Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep posts are designed to help with grocery shopping when you want to eat a clean diet. I buy mostly whole foods, but also combine that with convenient food for fast, healthy meals. I also show you how I prepare my foods to create a week’s worth of clean eating meals.
This week was a bit different because of the crazy weekend. I was busy all day Friday & Saturday with Bobstock, so I went grocery shopping on Sunday. I didn’t have much energy to be honest, but I had planned for that and didn’t buy too much or get too wild with meal prepping. I knew I wanted to make a raw veggie salad and I’d frozen a bunch of prepared meat to use for this week since I didn’t think I’d have enough energy to cook all day.
I also bought a couple non-clean-eating foods to enjoy on Sunday. I have been craving ice cream for the last couple weeks and I figured there was no better time to enjoy it than after an extremely long and stenuous weekend, like Bobstock weekend! The sad part is that I tried some of it, but then forgot to eat a real serving of it on Sunday night! I ended up falling asleep on the couch and never ate it. Hahaha I guess it is in the fridge for later….
Here is this week’s Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep list….
Grocery Shopping:
I knew I wasn’t going to want to get TOO crazy about meal prep or grocery shopping because I am exhausted after Bobstock. I had a little energy mid-morning on Sunday so I went ahead and went shopping. Not a big trip, to say the least.
- one dozen eggs
- LaCroix Lemon-Lime Water
- 2% Greek yogurt
- 1 half-gallon unsweetened almond milk, vanilla
- celery, baby carrots, regular carrots, broccoli & cauliflower mix, zucchini, Brussels sprouts, mini bell peppers, mixed baby greens, and frozen green peas
- bananas, lemons, avocados and blueberries
I also picked up a few non-clean eating foods:
- 2 California Pizza Kitchen pizzas – one Margherita and one White pizza
- 1 can baby shrimp
- Talenti Gelato in Sea Salt Caramel
We ate the White CPK pizza Sunday night for dinner and I put some of the baby shrimp on my side of the pizza. I also ate a few spoonfuls of the Talenti Gelato straight out of the container…. it is FANTASTIC, by the way! Delicious. I kept the other pizza for later.
Meal Prep:
I didn’t want to do too much cooking on Sunday. I had plenty of cooked meat in the freezer so I defrosted meatballs, chicken and pork. It had already been portioned out in the serving sizes I prefer. If you look closely you can see that it is frozen. It was frozen right after being cooked, so it’ll thaw in the fridge and be perfectly fine for the rest of the week. One of my favorite tips!
I actually have a wedding to attend Thursday night. Donny & I both took Friday off of work so we could stay the night up in Denver. I didn’t need an afternoon meal for Thursday or anything on Friday, but I prepared 12 meals so that I would have a little something for Saturday.
I roasted the carrots at 350° for about 20 minutes. I also blanched the broccoli and cauliflower. I boiled water in a medium pot and once it was at a rolling boil I added the broccoli and cauliflower. It cooked for 90 seconds and then I immediately put it in a bowl of cold water to stop it from cooking any further. This might be my new favorite way of cooking broccoli! It stays crisp and isn’t as bitter as raw. Super simple to do too.
I halved the zucchini and cooked them in the grill pan. I also cooked the Brussels sprouts in the grill pan over medium heat. Easy peasy.
I made salad for four of the eight meals. I split the container of mixed greens among the four containers and added chopped raw zucchini, broccoli slaw, green peas, halved cherry tomatoes, and diced mini bell peppers.
I made yogurt parfaits for my mid-morning snacks for the week. I needed something super easy to prepare, so yogurt was it! I mixed protein powder with Greek yogurt then topped it with strawberries and blueberries. I left them like that so that I could add different toppings each day. For example pepitas, almond butter, hemp hearts, cereal, etc.
That was everything I prepped for the week. I had some leftover veggies, but because I didn’t cook any meat I didn’t have any leftover for the week. Luckily, I have plenty of cooked meat in my freezer that I can thaw quickly for clean, convenient protein.
What food did you prep this weekend?
