Food prep gives me flexibility to make different meals, while still having consistency by prepping certain foods. It makes it so easy to stick to a diet!
vegetable and protein meal prep
I have this love-hate relationship with meal prep. When I prep foods like muffins, pancakes, or protein bars, I am terrible about pacing myself throughout the week.
Often, I can eat all the muffins and pancakes I prepped in the first day or two. That is the fastest thing to derail my diet.
On the other hand, spending a lot of time in the kitchen during the week also derails my plan. The eating cue’s while in the kitchen are so strong. If I’m cooking food three times a day, I’m usually snacking or grazing on food that I don’t need.
So, my solution is food prep for veggies and protein.
That’s it.
It makes prepping easy, and it makes sticking to my diet even easier. I had SO MANY meals with this prepped proteins and veggies this week. I didn’t take pictures of everything, but I do have 9 meals I took pictures of below.
The Foods prepped & How I prepared them:
This week is somewhat similar to last week. I try to buy what’s in season, and what’s on sale. Plus, I eat a lot of the same foods over and over, and I want food that is high in volume, low in calories.
Food about to be prepped for the week
Prepped Protein:
chicken tenders- Baked in the oven at 400 for 20 minutes.
Hard boiled eggs
Rotisserie chicken (not pictured above, but I bought a cooked rotisserie from Costco and sliced it up.
Ground turkey
Chopped lettuce
Spiralized zucchini (I use the OXO spiralizer)
Spaghetti squash- Cut in half and scooped the seeds out. Then, baked in the oven until soft enough to shred the flesh.
Baked Sweet potato and then sliced.
Asparagus
Sliced mushrooms
(for my post with only prepping proteins, go here)
meal prep week 2 before the prep and after
The meal prep containers I’ve been using
I like to use the smallish (3 cup volume) prep containers. It makes it so there are twice as many containers in my fridge, but I prefer it so I can take a full container out at a time. It’s definitely a personal choice.
You can definitely get better containers, but with kids taking these to school or work and me never getting them back, this is what I prefer!
meal prep containers from Walmart
Meals made with this week’s prepped food:
The meals I made with the prepped food are below!
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