Planning Meals?

orangebluesun

I wanted to know if anyone plans their meals (not including breakfast). Do you prepare 5-6 meals for each day, which would be about 30 meals prepared for the week, which would be 30 containers to be refridgerated. Do you cook this amount of food?

SJackson50

I do this!
I grocery shop on Saturday and cook on Sunday morning. I cook and prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner for the entire week. I have a nice sized refrigerator at work, so I take all but dinner to work--along with milk for my coffee! I make three meals and supplement with protein drinks (I'm not big on snacks). I've gotten to the point where it takes less than two hours to prepare, cut and cook everything...I have a system :-)
A typical week would be (and this is right now, during my low-carb "Six Weeks til 50" program (the main change would be a starchy carb at lunch):

Breakfast:
Oatmeal (usually steel cut w/bananas and brown sugar, but sometimes I am lazy and make instant!)
Scrambled Eggs
Meat

Lunch:
Separate lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion, etc. containers (five different lettuce containers, everything else together)
Meat
Cheese
Salad dressing

Dinner:
A grilled, broiled or sauteed meat for each day
Sauteed spinach w/garlic (or other green vegetable)
Balsamic tomatoes

Hope this helps! Good luck with your goals and enjoy!
sj

orangebluesun

Thanks, very helpful.

Lizzy622

My plan is much more flexible. I feed from 2 to 6 for dinner depending on who is home. Breakfast is easy because it is each for themselves. I usually make a big pot of oatmeal on Monday morning and portion it into 3 or 4 meals. Lunch is usually left overs from dinner or meat from dinner on top of salad. I try to bake a large chicken on Sunday and have it for lunches and dinner starter for the week. I prep either the morning of or the night before so it takes about 30 minutes to get dinner on the table.