Shutterbean Meal Prep – Week 1!
We’ll see how often I can do this/keep it up BUT I wanted a place to put all of my meal prep stuff, so here we are. I’d like to talk about the things I learned each week I do meal prep (like…what’s realistic for our family and what’s not). Chances are I won’t be doing meal prep EVERY single week, but at least I have something motivating me to keep up the routine I love so much.
THIS WEEK’S MEAL PREP:
- 4 salads
- chorizo tortilla soup
- batch of brownies (I used Trader Joe’s GF brownie mix)
- tuna salad for sandwiches + salads
- cooked potatoes (in microwave) for hashes
- wrapped up bananas in foil for the freezer
- a bowl of almonds + raisins for snacking
- chorizo spinach + quinoa saute
- lettuce washed for sandwiches + salads
- carrots + cucumbers for snacks
- sliced oranges for snacks
MEAL PREP IN ACTION:
Chorizo Tortilla Soup for dinner with tortilla chips, cheese, sour cream, hot sauce & cilantro. I made up the recipe on the fly and ended up freezing most of it in single serving containers. There’s only so many times Casey is cool with eating soup for dinner; he’s not a huge soup fan like I am. I plan on bringing some to work in the near future.
Tuna salad for lunch at work. Little did I know that Casey was going to get into the tuna salad while he was working from home. I planned to put a scoop on all the salads I made this week for extra protein. Womp womp. Here’s my lunch last Monday. It was goooood.
Chorizo spinach quinoa with a fried egg + avocado for dinner.
Chorizo spinach quinoa with scrambled egg, salsa, + sour cream for breakfast.
Salad and toast for dinner. I added parmesan + tomatoes.
This week I made roast beef for One Potato, so I used the leftovers with the cooked potatoes and made a hash for breakfast. I added onions & jalapeños and fried some eggs to go with.
The Roast Beef hash leftovers for lunch with cut up avocado.
OTHER NOTES:
We did really great with the snacks this week. There were no vegetables & fruit left at the end of the week. We did have a few leftover brownies (what?!) so I wrapped a few up and popped them in the freezer for future late night cravings. I would have prepped a little bit more if I didn’t have a few photo shoots this week. Our fridge was kinda packed, so what I did prep helped filled in the gaps for the week.
Hope this inspires you to do some meal prep this week.
If you need more inspiration, follow my #shutterbeanmealprep hashtag on Instagram.
Curious about meal prep? Read my post here!
