EASY RECIPES BASED ON THE PROTEINS IN YOUR FRIDGE

Ahhh… finally a weekend where I had a bit more time to plan the week ahead.

So, what did I do?

I’m sharing my step-by-step food prep for the week, below!

Here’s my step-by-step:

1. I took a peak in my fridge and freezer to see what proteins I have on hand (ground beef, chicken sausage, white fish, scallops, shrimp, chicken breasts, eggs, Greek yogurt, salmon lox, ground chicken).

2. I like to decide my dinners first so I first chose which of those proteins sounded good to me for dinners this week and I took a peak in my excel spreadsheet recipe repertoire to see if anything I’ve made before, stood out.

3. I googled the few proteins I chose to see if any ‘easy, healthy’ recipes popped up and since I had the taste for a curry, I specifically googled “simply healthy shrimp curry”.

4. I know we’ll have leftovers and so I can account for atleast 1 other meal being the leftovers of each dinner (sometimes more) and I account for that to have at lunch or at another dinner in the week.

5. I actually like to write out M-F, breakfast, lunch and dinner, snacks too, and then after planning dinners I’ll go to lunches, then after lunches I’ll do breakfasts, then after breakfasts I’ll do snacks.

6. As I wrote my grocery list I took a peak in my fridge to see what produce I had to either swap out items that were in recipes for what I had on hand, or added it to the grocery list to grab.

7. Wahhhla! Dunzo! NOW to shop and prep.

And it doesn’t need to look pretty! What I do recommend though, is anything you choose to eat, ADD it to a recipe repertoire! I use Google Excel for mine.

Dinners for the week:

1. Curried Shrimp and Rice

2. Ground Chicken Burgers (topped with goat cheese, peaches, baby kale) and a side of zucchini

3. Tacos - ground beef, avocado, greens, organic mild cheddar, sliced cabbage, salsa, black beans, organic hard corn shells

4. Leftovers

5. Date night out! 

Lunches:

• Chicken Sausage (I like Amylu or Billinski, it’s easy to heat in a pan) and Squash (mass baked on Sunday) with whatever kind of salad I’m feeling

• Quesadilla with chicken, peppers and onions

• Egg Salad with endive and sauerkraut

• Leftovers

Snacks:

• Grassfed gelatin jigglers

• Lactation protein bars (you can make these even if you aren’t lactating!)

• Fruit salad

Breakfast:

• Scrambled eggs with veggies and Japanese potatoes (my favorite type ever which I mass baked Sunday as well)

• Smoothie with fennel, rhubarb, frozen blueberries, flax oil, chia seeds, Ora organics vanilla protein powder, and water.