Meal Planning! {Wellness Wednesday}

Hello! Happy Wednesday to everyone. This morning I am sitting in my favorite coffee shop, drinking some amazing El Salvador. So, it’s a happy Wednesday for me already. I hope the same for you, whatever that may look like.

Today, for Wellness Wednesday, I wanted to talk about how I plan our meals out. This is the way I’ve figured out to avoid eating out so much as well as buying frozen/pre-fixed meals for nights I don’t feel like cooking. So far, it’s worked out great. It’s also good when you are just cooking for yourself or just 2 people. You don’t have to worry about cooking too much or too little.

So, I’ll get started.

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I start with my system for grocery shopping two weeks at  a time which you can see here.

In that blog post I mention making a meal plan for 2 weeks. I don’t lay out every single meal. I choose about 3 dinner meals, 2 lunch options, and 1 breakfast food for each week. It would look something like this {per week.}

Dinner:

-Bourbon Street Chicken
-Healthy General Tsaos Chicken
-Veggie Sloppy Joes

Lunch:

-Quesadillas
-Salads

Breakfast:

-Crustless Quiche

Then, I make a list of foods that can supplement with those or that we like to have around the house.

-Rice
-Quinoa
-Baked Homefries
-Asparagus
-Broccoli

I do a list like this for each week. Then, on Sundays I cook it all!

I also, chop up all of the veggies for the week, create a bagged salad mix, and make mate’ concentrate for Kyle.

After each thing is finished cooking I let it cool to room temp. and pack them up in single serving tupperware. These stay in the fridge like, so we can just grab and eat a great, preservative-free meal all week long. Whatever isn’t eaten by Saturday is tossed {not usually very much left over} and I start again on Sunday!

I think I’ve explained this fully, but, let me know if there are any questions!

with love and meal planning,

Sarajane.