little bit
of salt. This is fun. Okay, cinnamon, yummy. Chili powder, a little bit of spice, a little
bit of savoriness, put in however much you feel comfortable with. I am not a big spicy
person so I just going to put a little bit, a little bit of salt or this is Herbamare;
it’s a mix of sea salt and dried herbs and dried vegetables.
And give it one last stir. You can pulse this again if you want to, but then your beans
are going to get mushy. So there it is. You can put this in a bowl and eat it or if you
want to save dishes even more, you can just eat it out of the food processor; whatever
floats your boat.
Umm, bring my watch. 4 minutes and 10 seconds! So seriously, you have four minutes to make
yourself a salad. It’s going to take me longer to chew it than it took to make it.
So like I said, it is possible to do things pretty quickly when you know what to do. So
I feel calmer now, the clock has stopped and okay, so Friday is going to be an exciting
day. Friday, I am going to share with you more tips on how to make your meals incredibly
flavorful. I’ve already talked about how to make them really healthy on Monday and
today I’ve talked about making things very fast and then on Friday, we are going to talk
about making them tasty.
Those were the three main topics that I went over in those online cooking classes and I
am going to open sign up for those classes on Friday afternoon. That’s it for now.
So have some fun, make some chickpea salad and maybe you don’t have to make it quite
as fast as I did, but you know, it just goes to show how fast you can do things if you
put your mind to it.
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