Here is my Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals for this week. I did not have a yogurt parfait for my mid-morning meal. You’re welcome. I am trying to mix it up a little more for you (and myself, really). Make sure you read through to the end to see what we had for dinner too. It was awesome! Donny kept saying “we should make these more often”. I’m in, I would gladly make them more often….check it out below.
Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals posts are meant to show you that healthy eating and eating clean doesn’t have to be difficult and time-consuming. I literally throw breakfast together in 5 minutes sometimes and we rarely have weeknight dinners that take more than 20 minutes to prepare.
If you want to know more about how I prepared a certain food then check out yesterday’s Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Week 6 post. If you have questions beyond that then feel free to ask!
4:30am Pre-Workout:
I started the day with one liter of water. I mixed half with 1 scoop MusclePharm Assault (fruit punch) and drank the other half plain. Assault is MusclePharm’s version of a pre-workout supplement. It helps with energy, endurance, and focus. I actually do find that it helps and I like the flavor of this brand. I also had one capsule BCAA pre-workout and one post-workout to help diminish muscle-breakdown since I work out in the morning.
I also had 1 piece of a Fruit & Nut Flapjack from Graze Snacks. I made a vanilla protein “frosting” by mixing 1/4 scoop MusclePharm Isolate Protein with a very small amount of water. It was a pretty good pre-workout snack and gave me lots of energy (hello carbs)!
6:20am – Meal #1:
For breakfast I made overnight oats. I mixed together 4oz 2% Greek yogurt with 1/3 cup unsweetened almond milk. Then added 1/2 scoop Musclepharm Isolate Protein. Once that was all mixed together nicely I added 1 Tbsp chia and 2 Tbsp rolled oats. All of that I did the night before. Then when I got home from the gym I topped it with 1/4 cup raspberries (some are on the bottom) and 1 Tbsp chopped pecans. This was SO good! I love overnight oats. Check out one of my favorite versions on protein overnight oats with Strawberry Banana Protein Overnight Oats.
I also had a cup of coffee with breakfast. I added a partial packet of stevia (1/3-ish of a packet) and kept it black. No creamer or almond milk today!
9:15am – Meal #2:
I was actually pretty hungry by 9:00am so I ate earlier than normal. I had 1/6 of the frittata that I made during meal prep on Sunday. It has chicken sausage, mustard greens and tomatoes in it. Delish. On the side I had a little over 1/3 cup 1% cottage cheese mixed with two drops vanilla crème stevia, cinnamon, and 50 grams sliced banana.
12:15pm – Meal #3:
Lunch was 4.25oz cod, 2oz cooked sweet potato (grilled), 3oz green beans, 30 grams carrots, and 1oz avocado.
4:00pm – Meal #4:
My afternoon meal was a turkey burger with mustard, 100grams zucchini, 30 grams carrots, 30 grams bell pepper, and 2 Tbsp brown rice.
I made 4 turkey burgers this week to eat and I have been packing a bibb lettuce leaf or two to eat with my burgers. I didn’t this particular day, but should have! I just pack the lettuce in a separate Ziploc baggie before I leave for work.
6:30pm – Meal #5:
Dinner was taco bowls. We used the Pampered Chef Tortilla Shell Baker Set. We drizzled about 1/4 tsp extra virgin olive oil on a Xtreme Wellness High Fiber tortilla and baked it at 400° for 12 minutes. I mixed and microwaved 2.75oz filet mignon (from our catering job over the weekend) with 1/4 cup canned chili pinto beans. After the tortilla was crispy I filled it with some spring mixed greens, added the beef-bean mixture, then topped it with 1oz avocado, 30grams grape tomatoes, 1oz broccoli slaw, 2 Tbsp 505 Chunky Salsa and 1 Tbsp 2% Greek yogurt. Cholula was added at the last minute as well.
It was fantastic. Donny kept saying “we need to make these more often”, which we do! Super simple, yet full of clean eating ingredients! Yay, my favorite combo. The medium 505 salsa is actually pretty spicy! I didn’t necessarily need the Cholula, but it was on there and I enjoyed it all. I definitely want to make these again soon.
So that was it for Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals. I had 5 liter of water. One right off the bat and four throughout the workday. I really had to push to get through that last liter though…it was not easy. It does make me feel a lot better to drink a ton of water. I dig it.
In terms of macros I was dead on for protein and carbs (which RARELY happens) with 160 grams protein and 120 grams carbs and I was four over my fat goal with 57 grams consumed. With the beans added to dinner I KILLED my fiber goal. My goal is set at 25, which is typical for a woman, and I consumed 40 grams! Holy cow.
What simple, clean eating meal have you made this week?
