Habit 1. Putting first things first

When I read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, this was the habit that resonated most with me.

Not only from a personal productivity perspective, in pretty much all areas of life we can benefit from the simple philosophy of understanding what’s important and making that the priority.

Easier said than done. I know.

In this class, we’re focusing on healthy eating and cooking and I made this the first habit we’d cover for two reasons.

1. To define healthy eating.
There can be a lot of conflicting information out there as to what constitutes healthy eating. So it was super important to me that I made it very clear what my philosophy was. To help prioritise and define the direction that the class will take.

But, I think the most important point is that everyone is different. And what works for me isn’t necessarily going to be ideal for you.

I hope you’ll use this class as a chance to develop your own definition of healthy eating based on what works for you

2. To cover off how to minimise waste from fresh produce going bad.
If eating more fresh produce, especially vegetables is one of the goals of healthy eating, the main challenge that goes hand in hand with that is eating the veg before they go bad.

At the most basic level, my strategy to minimising waste is to be always looking in my fridge and prioritising what needs to be eaten up first.

The key is actually ‘looking’, rather than trying to do it from memory. I can’t tell you how many times when I actually look that I’ve ‘discovered’ something and saved it from the compost heap.

Of course, it also helps if veg are stored under the optimum conditions. For more on this see The simplest system for veg storage

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