Meal Planning 101

Meal planning is so crucial to sticking to a healthy balanced diet, and I wanted to share a wonderful list that I came across while reading a blog I follow! (www.prayersandapples.com/blog)

This is a meal planner she constructed that I think so perfectly captures what meal planning should look like! The first step is to probably think about what snacks and meals you want to have through-out the day! I don't plan for the whole week, I usually take it 2 days at a time since I cook my meat everyday so it's fresh. So when I make dinner I usually make enough to have for lunch the next day, and then I plan out my snacks for the next day. I will separate everything out into containers or bags the night before so that in the morning I throw them into my lunch box and I am ready to go! I usually think about what types of meals I want for the week, for example:

Monday:

• Breakfast: Shakeology, eggs

• Snack: oatmeal with blueberries

• Lunch: Chicken with squash

• snack: cottage cheese

• Snack: ham slices, nuts, 1/2 apple

• Dinner: Spaghetti with ground beef

• Snack: protein shake, greek yogurt

That dinner becomes the lunch for the next day so I only have to cook 1 meal a day. So when I grocery shop I have a general idea of what types of meals I want for the week and so it makes it easy to have everything I need so I have zero excuses to pick something up that I shouldn't be eating.

If you want to print this meal planner I am including the link that her blog so graciously has posted:Meal Planner

I hope this was helpful!

Enjoy

xoxox

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