It’s been a hot minute since I shared a weekly meal prep post, so I decide that while I was cooking yesterday I would show you all some of what I made for some healthy ideas for your meals. I haven’t done full meal prepping in a few weeks since I’ve been getting up early to work out which gives me enough time in the morning to make my meals to take to work. Normally I was lacking time in the morning to do all of my cooking and packing but lately I’ve been making good time! I get up around 6am, go workout until 7:30, give myself an hour to shower, get ready and cook/pack then out the door by 8:30/8:45 am.
Right now I am coming off of a ketogenic diet so I’m slowly adding in more carbs and green vegetables but I am still focusing on healthy fats and increasing my protein also. I noticed while doing a keto diet I was losing a lot of muscle mass and weight (4 lbs in only 2 weeks, which when you are my size can really be seen). I wasn’t liking dropping that much weight so after 2 months of keto-ing I am adding back in some carbs – slowly!
Morning – 1/4 cup of organic oats
Mid Morning – 10 raw almonds, mozzarella string cheese
Lunch – 4 ounces of grilled chicken cubes, side salad with Greek dressing, 1 1/2 cups of steamed broccoli
Mid Afternoon – 1 scoop whey protein powder with water and ice (NLA for Her Chocolate Eclair
Dinner – 4 ounces of lean protein like steak, chicken or fish, 2 cups of any green vegetables and side salad
Night Snack – 1 cup of 2% milk fat cottage cheese, cinnamon, 1/2 scoop BSN Edge Cookies & Cream protein
What I made yesterday for dinner and meal prep lunches using my 2 compartment meal prep containers
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Brussel sprouts with The Gourmet Collection Vegetable and Fries Seasoning
For my lunch time and dinner time chicken I took a ton of thick chicken breasts and cleaned them all of any fat, laid them out on a cookie sheet and sprayed with coconut oil spray. I then dusted both sides with the Grill Mates Roasted Garlic & Herb
Next up was some slow cooker thin chicken breasts with green beans and snap peas. I put this on low for 3 hours with some organic chicken broth, salt and pepper and just let it simmer. The chicken literally falls apart and tasted so good! I use the Cuisinart Slow Cooker
For lunches this week it’s grilled chicken and broccoli – yes I know booorrringg! I am trying to get back to eating a bit leaner and cleaner and not as much heavy fats like I was doing on more of a ketogenic diet. I find that broccoli and chicken works for me so long as the seasoning is good!
As for dinner I made a huge salad using some Gorgonzola cheese, Greek salad dressing (high fat, low sugar), sliced black olives (again healthy fat), cucumbers and red bell pepper. I also tossed in some steak too!
Overall my meal prep will slowly go back to what it used to be and I’ll share more every weekend. With the long Fourth of July Weekend I fell off the schedule I used to have of cooking on the weekend for the week ahead. I’ll also work more carbs back into my diet next week; as you can see minus vegetables and oatmeal in the morning my carbs are still really low.
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