by Heather Robertson
Healthy eating tip of the week: Plan, Plan, Plan!
Put an hour on your calendar where you just prep your meals for the week.
I’ll make several items in a 1-2 hour time slot and save myself so much time and aggravation during the work week.
My plan this weekend is to take a few hours on Saturday or Sunday and make the following:
- Egg Muffin with ham and cheese
- Broccoli and Cheese Breakfast Casserol
- Tuna salad for 3 days of lunches
- Beef Barley soup
- Hard boiled eggs
- Black Bean Brownies
- Slow Cooker Shredded chicken for lunch
Share in the comments section when you plan on prepping your food and what you hope to accomplish.
Breakfast Meals
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- Egg Scramble:
- eggs
- olive oil
- green pepper
- onion
- mushroom
- reduced-fat cheese
- Broccoli Cheese Breakfast Casserole
Lunch Meals
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- Leftover beef barley soup (see link in Dinner section below)
- Slow cooker shredded chicken lettuce wrap tacos (I’ll use lettuce instead of tortillas.)
- Salad:
- lettuce
- tomato
- cucumber
- green pepper
- hard-boiled eggs
- leftover sugar, light dressing
- Heather’s Tuna Salad
- 1 can tuna packed in water
- 1 Tbsp Kraft light Mayo
- 1 Tbsp relish
- ½ red bell pepper diced
- ¼ red onion diced
- 1 stalk celery
Dinner Meals
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- Crock pot pizza (In my version, I ‘ll use 93% lean ground beef, Jennie-O light Italian sausage, reduced-fat mozzarella and Turkey pepperoni.)
- Side Salad with light dressing
- Chicken Parmesan (I’ll eat this without noodles, but the hubby and kiddos will have whole wheat pasta.)
- Ridiculously Easy Roasted Yellow Squash
- Beef Barley soup (I will double this and have leftovers for lunch)
- Grilled cheese (for kiddos)
- Chicken Fajita Salad
- lettuce
- tomato
- sour cream
- reduced-fat cheese
- salsa
- cilantro
- Breakfast dinner:
- Pumpkin Oatmeal Pancakes (These are for my kiddos and hubby.)
- Turkey bacon
- Mushroom, Green Pepper, and Feta Breakfast Casserole
- Fresh fruit
- Low-calorie syrup
- Date-night dinner (This is something the hubby and I do every Saturday night. Sometimes it’s take out. Sometimes we make something at home. It depends on our mood!)
- Leftovers night (Yep, this is our weekly “clean out the fridge” night. Usually falls on a Wednesday or Thursday.)
Snacks
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- Hard-boiled eggs
- Sugar-free, fat-free yogurt
- Fruit (Oranges, bananas, plums)
- Sugar-free pudding
- Cottage cheese and fruit and sliced almonds
- Cheese sticks
- No Flour Black Bean Brownies ( I’m dying to try using coconut oil, so I thought I would give these a try!)
