As my New Age Nutrition Club rolled out this weekend I decided it was a good time for me to start working on my nutrition. Over the weekend I decided to start meal prepping again and prepare for the week.
Today I want to share with you my strategy for meal prepping and what I do. I want to start off by saying in no way do I think this is the best strategy and that everyone needs to do it this way. This is just what I have found to work best for me. I also am not perfect by any means, for some reason people think that us coaches have it all figured out, I am the first one to tell you that is not true at all.
Below, I will outline the steps I take to help me get ready for the week.
Step 1: Check My Calendar and Plan My Meals For 3 Days
In the past, I have tried to plan my whole week on a Sunday, go food shopping and cook so much that I had everything prepared for the week. I found that strategy did not work for me, I found myself getting sick of the same thing and wasting a lot of food. I decided to break it down and prepare for 3 days at a time. Looking at my schedule I knew that Sundays, and Wednesdays were the best for me to shop and cook. So on Sunday, I will plan my meals for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, from there I will make a list for what I need and head to the store. I generally will eat the same thing for those 3 days so that I do not have to cook a bunch of different things.
Here is what I bought yesterday:
-Spinach
-Broccoli
-Avocado
-Protein Powder
-Chicken
-Peanut butter
-Almond Milk
I had some rice and steel cut oats in my cabinet already
Step 2: Cook Enough For The 3 Days
Now that I have all of my food I know how much I will need for each day. At this point, I will cook and prepare anything I can get done ahead of time. Yesterday I cooked oatmeal, rice, chicken, and broccoli for the 3 days. Quick things like making eggs or sautéing spinach I will wait until the day before or day of to keep if fresher.
What I generally will do is store what I cook in bulk and then portion it out for the day the night before. For example yesterday I cooked a big thing of rice, took the portion I will need for lunch today put that in a separate container and put the rest of the rice together.
Here is a picture of my lunch for today:
