Sunday Funday Meal Prep

Sunday is wonderful day I and many others set aside to prepare our  healthy meals for the week. I mainly do this for my lunches, as I like cooking dinner for  my family each night. For this week I prepared five meals, since we are taking our son on a Birthday trip out of town over the weekend.

My 5 meals:

2- Tilapia, brown rice, sweet potatoes, and asparagus

2- Baked chicken, quinoa, sweet potatoes, and zucchini

1- Baked Chicken, quinoa, sweet potatoes, and asparagus

1. Pre-heat oven to 350.

2. First defrost all the Tilapia and Chicken if you buy it frozen as well. (see packaging directions)

3. While waiting on the meat, I wash and cut up my sweet potatoes into rounds and then into smaller pieces. I then place them into a glass cooking dish and I spray them with Olive Oil and lightly toss. These take the longest, so I go ahead and put these in first on the bottom.

4. By now the meats are ready. I place the Tilapia in one dish and the chicken in another. The dishes are lighlty sprayed with olive oil and each of the peices of meat are seasoned with Mrs. Dash Onion and Herb. I put these into the oven on the top, for 20-35 mins. The tilapia is usually done in 20.

5. This is the time I wash the remaining veggies. I cut off the woody ends of the asparagus, and cut the zucchini into thick wedges. These each have their own smaller pans as well and are lightly sprayed in olive oil and tossed. 

6. Now that everything is cooking in the oven, its time to start on the quinoa and brown rice. Follow the directions on the quinoa box for preparing, and for the brown rice. 

7. Once everything is cooked, I portion everything into my containers. 

8. I store 2 at a time in the fridge and the rest in the freezer. Everytime I have lunch I replace one from the freezer into the fridge.

~ If you would like to know my grocery list of 50 bucks, including enough for my dinners as well; check out my Saturday Grocery Day : http://thesassyfitrunner.blogspot.com/2014/01/saturday-grocery-shopping.html

I hope you enjoyed my meal prep lunches for the week! Comment below if you try it or if you have some meal prep ideas for me in the future to try!

Enjoy Today and Happy Running!

It's a Cauliflower Stir-Fry Kind of Night

I intended my next post to be about my meal prepping, but decided I may as well save it for later in the week. So on the menu tonight was baked chicken seasoned with Mrs. Dash onion and herb, steamed brocoli, and of course: Cauliflower Stir-fry!! Even my five year old son liked it...if this doesn't scream out try me at dinner time I dont know what will. Its relatively easy to make and of course you can add what every else you may want to it, like peas or diced carrots. I just wanted to show you the most simplistic way to create it.

All you need is:

~ a food processor or a blender; I just used my blender.

~ head of cauliflower

~ light soy sauce

~ 2 eggs

~ Mrs. Dash onion and herb

How I made it:

~ Rinse and cut the florets off into pieces (I used about half of the whole head of cauliflower)

~ Place a few pieces at a time into the blender to make the process easier. By using the blender it gives it a more "rice" like consistency.

~ Once you have done this, spray a little bit of olive oil in your pan ( I use the PAM olive oil brand) and pour all of the cauilflower in on high.

~ This is now where you will stir in 3 tbp of the light soy sauce and sprinkle in a little bit of the Mrs. Dash ( optional).

~ Push the cauliflower rice to the surrounding edges and crack the 2 eggs into the pan. Once they start to cook you can scramble them up while mixing it in with the cauliflower. 

~ I stir this off and on for about 15 mins.

~ Measure out your correct portions on your plate and you are finished!

Let me know in the comments below if you enjoyed making this as much as I did. I hope everyone had a wonderful Monday!

Enjoy Today and Happy Running!!