Weekly Meal Planning

Weekly Meal Planning:

🥘 So this topic is to just kind of talk about meal planning, ideas that you have, recipes, go to meals, etc. 🥦 🥩 🍌 🍎

Monday to Friday: lunch and dinner





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About my meal planning:

⭐️I’m doing Monday to Friday meal planning (work week).

⭐️I am not including breakfast into meal planning because I eat something different daily and I usually create something or I get stuck into a routine wherein I’ll have the same oatmeal recipe for weeks on end.

⭐️I’m not including snacks because snacks are too personal and I change mine often

⭐️I don’t schedule weekend meals but sometimes I’ll plan a Sunday roast and take a break from that with a healthy version of a Sunday roast. By the weekend well usually have craved something all week— and we make it on the weekend.

⭐️I’m currently meal planning for me (Aries) and my Virgo and we both work standard work hours 8-4 and we both have a full hour scheduled into there for lunch.

- we don’t have allergies

- we eat meat and dairy and gluten

- we don't have calorie restrictions but we try not to drink our calories (latte, beer, wine etc) and we don't consume snacks that are high in calories/fat etc.

- we both don’t have any food restrictions

- we don’t have kids

First Week of January 2019

Disclaimer: I try to keep a set weekly meal plan to help us manage our groceries, time spent cooking after work and also to allow us more free time during the week--by removing the guess work.

Monday

Lunch: Chicken wraps with tomato salad

Dinner: Shrimp in coconut cream with spices, rice and asparagus (new recipe)

Tuesday

Lunch: Egg, ham, tomato, lettuce, avocado wrap- with tomato salad

Dinner: Chicken and mushroom in cream sauce, pasta and broccoli.

Wednesday

Lunch: Grilled brie cheese sandwiches and tomato soup

Dinner: Baked salmon in butter sauce with root veggies and quinoa

Thursday

Lunch: Lemon Risotto with roasted cauliflower (new recipe)

Dinner: Ginger Soy Minced beef, rice, Brussel sprouts with apple cider vinegar

Friday

Lunch: Tuna salad in iceberg cups

Dinner: Roast chicken, roasted carrots, goat cheese mashed potatoes

Posted by Ellygant

I’m just starting to be more purposeful again with my food this year.

Ironic the only meal you don’t plan, is the only one I am planning to start.

Breakfast! I figure if I can make the planning for breakfast stick than I’ll add in more meals later on.



First up this week is a garlic, zucchini and tumeric cream soup!

Yes! Honestly it's such a huge game changer when you feel determination to enjoy healthy and good food in your life instead of feeling stressed about what to make or how or how long etc.

Breakfast is a great meal to start with! It's a very relaxed and casual meal of the day, it's quite literally whatever you desire! I've never thought of having soup for breakfast but it makes so much sense, as it's warm and hearty and has all the right ingredients to give you that morning boost!

Posted by mudra

I meal prep 3 days a week. My days off are pretty much the same. It's all plant based. Theres so many different things I do but this is the basics.

-60oz water with 1 whole lemon while getting ready for work. Drink a shit load of water through out every day

-coconut oil coffee on the way there

-first break - smoothie of 1 banana, handful of walnuts, spinach, acai packet, seaweed/greens powder, chia, hemp seed, flax seed, almond or coconut milk

-lunch

Buddha bowls... creamy thai or Indian coconut curries, Mexican spices, super fresh herby vietnamese, gingery garlic japarnse...

Either brown rice, brown basmati or jasmine. Couscous, quinoa, lentils

As many roasted or sauteed veggies in all the colors I can fit

-2nd break

Love baked sweet potatoes, avocado and black beans with sauteed onion in a wrap.

Sometimes a big salad with mixed greens and kale with all the nuts and seeds

-dinners

Spiralized veg like butternut squash, zuccini in place of noodles for things like spaghetti, soup, etc

I do eat the veg replacement meats once a day. Can get them in various forms like crumbles, nuggets, patties to throw in with whatever. I stay away from soy.

Snacks change, yes, I like sunflower seed and almond butter on apples, seedy breads, dried fruits and nuts

I buy these things in big quantities..

Avocado

Walnuts

Bananas

Sweet potatos

Wow! This is so inspiring 😊

So many great healthy options!

No, Romz. Just no. It is unhealthy to get obsessed with your diet.

I'd say, you take what you have. Less stress.

I will be a dumb bitch this year, thank you.

Let me know though if you can get a hot rich boyfriend who let you drive his Mercedes Benz and a key to his clustered townhouse placed in urban area.

Forget education, that's a bunch of BS.

You sex, other than that is coping with life, my bff said.

Will you include quantity?

You can eat shitload of healthy food and gain weight or bacon in moderations and lose weight.

Take it from someone who lost 75lb!

I minimally menu plan. I look at what I have in my fridge and freezer then make at least one recipe that will use up those things before buying anything else, and what I buy is usually on special. I use the search function in my recipe 'book' to find recipes with those ingredients. I have created my recipe 'book' and for shoping I use weekly meal planner grocery list https://onplanners.com/template/colorful-weekly-meal-planner-grocery-list

Last night I made a meal from Jamie Oliver's "Quick & Easy", Sausage & Apple Bake. For a recipe with only 6 ingredients plus a bit of oil and seasoning, it was stunningly flavoursome and only took about 15 minutes to prep and get into the oven for 30 minutes.

I do fast and easy meal preps for work. Usually I do 2 meals a day for the 5 day work week cause I work 12 hours.

Always

A meat- chicken, lamb, steak, or shrimp

A Carb- Rice, or sweet Potato

Veggies. - broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower, green beans, Brussels or mixed stir fry combo

This is the easiest for me and I’m not in the kitchen long. All veggies go on a cookie sheet and get seasoned and the meat is browned on the stove top then stuck in the oven to finish.

Just quick and easy.

Meal planning? How do you know what food you’ll fancy on that day? I eat what I feel like, no gluten as it fecks up the digestive system, no dairy as it’s not meant for human consumption, fresh veg, fruit, fish, chicken, rice, salads, just to mention a few...