Does any one have a 7 day meal planner

When I first started I wrote

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Side Dishes

Snacks

Brown Bag Lunches

Under each heading I wrote a list of dishes. Then I had the calories listed beside them. Most of the dishes I was finding on various websites so I listed the source as well so I could find the recipe during the week. Then I got smart and just started printing the recipe at the same time. I couldn't list all the calories of everything right away. Sometimes I would have a few things blank on that part but during the week when I was making it and figured it out, I put it on the sheet. I keep the sheets and the next time I made that item, I already knew the calorie count. If the recipes are already printed, it is easy to draft a grocery list from it. Some meals will be familiar dishes which I won't need the recipe but it is easy to remember the ingredients and put that on my grocery list too.

A few good websites to start your recipe search:

www.eatingwell.com
www.skinnytaste.com (great cook!)
www.thegraciouspantry.com

If we don’t have enough time to prepare healthy meals, it’s easier to accept our next unhealthy meal through a drive-thru window.

Starting today, you are no longer allowed to utter the words: “I don’t have time.”

Instead, you will say, “It’s not a priority.”

I learned this tactic from this Wall-Street Journal article, and it has been monumental in changing my frame of mind.

Watch how quickly your perspective shifts when looking at life’s challenges this way:

“I’d love to work out, I just don’t have time” becomes “exercising isn’t a priority.”
“I’d love to eat healthier, but I don’t have time to cook” becomes “eating healthy isn’t a priority.”
“I don’t have time to travel” becomes “traveling isn’t a priority.“
Suddenly, the excuse of time becomes an incredibly weak argument. Crap.

Stings a bit, huh?

http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/07/26/priorities/

I think something like this is more inline with what you had in mind

http://www.getfittrainingcenter.com/Weight_Loss_Meal_Plan.pdf

http://www.getfittrainingcenter.com/P90X_Nutritional_Plan.pdf

I don't plan all of my meals out, per se. I usually pick one breakfast food to eat all week (ie oatmeal and fruit, cereal and bananas, bagel thins and reduced fat cream cheese, homemade egg mcmuffin sandwiches with egg whites). It is just easier for me to eat the same thing for breakfast. I change it up each week.

Lunches tend to be leftovers from the night before, or salad and soup (canned- I like Amy's or Wolfgang Puck's), or a sandwich and cut up veggies (I've been on a tuna salad kick lately).

For dinner we eat a lot of chicken, sometimes marinated and grilled or baked. Lately I've been looking at Skinnytaste.com and choosing a couple of recipes to try each week. The recipes on the website are pretty tasty and the calories and serving sizes are listed in the recipe. There are sometimes enough leftovers for dinner a couple of nights in a row (or lunches the next day, or both). This week we are trying the Jalapeno Popper Chicken and Fiesta Lime Rice (look on Skinnytaste.com). We are also going to have this Cream Cheese Chicken Chili (got from another MFPer): Cream Cheese Chicken Chili

1 can black beans
1 can corn, undrained
1 can Rotel, undrained
1 package ranch dressing mix
1 tsp cumin
1 Tbsp chili powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 8 oz package 1/3 less fat cream cheese
2 chicken breasts (I sometimes use 3)

Drain and rinse black beans. Place chicken at bottom of pot, then pour out whole can of corn (undrained), rotel, and black beans. Top with seasonings and ranch mix. Stir together. Place cream cheese on top. Cover with lid and cook on low for 6-8 hours. Stir cream cheese into chili. Use 2 forks to shred chicken. Stir together and serve.

Hope this helps.

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If we don’t have enough time to prepare healthy meals, it’s easier to accept our next unhealthy meal through a drive-thru window.

Starting today, you are no longer allowed to utter the words: “I don’t have time.”

Instead, you will say, “It’s not a priority.”

I learned this tactic from this Wall-Street Journal article, and it has been monumental in changing my frame of mind.

Watch how quickly your perspective shifts when looking at life’s challenges this way:

“I’d love to work out, I just don’t have time” becomes “exercising isn’t a priority.”
“I’d love to eat healthier, but I don’t have time to cook” becomes “eating healthy isn’t a priority.”
“I don’t have time to travel” becomes “traveling isn’t a priority.“
Suddenly, the excuse of time becomes an incredibly weak argument. Crap.

Stings a bit, huh?

http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/07/26/priorities/

WOW. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!! VERY TRUE!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!

Clean Eating Magazine has weekly meal plans with recipes here:

http://www.cleaneatingmag.com/Meal-Planning/Meal-Plans.aspx

Give a look.

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