It was nice to actually go grocery shopping this week and prepare a few interesting meals! My meal prep ideas lately have been quite limited due to a lack of kitchen. Donny & I are in the middle of a kitchen remodel so I’ve been sticking to raw foods or foods I can cook in the microwave. Honestly, it hasn’t been that bad!
Meal prep is very important to me. I like knowing that I have healthy, convenient meals ready for me throughout the day. If I didn’t meal prep, I’d be more likely to stop by a fast food joint or other restaurant, plus I’d grab not-so-healthy snacks along the way too. Making all my food over the weekend takes a little planning and some extra time, but it is completely worth it to me.
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Grocery Shopping:
- roast chicken, 1% cottage cheese and 2% Greek yogurt
- half & half blend greens, asparagus, green onion, red onion and steam-bag broccoli-cauliflower-carrot blend
- apples, banana, strawberries and avocado
- quick oats, Ezekiel bread, Ready-to-Serve brown rice and garlic & herb couscous
Meal Prep Ideas:
Donny & I still don’t have a kitchen due to a remodel. Hopefully soon… but regardless, even without a kitchen I was able to do some meal prep.
I definitely plan my meals differently because of needing to either eat the foods raw or by cooking them in the microwave. Luckily, there are a ton of options for healthy foods that are convenient. For example, the steam bags of vegetables, cooked brown rice that is heated in 1 minute and couscous that has directions for cooking in the microwave!
One thing that I did want this week but couldn’t prepare was eggs. It seems like I’ve been craving eggs since we can’t make them! Rather than skipping them, I went to my parent’s house and prepared an egg scramble.
The scramble consisted of 12 large egg whites, 6 eggs, 1lb asparagus, 1/2 red onion, 1/2 tsp oil, 1/2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp black pepper. It was SO easy to make.
I started by dicing the onion, cutting the asparagus into 1″ pieces and cracking/whisking the eggs.
I heated the pan, added the oil then once it was hot I added the red onion. The onion cooked for roughly 3 minutes and I added the asparagus. The veggies cooked for another 3 minutes or so and I added the whisked eggs to the pan. Once the eggs were almost set (stirring often) I added the salt and pepper. I made three different breakfasts out of this combination. I’m pretty excited about it too! Most likely, I’ll add green onion and Cholula before eating.
The egg scramble I prepared on Saturday, but did the rest of the prep on Sunday.
I took all the meat off the roast chicken and put 4oz in three different containers. The remaining chicken I put in a plastic baggie and kept it in the refrigerator for dinners this week.
Next, I pulled several cooked hamburgers out of the freezer and added them to the containers. I’m almost out of these so hopefully we get a kitchen back soon!
I microwaved two steam bags of mixed veggies (one at a time) and put half a bag veggies in the containers with the chicken. The remaining half of a bag I put in a separate container to use throughout the week.
I heated one Minute Ready-to-Serve brown rice containers in the microwave. These are SO convenient – they literally take 1 minute to cook!
In a large Tupperware I mixed 1 cup frozen sweet corn, 1 cup frozen edamame, 1 cup green peas and the contents of the brown rice container.
In a Styrofoam cup I mixed together a dressing consisting of 1 Tbsp sesame oil, 2 Tbsp rice vinegar and 1/2 Tbsp soy sauce. I poured that over the rice-veggie mix and stirred it together until the dressing was spread throughout.
Next, I divided the mixture among three meal containers holding the hamburgers.
Then I microwaved the quinoa. I followed the package directions for using the microwave and it was easy peasy! I divided that among the meal containers with the chicken and veggies.
As the quinoa was cooking, I measured some vanilla protein into snack-size Ziploc bags and packed 1 Tbsp Fiona’s Vanilla Coconut granola with 1/3 cup puffed millet. The protein will be stirred into the yogurt before eating, then the others are for toppings.
Last but not least, I slice both bananas and strawberries. I added 1/2 banana and 75g strawberries into some containers and added 1/2 Tbsp peanut butter.
Well that was all of my meal prep ideas this week! It was super simple – literally using a microwave – yet the meals are still rather interesting to me!
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What healthy meals did you prepare this week?
