Lunches to Last All Week

I get asked a lot of questions about meal planning/prepping and how I do it. First and foremost if you plan and prepare to eat healthy, you WILL eat healthy. If you've already got a yummy and filling meal prepared, you are much less likely to want to grab fast food. After all, all you have to do is heat it up!

My meal prepping day is Monday. I spend an hour - sometimes two hours prepping, cooking, and packaging mine and Jason's meals for the week. That's ONE hour out of my whole week. So worth it. Especially if you're like me and get lazier as the week goes. 

So the idea is to cook a few batches of your favorite foods. Here's what I made this week:

One bunch asparagus, one onion- chopped, one carton mushrooms, salt, pepper, and olive oil. 

Rinse, chop and throw in a pan to sauté on medium for a little while. No measuring. SO easy!

While that was cooking I put some brown rice on the stove to cook - several servings. Again, so easy. 

While that is also on the stove I chop a couple heads of broccoli and steam that. 

Since all of that is just cooking away on the stove and all I need to do is stir every once in a while I have a few minutes to make up some salads - precut romaine, spinach, or whatever you like best, and your favorite veggies. Tomato, cucumber, carrots, cabbage, peppers - pick things you like because you're eating it! At this time I also wash and prepare some fruits to snack on during the week like apples/peanut butter and grapes. 

I line up all my Tupperware for the week and once all my food is cooked, I start to divvy it up!

A littl rice in each, some broccoli in a couple, asparagus and mushrooms in the others. Salads in separate containers, divided to last all week. 

So each day I grab my entree, heat it up, and add some hummus - My fav way to eat rice/veggies!

I throw some nuts or seeds and dressing on my salad and I'm ready to eat!

So there you have it. A week of yummy, healthy, and CHEAP meals!!