If you meal plan...

jessica182517
jessica182517 Posts: 390 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I wanna see what your menu looks like for the next week :) I try all the time to meal plan at least a week out...but something always messes it up lol I would love to see what your meals are and maybe get some ideas from you :)

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  • WendyFitMomCHANGED
    WendyFitMomCHANGED Posts: 311 Member
    You can check out my food diary and I have a few blogs about planning for weekly meals with some helpful links. I eat 5 - 6 meals a day and try to keep to the following:

    Meal 1: Protein, Carb, Fruit
    Meal 2: Protein, Carb
    Meal 3: Protein, Carb, Veggie
    Meal 4: Protein or Carb, Veggie
    Meal 5: Protein, Carb, Veggie
    Meal 6: Protein, Fruit
  • mbcasey2009
    mbcasey2009 Posts: 52 Member
    I make a huge pot of brown rice, bake a bunch of sweet potatoes, boil eggs, make a big batch of steel cut oats in the crock pot overnight, and also so some sort of shredded chicken in the crock pot. Sometimes I'll make a big batch of soup or stew (depending on the season/weather) as well. And that pretty much lasts my husband and I through the workweek. I add salads with each meal as well, or some sort vegetable. It gets boring sometimes so we mix it up quite a bit. But it is so much easier during the week to just grab and go!
  • poedunk65
    poedunk65 Posts: 1,336 Member
    Friend me and you can also se my reecipes. Also take a look at the book Forks OVer Knives. Plenty of good vegetqarian meals.
  • ChapinaGrande
    ChapinaGrande Posts: 289 Member
    Ooh! I'd love to share mine and see what other people are doing. What a fun question! I try to have a bean day, a chicken day, a soup day, a pasta day, and in the winter a soup day and in the summer a grill day per week. I also let my 5-year-old pick a dinner and vegetable.

    OK. Here's mine for next week starting on Saturday because that's when I go shopping:
    Saturday: Homemade hot and sour soup and maybe fried rice with a bag of coleslaw mix. For my daughter, a tiny pot of egg drop soup.
    Sunday: Whole wheat mac and cheese, steamed broccoli, and roasted beets. (my daughter's special dinner--the beets are mine, though :P)
    Monday: New Year's Day--Black eyed peas with a ham hock, sauteed kale or (preferably) mustard greens with unreasonable amounts of garlic.
    Tuesday: Whole wheat spaghetti and meat sauce, salad, and roasted cauliflower.
    Wednesday: Butternut squash soup, maybe homemade bread. Wait, I have a doctor's appointment that morning. Maybe the bread is out. Maybe cornbread instead.
    Thursday: Chicken sausages, baked sweet potatoes, salad.
    Friday: Black bean soup with salsa and sour cream, homemade corn tortillas.

    I can't wait to see what other people are doing and then plagiarize their ideas!

    ETA: These are all dinners. I eat leftovers for lunch. Breakfasts are usually eggs and homemade tortillas.
  • quill16
    quill16 Posts: 373 Member
    Breakfast: egg whites and veggies or old fashioned oats and 7 walnuts
    Lunch: Salad with 2 oz lean meat and 2 Tablespoons dressing
    Dinner 4 oz lean meat and 2 cups fresh steamed veggies
    Snacks (3 or 4 a day): protein bar, greek yogurt, rice cake and PB, sugar free pudding, string cheese stick

    Dinner: Mon : pork loin, Tues :Top sirloin steak, Wed: 93% lean hamburger, Thurs: 99% lean chicken tenders, Fri: salmon, Sat: spaghetti squash and cheese for the protein, Sun: edemame and vegies or soup or chicken or omelet or........whatever I feel . If I need to I switch days, but I make up my menu every week before I go grocery shopping. It works out well for me I have everything I need on hand and everyone knows what we're having for dinner. No problems

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