Sunday Meal Prep

Steel cut oatmeal with cinnamon, cranberries and apples made in my rice cooker. Homemade turkey breakfast sausage and vegetable egg patties. (I make both of those dishes every other week and freeze individual servings.) Grilled chicken for quick salads and protein add ins. Hard boiled eggs (I bake them). Mexican ground turkey meat. I weigh out 1.5 ounce portions of deli meat so I can just grab them and throw them in my lunch.

Of course. It takes a ton of different spices but once you have them, they last quite a while and you can make so many of your own spice combinations like taco seasoning, chili seasoning, gyro spice, etc. I like spicy sausage - if you like a sweeter breakfast sausage, eliminate the crushed red pepper, chili powder and cayenne and add 1 tablespoon brown sugar.
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 tsp ground sage
- 1 tsp fennel seed
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp crushed red pepper
- 1/2 tsp white pepper
- 1/2 tsp cayenne
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp chili powder
- 1/8 tsp cloves
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp allspice
Add all of the above to 1 pound ground turkey. You can make it into patties or just crumble it and cook it ahead of time. To make my egg sandwiches, I add diced all color peppers, chopped spinach, 1/4 cup shredded reduced fat cheddar and 10 whole eggs. Bake them at 350 for 20 minutes. It makes 12 egg patties. (I freeze them in a muffin top pan for perfect bagel sized patties.) I also make a homemade sweet italian turkey sausage for pasta sauce and casseroles. If you would like that spice combination, let me know.

This is my freezer on a monday morning. Breakfast burritos, chicken/avocado/greek yogurt burritos, roasted red pepper sauce for quick dinner, cooked rice for fried rice, a few crock pot meals like broccoli and chicken, honey Bbq chicken, and Mongolian beef. I also cut up veggies and hard boil eggs for the fridge. My hubby gets home at 6 so it's important for me to make dinner quick and easy but still from scratch, because I don't get home until 730.

This past Sunday I added a few new dishes to my make ahead plan. I threw two pounds of boneless, skinless chicken breast into the crock pot with no salt added chicken stock and Mexican spices. When it was done, I shredded it up and made green chili chicken enchiladas and chicken, black bean and corn burritos. I made up spicy quinoa and brown rice Spanish rice. I can make quick lunch combos for busy days and everything heated up very well in the microwave.