Posts Tagged ‘meal planner’

I am loving the Bikini Boot Camp Six-Week Menu because I can see all my meals for weeks in advance. It's so easy to make my grocery lists when I'm this organized!

Planning your meals in advance has many benefits:

• It helps you make a grocery list and stick to it.
• You can cross-reference your list to what's on special at your local stores to ensure you're getting the best deal.
• You can identify ingredients that you're going to need a lot of, then save money by buying them in bulk.
• You’re less likely to come home to an empty cupboard, find yourself without a plan, and end up eating popcorn for dinner.

In addition to the Bikini Boot Camp Menu, I'm also using CanadianLiving.com's new Meal Planner tool — it actually compiles a printable grocery list for you! I'm loving it. You can access the Meal Planner through your MyCL account.

Welcome to Bikini Boot Camp! The first edition of the free, daily Bikini Boot Camp e-newsletter will be released this morning. Have you signed up yet?

Also! The super-fabulous Bikini Boot Camp Six-Week Menu is now online.

Our experts will be online in the Boot Camp Forum Tuesday afternoons through June 9.

• Counsellor Bev Behar, MASc, will be online Tuesdays from 2-3 p.m. EST to answer your emotional eating and self esteem questions. Weight is often an emotional issue, so get to the bottom of what's holding you back with help from Bev.
• Canadian Living's Assistant Fashion & Beauty Editor Julia McEwen will be online Tuesdays from 1-2 p.m. EST to field your style and beauty questions. When you look good, you feel good. From flattering wardrobe choices to how to apply self-tanner, Julia has all the answers and advice to help you look your best.

You can post a question for our Bikini Boot Camp Forum experts any time and expect a response from them in the forum on Tuesday, so post your questions today!

The new online Meal Planner and the Food Journal are accessible through your MyCL account to help you get organized track your progress, so check these cool tools out today.

And don't forget to work out with international award-winning fitness instructor Maureen Hagan in our specially designed Boot Camp fitness program. There's a new video for each week of Boot Camp, so get started today with the Week One video.

Yes, it's a tough workout. This is Boot Camp, after all! But the beauty of Bikini Boot Camp is that you will see (and feel!) results in just a few short weeks. So get energized, get engaged, get excited and get off the couch! It's time for Bikini Boot Camp!

With just a week left to go before the launch of Bikini Boot Camp, CanadianLiving.com has just launched an exciting new tool: the Meal Planner.

Finally! An online tool that will help to ensure that my meals are planned for the week so that I don't end up eating popcorn for dinner or chocolate-covered almonds for breakfast (again). You can access the stomach-saving and super-neat-o  Meal Planner through your MyCL account.

Use it to plan your meals, view meals you've planned already, assign cooking duties(!), invite people to join you for a meal, plus many other handy functions to help you get organized and get cooking.

And while you're logged into MyCL, why not add me as a friend? My nickname is Jenny Penny. Oooh! And did you know we're on Twitter now? You can follow us here: http://twitter.com/canadian_living. Not sure about all this Twitter business? Check out Twitter 101 - Your guide to the tweet life.

Okay, back to Bikini Boot Camp. With just one week left before it starts, I'm starting to shake the cobwebs off my dumbbells and slowly get my body re-acclimatized to eating leafy greens. What are you doing to get ready for Bikini Boot Camp?