| Bree's Short Week Meal Plan | ||||
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack | |
| Sunday | Fried eggs, Tomatoes & Avocado |
Salted Fish (Cod fish) Boiled Banana's & Cucumbers | Jerk Chicken Mango Salad |
Plantain chips, Lara bars, Fruit, Cut Veggies… |
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack | |
| Monday | Boild Eggs, Tomatoes & Avocado |
Jerk Chicken, Wild Arugula & Machango Salad |
Jerk Chicken & Roasted Veggies |
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| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack | |
| Tuesday | Boiled Eggs & Roasted Veggies |
Jerk Chicken & Roasted Veggies |
Jerk Chicken Cobb Salad | |
4 weeks
Hey ya’ll ok its been 4 weeks so lets catch up.
Week 1:
Eating well went O. K. I didn’t totally stuck to my menu
because midweek, I realized my husband was going out of town. I basically
stopped cooking on Wednesday and survived on left overs, corn tortillas, black
beans and cheese quesadillas.
Week 2:
The following week, I planned to follow the same menu. Repeating
the menu turned out to be a brilliant idea. I had most of the grocery already
purchased and I didn’t have to spend time shopping or thinking of a new menu.
Saving time turned out more valuable then usual because my kids got sick! First
my daughter came down with what seems like a stomach bug and then my son has
it.
Later we learned my daughter’s stomach bug triggered her first
Asthma attack. We didn’t know DD even had asthma. The past couple of weeks we
have been learning how to care for her with this new diagnosis. She is doing
well now and is back in school.
Week 3: Things are finally starting to normalize. But I thought
I could just reuse the same menu for a 3rd week in a row. WRONG! Oh
so wrong. Half way threw the week I
started to run out of grocery. Shopping and cooking the same day, what a waste
of time. But I was still able to eat healthy because luckly I had some I previously
froze for busy days that I didn’t have time to cook.
Week 4 (Easter Weekend): As you can guess, it all fell apart. I
had too much fun over the weekend I didn’t make any meal plan. Guess what we
ate. PIZZA! Pizza not once but 3 times in one week. By the end of the week, I
was so bloated, someone asked me if I was pregnant! No, I am not pregnant. At that point I just plain gave up. It was
Easter weekend and ate a ton of Easter sweet.
Hello week 5: SALAD!!!! I’m now in the process of coming up with
a meal plan for the next to weeks and my theme is Salad. I’ll post my salad themed meal plan as soon
as I’m done with it.
Bree's Meal Plan for the Week of February 26
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I know it’s late, but here it is…my meal plan
for this week! I planned on posting last
week, but life happened. I had to deal
with a sick kid, back pain, laundry, and most importantly I really just wasn’t
ready to start eating healthy… but this week it’s on!!!
Bree's
Meal Plan
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| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack | |
| Sunday | Fried eggs, Tomatoes and Avocado | Nachos, (Quinoa & Corn tortilla) Cheese, and Turkey Chili | Turkey Chili *Kids: Mac and Cheese with Roasted Veggies | Plantain chips, Lara bars, Fruit, Cut Veggies… |
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack | |
| Monday | Steal Cut Oatmeal with Dates and Almond milk | Turkey Chili | Nachos, (Quinoa & Corn tortilla ) Cheese, and Turkey Chili | |
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack | |
| Tuesday | Steal Cut Oatmeal with Dates and Almond milk | Jerk Chicken, Brown Rice and Veggies | Jerk Chicken, Brown Rice and veggies | |
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack | |
| Wednesday | Steal Cut Oatmeal with Dates and Almond milk | Jerk Chicken, Brown Rice and Veggies | Jerk Chicken, Brown Rice Plantains, avocado & veggies | |
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack | |
| Thursday | Steal Cut Oatmeal with Dates and Almond milk | Tuna Salad | Jerk Chicken Salad | |
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack | |
| Friday | Steal Cut Oatmeal with Dates and Almond milk | Black Beans and Rice with salad | Take out | |
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack | |
| Saturday | Eggs, blackbeans, tomatoes, & avocado | Tacos with Fajita Meat (Chicken and Beef) | Tacos with Fajita Meat (Chicken and Beef) | |
Food
One of the things I’ve been working on over the
past few years is cooking, especially learning how to cook healthy meals for my
family. I don’t love cooking. Sometimes, I actually hate it, but we have to
EAT! Boy, do we have to eat. One day I thought about it… We have to eat every
day, a minimum of 3 times a day, and there are 5 of us in my family. So, that
means 15 meals A DAY! 15 meals a day that need to be made by me and I don’t
like cooking! My husband helps sometimes, but work keeps him pretty busy.
To further complicate things, as I get older,
I’ve noticed that I just can’t eat everything the way I used to. I’m not going
to talk to you about nutrition, because I’m not a nutritionist. I’m just going
to share my experience. I’ve noticed that what I eat doesn’t just affect my
weight, or energy levels. It also affects my mood. Mood is so important because
it can affect my entire outlook on life.
I’m a mom. Imagine facing a 2, 3, and 5-year-old
while in a bad mood… It’s so hard and it’s not fair to them or me. If I have
low energy and I’m in a bad mood, I’m not the only one suffering. My whole
family suffers, all because of the foods I have eaten. The food culprits are
processed foods, but most notably SUGAR and FLOUR.
So, over the next few weeks, months and years,
I’m going to challenge myself to avoid these foods. Lucky for me
there are tons of resources to find recipes that avoid these foods. Yet, here
is the real challenge for me and I’m sure for some of you… finding the time to
buy groceries, plan meals and actually cook these meals!!!
Stay tuned for tips on how to make the most of
your time in my next post. Just kidding… Stay tuned and or join (please comment and add your own tips) me as I
continue to learn how to feed my family healthy, low cost, low prep meals.