Ben and I are now almost finished round 1 of the 21 day fix!!! While we didn't stick to it completely, due to a yucky bug hitting everyone the last week, we are still very into the nutritional part of this program. Which by the way is SUPER easy!
When we started, we dove head first and weren't really prepared for some of the changes. After 2 weeks of messing around with different foods and snacks that are 21 day fix approved, we found what we like and what works for us. We are totally a chicken and mixed veggie stir-fry kinda family!
After 2 weeks of getting a little bored with our choices, we sat down and started creating our own recipes with the foods that we loved! I will share some of them as the week goes on and we make/eat them!!
For now, I wanted to show you how we did our meal prep.
Items we used:
- 2 3-lb things of chicken
- whole grain noodles
How we prepped:
- Ben diced all of the chicken into small bite sized pieces and we cooked them up and separated them into containers.
- I cooked the whole grain noodles, just as I would spaghetti noodles, and placed them in a different container.
Ingredients for 1 batch:
- Handful of snow peas
- 1 small red onion
- 1 small white onion
- 1/2 red bell pepper
- 1/2 orange bell pepper
- 1/2 yellow bell pepper
How Ben cooked them: threw all ingredients into our skillet with 1 tsp olive oil and cooked for 2-3 minutes.
We then placed that in it's own container and put all containers in the fridge. Now, we have everything ALREADY cooked for our meals this week. All we need to do is through our recipe ingredients together, heat and eat!!
Meal prepping was my BIGGEST worry as I was waiting for this amazing program to arrive. Now, it's what I look forward to every weekend! Not only do we have everything planned out so we aren't going to the grocery store clueless and getting a bunch of odds, ends and junk, but now we cook as a family, which really helps the little ones get involved with the foods that we're eating as well! Also, there's no "what's for dinner tonight?" It's all planned out and ready to go!!
I will be posting our new recipes as we eat them this week! Subscribe to my blog and stay tuned, they're going to be deliciously amazing and did I mention ... EASY!!
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