Meal Prep Sunday – Week 5, can you believe?

It is insane to me that I have actually meal prepped for over a month straight! I have never meal prepped like this before. It has been a great experience. Despite some cookie set backs, I have lost net 6 pounds during 21 Day Fix Real Time. I feel good!

I have really been struggling with breakfast. According to my meal plan, I need veggies, protein, carbs, and an oil or nut butter. Of course the go-tos, such as omelettes, breakfast muffins, or the like come to mind. But this hasn’t been working for me. I’ve tried a combinations of varying kind, but I’m always left with a bit of a tummy ache. So, I am doing something different this week. I am also going to make more of an effort to stay 100% on plan and NOT eat cookies, no matter how many the husband brings into the house. It was unfortunate circumstances that caused me to miss street fair this year, so at least I avoided the gyro/elephant lunch I would have normally eaten. Maybe next year…

So, this week, I have a few of my old stand-bys as well as a few new recipes to try. I’ll also be out of town a couple days, so that’ll be an interesting challenge.
Meal 1: shake, berries (pictured) and almond butter
Meal 2: post workout drink, fruit
Meal 3: Salmon patties, rosemary muffins (pictured)
Meal 4: Fixate Minestrone Soup with ground turkey (pictured)
Meal 5: baby carrots, prepared humus (pictured)
Meal 6: meat & veggies, seeds/dressing

Pre-workout meal: My shake gets me going in the morning. I love it! A lot of folks make these super fancy shakes using their blenders, almond milk, spinach… I just mix mine with water and a collagen supplement.

Meal 2: Post-workout drink and a fruit. I have an assortment of apples, pears, and oranges for this week.

Meal 3: I was super excited to use the muffin top pan today! I never even knew such a thing existed! These rosemerry muffins are pretty amazing. I plan to make sandwiches with veggies and salmon patties, or maybe just some tuna.

Meal 4: I loved the soup option from last week so much, that I decided to do soup again! This time it’s a Minestrone soup with ground turkey as the protein. I haven’t tasted it yet, and I had an epiphany moment during yoga where I realized I had forgotten to add any seasoning, so we’ll see!

Meal 5: Baby carrots and hummus. Easy.

Meal 6: With my son’s request for something other than steak, chicken or pork for dinner Every Single Night, I am going to try some new things. Spaghetti (with tomato-less marinara over zoodles for me); Broccoli Beef, Sausage & Roasted Veggies, Fixate Must Have Meatloaf with green beans (does that not scream comfort food?!?); Pizza (Bobalis for the fam and portobello mushroom caps for me); and a Lo Main with Chicken.

I feel so accomplished with all this prepping! I’m getting in the groove and it’s a fabulous place to be.

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