After 5+ weeks of having no kitchen we are finally back in business! The funny thing is that we have a functional kitchen again, yet both Donny & I will be gone during the week so we didn’t use it to meal prep!
I don’t need any real meals for the week due to lunch meetings and vacation, so I packed several snacks instead. This week’s meal prep (if you can call it that) required about 15 minutes! Hahaha I enjoy cooking and cannot wait to get back at it next week.
Well here is what I bought at the grocery store and the few snacks that I packed for the week. Don’t forget to sign up for my email list so that you get recipes, tips and meal prep ideas sent straight to your inbox!
Groceries:
- eggs, 1% cottage cheese and 2% Greek yogurt
- bananas and sugar snap peas
- Ezekiel 4:9 Sesame Bread
- Strawberry Jam (sweetened with honey)
Meal Prep Ideas:
We FINALLY have a kitchen back, but I did very little meal prep this week. I will be gone Wednesday, Thursday & Friday on our annual girl’s trip so I don’t need meals for those days. Plus, I had a lunch meeting Monday so I only needed food for one meal. We cooked a big lunch for our parents over the weekend so I figured I could survive two days on leftovers.
Even though meals were covered for the week I still needed snacks.
I’ve had two empty nut butter jars sitting around for quite some time now. They are just WAITING to be used for overnight oats…. finally I decided to make them. Typically, I eat overnight oats as my mid-morning meals, but honestly they can be eaten at any time. I made two so that I could eat them in the afternoon Monday & Tuesday.
P.S. The BEST way to make overnight oats is to make them in empty nut butter jars. Try it… you will NOT regret it.
First, I started by adding 1/3 cup rolled oats (do NOT substitute quick oats) to each empty nut butter jar. Next, I poured 1/3 cup unsweetened almond milk in each jar. Then, in the peanut butter jar I added 3/4 scoop MusclePharm Combat Chocolate Peanut Butter protein and in the Snickerdoodle jar I added 1 scoop Designer Whey vanilla protein. After mixing those together I put the lids on and popped them in the refrigerator! Easy peasy.
After they set up a bit, I’ll add a few toppings like peanut butter or almond butter, banana, dried fruit, etc.
My mid-morning meal will be Greek yogurt. I packed some puffed millet with some granola to mix in as I eat it. I also measured out a little protein powder to mix into the yogurt to sweetened it a touch.
I’ve been hungry at random times lately, so I also packed a baggie of some homemade trail mix.
In each baggies there is approximately 1/2 Tbsp pistachios (out of shell), 1 Tbsp raisins, 1/3 Tbsp pepitas and 1/3 oz raw almonds. This should be a nice little pick-me-up between meals!
I bought some sugar snap peas as well. I divided the bag into three servings to snack on if I get hungry.
Well honestly that was everything in terms of meal prep ideas this week! No real meals, but plenty of snack ideas! If you have any questions then please email me at eatliftplayrepeat@gmail.com.
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