Today’s Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals post is a little different. This is actually everything I ate and drank on Monday, which I had off for Memorial Day. I was going to wait and document Tuesday, but I thought it was a good way to show you how I eat when I’m not working 8:00am-5:00pm. This was pretty typical of how I eat on the weekends, especially Sunday’s since it is my meal prep day and I did meal prep on Monday. I didn’t have any BBQs or get-togethers, so I ate everything at home.

You’ll notice that not only are my meals a little different, but the timing is VERY different. I slept in and then lounged around before eating breakfast. I also didn’t workout very first thing, so you can see how I plan meals around my workouts when they are in the middle of the day too. Let me know if you have any questions about what I’m eating or how I prepared it! Refer to yesterday’s post Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Week 4 for what I purchased at the grocery store and details about my food prep. [Read more…]

This week was a little different in terms of meal prep and grocery shopping. I did a little shopping Friday night and the rest Saturday. Donny is gone all week so I didn’t need too much food. I also prepped my meals on Monday, rather than Sunday since I had Monday off for Memorial Day. I only needed four days worth of meals so it cut back on what I prepared significantly.

I did manage to make some extra vegetables and a little extra chicken to keep on hand for dinners. I still have a lot of eggs so I may or may not be making breakfast for dinner several times this week…… [Read more…]

Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals

I’m not going to lie, I had some gooooood eats in this Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals post. Donny is out of town and yet I still threw together a delicious and healthy dinner!!! I managed 5 1/2 liters of water (one right away then 4 1/2 throughout the workday). If you want a little more information about how I prepared some of these foods then check out yesterday’s post Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Week 3. If you have additional questions or what to talk food (pretty much my favorite thing to talk about) then let me know. I’d love to answer any questions about Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals.

4:30am – Pre-workout:

As always, I started my day with 1 liter of water. I drank the first half plain and then took the other half and mixed 1 scoop MusclePharm Assault (fruit punch). I also took 1 BCAA capsule pre-workout and one post-workout. [Read more…]

Time for my weekly Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep list. Donny was gone on Sunday so meal prep was entirely up to me! I survived, no big deal.

I bought a Bountiful Basket this week so I picked that up on Saturday. It FULL of fruit, plus I bought two fruit add-ons! I never go grocery shopping before I pick up my basket so I don’t buy stuff at the store that I’m already getting in the basket. That’d be silly! I usually pick up my basket and go immediately to the store for all the other weekly staples and random fruits and veggies that I didn’t get. [Read more…]

Here is this week’s Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals post. If you want to know how I prepared some of these foods then make sure you check out yesterday’s Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep post.

Clean eating doesn’t have to be difficult, but it does require some planning. I try to prep everything for the week sometime throughout the weekend. If you don’t have time to do that, then find another way to keep healthy foods cooked and ready to eat. For example, if you are cooking a pork chop or chicken breast for dinner then cook several of them and keep them in the fridge to grab in a pinch. If you want to eat brown rice for dinner one night then make 2 cups instead of 1/2 cup and use it for lunch or dinner the next day. [Read more…]