Yay!! And we're back into another amazing week of Meal Prep Sunday!
This week I've got some delicious NEW recipes for you to try and I just know you're going to LOVE them...especially the Cherry Ripe Bliss Balls.
And as always I've designed a regular meal plan and a vego and vegan meal plan so there is something for everyone. YAY!
I design these every week so you can easily fit healthy and balanced eating into your life. This is all about feeling happy and healthy while enjoying all your favourite foods - no restriction here!
So let's dive into another amazing week...
MEAL PREP GUIDELINES
Each Meal Prep Sunday Plan contains one daily plan, which you can use from Monday to Wednesday or for the whole week. It's completely up to you.
For each recipe I provide, you'll need to work out how many serves you need. This is determined by how many days you follow the plan and also how many people are following the plan along with you. For instance, if you and you're partner (2 people) decided to follow the plan from Monday to Wednesday (3 days), you would need to make 6 servings of each recipe.
To be clear, each plan isn't a diet or weight loss plan but a guide to easily incorporate balanced and healthy eating into your life. However, because each plan is packed with goodness you may notice a change in your energy, overall wellbeing and potentially your weight over time depending on you normal eating routine.
If there's a recipe you don't like then simply swap it out for one of my many others. Simply look for recipes that you can easily batch cook, keep in the fridge and reheat if you need.
After you've portioned out any warm or hot meals into containers, make sure you give them some time cool on your bench, before putting the lid on or putting them in your fridge. Putting hot into the fridge straight away, can cause bacteria to form and no one wants that.
REGULAR
This Week's Meal Prep Plan:
Breakfast: Chia Pudding
Snack 1: Apple & Nut Butter
Lunch: Honey Soy Chicken & Brown Rice Salad
Snack 2: Cherry Ripe Bliss Balls
Dinner: Lentil Bolognese
Meal Prep Method:
1. Read through this whole post first - so there's no risk of missing anything - and then work out how many days and how people are following the plan so you know how many serves you need to make of each recipe.
2. Go through each recipe and construct your shopping list for the week. What's great about meal prepping is you don't need a million different ingredients because you're making the same meals.
3. Go food shopping!
4. Once you're home, make sure you're kitchen is clear and ready for cooking, and then get out all the ingredients and containers you need. This is also the time you can put on some music, a podcast or a movie - or maybe you just want silence - whatever you need to enjoy the next couple hours.
5. Let's start cooking! First complete step 1 for your Honey Soy Chicken and then leave it to the side - we'll come back to it later.
6. Next we're going to prep your Chia Pudding for breakfast. Simple follow all the steps and then seperate each serve in individual containers and top with berries so you can easily grab it on the go!
7. Now for your Apple and nut butter Now for this you may want to just take a bag of apples and jar of nut butter to store a work - this way you can serve up your snack as you want it. Otherwise, portion out each apple with some nut butter into seperate containers, and even sprinkle with cinnamon if you like!
8. Now it's time for your Cherry Ripe Bliss Balls! Yum! Simply follow all the steps of the recipe and then put them in the fridge - we'll come back on how to store them later.
9. Time to make your Lentil Bolognese for dinner. Simply, follow all the steps of the recipe and once the food has cooled down pop it in to a big container or individual containers to store in the fridge.
9. Now for lunch. First follow all the steps for your Brown Rice Salad and then once you're done complete the rest of the steps for your Honey Soy Chicken. Once you've finished both recipes, seperate each serving into individual containers and store in the fridge.
Tip: Now if you're following this plan for more than 3 days you may want to only make 3 serves of the salad and make a new batch for your remaining days so it's nice and fresh. Once you're done and the food has cooled, store each recipe in seperate containers.
10. By this time your Cherry Ripe Bliss Balls should have set so you can choose to either seperate each serve (2-3 truffles) into individual containers and store in the fridge or put them all in one big container to store in the fridge at work.
11. Time to clean up! Put on your favourite music so you can smash this last step. After you've finished cleaning, all your food should have cooled down so you can now put on the containers' lids and store them in the fridge.
12. You're done! AMAZING!! You just finished another week of Meal Prep Sunday and you should feel so so so proud of yourself. Well done for putting your health and tastebuds first. Now take some time to sit back and relax - you've earned it!
VEGO / VEGAN
This Week's Meal Prep Plan:
Breakfast: Chia Pudding
Snack 1: Apple & Nut Butter
Lunch: Asian Style Tofu & Brown Rice Salad
Snack 2: Cherry Ripe Bliss Balls
Dinner: Lentil Bolognese
Meal Prep Method:
1. Read through this whole post first - so there's no risk of missing anything - and then work out how many days and how people are following the plan so you know how many serves you need to make of each recipe.
2. Go through each recipe and construct your shopping list for the week. What's great about meal prepping is you don't need a million different ingredients because you're making the same meals.
3. Go food shopping!
4. Once you're home, make sure you're kitchen is clear and ready for cooking, and then get out all the ingredients and containers you need. This is also the time you can put on some music, a podcast or a movie - or maybe you just want silence - whatever you need to enjoy the next couple hours.
5. Let's start cooking! First complete steps 1-3 for your Asian Style Tofu and then leave it to the side - we'll come back to it later.
6. Next we're going to prep your Chia Pudding for breakfast. Simple follow all the steps and then seperate each serve in individual containers and top with berries so you can easily grab it on the go!
7. Now for your Apple and nut butter Now for this you may want to just take a bag of apples and jar of nut butter to store a work - this way you can serve up your snack as you want it. Otherwise, portion out each apple with some nut butter into seperate containers, and even sprinkle with cinnamon if you like!
8. Now it's time for your Cherry Ripe Bliss Balls! Yum! Simply follow all the steps of the recipe and then put them in the fridge - we'll come back on how to store them later.
9. Time to make your Lentil Bolognese for dinner. Simply, follow all the steps of the recipe and once the food has cooled down pop it in to a big container or individual containers to store in the fridge.
9. Now for lunch. First follow all the steps for your Brown Rice Salad and then once you're done complete the rest of the steps for your Asian Style Tofu. Once you've finished both recipes, seperate each serving into individual containers and store in the fridge.
Tip: Now if you're following this plan for more than 3 days you may want to only make 3 serves of the salad and make a new batch for your remaining days so it's nice and fresh. Once you're done and the food has cooled, store each recipe in seperate containers.
10. By this time your Cherry Ripe Bliss Balls should have set so you can choose to either seperate each serve (2-3 truffles) into individual containers and store in the fridge or put them all in one big container to store in the fridge at work.
11. Time to clean up! Put on your favourite music so you can smash this last step. After you've finished cleaning, all your food should have cooled down so you can now put on the containers' lids and store them in the fridge.
12. You're done! AMAZING!! You just finished another week of Meal Prep Sunday and you should feel so so so proud of yourself. Well done for putting your health and tastebuds first. Now take some time to sit back and relax - you've earned it!
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Leah xx
