Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals posts are to show you what I eat throughout the day. I try to mix things up when I am doing meal prep but tend to gravitate towards the same foods. I like protein and I like mixing up my vegetables. I have oatmeal in different forms each week, but have it almost every day. Sometimes I get crazy and try new combos or techniques. In this case, poaching my own egg! Let’s get to it. Here is everything I ate on Monday.
4:30am – Preworkout
1 liter of water — 1/2 liter of water first thing in the morning and the other half I mixed with 1 scoop MusclePharm Assault (fruit punch). 1 BCAA capsule pre-workout, 1 capsule BCAA post-workout.
1/4 cup 1% cottage cheese mixed with 1/4 scoop MusclePharm Isolate Protein (chocolate).
6:30am – Meal #1
Veggies scramble made with 5 egg whites, 3/4 cup raw spinach, and 37 grams cherry tomatoes. I topped the scramble with 1 whole egg cooked over-easy and 1 oz avocado. I also had 1/2 Food for Life 4:9 Ezekiel English muffin with 3/4 Tbsp raw almond butter (Trader Joe’s). I decied to have some hot tea with lemon in it, instead of just plain water with lemon in it. As you can see, still sporting the Christmas mug!
10:00am – Meal #2
1 slice of Cinnamon Raisin Skillet Oatmeal. I made some baked oatmeal Sunday morning that had vanilla isolate protein, oatmeal, chia, cinnamon, raisins, baking powder, etc and I baked it in my cast iron skillet. It was really good! I will try to make a recipe post for it soon. I had 1/6 of the recipe. It is hard to tell (because I covered it with protein powder frosting), but there is 1 tsp peanut butter on top and I mixed 1/2 scoop MusclePharm Isolate Protein (vanilla) with a little water for the “frosting”.
12:15pm – Meal #3
Lunch was 5 oz pork loin, 85 grams asparagus, 35 grams roasted mini bell peppers, and 3.65 oz baked potato. My bountiful basket came with a bag of russet potatoes and they are really small, which made me happy! I baked three small potatoes to take for the week. I also had 1 Tbsp or so of yellow mustard to dip the pork in. I love yellow mustard. Like, LOVE yellow mustard.
4:00pm – Meal #4
1 serving Asian Chopped Salad, 5 oz chicken, and 3 Tbsp brown rice. Why 3 tablespoons?! Well, we got takeout Thai food on Thursday night and I ordered mine with brown rice. I didn’t eat very much so I saved it to take for the week. As I was dividing up my salad I decided it would be perfect to add a little as my carb. I knew there wasn’t enough for a full 1/4 cup each, so I started with 2 tablespoons each and had enough for one more tablespoon in each container. Hahaha and this is how I meal prep! This meal was delicious, by the way. Make the salad, you’ll like it! P.S. My sister had taken over my desk so I ate with the sitting on my lap. I can (and will) eat anywhere, no big deal!
6:45pm – Meal #5
Dinner was an experiment. My mom told me about this smoked salmon that she gets at Safeway. She said she’ll buy it when it is on sale for a few dollars and when I was there it was $3.99. I decided to try it! I toasted one Food for Life 4:9 Ezekiel pita pocket in a small toaster oven to crisp it up (it wouldn’t fit in my normal toaster). I topped the pita with 1 oz smashed avocado and 30 grams of really thinly sliced cucumber. I put 3 oz smoked salmon and a poached egg on top. A POACHED EGG! I’ve never really, truly poached an egg before. I have used a pan that poached the egg through steam, but I’ve never done the drop-the-egg-in-water-to-cook style of poaching. I had never tried it before because it seemed so intimidating. It was definitely not perfect, but the yolk ended up still partly runny so mission accomplished!
Honestly, my error came while I was allowing the egg to cook. I didn’t build the rest of the meal prior to cooking the egg, so I was trying to open and put the salmon on the pita while I should have been removing the egg from the water. Instead of cooking the egg 4 minutes, like the directions said, it was probably more like 4 1/2 or 5 minutes. The yolk was still running, but part of it has hardened. Still delicious, but I should have planned better! I am super proud of myself for doing this. Might seem small, but I did this without my chef’s supervision. Yeah, Donny was half way around the world while I was poaching eggs. I couldn’t even ask advice!
8:15pm – Pre-Bedtime Snack
I still had a few carbs and protein left to hit my goal so I had some cottage cheese before bed. I like cottage cheese at night because it has casein protein, which is a slower digesting protein that will digest and “feed the muscles” if you will, throughout the night. I had 1/2 cup 1% cottage cheese before going to sleep.
My total calories according to My Fitness Pal: 1,699. I consumed 179 gram protein (4 over my goal), 129 grams carbs (2 short of my goal), and 60 grams fat (2 over my goal).
