Go To’s For Meal Prep

Go To’s For Meal Prep

During my Meal Prep Week posting I received a very popular question.  What are your Go-To’s?
Well, that is a super easy question to answer.  There are somethings that are basically a staple in our house.  So, I’ll list them below.  If there should be a recipe, I’ll share that this week as well.
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Boiled Eggs- Eat for breakfast, snacks, put on a salad, stir into tuna salad, make egg salad.
Roasted Veggies- Peppers, onions and carrots- butternut squash is awesome- Brussel sprouts, asparagus and broccoli are wonderful an of course mushrooms as well.
Chicken- grilled, baked, cubed and sautés is wonderful.  Put on salad, sandwich, wraps, etc.
Meatballs- Italian or BBQ
Quinoa
Brown Rice
Steel Cut Oats
Some type of seafood depending on what is on sale.
Keeping these types of simple and quick foods on hands can really keep you on track and ready to go!!!!!!!!

Meal Prep Week- Day 2

Meal Prep Week- Day 2 of 3

 "How to Make It Work For You!"

We have discussed "Why Bother With Meal Prepping" so now we need to figure out how to make it work for you.  My GOAL of all GOALS for meal prep is to keep it simple!!!!  I'm a huge fan of Food Network and the Cooking Channel.  I love to watch the dishes that they come up with and the ideas.  Some are so very elaborate and some are really good at keeping it super simple.  That is my goal....SUPER SIMPLE!!!

So this past week we shopped via the Walmart PickUp App (which we love!) and I ended up with a GIANT bag of frozen chicken breast.  We have enough chicken for an entire month.  I knew I would obviously be doing something with that.  I got 2 pounds of ground turkey and a package of chicken/apple sausage.  I think that the easiest way for me to explain how I keep this super simple is to just tell you what I did on Sunday.

Put in 3 chicken breast to bake- salt/pepper only

Put 3 other chicken breast in water with salt/pepper to boil- Chicken N Rice (brown rice) (Recipe to follow)

One pound of Turkey turned into BBQ turkey meatballs- Recipe to follow

One pound of Turkey turned into Mexican Turkey for Taco Salad Tuesday (Recipe to follow)

Apple Sausage- not cooked until Breakfast Night.

Cut up Onions, Pepper and Carrots to Roast (Recipe to follow)

2 bags of steamer mixed veggies

Steel Cut Oats in the Instant Pot

3 Baked Potatoes

7 Layer Salad (Recipe to follow)


So here is what it would look like for us.

BBQ Meatballs with 1/2 baked potatoe and roasted veggies

Turkey Taco Salad with turkey meat, roasted veggies, jalapeno's, cheese and yogurt dip

Chicken and Rice Soup

7 layer Salad with sliced baked chicken

Chicken/Apple Sausage with eggs and toast or waffles.

Left overs are all for lunches

We always have staples like Greek Yogurt, fruit, cheese and nuts for snacks.

This is what our week looks like.  The awesome part of all of this is that the chicken and the meatballs could cook at the same time in the oven.  The turkey taco meat and the chicken and rice were cooking at the same time.

It was all completed in approx. 2 hours and the kitchen was cleaned and dishwasher running.  Keeping it simple and balanced is the key!!!!!  You can do this!!  It will change your evenings!!!!!

Part 3 is on the way.  We are on a roll.  What are some of your simple recipes that your family loves?

Please share!  I would love to hear from you!!!!