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Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Ideas – Week 80

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Meal Prep Ideas

It was a great Sunday in the kitchen this week! Lots of meal prep ideas thrown out to get me through the week….

I managed to make breakfast, lunch, a couple snacks and a few dinner for the week all in one day! Meal prep keeps me on track in terms of healthy eating and I stress less, because the cooking is already done for me. I can literally grab and go if need be.

If you are on the fence about meal prep, then check out my 5 Reasons To Meal Prep. It can save you time and money, plus help you eat a healthy diet. [Read more…]

5 Meal Prep Tips for a Smooth Food Prep Session

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5 Meal Prep Tips for a Smooth Food Prep Session

Meal prep can save you time and money in the long run. However, you do need to set aside a block of time to prep all your food in advance.

If you are hesitant to start prepping food and meals, then check out 5 Reasons To Meal Prep. You’ll find out why I fit meal prep into my weekly routine.

In order to maximize that allotted amount of time you set aside, I’ve got 5 meal prep tips for a smooth food prep session.

It might seems overwhelming at first, but meal prep can be great for your wallet, your waistline and your sanity. It keeps me on track diet-wise, but also makes me less stressed. I don’t have to panic because I know I have healthy food already prepared in the fridge. [Read more…]

Day in the Life: Mel’s Clean Eating Meals [#93]

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Mel's Clean Eating Meals

Day in the Life: Mel’s Clean Eating Meals is intended to show you the simple, yet healthy meals that I prepare throughout the day.

Meal prep honestly helps me a TON when it comes to healthy eating. I have clean eating meals already prepared for the day, which makes it easy to stick with a healthy diet.

I’ve been back to tracking my food intake each day with My Fitness Pal. The app is great and allows me to track calories that I consume throughout the day. I haven’t started tracking macros again, but I do watch my calorie intake and focus mostly on keeping my protein intake high. [Read more…]

Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Ideas – Week 79

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Meal Prep Ideas

December weekends get crazy for me! We do a month-long Christmas promotion for work and it takes a lot of time and energy. I didn’t have any time to shop or cook on Saturday, so I did it all on Sunday.

We also decided to go to Denver to pick up an elliptical that we bought for our basement (yay!) and Sunday was the only day we could do it. Instead of skipping meal prep, I decided to keep things REALLY easy.

If you have busy weekends and little time to cook, then read up on my 6 Meal Prep Hacks For Busy Weekends. I used one of those tips this week! [Read more…]

4 Easy Ways to Use Protein Powder (that are NOT protein shakes)

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4 Ways to Use Protein Powder

A few years after I began weight lifting I got more serious about fueling my workouts. I started trying to get 40% of my calories from protein, which is not that easy to do!

I prefer to get as much protein as I can from whole foods, such as lean meats, eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc. However, that isn’t always realistic.

Sometimes I need to use protein powder because it is quick and easy. Other times I need a little more protein added to the meals I already have. [Read more…]

Day in the Life: Mel’s Clean Eating Meals [#92]

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Mel's Clean Eating Meals

My sister’s daughter, Bailey, was born exactly 3 weeks after Abby Jo. How cool is that? It is really fun watching them change and it will be fun to see them grow up together.

Anyway, we have a nanny to watch both girls but she doesn’t start until January. We are juggling the girls around for a month or so right now, so I took Monday off of work to watch both girls. They were nice to me and both slept at the same time, which allowed me to get a couple snacks and lunch in! So nice of them…..

In fact, my day of eating was pretty normal considering I didn’t go to the office.

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Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Ideas – Week 78

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Meal Prep Ideas

Time for me to share my meal prep ideas for the week! Donny wanted a few things to take for lunches this week, so I made two different lunch-worthy dishes so that I could rotate what I had each day and so Donny could use the rest!

The last few months I’ve made the same lunch for each weekday, so it is nice to make this change! It takes a little more time but I made it easy by incorporating my slow cooker!

My slow cooker is one of my favorite small kitchen appliances and one of my favorite meal prep hacks if you are super busy. I wasn’t necessarily busy this last weekend, but it saved me time while I cooked other foods. Check out my 6 Meal Prep Hacks For Busy Weekends post to read more about how to save time meal prepping. [Read more…]

Day in the Life: Mel’s Clean Eating Meals [#91]

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clean eating meals

I’m starting to get back into a routine of meal prep and clean eating! It’s obviously more difficult with an infant. However, Donny & I are pretty good at figuring out how to make an easy, yet healthy dinner on a tired weeknight.

My meals are getting more consistent and a couple weeks ago I started tracking everything in the My Fitness Pal app again. Of course, Thanksgiving happened and my schedule was strange for a few days. I still managed to do pretty good! [Read more…]

Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Ideas – Week 77

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Meal Prep Ideas

It’s Thanksgiving week so it will be a short one. I still work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday, but we have weird schedules as we get ready for our big Christmas promotion.

I only needed lunch for three days and I wasn’t sure how often I’d be able to snack at my office. Since I am not 100% sure on the afternoon snack situation, I packed a few but also threw a couple Larabars in my purse just in case.

If you have any questions about these meal prep ideas then please ask! Email me anytime at eatliftplayrepeat@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what foods you prepare or what healthy meals you are eating this week! [Read more…]

6 Meal Prep Hacks for Busy Weekends

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Meal Prep Hacks for Busy Weekends

I love spending 3-4 hours on Sundays prepping foods and meals for the upcoming week. It is fun for me and I love trying new variations of the foods I enjoy.

What I do NOT enjoy is having to cram in a meal prep session in a crazy busy weekend!

Some weekends I have all day to cook and others I’m scrambling to find 15 minutes to get some things prepped! Sound familiar? [Read more…]