10 Healthy Trader Joe's Meals That Take 10–15 Minutes

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10 Healthy Trader Joe's Meals That Take 10–15 Minutes

One question I get all the time is, "What do you eat when you're busy?"

The answer is that I eat what’s a combination of easy and healthy.

Like many people, I have days where I don't have the time—or honestly, the desire—to spend an hour cooking dinner. That's where Trader Joe's has become one of my favorite places to stock up on simple ingredients that make healthy eating feel realistic. Plus, it’s also a little more budget friendly.

These aren't gourmet meals. They're the quick lunches and dinners I actually make during busy weeks when I need something nourishing on the table in about 10 to 15 minutes.

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Effortless Mediterranean Meals (A Simple Day of Eating)

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Effortless Mediterranean Meals (A Simple Day of Eating)

I feel like there’s this idea that healthy food either has to be boring and take little time or is complicated and requires 30 steps to make a really great meal. I don’t know about you, but I like to live somewhere in the middle with a hit of really easy sprinkled into my weekday meals.

So may people I talk with have this thought process that that eating healthy—or following something like the Mediterranean diet—has to be complicated. That’s actually not true and I’ve set out to find and make really delicious, healthy meals in a way that makes them easy, accessible and affordable for people. I tend to eat a lot of Mediterranean food and love the Mediterranean diet for so many reasons (hence the reason you see a lot of it here on the site) but I love to make it fun, fresh, and simple.

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