Meal Planning and Prep
deltayork
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Today is my meal prep day. I grocery shop on Saturday and prep on Sundays. The plan for today: Roasted chicken, red potatoes, and veggies for my lunch this week. Boneless Chicken breast (with skin on while cooking) marinated in olive oil, rosemary, shallots, garlic, black pepper and a dash of salt. Roasted veggies; baby carrots, celery, red onion, squash, zucchini, mixed bell peppers. Planning on roasting the chicken and veggies at the same time. I'm not one to get bored with eating the same thing for a few days in a row, but my hubby not so much.
How do you meal plan for lunch/dinner?
How do you meal plan for lunch/dinner?
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Yum! I don't really do meal prep day. I cut up our fresh fruits and buy a rotisserie chicken to have on hand. But I usually prep dinner the night we eat or if I will be too busy with kids schedules I will remake it the night before or plan a crockpot meal.
Lunches are usually leftovers - sometimes I'll make a pot of soup on Sunday's. But worst case I will have the rotisserie chicken and just toss some veggies with it and steam a sweet potato. That's my "unplanned" lunch0 -
Last week I browned ground beef and ground chicken together, made a ton of couscous, and steamed veggies. Every few days I measure out fruit.
Because this is so new to me, there hasn't been much variety to my meals.
B: eggs or cottage cheese, fruit and pb toast
S: protein shake and fruit or lara bar
L: chicken or ground beef, veggies and rice or couscous
S:Greek yogurt or turkey slices, fruit and a granola bar
3 cups of romaine, small amount of Asiago cheese, grape tomatoes, grilled chicken
Next round I want to experiment with adding some pasta, more variety of veggies in my salad, etc.0 -
My husband is diabetic so ever since his diagnosis we've been meal planning. Mostly dinners because he pretty much has the same thing for breakfast and lunch. As for me, I pretty much plan my meals around leftovers. Like right now there's some leftover chili and grilled chicken in the refrigerator so I'll probably have one or the other for lunch. We have some leftover broccoli too so I may chop some up and toss it in with my eggs for breakfast. I may even go a little wild and have some toast. I've been up since 2ish so not really awake enough to think about food but I'm sure by the time I'm supposed to have breakfast I'll know what I want.0
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Oh, I forgot, I make big batches of quinoa/rice/black beans, then individually portion them out in snack size bags and freeze them!0
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I make in batches and freeze too. I mentioned in another thread about making turkey meatballs and freezing them. Brown rice and quinoa are also perfect. I divide everything into portions before tossing them into the freezer. It just makes things easier to grab when I need it. You can also grill more chicken and such than you need and freeze it in portions as well. I put 2 breasts in each packet--one for me and one for Rob. Works very well.
Although you can't freeze them, I also cook hard boiled eggs in batches.0 -
Quinoa is a type of grain and can be served savory (as a rice substitute) or sweet (instead of oats), depending on the recipe you use. I would not mix it with rice but I might with beans, depending on the recipe I'm using.0
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I've found that regular quinoa has a strange taste (to me), but if you live near a Trader Joe's, their Organic Tri-Color Quinoa doesn't! And, whichever kind you get, make sure you rinse it well before cooking!0
